Chapter 15 "The Junior Police Officer": No mercy shown!
[1-3: If the protagonist safely survives the three transitions without being forcibly logged out by other supporting characters, you can unlock a new side quest.]
the next day.
Director Wang and Deputy Director Xue of Honghui have returned from a meeting out of town. The evidence is a Mercedes-Benz 126 parked at the building entrance.
As the eastern sky began to brighten, the gatekeeper flipped over a calendar featuring women in swimsuits, and the young police officers at Honghui Police Station began their new day.
The radio station "Little Trumpet" is a favorite among those born in the 80s and 90s.
Ding Xiaoding forgot about what happened last night. She rested her chin on her hand, took a sip of tea and a bite of longan, and her eyes under her wide-brimmed hat prepared for another utterly boring day.
Jane Dieda emerged from the corner and gave a standard one-handed salute to the comrade inside the window.
"Good morning, Comrade Ding!"
His eyes, piercingly revealing no emotion beneath the wide-brimmed hat, shot straight at me.
Ding Xiaoding opened her mouth wide, revealing the brown longan pulp between her teeth.
His own mother? This, this is Comrade Jian Da?
He had just met 'Janda' last night. He was irritable, aloof, and treated everyone like an enemy. Who was this guy in front of him?
Comrade Jian showed several different faces when investigating cases with different people.
This is common sense.
He continued to seek validation everywhere, not caring whether others thought he was schizophrenic.
An hour or two later.
Today, people have gained another topic of conversation that will make them laugh out loud.
The disabled people in the station made Jianzi even more foolish. He stopped wearing his blue coarse cloth shirt under his police uniform and started wearing a much brighter light yellow shirt.
He combed his hair so that each strand stood upright, and judging by the look of it, he must have sprayed some mousse on it. Then, he walked around with his hands behind his back, and he looked like someone who could blend into the ranks of cadres.
"Now that we have Jian Yiji, why do we need Kong Yiji?" Many people were laughing and pointing at him behind his back.
People didn't want to pay attention to him anymore, so they dispersed.
At this point, the clues for the scene change are updated.
In the story, Director Wang, who had just returned from out of town, met with Jian Dieda alone.
A middle-aged face, like Daoming—the annotation of the Jian Dieda reading system.
The file contained allegations of police corruption. "Daoming" tapped his cigarette butt and asked, "I saw your application. In what ways do you think you qualify to join the Public Security Bureau?"
Jian Dieda tugged at his pants: "It's all about ability."
Director Wang was somewhat taken aback.
He probably had never seen such a shameless young man as Janda in his life.
The leader, not wanting to say it outright, nodded and said, "Comrade Jian, then you should learn more from Comrade Dong Dongdong; he works much harder than you."
Simple and straightforward, like a breeze passing by.
Actually, he had run into Dong Dongdong this morning. The other man spoke highly of his childhood friend, saying, "Chief Wang is back this time and plans to have everyone in the station prepare for an exam. He said there's only one opening in the Criminal Investigation Team of the Public Security Bureau. Jianzi, you've been working very hard lately, I think you might be able to..."
Jian Dieda pressed down on his buddy's shoulders: "Dongzi, I have the ability, I know it myself, you should cherish your opportunity to show it."
Dongzi was stunned again, and after a long while, she nodded.
Just then, as his quick, erratic glances stopped, Jian Dieda noticed a woman's new sachet on the table.
The system labeled it as, "A box of Bai Fengxia's (Dongzi's godmother) personal prickly heat powder."
Jane Dieda, the listless office worker, suddenly perked up: "..."
Coincidentally, Bai Fengxia also came that day. She turned to Director Wang and wanted to talk about the job arrangement for her godson, Dong Dongdong.
Before closing the door, Director Wang looked around, unaware that a foot was peeking out from the corner of the wall, and the conversation between the middle-aged man and woman turned into a system testimony called 'adultery'.
The panel of Jiandieda was displaying one greasy text after another.
"I heard from Dong Dongdong that you're sick?"
"Yeah, that deadbeat has been gone for so long... and I'm still suffering from my old ailments."
“When a woman is sick, she needs someone to keep her company. She can’t let it drag on. Here, I’ve booked a short-stay room near the police station for you. Come there and wait for me this afternoon.”
"No need, I can just give myself an injection."
"Fengxia, you're being too polite. It's hot today, and you seem to have chest tightness. How about this, let me see your bra... Dongzi is also my godson, and about transferring him to the Public Security Bureau..."
"Don't mention the child!" Bai Fengxia suddenly shouted.
“Okay…” Director Wang’s words were loaded with meaning, “But he inherited everything from his biological father, and sooner or later someone will find out.”
His biological father? Wasn't Dong Dongdong an orphan who lost both his parents? Who is his biological father?
Jian Dieda had already realized another foreshadowing in the plot. At the crucial moment, the man and woman inside made love for a few moments, and an annoyed Fengxia impatiently shouted, "I'm on my period! Don't touch me!"
Director Wang, who was inside the door, fell silent.
He said unhappily, "We used to agree, but you changed after Dong Zhijie died. Aren't you scared now? We're all in the same boat, don't forget that."
Bai Fengxia didn't refute, and came out after a while. Her disheveled appearance made her look guilty.
Jane Dieda secretly followed her.
The security guard saw with his own eyes that when the woman left, her stockings were still on, her hair was tied up, and she was no longer wearing an earring.
Jane followed her all the way to the intersection, where he watched the woman board the bus dressed like that.
Standing by the telephone pole, he remarked with feeling, "Tongzi, do you think Bai Fengxia was forced into this?"
The system says it's hard to say.
After thinking about it, Jian Dieda decided to stick to his original opinion.
"I think that no matter what bad things a female character has done, she shouldn't have encountered someone like Director Wang. The only thing in the world that can judge a criminal is the law."
The system said, "Then let's restore justice to this world, little police officer."
Jane Dieda snapped out of her daze, “Wasn’t I playing a murder mystery game?”
The system's words were thought-provoking: "Can you say that such stories aren't happening in the world?"
That's true.
The private interactions between Director Wang and Bai Fengxia provide further evidence that the murder at the alley entrance was man-made.
If the phrase "grasshoppers on the same rope" represents the power dynamics between men and women in the corrupt police case, then...
Every time Bai Fengxia came to the station, she would also bring Director Wang an envelope.
The envelope contained what was said to be a registered letter from Director Wang, implying frequent financial dealings between the two. Bai Fengxia's official workplace was the post office, but in reality, the bags she carried, the clothes she wore, and the cosmetics she used were all top-of-the-line.
The two likely conspired to kill Dong Zhijie.
What's thought-provoking is that the special relationship between the man and woman doesn't seem to be enough to explain everything.
What exactly is the background of Dong Dongdong?
At 8:30, the bright moon shone.
Jian Dieda was dressed in a vest and shorts. Behind him, on the corridor with peeling paint on the walls, were words written by the two directors during the Chinese New Year: "Boundless loyalty to the Party organization."
He looked left and right before turning off the bathroom light and went into the police dormitory.
The system's nighttime broadcast has started again:
Police, please close your eyes.
*Tonight, pay close attention to the detail that will determine success or failure in the darkness.*
[With the story progress reaching 75%, the first round of nighttime defections has begun.]
Starting tonight, you (the police officer) will be given one suspenseful answer each night. If you only guess part of the correct answer, the complete answer will not be released.
[In addition, by identifying "good comrades" in the team, you can earn the "Good Comrades" achievement and gain their trust.]
[The "bad comrade" will also kill a witness.]
*There are more good people than bad in society; this round of exposés involves more than one good comrade.
Jian Dieda was genuinely unsure about his first defection to the enemy.
He hung his police uniform behind the door, stacked it on a military water bottle, and laboriously bent down to put down the peony-patterned washbasin. His tank top outlined his muscular physique, and his back, which he used to work out regularly, looked very handsome.
With all his might, Jian Dieda wrung out the towel, poured the used wash water into the foot basin, and put his feet in it.
Under the flashlight, Jian Dieda's feet were comfortably folded in the water as he absentmindedly studied the English dictionary and listened to the radio.
Back then, Hong Kong hadn't even returned to China, and not many people spoke English. But he had already taken the TOEFL in modern times. As a pseudo-expressionless person, he knew many languages, so memorizing a few words in one night was no problem at all.
At this critical moment, Dong Dongdong opened the door. He was wearing gym pants and his face was covered in sweat from running. He brought back a bag of rat poison and some strong patches, and told Jian Dieda to hide them. These were given to him by his informant.
Jian Dieda marked the new items and discovered a little-known fact.
From 1975 to 1990, due to the large number of people who used it to commit suicide, the sale of rat poison was completely banned, and selling it on the street or privately was punishable by re-education through labor.
As Jian Dieda thought about it, he spat a grape seed into his palm.
The grapes in the plastic bag had a bloomy coating.
Dongzi took off one of her green socks, revealing her big toe, and asked, "Did my godmother come to the station today?"
Jane noticed he wasn't eating, so she continued sucking on the grape pulp herself: "It seems so."
Dongzi rubbed the other red sock off.
Jian Dieda looked at the red and green socks on the ground and thought that Dongzi was pretty trendy. He could even make a color-blocking effect by wearing the wrong socks in the morning.
He quietly brought up something: "The teacher's wife registered at the gate and then went to find Director Wang around the corner."
Dongzi seemed not to have grasped the deeper meaning. He was leaning against the iron bed railing, drinking water, when he replied, "It's better for Godmother to leave early. It's not safe after dark. That's how Master got into trouble too."
Jian Dieda sensed the strange atmosphere and recalled Dong Zhijie's words as Dongzi looked up at the light bulb and said, "That damned fox spirit, how could it have taken away such a good person as Master... If it weren't for your good fortune last time, you wouldn't have been killed by the fox spirit in the phone booth..."
His voice was very soft, and a moth crashed headfirst into a gas light bulb and died.
After that, Dong Dongdong seemed to open up, lying on the bed and rambling on and on. Jian Dieda listened to him say a lot about missing Dong Zhijie.
At 11:55 PM, Jian Dieda's stomach was upset from eating too many grapes, and he was woken up by the system.
Jian Dieda ran to the outhouse.
The system is urging its novice players on with a cold, jumping cursor:
"Only five minutes remain."
"Please initiate the first round of defection."
After thinking about it all night, Jian Dieda said, "I choose: Fox Fairy, who is either a prophet or an ordinary villager; Director Wang, who is one of the wolves; Bai Fengxia, who is another wolf; and Cao Chunlan and Dong Dongdong, whose positions are yet to be determined."
After Jian Dieda finished making his selections, it was too dark, so he pulled up his belt, and the keys on his pants slipped and fell to the ground.
"Comrade, don't pull the water tank." Jian Dieda greeted the person in the last pit.
In this era, the whole society used these squat toilets. It was convenient to just pull the rope of the water tank. But it was too unsafe. If the person in front of you dropped their keys and wallet into the toilet, and the person behind you accidentally pulled the water tank, all their valuables would be washed away.
Many people also write curses on the walls.
Perhaps that comrade was introverted, yet wanted to express his friendliness, he waved from behind the green and white sanitation wall.
Jane then squatted down and turned off the flashlight.
His pale face must look like a ghost.
But it was strange. The police officer had clearly defected to the enemy, and nothing happened that night. Later, when he thought about it, he suddenly got goosebumps because the only strange thing that happened all night was that hand.
The person waving?
Wait, was that person greeting him? Or was he asking for help?
Jane was suddenly startled, “…”
The scene in the restroom wasn't so simple, was it?
A note from the author:
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Finally, someone got eliminated! Hahaha, that wasn't easy!
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