Chapter 572: Smell Can Deceive

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye.

Songhai.

Hongkou Branch, inside the detachment commander's office.

"You little punk should be back by now, right?"

Li Jun took the expensive cigarette the fatty across from him handed over and said in a deliberately displeased tone:

"I bet you've gotten too comfortable in the First Brigade, running around all over the place with your master every day—you've almost forgotten who you are."

Yu Dazhang grinned twice and quickly pulled out a few more cigarettes and placed them by Li Jun's hand.

He knew Captain Li's nicotine habit—these few cigarettes alone wouldn't last two hours before being smoked up.

"We're deeply bonded, master and disciple."

Yu Dazhang put on a reluctant-to-part look:

"Speaking of which, I haven't even been on the job a full year yet. Learning more from my master is only right."

Actually, Li Jun's guess wasn't wrong—he really had been staying in the First Brigade too comfortably.

This kind of life that looks busy on the surface but doesn't tax the brain at all is the most easygoing.

At work he followed his master around everywhere, and ordinary criminal cases didn't need him—Lu Zhongxin bringing two team members was more than enough.

By now those two team members had also seen the pattern clearly.

Between these two master and disciple, the master handled the small cases, the disciple handled the big ones—the division of labor was very clear.

"Cut the crap with me."

Li Jun glared at him:

"If you don't come back soon, the higher-ups will think I'm suppressing you. I've gotten word—other units have already started scheming."

Half a month ago the main force was already trying to poach me… Yu Dazhang smiled, looking utterly unconcerned.

"Let me stay a while longer."

He said to Li Jun in a negotiating tone:

"In a while I'll be going to the commendation ceremony. The moment I'm back I'll report straight to the detachment."

Life lately had been too easygoing—Yu Dazhang truly didn't want to leave the First Brigade.

Others might not understand: clearly the detachment had less work, and the cases were far easier compared to the First Brigade, so why insist on staying in this place of hardship and toil?

Just one reason: the perks of rebirth.

In his previous life Yu Dazhang had always been rooted at the grassroots, always working criminal cases in the First Brigade, so he had an impression of many cases that had happened.

If he switched to a different department, he'd be completely in the dark—wouldn't that be a wasted rebirth?

"Speaking of the commendation ceremony, I have to remind you of something."

Li Jun's expression turned serious:

"No matter how good it is out there, it's not as good as home. Never make a decision you'll regret."

There's more to those words than meets the ear… Yu Dazhang replied with a smile:

"I know—sugar-coated bullets can easily blind my eyes."

That same afternoon.

Inside a restaurant.

"Calm down, put the lighter down first."

Lu Zhongxin said to an emotionally agitated man:

"Say whatever you have to say properly. No matter what happened, we can talk it through slowly. Impulsiveness won't solve the problem."

Just half an hour earlier, the First Brigade had received a report: at a restaurant in the city center, someone had released gas, attempting to blow up the entire restaurant.

Lu Zhongxin immediately brought his disciple and two team members to the scene.

Currently, officers outside were evacuating the crowd and passersby to avoid harming the innocent.

The four of them, meanwhile, were inside the restaurant trying to calm the man attempting to cause an explosion.

"Get my boss here!"

The man shouted loudly:

"I know he called the police. I'm not afraid. You tell him—if he doesn't come, I'll blow up the restaurant!"

As he spoke, the hand gripping the lighter waved forcefully in front of Lu Zhongxin, his thumb pressing against the switch on top of the lighter, as if he would ignite it the next second.

Just as Lu Zhongxin was about to try further persuasion, Yu Dazhang suddenly spoke up from the side:

"You've made such a huge scene, who would dare come? Before you act, think about it—if you were the boss, which matters more, the restaurant or your life?"