18: Summary of the gains, Xu Yajun's fear

“It seems my efforts weren’t in vain!”

“As long as I take action, the people and things in Donghai City will be influenced by me, more or less.”

In his bedroom, Gao Ze’s face lit up with excitement as he watched the news on his computer about the Kaiseki Japanese restaurant’s rectification and the Supervision Bureau’s thanks.

Although changing one restaurant or one person is a small matter, far incomparable to those big figures who influence an entire city.

But the Great Wall wasn’t built in a day!

Being able to influence one person and change some things now was already enough for him.

Besides, in this world, this was the first time his name had appeared in the news.

Gao Ze continued to watch the news, and then saw another report.

“Today, a bus collided with the outer wall of the Huangpu District Civil Affairs Bureau; fortunately, no innocent casualties were caused.

The driver of the vehicle was sent to the hospital and has since regained consciousness after treatment.”

This was the follow-up to Li Qingyan’s intelligence.

A Traffic Police friend from Huangpu District had called Officer Gao Ze in the afternoon to inform him of the situation: the driver was driving under the influence, and due to recent family issues and a troubled mood, he lost control while drunk driving, leading to the accident, with no intentional malice.

The driver also admitted his guilt and was willing to accept legal punishment.

Officer Gao Ze believed it was an accident; if someone had targeted Li Qingyan, the bus driver would not have survived the crash.

“According to exclusive news from our reporter, Sun Chaohui, a wealthy magnate in our city, has today found his son, Sun Shuai, who was abducted twenty years ago.”

“Mr. Sun Chaohui declined an interview but specifically extended his deepest gratitude to the Pudong District Traffic Police Brigade and Officer Gao Ze!”

On the news screen, the beautiful and dignified female anchor looked at the news script in her hand, her tone faltering.

The enthusiastic citizen who had just been thanked by the Market Supervision Bureau, his name seemed to be Gao Ze too, right?

How could it be such a coincidence?

Officer Gao Ze smiled to himself as he watched this news; his name had appeared in the Donghai City news again so quickly.

This was the second time.

Would it make people associate things?

The only pity was that it was only his name, and his specific deeds were not made public.

However, Officer Gao Ze could understand that a wealthy magnate like Sun Chaohui, with considerable assets, would not want to expose himself or put his family affairs before the public to be criticized.

Receiving Sun Chaohui’s reward and favor was enough for him.

“Today, not only did the Sun Shuai abduction case yield great benefits for me.

There’s also the capture of the A-level wanted criminal Liu Yaozong, which will yield even more, allowing me to gain personal merits, and even promotion!”

Officer Gao Ze understood that the Sun Shuai abduction case was just icing on the cake; the wanted criminal Liu Yaozong case, in terms of its nature and importance, was more significant.

Liu Yaozong murdered Xu Xiaoli’s family of four; such a serious case involving human lives would definitely be on the Municipal Bureau’s list of key cases.

His solo capture of Liu Yaozong would at least earn him a personal third-class merit.

He had been with the Traffic Police Brigade for over two years, and his seniority was sufficient; after earning the merit, a promotion was also within reach.

Would his police rank change from First Class Police Officer to Third Class Police Inspector, or Second Class Police Inspector?

What kind of promotion would a clerk-level position get?

As he pondered, the Today’s Intelligence System interface before Officer Gao Ze suddenly emitted a monotonous soft sound.

“Shen Gang found the survivor Xu Xiaoli at Tianrui Garment Factory in Donghai City’s western suburbs, rewarding 2500 experience points!”

It’s stable!

Hearing this sound from the system, Officer Gao Ze was confident that his police rank would be promoted to Second Class Police Inspector.

Because Xu Xiaoli was interrogated out of Liu Yaozong’s mouth by him, he should take at least half of this credit.

He didn’t solve two cases in one day, but three in a row.

The credit would be even greater!

However, Officer Gao Ze was a bit unclear about the system’s experience point mechanism.

Today he saved Li Qingyan’s life, which rewarded 500 experience points; logically, saving Xu Xiaoli should also be 500 experience points, so why was it 2500?

Could it be that the lives of the deceased are also counted in the experience points? Liu Yaozong killed four people in Xu Xiaoli’s family, plus saving the dying Xu Xiaoli, making up 2500 experience.

Officer Gao Ze felt this was the answer.

The Today’s Intelligence System experience points are rewarded based on the number of lives saved and deaths; for example, in the Sun Shuai abduction case, there was no life-threatening crisis, so solving the case yielded no experience point reward.

“2500 experience points, a huge reward!”

Officer Gao Ze’s eyes gleamed, his body trembling with excitement; originally, after he added all five hundred experience points to his strength, his own strength, which was at most that of two people, became that of three people.

He could easily pin down the wanted criminal Liu Yaozong with one hand, making him unable to move.

Now, if he were to add 2500 experience points to his strength attribute again, wouldn’t he have the strength of eight adult men?

Typically, a normal adult male’s punch force is around 60-70 kilograms; if he had the strength of eight people, Officer Gao Ze’s punch force would be at least over 500 kilograms, easily crushing any heavyweight boxing champion.

It is evident how valuable experience points are, capable of bringing about qualitative changes.

But Officer Gao Ze had no interest in being a boxer, nor could he add all his experience points to strength.

Such strength would require corresponding physical attributes; otherwise, a punch would result in a recoil force that could injure him.

Now, the strength of three people was already sufficient for Officer Gao Ze; even a robust criminal would not be as strong as him.

“2500 experience points, should I add them to other physical attributes or skills?”

Officer Gao Ze looked at the Today’s Intelligence System interface, which also displayed his information.

“Today’s Intelligence System Interface”

“Host: Gao Ze”

“Occupation: Traffic Police”

“Strength: 18; Effect: Strength of Three People”

“Endurance: 10”

“Speed: 8”

“Spirit: 8”

...

“Traffic Police Profession Bonus Effects: Piercing Gaze, Running Like the Wind, Skilled Driving”

“Skills Mastered: Forensic Medicine, Criminal Investigation, Trace Evidence Analysis, Criminal Psychology, Micro-expression and Body Language Analysis, Driving, Gunmanship, Combat…”

After reviewing his physical attributes and skills, Officer Gao Ze decided to temporarily keep the 2500 experience points, and only allocate all of them when he encountered a problem, allowing his physical attributes or skills to undergo a qualitative change.

Currently, he hadn’t encountered any insurmountable problems, so there was no need for blind allocation.

“Hello, Gao Ze.”

At this moment, an unknown call came to Officer Gao Ze’s phone; after he answered, the voice of Captain Shen Gang from the Pudong Criminal Investigation Brigade came from the other end.

“Are you interested in joining our Criminal Investigation Brigade?”

Officer Gao Ze asked, “Captain Shen, did you find Xu Xiaoli at Tianrui Garment Factory?”

“Uh?”

Shen Gang was startled, turned to look at the emaciated Xu Xiaoli in the garment factory, and then let out a hearty laugh:

“Your mind works too fast, you can infer so much, I can’t hide it from you!”

“According to the Tianrui Garment Factory in the western suburbs that you interrogated from Liu Yaozong, I brought my team here and indeed found Xu Xiaoli, bound by chains, in the factory’s equipment room.”

“Liu Yaozong is truly a beast; not only did he kill four lives, but he also brutally attacked his mistress, Xu Xiaoli.”

“…”

“When we found Xu Xiaoli, she hadn’t eaten or drunk for five days and five nights straight; she was barely human, just a breath away from death.”

“Xu Xiaoli was able to survive thanks to your timely interrogation of Liu Yaozong for the address information.”

Officer Gao Ze listened quietly, understanding Shen Gang’s recruitment intention.

Indeed, Shen Gang changed the subject and returned to the original topic:

“Gao Ze, are you interested in joining our Criminal Investigation Brigade?

With your talent, you are more suited for development in the Criminal Investigation Team; there is a larger platform here, better development opportunities, Traffic Police is not suitable for you.”

“Criminal Investigation Team, Traffic Police Team, both are Police; no matter which position I am in, I am willing to contribute.”

Officer Gao Ze neither agreed nor declined, saying:

“Captain Shen, if you want to transfer me to the Criminal Police Team, you not only have to ask me, but also my captain.”

If he didn’t have the intelligence system, with his rich experience as a criminal investigation expert in his previous life, going to the Criminal Investigation Brigade for development would have been a better choice for Officer Gao Ze.

But he had the intelligence system, so he wouldn’t lack case merits; it didn’t matter which team he stayed in, as they were all within the Pudong Public Security Bureau.

It would be better to let Zhou Weiguo and Shen Gang contend and see who could offer better treatment and authority.

“Okay, I understand, beep beep!!”

After hanging up the phone, Shen Gang sighed; he knew Officer Gao Ze wanted to see who, he or Zhou Weiguo, could offer more.

“Captain, since Officer Gao Ze doesn’t want to come, then he doesn’t have to.”

“It sounds good, saying both teams are willing to contribute, but who doesn’t know what he’s thinking?”

In the garment factory equipment room, several Criminal Police Officers had heard Shen Gang’s phone call and felt extremely awkward.

“Our Criminal Police Brigade doesn’t lack him!”

“We don’t lack Officer Gao Ze, but do we lack you guys?”

Shen Gang instantly became furious, looking at the Criminal Police Officers beside him, exasperated:

“Do you have Officer Gao Ze’s ability to analyze psychology through micro-expressions and body language, or did you interrogate Liu Yaozong for Xu Xiaoli’s whereabouts?”

“You all have no abilities, yet you’re envious and jealous; if Officer Gao Ze hadn’t interrogated Xu Xiaoli’s whereabouts in time today, Xu Xiaoli would have died.”

The Criminal Police Team members looked at each other, not expecting Captain Shen Gang to be so angry.

“Properly send Xu Xiaoli to the hospital.” After venting his anger, Shen Gang showed a hint of helplessness.

Those words just now were not only directed at his team members but also at himself, because as the captain, he too could not achieve Officer Gao Ze’s ability to analyze micro-expressions.

Therefore, Officer Gao Ze must be recruited into the Criminal Police Brigade.

With Officer Gao Ze, their Criminal Police Brigade could solve more difficult cases, and even become the ace of the Donghai City Criminal Investigation Team.

Officer Gao Ze was not yet aware that Shen Gang had decided to battle with Captain Zhou Weiguo; after ending the call, he started chatting with Xu Sicheng from the Bureau’s Propaganda Department.

This was because Xu Sicheng had already written the news propaganda draft, posted it on the Pudong Bureau’s official account, and also forwarded the article draft to his WeChat in advance.

“This propaganda draft has already been posted on our Pudong Bureau’s official account, and it will be published in “Government Affairs Voice” tomorrow at noon.”

Xu Sicheng: “What do you think?” followed by a cute cat licking its paw emoji.

“Very good, I have to thank you.”

Officer Gao Ze indeed had to thank Xu Sicheng properly, not only for being selected for publication by “Government Affairs Voice,” but also because the quality of this propaganda draft was truly superior, clearly written with care.

“How to thank me? How about a meat payment?”

Gao Ze: “??? Meat payment?”

“Are you so unwilling to treat me to a meal of meat?”

“No problem.” Officer Gao Ze breathed a sigh of relief; he seemed to have misunderstood the meaning, and immediately messaged: “Any barbecue restaurant in Donghai City, you pick.”

“That’s more like it…”

Officer Gao Ze chatted idly with Xu Sicheng on WeChat; for some reason, he suddenly thought of Li Qingyan.

As his official wife, he seemed not to have Li Qingyan’s WeChat, though he did have her phone number.

Just as this thought arose, his phone rang again with an unknown call.

“Who is it?” Officer Gao Ze was a bit helpless; there were too many unknown calls today.

“It’s me, Officer Gao Ze, I’m Xiao Xu.”

Director Xu scrolled through the latest article posted on the WeChat account of the Pudong Public Security Bureau on his phone, took a deep breath, and said:

“Officer Gao Ze, I have already resolved the matter of your sister’s scholarship. We might have had some conflicts, but can we have a meal together and talk it over properly?”