Police officer Chen Shu.

After saying goodbye to Chen Chuan, Chen Shu went straight to Zhongshan Police Station.

With something on his mind, he couldn't shake off his relaxed state of mind and rushed back to his workplace.

When I entered the duty hall, I met Yu Yu, who had just returned from a call and looked exhausted.

Chen Shu: "Yu Yu, I have a question for you. Are there many reports lately about minors being reported online?"

Yu Yu paused for a moment, somewhat surprised: "I don't know, I only received this one this morning. What, you're going to investigate these reports? It's pointless."

The police station is busy with heavy workloads. The daily quotas and duty shifts keep the officers busy. These useless and disgusting reports are ignored by everyone with the mentality of "it's better to avoid trouble".

After all, the workload of responding to a police call is worlds apart from handling a case.

Seeing Yu Yu's puzzled expression, Chen Shu explained, "There's nothing wrong with making reports, but I think these recent ones are malicious and false. I've been bored lately and couldn't sit still, so I thought I'd give them a try."

Zeng Hong, the duty officer who was sitting behind the front desk, must have overheard their conversation.

At this moment, he walked over and agreed, "Yes, it's time to teach these people who waste our police resources a lesson. Here's what we'll do: I'll have Huihui cancel your 'Civilized City' duty assignment later, so you can focus on this case."

Zheng Huihui is a female police officer in charge of internal affairs at Zhongshan Police Station. She leads three female auxiliary police officers and is responsible for all the station's finances, scheduling, logistics, and other affairs. Because the auxiliary police officer who was originally in charge of publicity and reporting resigned, she is currently in charge of this part of the work.

A look of surprise flashed in Chen Shu's eyes, but he quickly concealed it. He hadn't expected Zeng Hong to interfere at this time.

He wasn't confident about the case and didn't dare to take full responsibility, waving his hand and saying, "Professor Zeng, I'm not sure either, I'm just afraid..."

Zeng Hong interrupted, "Xiao Shu, don't feel pressured. If we can handle this case, we will. It will also serve as a deterrent to these shady characters!"

It's okay if we can't solve the case. How can we solve whatever we want? We'll just consider it experience. Next time, we'll have more confidence when targeting those fake reports of drug use or prostitution that are meant to frame people.

Chen Shu raised an eyebrow, probably not understanding why Zeng Hong was taking it so seriously. Perhaps it was to publish a unique publicity report?

"Hmm, if it works out, I'll have Huihui write a proper interview for you! This type of case, it seems, has never happened before in the bureau, ah, no, in the department!" Zeng Hong put his hands in his pockets, looking rather smug, as if he could already see Chen Shu solving the case.

It seems the competition for publicity among different police stations is fierce. Perhaps I'm just not at that level yet.

As Chen Shu thought about it, he found it both absurd and somewhat amusing.

"Okay, I'll go to your office to get the digital certificate later. My current permissions aren't quite enough. I might need to access some personnel information."

Accessing the vast database on the public security intranet requires permission via a special USB drive (digital certificate) assigned to police officers. The digital certificate level corresponds to the officer's level of confidentiality.

Chen Shu, as a police officer at the police station, is at the lowest rank, while Zeng Hong, as the station's instructor, is at a higher rank and has access to more comprehensive and complete information.

In recent years, the management of police officers' access to citizens' information has become very strict. Back when Chen Shugang first started working, auxiliary police officers could freely access citizens' information.

......

Security Office on the second floor of Zhongshan Police Station

Chen Shu sat at his desk, staring at the screen full of data on his computer, his brows furrowed tightly.

According to information obtained from the police intranet, in the past six months, there have been hundreds of reports from the Zhengming District 110 emergency call center about internet cafes accommodating minors. Compared to the other three directly administered districts of Dongzhou City, which combined only received about sixty reports, the data is clearly abnormal.

Most of the phone numbers for reporting in Zhengming District are from out of town, and each number is different; while most of the sixty or so phone numbers in other districts are from Dongzhou City, and it is normal for a number to be used to report the same internet cafe multiple times.

Chen Shu randomly selected four of the more than one hundred mobile phone numbers and dialed them using his old, illegally obtained special mobile phone, which was registered in another province. Three of them were switched off, and one was answered.

Chen Shu remained calm and composed: "Hey, hello! Could you please open the door? My takeout is here!"

"Takeout? I didn't order takeout! You've dialed the wrong number!" A very young male voice with a non-local accent came through the receiver.

"Beep!" The call was abruptly disconnected.

He doesn't seem like a father of a child who's old enough to go to internet cafes.

If someone hadn't deliberately intervened to report the illegal hospitality practices of internet cafes in Zhengming District, Chen Shu would never have believed it.

Internet cafes admitting minors is definitely illegal, and public security and cultural authorities should accept the case and investigate.

But Chen Shu felt very uncomfortable with the feeling of using the police as pawns. He wanted to see who was behind this and what kind of person they were.

How dare they mess with the police!

Chen Shu downloaded the more than one hundred suspicious phone numbers, packaged them into an Excel file, and sent it to Chen Chuan via the intranet email.

The data analysis will be handled by him. We'll also need to visit each of these reported internet cafes on-site to get to the bottom of things.

Chen Shu printed out the relevant research information on A4 paper, put it in a document bag, contacted Zhu Chaoran, and set off to the site for inspection.

......

No. 289, Jiucheng Road.

Chen Shu arrived at the address shown in the information; it was the address of an internet cafe that had been reported six months ago.

However, what is being presented to Chen now is not the "New Star Internet Cafe" that was reported to have been receiving minors, as shown in the documents.

He initially thought either the data was wrong, or he had taken the wrong route, or perhaps he was seeing things.

He even went to the two adjacent shops and carefully examined their door numbers, which were 288 and 290 respectively.

The handwriting is clear and accurate.

He returned to number 289 in the middle, took out his phone, opened Gaode Maps, and entered "Xinxing Internet Cafe". The detailed address that popped up was also "No. 289, Jiucheng Road".

Chen Shu was somewhat skeptical, so he opened "Baidu Street View" and searched for the address. The image caption indicated that it was a photo from a few years ago.

The real-scene image shows No. 289, Jiucheng Road.

The signboard prominently reads "New Star Internet Cafe"!

Chen Shu looked at the brand-new LED signboard in front of him with some doubt.

"Time Travel King Internet Cafe".

He, Chen Shu, along with Fatty Zhu who was munching on a "Zhenxin" chicken leg, transmigrated?!