Chapter 155: Daring to Plot Against the Police — What Nerve!

Yu Dazhang felt a warmth in his heart.

What does it feel like to be cared for by a leader?

He was getting to taste it now, and this wasn't a treatment that just anyone could enjoy.

At the same time he was a bit puzzled — the matter had already been agreed upon, so why had Captain Li suddenly changed his mind.

"Captain Li, did you get some new information?" Yu Dazhang asked, his face full of suspicion.

This was the only possibility he could think of.

If no new situation had arisen, then why had a full five days already passed, and only now did Captain Li think to send someone to protect him.

This simply didn't follow common sense.

"No."

Facing Yu Dazhang's question, Li Jun slowly shook his head.

That face of his, which was never one to smile easily, now looked especially stern, his gaze fixed straight on Yu Dazhang as he said:

"These past two days my eyelid has been twitching badly, I keep feeling something bad is going to happen."

"Thinking it over, only your situation is the most dangerous."

"Last time I also overheard your call with the national security leader — there's still two days left until the one-week deadline."

"The closer to the end, the more easily people let their guard down, and yet this very moment is precisely the most dangerous."

How did this even drag in feudal superstition… Yu Dazhang couldn't help finding it a bit funny.

Besides, your eyelid twitching means you're the one about to have something happen.

Never heard of eyelid twitching being a sign that someone else is about to have bad luck.

"Thank you, Captain Li." Yu Dazhang nodded to express his gratitude:

"It just so happens that I also feel like someone's been watching me."

He hadn't originally intended to bring this up.

Just as Li Jun had said, only the last two days remained, and he had indeed let his guard down a bit.

No one can escape habitual thinking.

When he had first learned someone was plotting against him, Yu Dazhang had indeed been very tense.

But as day after day passed and the danger never materialized, he naturally felt the crisis had passed, and he grew lax.

If not for sensing something off at the municipal bureau's entrance today, he would have nearly forgotten Li Mingzhao's reminder entirely.

"Really?" Li Jun, hearing he was being watched, immediately grew tense:

"Where? Did you see anyone?"

"At the municipal bureau's entrance." Yu Dazhang answered honestly:

"Didn't see anyone specific, but I just felt someone watching me from the shadows, and with malice."

Li Jun thought for a moment, then asked:

"Could it be that your nerves are on edge, and you got an illusion?"

He figured the fatty was under too much pressure from the case, plus the warning from national security, which was why he'd misjudged.

"Probably not, that feeling of being watched was too strong." Yu Dazhang shook his head in denial:

"Besides, I've always eaten well and slept soundly — so far, nothing has been able to make me nervous."

That much was true.

Li Jun recalled how this fatty, alone on the mountain with a single rifle, had wiped out an entire village.

Afterward he acted like nothing had happened, not a trace of someone who'd killed people.

With that kind of mental fortitude, it really was hard for him to get nervous.

"In that case…" Li Jun said, frowning:

"You really are being watched."

Yu Dazhang hurriedly nodded:

"My intuition shouldn't be wrong."

Those in the criminal investigation business all trust their intuition.

Li Jun was of course no exception.

There's a term for it: intuitive thinking.

Many people find it strange — how can experienced police recognize a fugitive at a glance?

It's actually the subconscious fuzzy search at work.

Dealing with suspects day in and day out, 不知不觉 their expressions and behavior get stored in the subconscious.

When similar suspects are seen again, the brain automatically skips the thinking process and arrives at the answer in an instant.

The word "intuition" sounds mysterious on first hearing, but it's really not mysterious at all.

Everyone has it, it just varies in strength.

Women's intuition is innately far sharper than men's.

Once a woman senses her husband is cheating, nine times out of ten she's right — catch one, nail one. "I'll arrange it right now."

Li Jun had complete faith in Yu Dazhang's words.

This fatty had cracked major cases one after another, his intuition was surely sharper than ordinary people's, it shouldn't be wrong.

Five minutes later, two officers arrived at the detachment commander's office.

Yu Dazhang knew both of them, and was quite familiar with one.

It was the criminal investigator who had previously investigated the tertiary hospital case with him — Ma Jian.

Seeing the two enter, Yu Dazhang hurriedly rose to offer them seats, and greeted them both.

His seniority was right there in front of them — to them, Yu Dazhang would always be a newcomer.

"From now on, you two will work as a pair." Li Jun pointed at Yu Dazhang and ordered:

"Protect him covertly. The assignment lasts three days. Report to me immediately if anything comes up."

The two men exchanged a glance upon hearing this.

Please... save... your... 6... 9... book....!

It was obvious they didn't quite understand this order.

Does the criminal investigation unit even handle this kind of work?

"Dazhang, is someone looking to cause you trouble?" Ma Jian caught on quickly and asked:

"Do you know who the other party is?"

The moment he heard the assignment was only three days, he sensed something was off.

Yu Dazhang shook his head:

"I don't know, but one thing's for sure — I've already been targeted."

Hearing this, Ma Jian's expression immediately grew heavy and solemn.

The other officer also showed an angry look.

How dare they set their sights on a cop — what nerve!

"Don't worry. With us here, nothing will happen." Ma Jian offered a word of comfort.

They didn't ask anything else.

Everyone knew Yu Dazhang had recently cracked several major cases, and the entire Songhai police force had been swept clean because of it — making enemies was unavoidable.

The next day.

News came in from the municipal bureau.

After a night of surveillance review and identification by the hearse driver, two vehicles involved in the case had been found, along with their corresponding registration information.

Inside the office of the detachment leader at the Hongkou branch.

"The anatomy teaching and research office of the medical college?"

Yu Dazhang could hardly believe what he was hearing. He stared wide-eyed at Li Jun behind the desk:

"What would they want to buy corpses for?"

Logically speaking, even if a medical college needed cadavers for medical research, they could easily obtain them through proper channels.

There was no need to deal with a funeral home in private.

Unless…

They had some other use for them.

"The specifics are still unknown." Li Jun, who looked like he'd just received the news himself, frowned tightly:

"The municipal bureau has already taken everyone from the teaching and research office involved back for questioning. Now we're just waiting for the interrogation results."

As he spoke, he couldn't help but sigh again.

The case had dragged in a legitimate medical institution — a result no one wanted to see.

Even Yu Dazhang had assumed the body buyers would be the kind of second-hand dealers who specialized in black-market transactions.

"Both vehicles belong to the medical college?" Yu Dazhang pressed.

"Yes." Li Jun nodded:

"The two vehicles belong to two different anatomy teaching and research offices. These two offices aren't in the same district, and they're more than thirty kilometers apart."

Distance probably wasn't an issue… In his previous life, Yu Dazhang had attended several large conferences and gotten to know colleagues from other provinces and cities through them.

They were all in the same industry, with plenty of chances to get to know one another.

Many connections were built on mutual interest.

Yu Dazhang estimated that the teaching and research offices buying remains from the funeral home weren't limited to just these two.

The only thing he couldn't figure out right now was what exactly they wanted the remains for.

(End of this chapter)