Chapter 4: The Mysterious Thief

  After visiting Ruan Dong, I went to 'talk' with Zheng Wenlou.

  At this time, Cheng Long followed closely behind: "Chuan Jie, I'll teach you how to shoot and practice boxing, I'll teach you how to investigate cases and crack them."

  "How did you suddenly become interested in this?" In my impression, Cheng Long was always doing push-ups and sit-ups at any time, and would practice whenever he had a spare moment.

  Cheng Long's face was gloomy: "At a time when Lao Luo and the two girls can't speak, you and Yong Ge are investigating the two of them one by one, while I'm just standing idle, as if I'm useless."

  I smiled and said: "This is very simple. The Master says: 'Look at the means a man employs, observe the things he does, and discover where he feels at ease.' Isn't that right?"

  "Stop it! Stop it! ~ Speak plainly and get to the point." Cheng Long was very dissatisfied with me peddling 'tricks' of learning.

  "I explained: 'The meaning of this sentence is to observe a person's words and deeds, examine the methods he uses to achieve his goals, and see what he is satisfied with. In this way, how can this person hide his true face?'"

  "Never mind, you go ahead quickly, I'll learn from the side." Cheng Long honestly shut his mouth.

  While a group of soldiers were freely active, I looked for Zheng Wenlou.

  "This detective asked, 'Now that I've come to visit, I haven't disturbed you, have I?'"

  Zheng Wenlong was originally ignoring him, but upon hearing this, he turned around: "If you have something to ask, hurry up and ask, I still need to lead the team for training later."

  I smiled and said, "When I visited Ruan Dong, he said you were the least likely to be a suspect in a crime because your family is very wealthy. I'm curious, why did you give up a good life to come here and join the army?"

  The topic touched a sore spot, and Zheng Wenhao's mouth opened: "I liked being a soldier myself, I practiced and got good at it, when I went back home I could take down several people with one hand, very impressive, I could protect the 'ladies' well, and my strong presence could also protect my family. But in my household, because of the tense relations between Vietnam and China, sometimes the country would shout about 'all citizens being soldiers', so Dad suggested that during these peaceful times, it's better to join the army early and get it over with."

  "You have a lot of masculine charm." I praised with a smile, seeing the harmonious atmosphere continue to ask: "Regarding the loss of the Golden Buddha, it is a loss for the troops, and we will investigate as soon as possible. First, I want to know what you think about this matter, do you have any suspicious people in mind?"

  Zheng Wenlou's eyebrows furrowed slightly, and he muttered to himself before saying: "The key thing, we didn't take care of it properly from the beginning, all five of us are responsible. As for what happened that day, you can go check the surveillance footage yourself, I don't know who the thief is behind the scenes. But after the incident, Chen Deliang's attitude was a bit strange, he kept stopping the investigators from doing their job. Alright, I need to lead the soldiers in training now."

  "Wait a minute, I want to ask one last question, what do you mean by 'behind the scenes'?" I asked hastily.

  "You'd better go and watch the surveillance video first." With that, Zheng Wenhao strode away quickly.

  When only a few of us were left, Lin Ruoyin, who was eating fruit on the side, was overjoyed: "Ah~ this boot-licking is really ugly, the efficiency is far inferior to others' single sentence of 'oppa~'."

  The beauty's slender body trembled, her snow-white skin dazzling the soldiers in the distance. Perhaps she was too proud, a cherry pit stuck in her throat, Lin Ruo Yin coughed... *hiccups* and spat out a mouthful of phlegm.

  "You don't talk about civilization, you're really a disgusting person!"

  Lin Ruo Yin raised her head high and retorted with a strong aura, "Don't you think it's more disgusting if I swallow it down?"

  I didn't bother arguing with her and turned to go to the monitoring room, Zhao Yong and the others were already there.

  When we went there, Zhao Yong deliberately replayed it from the beginning.

  Unexpectedly, the surveillance was not clear, but it was very comprehensive. A small figure with a completely black body appeared on the screen!

  "Huh? It looks like a savage, crawling on all fours and extremely dirty. The angle just missed it, no wonder they weren't 100% sure if it was male or female. It was dark, the person was dark, and the surveillance resolution was poor, resulting in this fact."

  That smaller figure was extremely agile, with long hair covering its face. Its movements were very strange, like a wild animal, sniffing around the walls and corners, and then 'feeling' its way into the surveillance room entrance.

  As we expected, the person in the monitoring room was slacking off, and everyone suffered as a result.

  That night, two hours a shift, coincidentally caught this monitor on duty, he actually closed his eyes and fell asleep!

  A smaller figure climbed in through the window, at this time because we were in the monitoring room, we could see some of its outline, it should be around 1.5 to 1.6 meters tall, very thin and dirty all over!

  At this time, it's not wrong to judge that it's a savage. In such a tense situation, it's still acting strangely, sniffing around here and there, what's infuriating is... the angle is just right so you can't see below, can't tell if it's male or female, despicable.

  After crawling slowly in the house for about five minutes, the smaller figure took out a key from the waist rope and opened the large "door" of the armory.

  At this time, the sleeping class leader's head tilted to one side and drool flowed out.

  A smaller figure slipped into the armory, as usual, sniffing around to the east and west. This time we can see a bit of 'door', it has a dog-like sensitive nose, when it sniffs left and right, when it sniffs at the sixth tile on the left side, its small head suddenly lifts up, and after continuous sniffing, it confirms this place!

  It was very clever, it could be seen that it had no idea beforehand, the small paws flipped back and forth, directly finding the wooden railing, pushing upwards, then sliding the tiles in, and finally, it actually took out five keys in one breath!

  It is first inserted with five keys and then used with both hands and one foot.

  "It's a girl!" Suddenly, Wu Mingkai's words scared our hearts racing, and he firmly repeated the answer.

  Zhao Yong hastily paused and turned his head to glance at him, asking: "You didn't even look down or at the chest, how did you dare to confirm it's a 'female'?"

  Wu Mingkai furrowed his brow and said, "I not only know she's a 'woman', but also that she's Chinese. In a small fishing village called He Yan near the river mouth, when they do chores, they squat at an angle of 45 degrees to the left, and every 15 seconds, they turn their head to take a look. This is the gesture of women from He Yan washing clothes to guard against wild beasts, which has been passed down for generations without change. The local men have been influenced by Vietnamese customs and would never wash their own clothes."

  Chiang Yu muttered: "I feel that Vietnamese women work a lot, but they have very bad tempers!"

  "That's quite vicious!" Several people, including Alio, almost chimed in unison. Zhang Da Fei cursed loudly: "These women are wild at heart and quite promiscuous."

  What a strange nation, let's continue watching the surveillance video.

  That short figure was interesting, she held the key with both hands and two toes, turned it evenly, then quickly moved her hands to open another two keyholes.

  *crunch*

  After the big gate opened, she was quick and agile, rushing in with a whoosh, and within two or three breaths, she ran out holding the golden Buddha.

  As the creaking door made a sound, the sleeping class leader woke up. However, he saw a black creature suddenly appear beside him, scaring him pale, and he didn't dare to move, let alone stop it.

  In this way, the smaller figure tied the golden Buddha around his waist and ran out of the window like flying.

  It wasn't until half a minute had passed that the class monitor rushed out of the 'door' and let out loud whoops in the corridor.

  Right after that, all members chased after them. It was another unexpected event. In the surveillance at the gathering point, we saw Wu Mengtuan, Chen Deliang, Zheng Wenlou, Kunen and Ruan Dong, a total of five people!

  Then there's nothing more to see, a stupid donkey-like chase, and in the end, they return empty-handed...

  Afterwards, we had lunch at the barracks and used a small conference room for a meeting.

  Captain Zhao Yong spoke first: "Wu Mengtuan is a man who values honor, and he urgently wants to find the Golden Light Blue Buddha. He was very cooperative, and everyone knows that if he didn't cooperate, we wouldn't have been able to investigate at all, so his suspicion can be ruled out first. As for Chen Deliang, Chuanjie, what information did you get from your side?"

  I hastily said: "Ruan Dong didn't mind these things, but Zheng Wenlou, who was afraid of trouble, said that Chen Deliang's recent behavior was very strange and always hindered the case handlers from solving the case."

  "That's right." Luo Sansi smiled and said, "It can be understood that the captain does things recklessly, there must be someone to hold him back. He has to suppress the matter first, don't attract attention from above, just like me and Old Zhao."

  Zhao Yong disagreed: "I don't think so, they have a squadron leader and a political commissar, not like the two of us who are sworn brothers through thick and thin. I feel that Chen De Liang is a bit like intentionally messing things up, letting Wu Mengtuan get out of class, and then he becomes the squadron leader."

  Lin Ruoyin suddenly interjected, "The relationship between the squadron leader and the political commissar is like this, while the three platoon leaders have some differences. The most unusual thing is that their economic statuses are respectively poor, middle-class, and wealthy. The poor Kunen says he's a savage, the middle-class Ruan Dong says Kunen, and the wealthy Zheng Wenlou says it's Political Commissar Chen De-liang."

  After finishing speaking, that girl still looked at me with a complacent expression, as if her proud and arrogant self was looking down on me. I naturally didn't bother to argue with the beautiful 'woman'.

  Jiang Yuxiu frowned: "And that so-called 'explosive' package message, vague and unclear, the wild man in the surveillance video didn't even take it, but regarding this point, Kun surprisingly doesn't know."

  Everyone has spoken, and Cheng Long couldn't help but say: "That wild person is also strange. Looking at her actions, it seems like she doesn't know where the tunnel is, but she just so happens to have a key and clearly knows how to open it. It's as if someone instructed her, yet it's also as if no one did. There's also the possibility that she's 'mixing' up what she saw and heard. It's really contradictory."

  At this time, Wu Mingkai also raised his hand and said: "Hey~ great detectives, I'll 'insert' a sentence. In Vietnam, there are many places without human traces. The toxic gas bombs and landmines left over from the war years are countless, more than you can imagine. It's a bit exaggerated to say that there are wild men, but there are indeed many people with strange behavior, hiding in deep mountains or fleeing after murder."

  In the end, no one even dared to interrupt, and it was completely silent!

  Zhao Yong was very displeased: "Lao Luo, you're a famous person, old 'jade', and ghostly clever, can't you see the interpersonal relationships here?"

  "Can't see clearly!" Luo Sansi was so direct this time: "Vietnamese and Chinese are vastly different, I really can't understand what these people are thinking."

  I'm in the same situation now, just as an international friend, without any power to restrict others, my best skill of suspicion tactics can't be used, I feel like a tiger that has lost its sharp teeth.

  Seeing that there was no other way, Zhao Yong gritted his teeth: "If we can't think of anything else, then we'll have to go take a look at the so-called escape route and make a trip to the extremely unreliable He'an Village!"

  "Let's go and enjoy the scenery. It would be best if we could meet a beautiful Vietnamese bride to bring back home, to help solve China's problem of having too many men and not enough women..."