Chapter 509 - That Is the Man! (1/2)

Translator: Lonelytree  Editor: Millman97

Lee Zheng drove Chen Ge and Captain Yan to Eastern Jiujiang police station. On the way, Chen Ge did not say a word. Eastern Jiujiang police station had used Huang Ling’s phone to call him, meaning they had already interrogated Huang Ling, and Huang Ling had probably sold him out. He just worried that Huang Ling had also told them about the last bus.

The previous night, Huang Ling had driven the taxi back to Eastern Jiujiang, and the taxi driver had stayed inside the car. What happened to them later, Chen Ge did not know. Now that the driver had called the police, Chen Ge had to be prepared to not let things go down a route that would be unbeneficial to him. The three arrived at their destination in less than twenty minutes.

“Ol’ Tian, you sure are a hard worker. Even now, you’re still at work.” Once Captain Yan stepped into the room, he saw a group of officers chatting among themselves. He turned to address the officer who looked the most muscular.

“I’m sorry to have you make this journey.” Tian Lei told the officers next to him something and then walked to his office. “We’ll talk inside.”

“Okay.” Captain Yan and Lee Zheng followed while Chen Ge stood for a while in the lobby. The atmosphere there was different to Western Jiujiang Police Station where Uncle San Bao was posted. The place was neatly arranged, and there were two rows of chairs placed in the corner. Leaning unsteadily against the corner was a drunkard while there was an old man with a blank expression on the other side.

Of the two officers that had spoken to Tian Lei earlier, one of them was patiently conversing with the old man, asking him for his address, but the man only mumbled incoherent nonsense.

The other officer rolled up his sleeves and grabbed the mop to clean up the drunkard’s vomit. With a frown, he grumbled, “People in Western Jiujiang have heavy crimes every few days, and here, we are cleaning up vomit and taking care of drunkards and old people. We’re the police, not a nursery.”

“Pipe down. If the director hears you, you’re going to get it. You’re complaining that there’s no serious case? You have no idea how much people from Western Jiujiang envy us.” The other officer rubbed the old man’s frozen hands to help soothe him to increase the blood flow. It looked like this was not the first time that he had come across something like this. “Xiao Qing, after you’re done, go help me pour a glass of warm water for the old gentleman and grab me the blanket as well.”

“Don’t call me Xiao Qing!” The young police man placed the mop back and continued to grouse. “This is different from what I imagine a police officer’s life would be like.”

He walked to the water machine and saw Chen Ge. “Why are you still standing there?”

“I’m just looking around.” Chen Ge walked past the young officer and added casually, “Actually I don’t think you need to envy Western Jiujiang’s police station. I have a feeling that things are going to get quite busy around here.”

“I sure hope so, or else my limbs are going to get so rusted.” The young officer looked at Chen Ge, and he felt he looked so familiar. As he opened the office door, several eyes fell on Chen Ge. Instantly, a familiar voice said, “That’s him! That’s the person who called my service last night! He wanted to go to Eastern Jiujiang’s fresh water plant around midnight. I knew something was wrong with him!”

“If you knew something was wrong with me, why didn’t you say it sooner?” Chen Ge was rather speechless. He was one of the victims as well.

“Police officer, you see‽ You see how arrogant and proud this man is!” The driver was not that old. He had been so scared back then, but he had calmed down now.