473 The sLeftover” Bachelor (2/2)

”It's too much of a coincidence.”

Since Bai Muchuan had helped to secure Mr. Luo Senior's transfer to the hospital…

… He also tried to find out more about Mr. Luo Senior's condition and could confirm that the hospital had nothing to do with his death.

First, for his illness, there was a possibility that his condition could get worse anytime. Second, the doctor had told the family members not to feed the patient any food. The patient's family had refused to listen, who could they blame on this?

It was a dispute between the doctor and the patient's family…

Bai Muchuan could only try to mediate between the two parties.

The end result was Luo Sheng having a quarrel with his wife. That was all.

Xiang Wan suddenly felt sad when she saw the brooding face of Bai Muchuan.

Mr. Luo Senior might offer clues on the cold case that year, and he left just like that!

Bai Muchuan had never given up on the investigation on his mom's case.

However, why did the heavens keeping pranking him like this?

One could say that a bowl of soup Mr. Luo Senior had taken, had cut off their only clue…

Bai Muchuan stayed in the hospital for about two hours to help them sort out the aftermath. When Luo Sheng was calmer about his father's death, Bai Muchuan then told him the reason he had made this trip.

He had gotten affirmation from Captain Zhang that Mr. Luo Senior was the detective in-charge of the cold case…

Nevertheless, Luo Sheng was actually studying in another city then and could not supply any information on the matter.

Not to mention the details of the case, he had not even heard of the name of the case.

”My apologies, Captain Bai, for having troubled you so much and caused you to make a wasted trip here…”

”Don't say that…” Bai Muchuan gave a few pats on his shoulder. ”Take care of yourself and your father's funeral. My condolences!”

It seemed that they had said similar things several times that day.

Xiang Wan had a wry smile as she listened to that.

Luo Sheng walked them till downstairs.

When Bai Muchuan was about to leave, Luo Sheng suddenly recalled something. ”After my dad retired, he had been keeping a notebook, and he told me that it was some notes about his experiences of being a detective for many years. It's locked up in the study. If you're interested, I can send the notebook to you via courier…”

Bai Muchuan's eyes lit up at that information. ”Courier is too troublesome. Why not do this? Once you're back in Jin City, call me, and I'll get someone to pick it up from you.”

Luo Sheng didn't expect that he would be so anxious. After a momentary pause, he quickly agreed to the arrangement. ”Sure, no problem.”

…

They were late, and they were so close.

It was such a regrettable instance.

Xiang Wan did not feel good. It felt as if they left her heart hanging in the air. Bai Muchuan, on the other hand, was much calmer than her.

”You're not feeling vexed at all?” Xiang Wan asked.

”I've gone through too much of such stuff over the years, I can't be feeling vexed at each and every one of them!”

”I see! Very experienced already, huh?”

Bai Muchuan pinched her nose and smiled. ”If I have the time to feel vexed and bad about it, I might as well think about my work—”

”Aye! Yes, Sir!”

…

Operation Heaven's Wrath was first on his list of priorities.

However, even after all the investigation all this while, they only had the information which Cheng Zheng's junior, Miao Zichen, had brought them.

The minions of the Dark Clan that they caught, no matter which stage they caught them, none of them had heard of the word ”Heaven's Wrath” before. Regarding that word, they were more confused than the police officers.

Immediately after that, the superiors gave Serious Crime Division One, and various relevant units, tasks to eradicate all drug syndicates in the country once and for all with Serious Crime Division One taking the lead.

Thus, the mission of busting drug syndicates was a priority.

At the same time, in the building of Serious Crime Division One.

It was lunchtime; a group of people were eating at the canteen together.

The team had been investigating Operation Heaven's Wrath. There was not a day that they could go back home on the dot, and everyone seemed somewhat exhausted.

Their stress level increases as the Lunar New Year approaches.

Quan Shaoteng, Tang Yuanchu, Salimu, Ding Yifan, the few of them had taken part in the 121 case and had been through life and death together. Although they may seem to diss each other at times, they were actually closer compared to other colleagues. Of course, Cheng Zheng and Mei Xin were also assisting in the case. Nonetheless, this pair of master and disciple looked like they were cut from the same cloth; they were silent and wouldn't say an extra word unless they had to.

Occasionally, when the detectives saw these two and sat together, there were always instances of silence in a meal.

Since it was difficult to get close to them, the detectives could not talk to them about other stuff besides cases.

Gradually, there was less activity seen in the ”Gossip” WeChat group.

Firstly, Tu Liang's death had a part to that as they somehow felt an unspeakable feeling of sorrow in the group chat.

Second, they were all caught up with the mission. If they had any free time, they only wished to have as much sleep as possible.

Feeling the recent difficulties at work, Salimu started to complain.

”Seriously, I can really sleep immediately if there's a bed beside me right now. Even if the organization gives me a beautiful girl, she certainly won't be able to get me to open my eyes once I slept…”

”As if that will happen!” Tang Yuanchu glared at him while a green vegetable clamped between his lips which he slurped into his mouth, then chewed and swallowed it. After that, he looked at Captain Quan with a grin. ”Do you think you are our Captain Quan, who had lots of girls willing to throw themselves at him… but he never looks at them!”

”Scram!” Quan Shaoteng swept a glance at him lazily. ”Never guess what I'm thinking!”

Pffft! ”Do I even need to guess? Who doesn't know what you're like?”

After working together during this period, he did not exaggerate when he said he knew how Captain Quan was like.

In fact, with Quan Shaoteng's age, his kind of background, his level of good looks, and his own personal achievements, it was hard to believe that he never had a girlfriend. Consequently, someone gave a conclusion on the reason. This guy had not reached a stage where he would have an interest in the opposite sex. He didn't think there was much difference between them and the opposite sex. In his eyes, sexy beauties were not as attractive as a new weapon or a new game…

He had too many interests in other stuff, except for women.

”You're not young anymore,” remarked Tang Yuanchu earnestly, ”You shouldn't learn from hot young studs like myself and Salimu. You should learn from idol dramas. If that still can't help, there are still two young, single ladies in our division…”

”You can shut up now!”

Quan Shaoteng glared at him while pointed his chopsticks at him.

”One more word and you will return to the hospital again. Do you hear me?”

”I hear you!” Salimu held a hand up. ”Captain Quan's the best! You're a role model of us youngsters!”

”D*rn!” Quan Shaoteng threw something at him. ”Role model of youngsters? When did I become an 'old' and 'leftover' bachelor?”

”You have… always been one!”

Salimu started giggling.

”…”

The few of them then laughed heartily.

Two colleagues sat down at the table next to them.

They chatted while they had their lunch.

”… Someone broke out of the detention center last night…”

”Where did you hear that from?”

”… When I came over, I heard Captain Bai talking on the phone…”

”What? D*rn! This will be a big issue!”

”…”

Quan Shaoteng, Tang Yuanchu, and the rest of the team looked at each other. The news also stunned them.

It was difficult to break out of a detention center. They would definitely consider this a major incident.

However, they were all wrong.

This matter did not spark off much reactions at all…

…