The other party hung up the phone without giving her any time to react. Xu Man stared at the phone screen for a few seconds before she remembered to open the navigation app to check the route to the detachment.
The results of the APP showed that the detachment was indeed very close to the community where she lived, and it only took fifteen minutes to drive there. However, she didn't have a car, and the other party asked her to arrive within twenty minutes. She could only put down her half-packed luggage, first book an online taxi on her mobile phone, then quickly opened her backpack to check it, and after confirming that her documents, paper and pen were all there, she took the key and left the room, and hurried downstairs to the community gate.
Fortunately, the online taxi arrived quickly and it was not rush hour. Twenty minutes later, she arrived at No. 999 Xinning Road and came to the gate of the Criminal Investigation Brigade of Mingzhou Municipal Public Security Bureau.
The weather in July was extremely hot. As soon as I got off the car, a wave of heat hit me in the face, as if it was going to suffocate me in the sea of heat. Xu Man was only wearing a thin summer dress, but she was still sweating from the heat. She hid in the shadows next to the guard booth and took out her cell phone to call Qin Shen.
This time Qin Shen answered the phone very quickly, almost as soon as the ringtone sounded: "Hello?"
"Hello, Captain Qin, I'm Xu Man. I'm already at the gate of the detachment." Xu Man was a little hesitant when she said this, because her internship position was at the Municipal Bureau, and logically she should report to the Municipal Bureau, so why would she come to the detachment? So after saying this, she tactfully asked, "Are we going to report to the Municipal Bureau later?"
"There's no rush to report. Just wait at the door. I'll be right out."
The phone was hung up again. The other party seemed to like using such concise words to communicate. Xu Man felt a little uncomfortable at first, but soon felt relieved. The Criminal Investigation Detachment had a lot of matters to deal with. As a leader, it was a good thing to speak and act decisively without dragging their feet. Moreover, she had to admit that the photo that Qin's mother had sent her before played a big role. The world was still very tolerant of good-looking people.
Waiting in the sultry summer is a tormenting thing. Xu Man waited for a while beside the guard booth. When she didn't see anyone, she stepped to the side and looked at the entrance of the hall under the scorching sun. Several people in police uniforms came out hurriedly, but before she could guess which one was the person she was waiting for, those people turned a corner and went to the side. She had to continue waiting under the sun. Sweat beads seeped out from the tip of her nose, which she wiped away with her backhand.
After watching for a while, the guards on duty at the door noticed her. One of the guards with a walkie-talkie on his shoulder walked towards her and gave her a standard polite smile: "Hello, how can I help you?"
Xu Man smiled at him a little embarrassedly: "No, I'm waiting for someone."
The other party nodded, stopped asking questions, and returned to his work post to continue his duty.
Xu Man continued to look inside. The detachment seemed to be busy with something. From time to time, people came in and out of the hall door, and there were several sounds of car engines starting. As the sound approached, several police cars turned out from the road next to the office building and drove towards the door in a line.
The sliding door at the entrance slowly opened, and Xu Man also stepped aside to make way for the police car. However, the leading police car stopped when passing by her, and the passenger window slowly lowered. The person inside turned his head to look at her and raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Xu Man?"
He was a young man, not wearing a police uniform. He was dressed in a dark T-shirt and a short-sleeved jacket, in plain clothes. His eyebrows and eyes were deep and sharp, and he looked handsome with a hint of unruly.
Xu Man didn't realize who he was for a moment, and only reacted after a few seconds. She nodded hurriedly, "It's me. Are you Captain Qin?"
The other party nodded curtly, "Get in the car."
"Ah?" She was stunned.
Get in the car? Which car to get on? Is this a police car?
"Get in the car," the other party repeated impatiently, "Don't waste time."
Xu Man wanted to ask a few more questions, but the police cars following closely behind her put pressure on her, so she didn't dare to stand there and dawdle. She could only smile awkwardly, bent her body slightly and nodded, then opened the door and got into the back seat of the police car.
As soon as she closed the car door, Qin Shen in front of her ordered the person in the driver's seat: "Drive." The car turned out of the detachment gate, pressed into the white line of Xinning Road, and drove forward.
Xu Man sat in the back, took off her backpack and put it in front of her chest. Before she could think of how to start talking, she felt a gaze: the young police officer in the driver's seat was observing her curiously through the rearview mirror.
When she looked over, the police driver immediately looked away and pretended to be calm and asked Qin Shen beside him: "Brother Qin, who is she? Why did you let her get in the car? Is she my sister-in-law?"
"A new intern." Qin Shen closed the car window and leaned back in his car seat and answered nonchalantly, "Xu Man, new to Anhui University, first day here. You should get to know each other, and we'll be colleagues in the next six months."
"Ah?" The driver cried out in surprise and looked at Xu Man several times through the rearview mirror. "She?"
"If you have any opinions, raise them." Qin Shen said impatiently.
"No. Brother Qin, it's only her first day here, and you're taking her out? She hasn't even graduated from school yet, and you're treating her like this. Isn't that a bit of a rip-off?"
"She's here for an internship, not a visit. What's the point of cheating? She'll have to go to the scene sooner or later anyway. I just happened to run into this today, so I'll take her with me."
"What? Brother Qin, you're the one taking care of her? Then then then...what about me? What should I do? Will you still take care of me?"
"It's been half a year and you still need someone to guide you. Aren't you ashamed? Don't say I'm the one who guided you when you go out. You can't even finish your division in half a year. It's shameful."
"No, I was--"
"Shut up and focus on driving."
The driver police officer succumbed to the captain's tyranny and shut up angrily, but Xu Man's questioning had just begun.
"Excuse me, Captain Qin, what did you just say? Am I not interning at the Municipal Bureau? I shouldn't be working in the detachment, right?"
"The detachment is a branch of the Municipal Bureau. You are interning at the Municipal Bureau, and you are working here for me. Do you have any questions?"
Xu Man smiled with difficulty: "...Yes. If I remember correctly, I was interning at the Municipal Bureau, not here? And it doesn't seem to be a criminal investigation position?"
"What did you major in in college?"
"… Criminal investigation."
"That's it." The other party seemed completely unable to understand her doubts.
This is where the problem lies, okay?
Xu Man was going crazy in her heart. Although she majored in criminal investigation, she didn't want to do criminal investigation at all, and what were they just talking about? on site? Is this going to be a live show? Take her to the scene?
Just as Xu Man was racking her brains to think of how to tactfully but clearly explain to Captain Qin that she did not want to do criminal investigation, the police driver who was ordered by Qin Shen to shut up spoke.
"Brother Qin, why can't you understand what she said? She just doesn't want to leave the scene." The straightforward words made her feel a little embarrassed. Fortunately, there was no obvious contempt in the other party's words, which comforted her a little and secretly relieved her. "Is she from our place? Why did she say that she was interning at the Municipal Bureau headquarters, not here? Brother Qin, are you sure you are not mistaken?"
"I was the one who brought her into the police station. How could I not know whether I made a mistake or not?"
"Fuck, so you two know each other?"
"We are from the same alma mater. She is two years younger than me, so she is my junior." Qin Shen answered, then turned sideways to look at Xu Man, "You are a criminal investigation major. What else do you plan to do if you don't do criminal investigation?"
Xu Man choked.
In fact, she didn't plan to do anything. She just wanted to do some ordinary logistics work in the Municipal Bureau, organize some documents and so on, and get through the internship period smoothly. But looking into Qin Shen's eyes, she couldn't say these words.
Guilty and embarrassed.
He is a true public servant, fighting on the front line of solving cases and working hard to ensure the personal safety of the general public. He is completely different from her, a loser who just wants to get by. One is in heaven and the other is underground.
In the end, she couldn't say with a thick face that she didn't want to be a criminal investigator, so she could only say in an uncertain tone: "I... I don't know."
The driver police officer sneered, wondering if he saw through her thoughts.
Qin Shen's expression didn't change. He turned around and sat up straight, leaning back in his chair. "Then follow me. What kind of criminal investigation is it if you don't go to the scene?" He made the decision for her. "Xiao Li, tell her the details."
"Oh, okay." The driver police officer named Xiao Li turned the steering wheel, turned the car right at the intersection, and told Xu Man about the situation.
Xu Man was in a dilemma and could only hold the backpack tightly in her arms and listen to him talk, feeling extremely conflicted.
The matter was not complicated. At 1:32 p.m., the command center received a call from a security guard at Danhu Wetland Park. He said that a plastic bag was found in the woods. Inside the bag were things that looked like human limbs, and blood was seeping out. According to the operator's inquiry, the plastic bag was found by a tourist who had violated the regulations by bringing a dog in. The dog kept trying to go into the woods and the owner had no choice but to follow the dog in. As a result, the dog dug out this thing.
At first, the tourist didn't know what was inside and thought it was just some garbage buried somewhere. It wasn't until the dog's paw tore a hole in the plastic bag and half a human hand rolled out of it that he realized what it was. He was immediately frightened and called the security guard. When the security guard arrived at the scene, he was also stunned and called the police.
Xiao Li's narration was concise, but it gave a comprehensive summary of the whole situation, and Xu Man felt her stomach churning just by listening.
Body parts, plastic bags, half a palm.
Obviously, this was a case of dismemberment.
The first scene she attended without any psychological preparation was a dismemberment case.
She began to regret eating the egg and milk sandwich on the way here. If she had known she would be taken to the scene, she should not have eaten anything.
When she gets to the scene, she won’t vomit it out, right?
She will definitely spit it out.
Xu Man unconsciously tightened the backpack in her hands. She tried hard not to make her expression look so ugly, but she could still feel the color on her face fading uncontrollably.
And her ugly pale face was also seen by another person through the rearview mirror.
Criminal investigation team leader Qin Shen looked at the girl in the mirror who had a nervous face but was trying to hold on, and turned his eyes away calmly.
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