In the evening, Chanyun Commercial Building, Jiefang Street, Dongzhou City.
Originally, Chen Shu never answered calls from overseas. Firstly, he had no relatives or friends abroad. Secondly, he was still a Chinese man at heart and looked down upon foreign people. Most importantly, most of the calls were from telecommunications fraud.
All originate from abroad.
As a grassroots police officer, Chen Shu has seen too much.
While waiting for dinner in the evening, Chen Shu was lying on the bed scrolling through Douyin, and the external speaker of his cell phone was playing seductive electronic music.
"This is X North, where I grew up. Welcome to my world, my delicate little princess!"
Recently, perhaps in order to gain popularity, many short video bloggers who played jokes described X Bei as a wasteful world. Many comments below the video even said that they must go there and take a look when they have time.
If you follow a regular tour group and have a tour guide or travel company to protect you, it's really okay to go to North X. I'm afraid some people will get crazy and think that there is gold everywhere, so they will go there secretly.
The real North is a place where the military is separatist, drug dealers are rampant, and electronic fraud is everywhere. Poverty, chaos, violence, crime, disorder, etc., everything you can think of, or you can't think of, is here.
Where the sun doesn't shine, it grows wildly.
If you don’t guarantee it, you will be sold in a van on the first day you come here. Yes, that’s right, you will be sold in a van. Of course, if you are not in a van, it will be the same on a motorcycle.
Here, Chen Shu was scrolling through videos, and his phone lit up with incoming calls. He saw that it was an overseas phone number. With the idea of lying down at home for a week, he was going to tease this fraudster to pass the time and fight for his life.
Have some fun.
When I answered the phone, it was like a bolt from the blue.
Zhang Yang is trapped in X North.
After hanging up the phone, Chen Shu was silent for a long time.
He is just the deputy captain of a special police brigade in a district. It is impossible to send police officers abroad to rescue people. Even if he wants to go there alone, his passport is still stored in the unit, and his police information is also recorded in the border defense system computer.
If you leave the country without permission, you will definitely be stopped at the customs gate.
Can I call the police? Will it help?
He is the policeman and he knows what he is doing.
As time passed by, Zhang Yang's frown and smile kept reappearing in Chen Shu's mind. Although the two of them were not lovers, there was no real relationship.
But Chen Shu is not a fool. How could he not see the little thoughts that Zhang Yang has buried in his heart? When he encountered a public relations crisis, Zhang Yang was the one who stood up for him despite the overwhelming pressure of public opinion in Dongzhou; and what happened later?
In some media events, she can be seen active in them every time. This friendship alone is actually very important.
In the room, the atmosphere was solemn.
Chen Shu leaned his crutches against the window, stood on the window sill, looked at the peaceful night scene outside the window, and slowly took out his mobile phone and made a call.
"Fat man, I am your book brother."
"Haha, I'm recovering well. Well, I can go to the ground now."
"Fat man, Brother Shu, I want to ask you a favor."
...
"Chen Shu, it's time to eat."
Outside the house, Mother Chen called out softly.
Recently, Chen Shu has been unable to work due to an injury to his left foot. On weekdays, Chen's mother comes over in the morning and returns at night to tidy up and take care of the house.
Chen Shu’s three meals a day are cooked by Chen’s mother herself.
According to the doctor, this foot injury will prevent him from walking for a short period of time, but he can actually get through life with a cane and ordering takeout.
But Chen’s mother couldn’t bear it. Besides, she rarely saw Chen Shu in person on weekdays. Now that she could finally see her son every day, Chen’s mother, who had retired, was also happy about it.
"Hey, I'll be here soon."
Chen Shu leaned on crutches and skipped to the restaurant.
Today we still have four dishes and one soup, fried meat with green peppers, scrambled eggs with loofah, steamed pomfret, stir-fried cabbage, plus delicious crucian carp and tofu soup.
Especially this crucian carp, so fresh and fresh!
Chen Ma helped Chen Shu sit down and warned: "Eat quickly, the weather is cold, and the food will be cold later, so it won't taste good."
Chen Shu picked up the chopsticks, and as usual, he picked up a piece of meat and put it into Chen's mother's bowl: "Thank you, Mom, for your hard work during this time. The food is delicious and I like it very much."
Chen's mother smiled and narrowed her eyes: "As long as it tastes good, as long as it tastes good. You, after this injury is healed, find a girlfriend as soon as possible, otherwise you will still want to be my mother's bread for the rest of your life."
"Okay, Mom. I listen to you."
"Eh."
That night, Chen Shu had a good meal with his mother.
...
Late at night, in an underground factory in the northern suburbs of X.
Several young men and women, with their hands tied and their noses and faces swollen, were tied up with thick ropes and taken to the factory compound.
A bald man with gloomy eyes touched his head, stood in front of several people, and shouted unscrupulously: "Here! I have the final say! The world is big and the earth is big, and I am the biggest!"
A young man with his hands tied muttered: "I must call the police..."
A guard rushed out from the side, took out a knife and put it against the young man's neck, beating him so violently that the man bent over and knelt on the ground retching.
When the guards were beating people, the people watching in a circle looked indifferent, as if they were used to such scenes.
When the young man was almost beaten, the bald man waved his hand to stop the guard from continuing to beat him. Then several other guards gathered around and pulled the group of new young people towards the factory.
Opening the locked iron door, the stench inside rushed out. The smell was like the kind of pork bought at home that had been left to rot in the kitchen for a long time. While the stench was permeating the air, it was also mixed with an extremely thick
The pungent taste.
There were no lights on in the factory, it was very dark and I couldn't see much.
The leading guard pulled hard and led the team inside.
Zhang Yang, who was at the end of the team, followed the others intently, looking around with frightened eyes.
"Pa", the incandescent lamp in the factory was lit up.
The sudden light turned on, making Zhang Yang unable to open her eyes for a while. After slowly adapting, looking at the hell-like scene in front of her, she knelt straight on the ground and screamed uncontrollably.
"Ah ah ah ah ah!"
But in her mind at the moment, she couldn't hear the scream, as if the sound didn't come from her mouth.
She could only watch.
Living people were hollowed out from inside and piled up haphazardly like deflated human skin dolls, a pile here and a base there.
The bald man stepped on the corpse, pointed his finger downward, and shouted with a smile:
"Listen to me! The company doesn't support idlers. If you don't work, you can't make money, so you can only squeeze out the last value here."