Chapter 39
If Tang Ruxin's brain was a little paralyzed due to stress before, it was completely cleared with a buzzing sound at this moment, leaving only a blank.
She couldn't remember what she had answered, nor how she had sent the location. It was as if her hands and mouth had independently acted at that moment, completing the task without her brain's involvement. When she came to her senses, she was already sitting in the police car.
"Is the person dead?" Tang Ruxin asked.
"So you didn't hear anything I just said?" Yu Lei turned to look at Tang Ruxin. Seeing her bewildered expression, he could only repeat, "Rescuing her. Do I need to explain what rescuing her means?"
Tang Ruxin said "Oh" and clenched her bag tightly with both hands, as if only holding something could stop her hands from shaking.
"I thought you and Yu Zhe didn't have a good relationship. I didn't expect you to care about him so much. I shouldn't have brought you here." Yu Lei took out a cigarette and put it back in his pocket the next moment.
Chen Jingzhou, sitting in the passenger seat, heard this and glanced back at Yu Lei with a complicated expression. Who had just taken the whole team on a detour, despite the pressure, to pick up Tang Ruxin? He even brought non-related personnel with him to the investigation site. If Director Xu knew about this, Yu Lei would have his head ripped off.
"How long will it take?" Tang Ruxin seemed not to hear his words and asked Chen Jingzhou who was sitting in the front passenger seat.
"In another forty minutes, the accident site is between the city and Donghe Town, in a relatively remote suburb." Yu Lei answered immediately without waiting for Chen Jingzhou to open his mouth.
Chen Jingzhou's expression was beginning to become indescribable. He had never noticed his captain was so fond of answering questions. There was something strange about the two people in the back seat today. Sister Tang wasn't as calm and composed as usual, looking exhausted after surviving a disaster. Captain Yu wasn't as shabby as before, and even spoke with a bit of caution.
"Do you have ibuprofen?" Tang Ruxin asked.
Tang Ruxin felt like her brain was about to explode, her thoughts were in a mess and the information was complicated. She was not in her current state to process so much information, and her temples were throbbing with pain.
Of course there was no ibuprofen. Who would bring that thing when going out on patrol? Yu Lei and Chen Jingzhou shook their heads together.
"I'll take a nap. Call me when we get there." She didn't consider why she had to go to investigate the accident scene. She just went because Yu Lei asked her to. Anyway, she didn't want to be alone.
Tang Ruxin turned up the collar of her coat to cover her face, leaned against the car window and closed her eyes. Her face was pale against the snow scene outside the window.
Yu Lei took out two gloves from his coat pocket, patted them and handed them to Tang Ruxin.
"Give."
Tang Ruxin opened her eyes and said, "It's not cold."
"Use the gloves to cushion your head. The glass is hard and cold." Yu Lei pressed the gloves against the car window in front of her forehead, indicating that she should use the gloves to cushion her head while sleeping.
Chen Jingzhou turned his head with a blank expression, staring blankly at the front of the car. He was indeed the number one bachelor in the police force, an honor earned through his own strength. He'd figured someone would get uncomfortable leaning against the glass, so why not lend him a shoulder? Lend him a pair of gloves... what a think!
"If Yu Zhe dies, tell me." Tang Ruxin said in a low voice with her eyes closed, with Yu Lei's fleece sheepskin gloves padding her forehead.
The gloves were large, and two of them stacked together made them thick and warm, certainly more comfortable than leaning against the car window. However, the smell of the gloves made its way unimpeded into her nostrils. It wasn't unpleasant, but a faint scent of hand sanitizer gel and mint soap, which made her feel strangely at ease.
Yu Lei was not sure whether she was hoping Yu Zhe would die or live.
He was actually quite furious today. Yesterday, he'd called Tang Ruxin eight hundred times and sent her a ton of messages, but she hadn't replied to any of them. Today, she'd called him from an unfamiliar number and started by asking where he was. It was a classic case of being rude and not helpful. It was hard for him to be upset with her. However, his professional instincts made him very sensitive to people's emotional states. Even though they hadn't exchanged many words, he knew she was in trouble, and it was serious.
But he really didn't have time. The traffic police were waiting at the scene, the technical investigators were waiting in the car. He couldn't just leave Tang Ruxin alone in her emotional state, so Yu Lei dragged the entire team of three police cars around three blocks to pick her up. Fortunately, it was only three blocks; any further and he would have asked her to take a taxi, and he couldn't spare any more time.
It is foreseeable how these bastards will spread this matter tomorrow. It will be difficult for him to get rid of the label of being blinded by lust.
Fortunately, he went. Tang Ruxin, who was standing by the roadside waiting for him, was at a loss at first glance. She looked like some frightened animal that had not been comforted, and her fragility and helplessness were revealed.
The green tea director in his memory had never revealed her inner feelings so defenselessly - he was so scared that he didn't dare to ask, for fear that if he asked her, she would collapse and he wouldn't be able to handle it.
"Captain Yu, bringing your girlfriend on a police call is against the rules." Zhao Guoliang said in a low voice while holding the steering wheel.
"It's okay for you to eat more walnuts." Yu Lei also lowered his voice.
Hearing this, Zhao Guoliang turned his head to look at Tang Ruxin in confusion, then quickly turned back. Tang Ruxin's coat covered half of her face, so Zhao Guoliang didn't recognize her.
"The safety director of Donghe Refining was the one who almost confiscated half a pack of cigarettes from you." Chen Jingzhou tilted his head and reminded him in a low voice.
Zhao Guoliang suddenly understood, "She looks familiar. It turns out to be her."
"Ms. Tang isn't a completely unrelated party. She's the legal sister of the person involved in the car accident. If a sister wants to visit the scene of her brother's accident, we can't stop her. We'll just give her a ride. Let me tell you, this Ms. Tang is quite influential..."
Chen Jingzhou was about to start gossiping when Yu Lei patted him on the shoulder. He turned around and saw Yu Lei looking at him with a fake smile. Chen Jingzhou turned back, looked straight ahead, and said seriously, "None of this matters. Helping the victims and their families find out the truth is what matters most."
Zhao Guoliang glanced at him and said, "What a little coward."
Half an hour later, the police arrived at the scene of the accident. Yu Lei didn't wake Tang Ruxin, but gestured to Zhao Guoliang and Chen Jingzhou to get out of the car quietly.
This is pure wilderness, with only weeds, telephone poles and an artificial lake around.
The lake isn't large, with visible boundaries, but it's deep. The area's continuous land subsidence has led to years of accumulated rain, which has seeped into a bottomless swamp. To prevent anyone from accidentally stepping in, the city government deliberately created the lake several years ago by filling it with water.
Yu Zhe was lucky not to flip directly into the lake, but instead collided with one of the utility poles that were placed every hundred meters. The car was going so fast that the entire hood was flattened, leaving the front of the car in a V-shape. The airbag deployed, but because the front of the car was too narrow to bear the force, the utility pole nearly drove into the driver's seat. The pole, pushing against the airbag, smashed into Yu Zhe.
"The driver was hit head-on and suffered multiple fractures in his arms, sternum and legs. His head was probably also affected. When he was taken away by emergency medical services, he was already in a deep coma. We are not sure if he had any internal organs injured." The traffic police said as he handed the preliminary investigation record to Chen Jingzhou.
Chen Jingzhou lowered his head and carefully looked through the records. "Drunk driving?"
"No, it seems he was frightened." The traffic police took out the memory card of the dashcam and inserted it into the converter. The converter was connected to the tablet data cable. He called up the surveillance video from the tablet and said, "Listen."
The dashcam clearly recorded everything that happened during Yu Zhe's drive, including his terrified scream, the sudden change of scenery, and the crash into the utility pole. If it weren't for the utility pole, Yu Zhe's car would have plunged straight into the artificial lake and then into the swamp.
In this way, no one would even call the police, and he would disappear quietly.
"He must have seen something and screamed like that... There's nothing in front of the car, so there must be something inside the car."
"Right, it doesn't look like a simple car accident, does it?" The traffic policeman put away the tablet, removed the memory card, handed it to Chen Jingzhou, and patted him on the shoulder: "It's up to you!"
"No, no, let's go together." Chen Jingzhou said hurriedly.
"No, here's everything we found. We'll send it to you once the vehicle damage and tire mark report is out..."
Chen Jingzhou held the man's shoulder tightly and walked towards Yu Lei, who was inspecting the scene not far away. He hadn't been hanging around for nothing these days. If he let the brother department go, Yu Lei would ridicule him to death.
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