Chapter 418 A Small Trap for the Bureau Chief

After leaving the portrait room, Bai Nuo went straight to the Criminal Investigation Department office. As soon as she walked over, she saw Captain Qiu leading his men out.

"Captain, the portrait is ready!" Bai Nuo hurriedly handed over the portrait, her little face full of frost.

"You're finally out. If you hadn't come out, I would have gone to find the vice-captain to drag you out. I heard you didn't even have time to eat?" Qiu Jun frowned, his gaze towards Bai Nuo filled with worry and a hint of dissatisfaction.

This girl is still young. How can she be so busy that she doesn't eat? What if she stops growing?

"It's alright, I'll take some snacks with me. Quickly have someone take the sketch to verify the victim's identity. Also, I'd like to go back to the scene where the body was found."

"I'm going there too, and I have something else to tell you!" Qiu Jun said, handing the portrait to the person beside him. After arranging for the identity to be verified, he looked at Bai Nuo.

"Okay, get in my car!" Bai Nuo nodded and turned to walk out the door, but suddenly stopped and looked at Ping Kai and Chen Hui who were following behind him. "One of you go back. You should be going to crime scenes frequently recently. There will be police officers around you, so there won't be any safety issues. You two are just wasting time here."

Ping Kai and Chen Hui exchanged a glance, then looked at Qiu Jun simultaneously, their eyes filled with scrutiny and hesitation.

Qiu Jun's lips twitched slightly. Although he didn't know what the two guards were worried about, he remembered that the director had specifically instructed him to keep a close eye on Bai Ke's safety after receiving a phone call that morning, and that no one should leave Bai Ke's side when he went out. He guessed that the military region had given some instructions.

"Don't worry, both of you. Bai Ke is a rare senior technician in our public security system. There are only a handful of portrait artists in the whole country who can perfectly draw a criminal's portrait based on some eyewitness accounts. We will definitely protect her safety."

Ping Kai nodded, then looked at Bai Nuo and said, "Comrade Bai, I'll go back to the military region to report first. If anything happens, make sure Chen Hui calls home. Also, make sure you keep your service weapon with you at all times. If any suspicious people approach, don't be polite or afraid. Your safety is more important than anything else."

After some people recklessly ruined a group of people, the country currently has a valuable pool of researchers, and we cannot afford to lose any more. In particular, young and promising researchers like Comrade Bai, who are extremely talented, have unlimited potential and need to be protected.

Soldiers like them can sacrifice themselves, but researchers who can create more possibilities for the country's development cannot!

Before Ping Kai went back, he left all the magazines he was carrying with him to Chen Hui. Qiu Jun felt that if this was not allowed, this guard would have just given the female guard a cannon.

On the way to the county town, Chen Hui was driving, Qiu Jun was in the passenger seat, and Bai Nuo was in the back seat. As soon as they got in, Qiu Jun couldn't help but turn his head to look at Bai Nuo, his face full of curiosity.

"Didn't you go home on vacation? What did you do that made the military region so worried about your safety?"

Bai Nuo smiled mysteriously: "This... I really can't say."

A few days ago, she handed over the data and blueprints of the new assault rifle to her husband, Lao Zhu. Lao Zhu immediately pulled out two confidentiality agreements for her and Fang Meng to sign.

Both men were active-duty soldiers in special forces and had already signed a more comprehensive confidentiality agreement. However, the one they signed earlier was stamped with the seal of the engineering department, and neither of them said anything and obediently signed it.

This is a top-secret military secret that even one's own parents cannot tell.

Upon hearing Bai Nuo's words, Qiu Jun immediately stopped asking questions and handed over a document.

"Take a look at this lab report first. Ling Yao said last night that you also suspected that the bite marks on the body were left by rats. The lab report just came out this morning, and it's true what you both thought—it was rats. This morning I sent a team to the scene to look for rat nests, hoping to find some clues."

In addition, I have arranged for someone to bring back several witnesses. They should arrive by the time we return from the scene. These witnesses all said they saw people carrying children and walking away in a hurry, but none of them recognize the children. I'll need your help to see if you can verify the children's identities based on their accounts, and ideally, draw sketches of the people who carried the children.”

Bai Nuo nodded as she looked down at the test report in her hand, "Okay, Captain, I'll do my best."

Qiu Jun sighed softly, raised his hand to pinch his throbbing temples, and said with a sigh, "When we were interviewing them, we also took statements from those witnesses. As you saw, their statements were all jumbled up, their memories were fragmented, and several parts didn't connect. Their descriptions of the suspects and children's faces were also bizarre, changing from one moment to the next. Some couldn't even remember if it was a boy or a girl. Tsk!"

In the end, the intense pain in his mouth made Qiu Jun gasp. In just three days, his mouth was full of cannonballs.

Bai Nuo looked up at Qiu Jun, then turned to Chen Hui and instructed, "Sister Hui, when we get back to the station, could you please go to the canteen and find a chef surnamed Qi and have him make a big pot of cooling herbal tea for everyone? Otherwise, the criminal investigation team might be speechless before the case is even solved. Everyone at the station is busy right now, so I'll have to trouble you to make the trip."

The chef surnamed Qi is from Guangdong Province and is good at making all kinds of herbal teas. Unfortunately, people in the north don't have the palates to accept them, so every time Chef Qi makes herbal teas, everyone in the bureau wishes they could starve for a day and doesn't want to step into the canteen.

Chen Hui smiled and nodded, not finding it troublesome at all. She was transferred to Bai Nuo's side to protect and take care of her. She was both a bodyguard and an orderly, and the military region had increased her allowance considerably for this.

"No problem, don't worry. I'll go find Master Qi when I get back."

"Let's not!" Qiu Jun looked at Bai Nuo with a bitter expression, his face scrunched up. He thought back to the first time he drank the herbal tea brewed by Master Qi, and the taste... almost made him die from the taste.

He felt that his mouth didn't hurt at all anymore.

"Captain, you should listen to me. Master Qi's herbal tea is a special delicacy from Guangdong Province. It is said to be very effective. People there drink it often. I just came from the painting studio. All the colleagues I saw along the way had pimples on their lips or small pimples on their foreheads. This is internal heat. In addition, they must have been eating and sleeping poorly lately. If these two things are combined, they will all get sick in the long run."

So... I have to drink it. After I get back, I'll have to trouble Captain Qiu to get an order from the bureau chief.

"I...I think..."

Bai Nuo raised her head speechlessly. How could that sip of cold tea feel like it was going to kill her? She curled her lip and came up with a wicked idea.

"Captain, as the top leader and pillar of our bureau, the director absolutely cannot be overworked. So let him take the lead in drinking this herbal tea. I believe that with the director leading the way, even if everyone drinks this herbal tea, they will still taste the sweetness."

Sure enough, Qiu Jun's eyes lit up!

If that's the case...