Chapter 134 Police Badge Ring
Xia Lili's mobile phone location trajectory showed that A Quan went to the subway station after leaving Jinzhou North. Perhaps because today was a weekday, the flow of people in the business district was not as large as on weekends, so A Quan did not go to the major business districts to "punch in for work". He took the subway directly and then took the bus to go home.
Soon, police officers were staking out near A Quan's residence.
In the conference room, the police officers received their assignments and left one after another.
Xia Lili approached Li Qihan and asked, "Captain Li, where is my mission?"
Li Qihan didn't even raise his eyelids, and just said casually: "Find something to do."
It was as if he was trying to get rid of a restless child, but he was too lazy to interfere too much.
"Why?" Xia Lili rubbed the conference table, looking puzzled.
"This operation is very dangerous." Li Qihan closed the folder and looked up with a calm expression.
He changed the subject: "The combat class coach said you haven't been to class for two days."
Xia Lili choked, feeling as if her teacher had reported her parents to her. But Coach Song, her martial arts instructor, wasn't one to tell tales.
“Persistence is the key.”
Li Qihan uttered four words lightly.
"If you have nothing to do in the afternoon, go to class."
Xia Lili said hurriedly, "What if the police officers are in danger while on duty? I have to look them in the eye to make sure they are safe!"
Li Qihan glanced at her and asked, "Do you really want to participate in the operation?"
His tone was calm, but he uttered something that made Xia Lili grit her teeth in anger: "Go back and wait for notification."
Xia Lili narrowed her eyes and tightened her fingertips slightly: "I am your superior."
Li Qihan's expression remained unchanged. He simply nodded slightly at her and said in a low, polite voice, "Then go back and wait for my report."
After saying that, he took a long stride and walked out of the conference room. As he left, he reminded everyone: "Remember to attend class regularly."
Xia Lili sighed helplessly and waved her hand: "I know, I know."
At this time, a colleague from the technical department came over and asked her to confirm the data on the mobile phone.
All the data on her stolen mobile phone is synchronized on the cloud of the bureau's system. The backup phone only needs to be synchronized through the cloud, which is very convenient.
When Xia Lili walked out of the meeting room, she met Leng Xiaohe and a female police officer with a completely different aura.
The policewoman had neat short hair, sharp eyebrows, and eyes that seemed to be able to cut through people's disguises.
She was wearing a neat police uniform, with straight shoulders and a straight back, and her whole body was like a sword drawn from its sheath.
Xia Lili noticed that she wore wedding rings on the ring fingers of both hands, a simple platinum ring on her left hand and a diamond ring with a setting shaped like a police badge on her right hand.
"Lili, this is Ning Yutong, our comrade from the drug enforcement team."
Leng Xiaohe introduced, her voice a few notes lower than usual, with a barely perceptible hint of respect.
Ning Yutong nodded slightly, her eyes stayed on Xia Lili for a second before moving away. That look reminded Xia Lili of a falcon in the mountains, calm and dangerous.
"Hello, Senior Ning, I am Xia Lili from the Criminal Investigation Team." Xia Lili extended her hand.
Ning Yutong's handshake was crisp and firm, her palms calloused from years of gripping guns. "Boss Xia, I've heard of you. This time, I'm indebted to your intelligence." Her voice was deep and clear, each word as precise as a bullet.
Then she repeated, "Thank you very much."
After a few pleasantries, Ning Yutong left in a hurry, her back as straight as a pine tree.
Xia Lili watched her retreating figure and couldn't help but ask, "Sister Xiaohe, why is Officer Ning wearing wedding rings on both hands?"
Leng Xiaohe sighed and pulled Xia Lili to the corner of the corridor. "Those are her and her fiancé's rings."
Xia Lili raised her eyebrows: "Fiancé?"
"Yes, also from the General Administration's Narcotics Squad."
Leng Xiaohe's voice lowered. "Her fiancé's undercover mission was exposed three years ago. In order to cover the evacuation of other police officers, he was stabbed eight times by criminals..."
Xia Lili took a breath.
"The most hateful thing is that we didn't even have the chance to collect his body. The criminal wanted to take revenge..."
Leng Xiaohe's throat churned, "In short, there wasn't even a complete corpse left."
"Yutong wore their engagement ring on her left hand and her fiancé's police badge ring on her right hand. They were supposed to be exchanged at the wedding."
Leng Xiaohe's tone was filled with regret.
Xia Lili felt something hit her chest hard.
She recalled Ning Yutong's sharp and cold eyes just now, and now she finally understood the meaning - that was not indifference, but the determination tempered by bottomless pain.
Xia Lili couldn't help but ask, "What happened to this criminal gang later?"
"They were severely damaged by the police crackdown, but the ringleader escaped."
Leng Xiaohe gritted her teeth and said, "Yutong could have been transferred to a civilian position, but she refused. She said that as long as the leader hadn't been caught, she would not leave the drug enforcement team for a single day."
Xia Lili felt regretful and sad. She had only heard about reports about police officers who died in the line of duty on the news before, and their families were living in painful mourning.
When such a thing actually happened around her, Xia Lili truly felt the discomfort.
After having lunch in the company cafeteria, Xia Lili didn't have to wait long before getting the spare phone given to her by the technician.
She called the fighting class coach and made an appointment for the afternoon fighting class after learning that the coach was free.
*
The Blade Mixed Martial Arts Training Gym.
Xia Lili parked her electric scooter. When she pushed open the door of the training hall, the cold air from the air conditioner and the smell of rubber mats hit her in the face.
She arrived half an hour early, and found someone already stretching in the middle of the field.
The woman had her hair tied in a high ponytail, and her muscles were clearly defined under her grey sports vest. She looked up when she heard footsteps. The woman's face was very recognizable, with narrow, sharp single eyelids that had the corners of her eyes slightly raised, and a shallow scar in the middle of her left eyebrow.
She is the coach Song Ying that Li Qihan introduced to Xia Lili.
Song Ying is a former public security officer. She later resigned and opened her own fighting training gym. She is also a top master who has won the national women's fighting championship for many consecutive times. The students she has taught have also achieved remarkable results. Even many people in the film and television industry have asked her to be an action director.
Song Ying nodded at Xia Lili, "Are you here? First, stretch for ten minutes, then complete three sets of machine training."
"Okay." Xia Lili responded with full energy.
Song Ying's professionalism was undeniable. Although each training session felt like being thrown into Laozi's alchemy furnace, within ten sessions, Xia Lili had already felt a noticeable change in his body: his muscles were beginning to form, and his stamina and endurance had significantly improved.
After Xia Lili changed into her training clothes and pushed open the locker room door, her eyes were suddenly drawn to the photo wall on the corridor wall.
After class, she always rushed to her part-time job delivering food and never stopped to take a closer look.
For some reason today, she was inexplicably drawn to stop in front of this photo wall.
One photo is particularly eye-catching - under the banner of "National Police University Outstanding Graduates Commendation Conference", the young-looking Song Ying stands heroically on the podium.
What surprised Xia Lili was the boy who presented the award to Song Ying.
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