Chapter 1: Are you sick?

  Li Bo Tao's home is in the Mingzhu City area. He has a temporary accommodation place at the back of this police station.

  After seeing off Deputy Director Huang Chao and the young man with the surname Ji, he instructed Jiang Kai to crack the case as soon as possible, then went back to rest himself.

  He had just washed his face and was about to call the young man, whose business card only had the name "Ji William" and a mobile phone number on it, to ask who he was when the phone on the table rang first.

  After receiving that phone call, he sprang up and ran towards the front office area in a flash.

  There were people on the road who actively greeted him, but he didn't have time to respond. The deputy director walked over and said he wanted to report work to him, but he didn't hear it. It was like going crazy, 'Ka-cheng' sound burst open the iron door of the interrogation room-----

  Because of the commotion on his side, it attracted some case handlers and clerks inside the office to look over.

  Jiang Kai looked at Li Bo in a bewildered manner, thinking to himself, "Could he have also received that phone call?"

  But if he received the call, shouldn't he pretend to be unaware and let himself take action? Why did he stop himself instead?

  Jiang Kai put away his handcuffs and smiled as he asked: "Director, what are your instructions?"

  "Jiang Kai, what are you doing? What are you doing?" Li Bo Tao shouted loudly. "Who allowed you to use violent means to interrogate suspects? When did our bureau have such a trend? Are you still a policeman or not? Do you still have the conscience and integrity of a policeman? Do you want to quit or not? If not, get out!"

  Jiang Kai stared at Li Bo Tao as if he had seen a ghost - Had he gone crazy?

  Otherwise, how could he say such absurd things?

  What's wrong with using violent means to interrogate suspects? Which suspect doesn't get ' roughed up' first and then forced into a confession?

  When did this atmosphere appear in our department? I'm begging you, when I first joined as a police officer, you were the deputy director. These methods were all taught by you!

  As for the police's conscience and integrity ----- he has no power to refute this. What is called the police's conscience and integrity?

  "Director, I - I didn't lay a hand on him." Jiang Kai denied, saying. He pointed at the two subordinates lying on the ground and groaning, saying: "It was he who assaulted the police, so I had to stop him from causing trouble."

  "Fart." Li Bo Tao scolded. "He's tied up in a chair, you don't go over there, can he hit you?"

  Jiang Kai almost cried.

  What's wrong with you, old man? Which great god did you receive a call from this time? Do you have to stand on the side of the suspect and scold us so fiercely?

  Seeing Jiang Kai's embarrassed expression, Li Bo's face finally eased up. He glanced at Tang Chong and said: "The police's duty is to maintain law and order and eliminate crime, but we can't commit crimes ourselves. This is a blasphemy against the great profession of policing-----Alright. Let them go get bandaged, don't make this a habit. Jiang Kai, come out with me. Director Jiang will be coming over soon to inspect our branch's civilized law enforcement work-----"

  Li Bo said this sentence and then paid attention to Tang Chong's expression.

  As expected, when Tang Chong heard the words 'Director Jiang Tao is coming to inspect our work', his eyebrows obviously smoothed out and a relieved expression appeared on his face.

  Li Bo's heart secretly sighed: Another grandpa.

  Jiang Kai almost sprayed out a liter of fresh blood.

  This bird that never poops has been forgotten by people for a long time, but within one day, two bureau-level leaders came to inspect the work. The previous one was Deputy Director Huang Chao who inspected the 'sanitation' work of the bureau and then left. Now, Jiang Tao, the head of Mingzhu City Bureau, is coming to inspect the 'civilized law enforcement' work-----

  What is civilized law enforcement? That means your behavior just now was very uncivilized.

  It's clear that Director Jiang is also not here for the wine, he's also here for this case. Moreover, he's here for that guy named Tang Zhong.

  Otherwise, they would not have put the big hat of "civilized law enforcement" on their heads before people even arrived.

  This is a warning.

  Warn them not to beat people, once they beat someone, they will be caught by him, a typical example of violent law enforcement.

  "Director Jiang. It's so late, why does Director Jiang still want to come over and inspect the work?" Jiang Kai asked quietly as he followed Li Bo out the door.

  "It's the leader's arrangement, how dare I ask? Can I say that it's late now and we can't receive them?" Li Botao said with a heavy heart.

  He turned around and closed the door, asking in a low voice: "Did he say anything?"

  "Nothing," Jiang Kai said. "He says he's a victim, was attacked by someone while on a mountain trip... He also says that Taoist is a professional killer."

  Li Bo Tao furrowed his brow and asked: "What do you think?"

  Jiang Kai hesitated for a moment, then reported truthfully: "I think what he said makes sense. Before nightfall, I had someone investigate and found that there was only one Taoist priest at the Tianyi Observatory, with no other priests present. Clearly, this person is impersonating a Taoist priest - what his intentions are, we still don't know. Moreover, we found some unusual items on the priest's body. Director, have you seen those leather shoes? Who else but an assassin would wear such shoes?"

  "That's to say, he was indeed acting in self-defense?" Li Botao said.

  "It can't be concluded so quickly." Jiang Kai said. "Although there are many suspicious points on the Taoist priest's body, who knows if he killed someone first and then put these things on the deceased to frame him? Director, you haven't seen how sly and stubborn this kid is. He's like a turtle, making it impossible for anyone to take action. Besides, I've seen his student ID, he's a freshman at Nan Da University. Which student who has just killed someone can still be so calm and composed?"

  "That proves one thing." Li Botao sighed and said.

  "What's up?"

  "He has a big background." Li Botao said.

  "----" Jiang Kai wanted to scold his mother. Isn't this nonsense? Being able to get the police chief to rush over in the middle of the night to save him, doesn't he have some kind of background?

  "He's not an ordinary person," Li Bo explained. "Some people, from the moment they're born, have more exposure to things than ordinary people and their horizons are broader - that's why he can do things that ordinary people can't."

  "If I weren't being tough, you would have started serving dishes already? I'm more familiar with these procedures than you are."

  Jiang Kai recalled what Tang Chong had said and also somewhat understood Li Bo's words.

  What kind of identity is he, so familiar with these programs?

  He's being so stubborn, is it because he knows that if he shows weakness from the start, he'll get beaten up?

  "Director, what should we do now?" Jiang Kai asked.

  "When the soldiers come, we'll block them; when the water comes, we'll dam it. We can't do anything." Li Botao took out his handkerchief to wipe away the sweat on his forehead and said: "A small temple cannot hold a great Bodhisattva. Wait until Director Jiang Tao arrives and see what these big shots have to say. If all else fails, let's let the Mingzhu City Bureau take over this case. We'd better not get involved again. One careless move and we'll be crushed."

  "Yes, Director." Jiang Kai replied, his heart sinking a little bit more.

  Fortunately, he didn't have a chance to take action, let's just pretend that he completely didn't know about it and the thing never happened.

  His eyes met those of Deputy Director Liao Zhongyu, who was in charge of criminal investigations. The other nodded and then walked straight past him. He knew that this old fox shared his thoughts.

  Some things will just have to rot in their bellies.

  A black Audi and a white BMW were parked in front of the police station, Li Botao rushed over to open the door of the Audi and respectfully asked, "Director Jiang, you've had a long hard journey."

  Jiang Tao is a middle-aged man with great majesty, square face, big eyes, thick eyebrows, and he looks like the kind of person who can play a positive role.

  He extended his hand and shook hands with Li Bo, saying: "It's so late, I'm disturbing you."

  "It's an honor for all of us police officers that Director Jiang can come to the Yúnǚ Fēng sub-bureau for inspection." Li Bótuō said with flattery. He secretly took a glance and saw that there were only two middle-aged men and a young girl following behind Director Jiang, his heart put down a big stone but then pressed on an even bigger one.

  Fortunately, Jiang Tao came alone and unannounced, and wasn't actually there to inspect the work of the office.

  What's worrying is that he didn't come to inspect the work, so what did he come for?

  "Hmm. Although the Yúnǔ Fēng sub-bureau is located in a remote area, its importance cannot be ignored." Jiang Tao still had the mind to instruct Li Bo and other police officers who came to welcome him. "The tourism value of Yúnǔ Fēng is being increasingly tapped, although the government has not yet taken the lead in deep development, but the current flow of people is not small ----- so, doing a good job in safety work is extremely necessary."

  "Yes, we must study Commissar Jiang's instructions carefully and put safety work in the first place." Li Bo said with a guarantee.

  "Hmm." Jiang Tao nodded. "Haven't there been any major cases recently?"

  "Report to leader, today there is a murder case. This is our dereliction of duty at work. I want to make self-criticism to the leader."

  "Huh?" Jiang Tao furrowed his brow and asked: "A murder case? What happened?"

  It seems like he doesn't know anything and just heard about this thing a moment ago.

  "Director, please come into the rest room and have a cup of tea. I'll give you a briefing on the case." Li Bo said invitingly.

  Jiang Tao turned around and looked at the young girl who had been quietly standing beside him. The girl was expressionless, her voice cold as she said, "Report here then."

  She wants to see Tang Zhong is safe now immediately, where has time to listen to their lengthy work report?