Breaking Through The Clouds - [Author: Huai Shang (淮上)]

Volume 1: Chapter 8

Volume 1: Case 502 - The Intoxicated Frozen Corpse

Chapter 8

"Even more, there's a strong possibility that the undercover drug trafficker amongst the police force's higher-ups was Jiang Ting himself."

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With a loud "FUCK!", Wei Yao stormed out of the deputy director office, three steps shrinking into two as he charged down the flight of stairs, before directly barging through the door to the detachment vice-captain's office. "YAN XIE!"

Yan Xie was seated behind his computer.

"You used my password to access the internal network again! Don't you have any idea that this is breaking protocol?!"

Staying in place, Yan Xie slowly raised his head. When Wei Yao saw how he was acting, rage began to boil in his heart. "Your Captain Zhu was only just hospitalized for a few days, and you scampered off on the double to joyfully celebrate! A few days ago, you even dragged the entire team out for karaoke and drinks! Do you seriously think I'm stupid? When I called you, the loud noise in the background were filled with all those-'love in a way, as if everyday is the last day of the world!'-what the hell is love to a bunch of grown men like you lot?!"

The moment Yan Xie parted his lips to speak, he was interrupted by Wei Yao, upset at Yan Xie's failure at living up to his expectations. "Brat, you can most likely kiss your promotion goodbye! Look at your clothes! Your watch! Your shoes! Your hair! Are you here to work or do a catwalk?! How many times have the disciplinary team given a notice to reprimand you already?! Good and bad, can you at least remember them by now?!"

Yan Xie said, "Deputy Wei..."

"Log out now! Before anyone notices! THIS INSTANT!"

Gasping for breath with his hands on his waist, Wei Yao wanted to take advantage of his current mood to continue cursing when all of a sudden, Yan Xie casually asked, "How did Jiang Ting die?"

Wei Yao was taken by surprise. "What?"

"Captain Jiang Ting of Gongzhou Anti-Drug Force's Second Detachment died in the line of duty three years ago. How exactly did he die?"

Wei Yao was stunned by the sudden question for a good long while, before realizing what Yan Xie was asking about. At once, he was caught between feeling agitated and wanting to cry. "Why? It's already been a few years since then. Haven't you let go of that minor incident with the Gongzhou's City Public Security Department back then?-I get it. That year Gongzhou almost took away your credit and gave it to someone else, but didn't they choose not to do it in the end? Are you still..."

"Is Jiang Ting seriously dead?"

"Ugh! You're still going on about that?" Wei Yao asked in response. "Does this have anything to do with the 502 Frozen Corpse case you're investigating now?"

Yan Xie answered, "Yes."

"Yes, my ass! Don't simply use my password to randomly browse around the internal network when you're feeling jobless!"

"There is a connection." Yan Xie repeated to himself, lifting his hand to push the case file on the table towards Wei Yao. "Hu Weisheng from Gongzhou, was sentenced to prison for purchasing, reselling and counterfeiting prescribed drugs from abroad. He's under strong suspicion for palming off fake Adderall to trap minors into getting addicted to drugs. In Gongzhou a few years back, he was charged with attempted rape for drugging a year three female student. I suspect that there was something else to this case. The drug he used probably wasn't a roofie called Flunitrazepam, but was instead an addictive hallucinogen drug with a similar composition to Adderall."