Chapter One (2) Past Events
The semi-militarized management of the special police team makes life here a bit monotonous. The special police are almost always training, studying and exercising within the team, and their eyes are always on the team's compound. Although it's not as strict as the military, Qin Xiaoyu's singing with the police dog doesn't count as a violation of discipline, so no one stops him. After a while, Qin Xiaoyu will naturally stop after teasing the police dog.
This is a city located in the southwest of the motherland, not far from the border, and on the other side of the border is a notorious drug-producing area. With convenient water and land transportation, after the national development of the Great Southwest was launched, many foreign businessmen poured into this once peaceful small town, as well as many gold rush dreamers seeking to get rich. As the economy rapidly developed, crime rates rose year by year. This world has never lacked people who fantasize about getting rich overnight and are willing to take risks. In recent years, the Gui Ning Public Security Bureau has faced increasing pressure, with gangs involved in organized crime, violence, drugs, and guns all eyeing this transportation hub city and swarming in to seek wealth. Faced with the pressure of maintaining public order, the Gui Ning Public Security Bureau established a special police force five years ago. However, apart from its impressive name, the special police team has had to endure rigorous training, high dropout rates, and face life-threatening dangers. Many young policemen who joined the special police team were initially full of enthusiasm but soon became disheartened and asked to be transferred. The rapid response unit led by Peng Si Zhe is the crème de la crème of the special police force. Ordinary people say that when they have trouble, they look for the police; when the police have trouble, they look for the special police; and when the special police have trouble, they look for the rapid response unit.
The people who returned to their hometowns saw that the city's construction was getting faster and faster, with more and more roads and high-rise buildings being built. Apart from temporary congestion during rush hour, which led to complaints, everyone didn't know that behind the calmness, many police were fighting on a battlefield that ordinary people couldn't see.
Time passed slowly but surely, and since the first successful mission, Peng Sizhe's third middle school team had officially joined the ranks of combat duty. In the past few months, they had also carried out several missions, but none were as thrilling as that one. Those so-called gangs, mostly made up of hot-headed young people, would usually surrender meekly when surrounded by fully armed special police. Although a small number tried to resist with force, they were no match for the guns and ended up being captured. The deeply hidden violent gangs involved in firearms and drugs were low-key in their activities and could only be uncovered through painstaking investigations by criminal detectives.
Later, I heard that the girlfriend even went to the Public Security Bureau to plead for leniency, saying that the two were just fooling around. Upon hearing this case report, Peng Sizhe felt somewhat amused - can such things be just fooling around? It's really unknown what young people are thinking about these days.
After each task is completed, a summary meeting will be held the next day, and other departments will also timely feedback the case to the special police team for them to summarize their experience. However, these few months have been too calm, so calm that Liu Dajin couldn't even find any shortcomings to criticize at the summary meeting.
Political Commissar De Shu often said: "It's best if we're all stuck in this hole, then it proves our public security is so good that the streets are clean and doors aren't closed at night!" Although he said that, young special police officers always wanted to encounter a big case to prove themselves worthy of the special police badge on their left arm.
National Day is the busiest time for police, and even the rapid response team was dispatched to the station for security tasks. During the 7-day holiday, Peng Sizhe patrolled the station for 7 days, wearing a black uniform, black helmet, and tactical vest, holding a 95 assault rifle. The special police team walked through the station square and hall, causing those who wanted to take advantage of the situation to hide. The initial peripheral control also made it impossible for violent terrorists to act. During the 7 days, Peng Sizhe handled 8 disputes caused by crowded queues and 5 cases of lost luggage, although these should have been handled by the public security police. However, ordinary people do not distinguish between special police and public security police, and due to the requirement of "reporting must be received, receiving must be resolved", Peng Sizhe and other special police officers could only mediate disputes and even help passengers with their luggage. Sometimes, Peng Sizhe wondered if he didn't become a special police officer, he could work in the neighborhood committee...
After the long holiday, the special police team also gave everyone a break. Each person could take turns resting for three days. Suddenly relaxing, Peng Siche returned home and slept for a whole day in a daze. After getting up, he was a bit confused and didn't know what to do.
He thought for a moment and dialed Luo Jingjian's phone: "Are you free tonight? How about we have dinner together?"
The destructive power of delicious food on beautiful women is undeniable. Luo Jingjuan readily agreed and also wanted to bring Zhang teacher together. Peng Siche's bright mood just now suddenly became somewhat depressed, but it was not good to shirk.
At the dinner table, Luo Jingqiu kept giving Peng Sizhe hints, but Peng Sizhe pretended not to hear. To be fair, Teacher Zhang was quite pretty and elegant, with pale skin and big eyes that would shyly look away whenever they met Peng Sizhe's gaze. Even a fool could tell what Teacher Zhang was thinking. Unfortunately, Peng Sizhe just wasn't interested. After dinner, Peng Sizhe sent them home and made an excuse to slip away quickly.
What kind of girlfriend does he really want to find? Peng Si Zhe sometimes asks himself, every man has a dream lover, Peng Si Zhe's dream lover is roughly someone with big eyes and bright pupils, tall and slender, sometimes efficient and capable, sometimes careless and silly, but even when she's being silly, she looks so lovely. However, it seems that this is the dream lover of every man.
Luo Jingjuan is just such a girl.
Peng Sizhe still clearly remembers how he met Luo Jingjuan. Three years ago, his older brother Peng Sixian came back to visit their hometown and they were at the coffee shop in front of the school gate. The two brothers looked out at the street through the glass window and saw Luo Jingjuan walking across the road wearing a long dress and shielding her eyes from the sun with her hand. Almost simultaneously, the two brothers exclaimed: "Ah! There's a beauty!"
They always had a tacit understanding, no matter when, the two brothers' eyes would focus on something interesting at the same time, and they would say the same sentence without prior agreement. At that time, Luo Jingju didn't know that there were four eyes staring at her from behind the window, she just felt a little thirsty and thought of buying an orange juice in a nearby coffee shop.
When Luo Jingqiu walked into the coffee shop, Peng Sichen and his brother made a bet that he could get her contact information within three minutes. Unlike in the movies where people go up to flirt, Peng Sichen pretended to order something at the counter and secretly took Luo Jingqiu's phone from her hand, dialed his own number and hung up. When Luo Jingqiu bought orange juice and was about to leave, Peng Sichen reminded her that her phone had fallen under the counter. At that time, Luo Jingqiu might have been confused and didn't think about how her phone could have fallen under the counter. When Peng Sichen picked up the phone and handed it back to her, he suddenly said: "This phone looks familiar, is your number...?" and accurately recited Luo Jingqiu's phone number.
A small trick, a confused girl was deceived, then Peng Si Cheng invited Luo Jing Ju to have coffee together and chat. People are just so strange, at the right time they meet the right person, everything is so smooth. When Brother's vacation ended and he prepared to return to his unit, Luo Jing Ju agreed to his confession and became his girlfriend...
Peng Sizhe sometimes felt regretful, if he had gone to chat up Luo Jingjuan at that time, perhaps it would have been a different start. For Peng Sizhe, he met the right person at the wrong time, but this entanglement was only fleeting. Now what troubled him more was how to become a good special police officer.
In the future, Luo Jingyu will become her brother's wife and her own sister-in-law. Perhaps at some point in time, she'll run into another silly girl wearing a long dress crossing the street, or perhaps it might be during an operation where she saves the most perfect dream lover in her heart - although this idea is very cliché, saving the beauty is every man's deepest desire.
Peng Sizhe has a complex feeling towards his three-year-older brother, admiring him but also feeling great pressure from his excellence. From young to old, whether in studying or being mischievous, Peng Sizhe always wanted to surpass his brother, but his introverted personality seemed to always make him fall short by one move. During university, his brother joined the army and entered a special forces unit. Peng Sizhe originally also wanted to follow in his brother's footsteps and join the military for training, but unfortunately, he had a high fever during the recruitment physical examination that year and missed the opportunity to join the military. After graduating from university, Peng Sizhe took the police civil service exam and coincidentally, the special police unit was recruiting new members at that time. To keep up with his brother's footsteps, Peng Sizhe also joined the special police unit's rapid response team. Although he was a newcomer to the special police unit, relying on his good innate physical abilities and hard work, his demonstrated tactical skills had already made those old special police officers look at him in a new light. Everyone thought that he was the most promising rookie in the rapid response team.
It seems that fate has already arranged Peng Sizhe's destiny, with a good family environment giving him access to good education, loving parents, and a good relationship with his brothers. His academic journey was smooth sailing, and even becoming a special police officer, which seemed like an unattainable goal for others, came easily to him. Following this trajectory, it's not impossible that Peng Sizhe would become a deputy captain in a few years or even a chief in the future. However, when it comes to relationships, he still has some troubles. At 25 years old, Peng Sizhe doesn't have a girlfriend. To say that Peng Sizhe is handsome and well-built from regular exercise, wearing his special police uniform makes him look majestic, and many girls' hearts are captured by him, but whenever his parents bring up the topic of marriage, Peng Sizhe becomes evasive. Sometimes when he's pressed for an answer, a crazy thought pops into his head: why can't he experience the kind of thrilling event where a hero rescues a beauty from danger, like in the movies? If that happened just once, he could shake off his parents' pressure to get married...
Three days of R&R passed quickly, and apart from having dinner with Luo Jingju once, Peng Sizhe basically didn't go anywhere, just staying at home watching movies. Back to the special police team, he continued his training, learning, and patrolling in this simple yet fulfilling life. A few months ago, his brother said he would be discharged and return home, but then there was no news from him again. His brother usually called home once a week to report on his situation, but now it had been three months, and with the new year's conscripts about to return, there was still no news from his brother. Luo Jingju asked Peng Sizhe several times, and he brushed her off saying his brother was busy lately, but neither calling home nor contacting Luo Jingju made Peng Sizhe feel somewhat uneasy.
As they watched, the retired soldiers returned home one after another, but there was still no news of Peng Sicheng. His parents began to murmur and repeatedly asked Peng Sizhe if he had any news about his brother. The army and public security are two different systems, and Peng Sizhe couldn't find out any information about his brother, so he could only wait passively...
