The sun still rose the next day, and Tan Yan also arrived at the unit on time. Last night, Xiao Liu estimated the time expected for sending Tan Yan home after the inspection and gave Captain Wang a call to report that he had completed his task, sending old comandre Tan home safely, covering his base1瞞天過海 mán tiān guò hǎi: cross the sea by a trick–practice deception, no one knows what happened in the alley last night.
As soon as work started, Director Li held an urgent meeting for everyone. The higher up wanted to come to inspect, it’s different from the past. It is said that he was an important person, specific name and position are confidential, the itinerary was also kept secret, but whether what the actual reason is □□ is not clear. Even if they can’t come, everyone has to be prepared2嚴陣以待 yán zhèn yǐ dài: be in full battle array; stand in combat readiness.
“We, as the Public Security Bureau, must strictly control the security.” Director Li said solemnly, “In these few days, everyone works a bit harder, patrolling the streets and communities more. If you see someone with malicious intentions, keep an eye on them. Don’t cause trouble.”
There may not be any acts of violence and terrorism, but some newspapers with extreme behaviors will cause headaches if they want to make big news.
“Lao Tan,” Director Li named Tan Yan at the meeting and said, “You are the most familiar with Ping County. Basically, who lives in each household, whose house is rented to whom, and who is related to whom, you know everything. This time, you have to lead the team.”
Tan Yan would never refuse this kind of work, so he silently nodded in agreement.
He led a small team to go out to work for several days in a row, patrolling during the day and night. At midnight, everyone else went to rest, but Tan Yan was still patrolling the County. After three days, he only slept for one to two hours a day. The fourth day is said to be the day of the leader’s arrival, he lost a lot of weight.
Director Li felt embarrassed looking at it, but the situation has been really tense recently, and Tan Yan needs to do this. He could only pat Tan Yan on the shoulder in private, and secretly said: “Lao Tan, after this inspection, I will give you a few days off. You haven’t even taken a holiday for so many years, it’s completely okay to take a few more days off.”
Tan Yan shook his head with dark circles under his eyes, and said with a tired face: “I always feel that something is wrong this time, and my heart is not very at ease.”
In general, the intuition of veteran policemen is very important. They have experienced many battles, and how many times they have escaped from death depends on their intuition. When Director Li heard what Tan Yan said, he also became worried, and quickly increased the deployment of police forces.
The legendary leader wasn’t seen even until the evening. They thought the itinerary didn’t include them, but when the routine inspection team got on the electric bike and was about to set off at night, a team of armed vehicles stopped in front of the security management office. Several armed police officers in full armor got out of the car, and a good-looking middle-aged man walked into the Public Security Bureau Office under the guard of the soldiers.
Unexpectedly he really came! Director Li wiped the sweat on his head, and hurriedly lined up to greet him. At this time, someone came over and handed him a note, saying that it was a Minister of a National Secret Department, the specific how secret is not clear, but the note said The scope of functions is that he can take care of everything from the national security to the local police, and this time he didn’t even mention his name, he only gave him a surname, saying that he can be called Minister Yu.
Since Minister Yu came, the night patrol was naturally put on hold. The patrol team parked their electric vehicles and followed Minister Yu on his tour of their small security bureau office.
Tan Yan looked at the time and frowned slightly. Director Li was leading the way, he had no way to speak up, so he said to Captain Wang: “Captain Wang, it’s already time, we haven’t patrolled yet, why don’t I go by myself today.”
Captain Wang’s eyes immediately widened, he really wanted to pry Tan Yan’s head open to see what was going on in his mind.
“Don’t even think about patrolling, just protect the leaders today!” Captain Wang said in a low voice.
Tan Yan frowned even tighter.
Although there may not be an accident today, in case ‘that’ does appear, just ignore it all night…
Tan Yan can’t imagine what would happen to Ping County the next day if ‘that thing’ was left alone for one night.
He wanted to leave the team secretly, but this time Director Li entrusted him with the task of leading the team. Others may be able to leave, but Tan Yan absolutely couldn’t.
“I heard that Ping County Public Security Bureau has a pioneer civilian police who has been working for forty years and has not been off duty for a day, and at the age of fifty-eight can still win the championship in the provincial martial arts competition.” Minister Yu said while touring, “This time I came to the Public Security Bureau Office to meet this old comrade. The dedication of a comrade like him is worth learning from the entire police system and even all working people. Of course, I am not forcing everyone to work when they are sick or on rest days, but this spirit is worthy of commendation.”
Upon hearing this, Director Li immediately pulled Tan Yan, who was walking behind, to Minister Yu, and introduced him: “This is our Comrade Tan Yan, a pioneer of the Ping County Public Security Bureau Office and a role model for the younger generation to learn from.”
The rather handsome Minister Yu shook hands with Tan Yan enthusiastically, but Tan Yan was frowning and didn’t even give a smile. Director Li couldn’t help but cover his heart, he felt heartbroken. Didn’t ask you to be talkative and gossip with the leaders about family, at least salute and give a smiling face. This look of bitterness as if the leader owes you a lot of money… Director Li’s heart is hurt.
The good thing is that the minister has a big heart, he doesn’t care about Tan Yan, but also enthusiastically opens up the conversation: “Officer Tan, can you tell us about your years of experience in the industry? No need to say those official words, just talk about what difficulties you have encountered over the years and how you overcame them. The information officer I bring will record what you said, and post it on the official website for everyone to learn from.”
If this really sets an example, the Ping County Public Security Bureau Office will surely be excellent this year. Director Li’s eyes lit up, and he frantically winked at Tan Yan.
But Tan Yan was unmoved: “We have encountered difficulties now, we were supposed to go on patrol just now.”
He looked at Minister Yu full of dislike and hindrance written in his eyes, telling him in a clear manner that it was because you came that I was off duty!
Director Li: …
Heartbroken…
Minister Yu froze for a moment and then immediately laughed and said: “I see, my arrival has indeed brought a lot of trouble to everyone’s work. It’s okay, this tradition of night patrol in Ping County is also worth promoting. How about this, I will patrol with everyone, not only will this not affect the law and order in Ping County, but I can also interview Comrade Tan Yan personally, the best of both worlds!”
Tan Yan’s complexion became even worse. Just as he was about to say something, Director Li quickly pinched his arm secretly, and said: “It would be an honor and all we could wish for3求之不得 qiú zhī bù dé: lit. seek but fail to get; fig. exactly what one’s been looking for; all one could wish for; most welcome if you are willing to walk with us.”
Tan Yan quietly looked at Director Li, eyes full of fatigue, as if Director Li had caused him a lot of trouble.
Director Li ruthlessly didn’t look at him, and urgently called out all the electric bicycles in the institute, and he himself rode one to keep up with everyone.
Minister Yu is very easy-going, he did not ride in the armed car, but also borrowed a small electric vehicle, and walked side by side with Tan Yan. He didn’t let anyone follow him, saying that the police in Ping County were enough to protect his safety, Tan Yan is a martial arts champion who has won several times in a row!
This move frightened the entourage, how could they not follow, so this time there were armed vehicles leading the way in front of the patrol, a team of police electric vehicles in the middle, and finally a long entourage, running to follow.
Tan Yan: “…”
Minister Yu insisted on experiencing the work of grassroots policemen, so he and Tan Yan led the way, and even Director Li and Captain Wang followed behind.
Seeing Tan Yan’s nervous look, Minister Yu said with a smile: “Don’t worry, I am also from the special forces. Although I am old now, my skills have not fallen. If we really compete on stage, maybe I can snatch the championship from you.”
Indeed, he looks like he is in his fifties, but his body is well maintained. Although his muscles are covered by clothes, it can be seen from his movements that Minister Yu is in good physical condition.
But sometimes, good physical fitness cannot solve all emergencies.
At the beginning, the procession was normal, Ping County is not very big, so it took one or two hours to cover the whole area by bicycle. In the past few days, they have been watching all the strangers in Ping County to death, and all the gangsters are watched to death, basically nothing will happen. When he reached the outskirts of the city smoothly, Tan Yan clenched his fists involuntarily as he looked at the intersection leaving the city.
The intersection outside the city is not within the scope of patrol, and he usually goes around by himself, but now…
Seeing a strange darkness in the shadows of the intersection, but the armed vehicle ahead had already turned, Tan Yan’s palms were full of sweat.
There is a traffic patrol booth at the intersection, and the booth is manned 24 hours a day. The darkness is constantly expanding, and it is about to spread to the booth.
Tan Yan turned his head abruptly, turned the accelerator to the end, and the small electric bike rushed towards the intersection, leaving everyone else stunned.
Minister Yu, who claimed to be in good physical condition, reacted quickly. He reacted the moment Tan Yan rushed in an instant, and also raised his speed to the fastest speed to keep up with Tan Yan.
The back of the team rushed to follow, but in the end, they were still a few steps behind. They could only watch helplessly as Tan Yan rode his bicycle towards the roadside traffic patrol booth like crazy, but disappeared into the air the moment he hit the booth. Minister Yu, who followed closely behind, immediately sensed something was wrong, but it was too late to brake at this time, and the inertia made Minister Yu rush in before the darkness disappeared.
The people behind them witnessed the two people disappearing into the air, and at this point they couldn’t say they couldn’t believe it. Director Li and the others were stunned. They wanted to go forward to check, but were held down by the people brought by Minister Yu.
“Don’t go forward, maybe the void hasn’t disappeared yet!” The information officer, Xiao Xu, who was said to be brought by Minister Yu, easily held down Director Li and Captain Wang with one hand, while speaking to the miniature walkie-talkie on his collar: “The technical department immediately detects the energy response, there is a void appearing here!”
Immediately afterwards, a group of people came down from the armed vehicle and surrounded the patrol booth with instruments, the police on duty in the booth were blocked from getting out.
Xiao Xu handed over Director Li and Captain Wang to his subordinates and immediately ran to the instrument. After a series of operations, his expression became more serious.
He took out his mobile phone and talked to someone with a heavy face: “Report, there was a void reaction in Ping County and disappeared after about 20 seconds. Minister Yu… entered the void by mistake.”
I decided to left name calling, like Lao and Xiao as it is, instead of translating them to Old or Little. Also decided to translate 空洞 kōngdòng as void instead of hollow, since hollow reminds me of Bleach too much LoL.
If you like my translations, a cup of coffee would be much appreciated. Thank you!
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