I Became a Vicious Supporting Role in the '70s-Chapter 252: Someone Wants to Delay Time

After Lu Zhenping arrived at the Provincial City and joined the main force, he began meeting with colleagues from the Ministry of Public Security. The mission they were tasked with was peculiar: not to capture extremely vicious criminals, but to rescue a group of women and children who had been abducted. Documents were passed around during the meeting.

"Two years ago, the granddaughter of the head of the sales department in the steel factory vanished while playing outside the plant. There were not many people around at that time. After investigating, our comrades preliminarily concluded that it was an insider’s job. Despite observing for a month, the suspect was not located. At the same time, at the food processing plant and the machine factory, and near the hutongs, many boys and girls mysteriously disappeared. Moreover, the night school set up especially for progressive youth was targeted by a group of people. Within two months, nearly ten female comrades disappeared from various areas. In pursuit of these missing cases, three public security officers died in the line of duty. Recently, we obtained an important clue that the wife of the steel plant’s sales manager had been to Deep Water Alley, a slum area where she has no relatives or friends, yet she visited three times within a month. This inevitably arouses suspicion, especially since their granddaughter disappeared, and within a year, the manager’s daughter-in-law was pregnant with another child. Apart from the young couple, almost no one in the family went looking for the missing girl."

The spokesperson for the mission paused here, and everyone in the room seemed to already grasp the answer. Clearly there was a preference for male children. But as the manager, his family wouldn’t be short on wages; all were from working-class families, how could they not afford to raise a little girl?

Lu Zhenping repeatedly reviewed a stack of documents and then began to frown.

"Who reported the disappearance of this little girl initially?"

"It was the manager’s wife. According to her, she finished work early and after picking up the child from the daycare, she didn’t go home right away but stayed in the plant area playing with the child. In the blink of an eye, the child was gone."

After hearing this, Lu Zhenping nodded thoughtfully. If this steel plant’s wife was out of the ordinary, then their entire family could be suspects. He was internally strategizing the situation.

The spokesperson waited for a good while before continuing, "Following this clue further, we noticed two young people in the slum area who were clearly unemployed but often left early and returned late. From the local community, we learned that these two people would take a trip once a month, usually for about a week. We followed them once, and discovered that a route south from our Provincial City on the national highway, and this was just one of the dens. Our mission this time is to rescue the victims."

Lu Zhenping’s fingers rubbed the paper documents, sensing an odd feeling; he glanced at Wei Dong beside him who, understanding him, quietly pocketed a document.

The meeting started in the morning and continued until after three in the afternoon, making Qiao Luzhenping almost numb.

During the break, he led some people out to smoke.

"Captain, the meeting has been going on till now, always discussing the case details. Why haven’t they mentioned the deployment of tasks yet? How should our forces cooperate with the police? We’ve been delayed here for so long, we’re almost at that village, and the people need to be rescued."

"Smoke grenade. Seems like someone’s trying to waste time."

"Captain, are you saying..."

Lu Zhenping took a deep drag on his cigarette, the smoke swirling in his throat before he slowly exhaled.

"A den of traffickers is located less than thirty kilometers from the national highway; it’s utterly incredulous. To say there’s no one covering the sky with one hand, a protector among people here, who would believe that? Just take a look, who in this room is a fool? They say they want us to assist, but it’s more like they think we’re fools to toy with. Go give He Ping a call, have him find a way to get a transfer order and directly seek assistance from the officers in the Provincial Public Security Department. Tonight, we must dismantle that den, and be discreet."

"If Li Camp Commander..."

"Have him find his own way, ask the higher-ups for help, tell him I said so. Aren’t they reorganizing my group and still let me offer suggestions? Since they let me suggest, I’ll make only this suggestion, tell them clearly, if they can’t handle it, they can forget about reorganizing my group, hurry up."

"Yes, consider the task done."

As the person took a few steps away, Lu Zhenping called him back. The latter waited to hear more instructions from the brilliant and mighty captain, hearing him say, "Go to my bag and get the transparent bag of sweets, inside are the laxatives your sister-in-law gave me, along with a big package of chili powder. During the mission, carry the chili powder with you at all times, and if you encounter stubborn resistance, sprinkle it directly. Most mountain villages have at most two wells; put the laxatives in the wells, it will make executing the mission easier. Also, after all the rescued women and children have been examined by a doctor, detain them all."

Wei Dong: "....."

How come after staying home for two months, the captain is becoming increasingly twisted?

The meeting room’s tea was refreshed, and as someone came out to call everyone back to the meeting, seeing Wei Dong going out, quickly hollered.

"Mr. Wei, the meeting is resuming, where are you off to?"

"Going to shit!"

"...."

Such a lout! Truly crude!!!

Lu Zhenping walked over and patted the man, saying, "He’s just crude, ignore him, idle donkeys kick up the most dirt. We’ll continue our meeting, he’ll be back soon."

"Ah, Captain Lu, please come inside and take a seat."

The Captain of the Provincial Public Security Criminal Police Team, Fan Hui glanced over without speaking. He pursed his lips, planning to speak with Lu Zhenping later. He had previously heard about the great reputation of Vice Commander Lu, who had once cracked a major case with the police of Lu Province. His name was well known among many criminal police officers, and he believed such a person would definitely see through the ruse of this meeting.

After a day of discussing the case, they had a simple dinner in the meeting room in the evening, then started discussing strategic deployment issues for the collaborative mission between the military troops and the police comrades.

The Captain of the Criminal Police Team looked at Lu Zhenping with a cheerful expression, "Vice Commander Lu, do you have any insights about this mission?"

"As we are here to assist from the side, I’ll follow the arrangements as set out by our police comrades. We will do whatever is required, strictly according to your plan." freёnovelkiss.com

The Chief of the Criminal Police Team responded with a bright smile, "Good, then thank you very much, Vice Commander Lu."

"By the way, this is Comrade Fan Hui, the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Police Team, right? I heard your wife has been hospitalized and is about to give birth soon. Will you still participate in this mission? If there’s any inconvenience, you might not need to be involved. It would be unfortunate if family matters caused a delay in the mission."

Fan Hui’s face showed annoyance, just as he was about to speak, he saw the chief waving his hand, hierarchy crushes people, he had already lost a month’s bonus, any more and he’d be unable to cover his expenses.