Chapter 635 — Qiu Lingshan Is Caught
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"Oh, it's not that I've had too much to drink." Shen Yushu shook her head. "I was thinking Yaoyao-jie seems a little unhappy today, and I just wanted to cheer you up a bit..."
Gu Mengyao was taken slightly aback. She had never imagined that Shen Yushu's antics today had all been meant to lift her spirits, and a warm current rose unbidden in her heart. She pulled Shen Yushu into an embrace, rather moved. "Xiaoshu, thank you!"
"Oh, it's nothing!" Shen Yushu shook her head. "If Yaoyao-jie isn't happy, of course I want to make you happy!"
"Mm, Xiaoshu, you really are good to me!" Gu Mengyao was truly touched.
"Then you have to let me be your little wife from now on!" Shen Yushu said.
"Ha, all right. We'll be together our whole lives, sisters for a lifetime!" Gu Mengyao nodded — the first time she had ever given Shen Yushu a straight answer to that silly question of hers.
Wei Zhao drove on ahead, as though he had not heard the conversation between the two sisters in the back seat. In truth, hear it he did; he simply did not know what to say, nor how to counsel Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu.
Back at the villa, Gu Mengyao and Shen Yushu went upstairs hand in hand to whisper secrets to each other, leaving Wei Zhao all alone downstairs.
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After a meeting to discuss the matter, Qiu Lingshan decided to go undercover and infiltrate the criminal gang in order to wipe them out in one sweep. Otherwise, arresting only a few small fry would do nothing to advance the case as a whole.
This sort of tactic — sending someone out to make arrests — was known as "releasing a flying saucer." A flying saucer, as the name suggests, is an unidentified flying object: even if you catch one, you still have no idea what it represents behind the scenes, just as humanity remains ignorant of the flying saucer itself.
Qiu Lingshan, overriding all objections, resolved to risk her own person. She was the captain, after all; this case was her unshirkable duty. If she did not go, someone else would have to, and if someone else went, she as captain would not rest easy.
Within the entire criminal investigation unit, after all, she, Qiu Lingshan, was the strongest. Only if she went in person could the danger be reduced to the greatest possible extent and the undercover plan succeed.
Many of the squad leaders did not want Qiu Lingshan to take the risk, but she had made up her mind; there was nothing they could do but provide cover.
And so Qiu Lingshan dressed herself as a rural woman, moving through Binjia Village like a peasant wife hurrying along a night road.
"Biaozi, a peasant woman on a night road is coming our way. Do we make our move?" Behind a haystack, two burly men were talking in low voices.
"I say we do. The higher-ups handed down the order — we have to bring somebody back today. We've waited half the night and finally one person shows up. I say it's her!" The big man called Biaozi nodded. "Brother Ma, when she comes over, we make our move!"
Brother Ma nodded. "If we don't act, how would we ever have money to drink and chase women? To hell with it — it's her!"
Qiu Lingshan had in fact already sensed something was wrong. The professional instincts of a criminal investigation captain and the keen perception of a fine Yellow-rank practitioner had told her that two enemies were lying in ambush nearby. But her whole purpose this time was to be captured by these people, to slip inside their ranks, find their den, and wipe out the organization in one stroke!
Qiu Lingshan meant to play the part of a kidney-harvesting victim, to be delivered to the criminal gang's headquarters, and then, at the very moment before her kidney was cut out, to burst forth and destroy the entire hideout.
"Now!" Brother Ma waved his hand at Biaozi.
The two men suddenly leaped out from behind the haystack, pinning Qiu Lingshan down from left and right.
"Ah — what are you doing? Help!" Qiu Lingshan cried out in alarm!