Miss Forensics – Chapter 106

Undercover

“If I die, Song Yuhang will be safe, right?”

As a mid-level figure with a certain status in a criminal gang, the idea that drug lords in TV shows basically don’t use drugs is eighty percent bullsh#t. This stuff dangles in front of your eyes every day, and you get addicted after one try. Very few people can escape its temptation.

Pei Jinhong was no exception.

She not only used, but could also appraise.

What does “appraise” mean? In layman’s terms, it’s “to distinguish.”

Just as there are luxury goods and street stall goods, the jargon for the grade of drugs is “purity.”

The higher the purity, the more expensive the price, the higher the high when you take it, and of course, the more addictive and deadly it is.

Of course, she had made preparations before coming. It was true that Lin Yan had needle marks on her arm, but those were all self-inflicted.

She didn’t have the awareness to dedicate her entire life just to be an undercover agent.

Lin Yan curled the corner of her lips into a smile, looking slightly cold and stunning: “What’s the meaning of this? If you want to kill me, just do it directly. With so many of you, can I possibly resist? Why bother taking out ‘Drunken Dream’ to amuse me? It’s not like I haven’t f#cking tried this stuff before?”

When she said “Drunken Dream,” she could feel Wang Qiang beside her imperceptibly relax, but he still didn’t speak. This man was very suspicious; he wouldn’t completely believe her until he saw her inject it with her own hands.

Lin Yan broke into a cold sweat for herself, but she didn’t show a trace of it on her face.

The man opposite her gave a smile that didn’t reach his eyes: “How can you call it amusing? This is good stuff that’s just been developed, to calm Miss Pei’s nerves.”

Lin Yan raised an eyebrow and smiled gracefully.

“Calm my nerves or send me on my way?”

Before the words had fallen, she leaned against Wang Qiang’s embrace again, her charming eyes like silk.

“Wang-ge, look at him~ 95% purity, how can I handle that?”

Her original intention was to sow discord, but who knew she would commit a major taboo.

As soon as the words left her mouth, Lin Yan realized something was wrong, and wished she could bite off her own tongue!

She had overlooked the instinctive reaction of a drug addict seeing drugs. It should be eyes glowing green, frantically swallowing saliva, and in severe cases, even yawning and tearing up, with a certain tendency for aggression and agitation. Especially for someone like her who had been on the run for days and nights without a single hit, the reaction should have been even stronger.

At a time like this, who cares about purity? Just take it!

The man in camouflage smiled and stuffed the syringe into her hand.

“Miss Pei, more words are useless. Please.”

Lin Yan was forced to raise her head. Wang Qiang pointed a gun at her head.

“Jinhong, don’t disappoint me.”

The trace of moisture in Lin Yan’s eyes didn’t seem fake. Anyone in such a situation would be lucky not to wet their pants.

However, no matter how nervous she was, she didn’t show a trace of cowardice on her face.

A poignant and beautiful smile tugged at the corner of Lin Yan’s lips.

“I never thought that one day, Wang-ge would point a gun at me.”

Wang Qiang’s throat moved slightly as he watched her skillfully pick up the syringe and roll up her sleeve.

The large and small needle marks on that fair, jade-like arm were visible to the naked eye.

Lin Yan pushed the excess air out of the syringe, aimed at her own blue vein, and closed her eyes slightly. To others, it looked like she was intoxicated with pleasure; only she herself knew how much she was struggling inside.

“You need to think it through. Once the ‘feigned death’ is successful, from now on, you will no longer be Lin Yan, but ‘Pei Jinhong.’ No one will know your true identity except for me. As a broker and drug trafficker operating between China and Myanmar, the police will shoot to kill you without hesitation upon seeing you. If your identity is exposed, you will also face inhuman torture from the drug traffickers.”

“I also need to warn you that even for an undercover police officer, once you touch drugs, you will be expelled from the public security forces. There are countless examples of families being broken because of this.”

The warning from that person before she left echoed in her mind again.

Lin Yan swallowed her saliva frantically. Others only thought she was extremely excited; only she herself knew who she was thinking of.

When she received the top-secret mission, she actually didn’t hesitate much before agreeing. It wasn’t because of any grand principles of right and wrong, or feelings for her country.

She just said: “If I die, Song Yuhang will be safe, right?”

The person sitting by the bed was silent.

But she, lying on the hospital bed, smiled.

“The Song family are all very nice. Her mom’s cooking is delicious. No elder has ever made Laba congee for me before. I like it very much.”

“Xiao Wei is a very cute child, very affectionate. She gives me candy, this one.”

She was clutching a thin candy wrapper in her palm; the candy had already melted in her pocket.

Lin Yan squeezed it tightly, a slight smile appearing on her lips.

“And Ji Jingxing, she likes Song Yuhang. I wish I could cut her into eight pieces¹, but I also never thought she would come back to save me.”

It was such a wonderful family, yet because of her, they were drawn into a conflict and nearly lost their lives.

She once thought she only loved herself, but when she saw them in danger, when she saw Song Yuhang shed tears, it turned out her heart would still ache.

Lin Yan sighed quietly in her heart: “I’ll go. The person I wanted to protect fourteen years ago died. Fourteen years later, I will not let such a tragedy happen again.”

Song Yuhang said, I will always be loyal to my ideals and to you.

Then what she didn’t have time to say was—

I am willing to put myself in harm’s way for you, just to protect you completely.

With this thought in mind, Lin Yan bit her lip slightly, a trace of determination flashing in her eyes, and pressed the needle tip into her skin.

Before she could push it in, several gunshots rang out from outside the door, startling the birds in the forest into flight.

Everyone turned their heads abruptly to look. A subordinate stumbled through the door, still injured.

“Wang-ge, hurry, we’re surrounded by the cops!”

The syringe in Lin Yan’s hand fell to the ground in shock.

The man in camouflage looked at her face, then at the boxes on the ground, and gritted his teeth: “Hurry up and move them, retreat!”

Before his words had fallen, a tear gas canister broke through the window.

Lin Yan was choked into a fit of coughing, tears and snot streaming down her face, thinking: They’re really fucking treating me like a drug dealer and taking me out too.

In a daze, the people in the room were in chaos. Only the light sound of a bullet being chambered was heard, and someone roared angrily: “How did the cops get here so fast? There’s an undercover, kill her!”

In a haze of smoke, Lin Yan, with reddened eyes, saw Zhao Tiezhu draw his gun and aim it at her. Wang Qiang was standing on the same level as her. She had a flash of inspiration, lunged forward, and grabbed his wrist tightly, firing a shot into her own arm.

“Wang-ge, run, he’s trying to kill you!”

A mist of blood burst forth before her eyes. Lin Yan was, of course, sure of the force and aim of her shot; it just grazed the skin. She fell softly into his embrace.

Wang Qiang was greatly grieved and quickly supported her: “Jinhong!”

Lin Yan weakly raised her finger and pointed at him: “He… he’s the undercover… otherwise… otherwise why would he shoot at you… and the cops… arrived so quickly…”

Zhao Tiezhu was unable to defend himself, and stumbled back a step: “No, it wasn’t me… Wang-ge.”

A trace of ruthlessness flashed in Wang Qiang’s eyes. Liu Zhi nodded, and put a bullet in his forehead.

Lin Yan closed her eyes in gratification.

You wanted me to die, I’ll send you on your way first.

And that man in camouflage, I have to find a way to take care of him too.

She thought groggily, already being helped up. Wang Qiang put his arm around her shoulder, and together with Liu Zhi, they fought their way out.

“Go!”

The three of them weaved through the jungle, running for their lives.

Lin Yan clutched her arm, panting: “Wang-ge, Wang-ge, I can’t go on… you guys go ahead.”

The blood flowing from between her fingers dripped onto the ground.

Before Wang Qiang could speak, Liu Zhi said anxiously: “Sister-in-law², what are you saying? Is Wang-ge that kind of person? If we go, we go together. At the fork in the road up ahead, I left a car there. We’ll drive away, we’ll be safe soon.”

Well, Wang Qiang, having been issued a good person card³ by his brother, felt a bit awkward. Plus, Pei Jinhong had just saved his life. To repay kindness with enmity in front of his subordinate, how could he face people in the future?

He could only grit his teeth and say: “Liu Zhi is right, don’t delay, if we go, we go together!”

He himself was also exhausted from running, his beer belly making him gasp for breath. He pointed at her: “Liu Zhi, you carry her.”

Liu Zhi acknowledged with a sound, tucked his gun into his waistband, and crouched down in front of her: “Come on, sister-in-law.”

Lin Yan nimbly climbed on, wrapped her arms tightly around his neck, and whispered in his ear: “Liu Zhi, thank you.”

Her softness pressed against his back, and the breath that brushed past his ear carried a fragrance.

The young and vigorous man’s face immediately turned red, and he stammered: “N-no, it’s nothing.”

Lin Yan’s fingernail lightly scraped his earlobe: “You’re a good man. This affection you have for your sister-in-law, I’ll remember it.”

When Wang Qiang heard there was a car ahead, he was reinvigorated and had already run far ahead.

Liu Zhi quickly followed, a trace of inexplicable resentment in his heart.

“It’s what I should do.”

In the process of fleeing for their lives, branches whipped across their faces. Lin Yan was jostled until she was completely dizzy⁴. Several times, she could feel bullets grazing past her scalp, and police dogs were in hot pursuit behind them, barking.

She didn’t know how long they ran. Just as she was about to faint, she was finally put into a car.

Her weakness at this moment was not deliberately feigned. Lin Yan’s face was deathly pale. Her head tilted to one side, and she leaned against the seat, completely falling into a deep sleep.

She didn’t stir, no matter how Liu Zhi called “sister-in-law,” “sister-in-law” in her ear.

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“Officer Song, hello. This is your seat, and this is the key to the storage cabinet. Please keep it safe.”

The comrade responsible for receiving her led her to a simple desk and pulled out a backless wooden stool for her to sit on, smiling a little sheepishly.

“A grassroots police station is just not as grand as the city bureau. By the way, Captain Song… no, Officer Song, there’s no cafeteria in the station. The lunch break is only one hour. If you want to eat, turn right when you go out, there’s a snack street with lots of food. Or you can order takeout, don’t go hungry.”

No wonder there was no one in the office; they must have all gone to eat.

Song Yuhang looked around. The office wasn’t big, about ten square meters, crammed with two desks facing each other, which could seat four people. Except for the desk in front of her which was empty, the other positions were all occupied.

She put her bag down on her stool: “It’s fine. Is there hot water? I’ll just have instant noodles.”

“Yes, yes, this is the kettle, you have to boil it yourself. The water room is at the end of the corridor.”

The young police officer said, picking up an already rusted electric kettle and handing it to her.

Song Yuhang took it and walked towards the door: “I’m fine now, you go get busy. There isn’t much time, don’t let me delay your meal.”

The young police officer wanted to go in his heart, but she was, after all, a senior from the city bureau, and he still wasn’t sure of her temperament.

Song Yuhang smiled: “I won’t be able to eat comfortably with you here.”

Only then did the young police officer agree, and ran off happily, thinking: Normally, where would I get to see such a big shot? I didn’t expect this big shot to be so approachable.

After the person left, Song Yuhang went to get water. She came back and started her patrol work at the grassroots police station, eating instant noodles while reading the documents on the desk.

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“How long do you plan to be decadent like this?” The old man leaned on his cane, sitting upright opposite him, watching the man across from him pour himself another glass of red wine, and smiled slightly.

“Decadent? No, no, I’m just enjoying life.”

Although he said so, he had been in this state of doing nothing for some time.

The old man snorted coldly, tapping his cane on the floor.

“Lin Yan is dead. This is the best time for you to take over the Lin family. The last batch of goods should be out of the warehouse by now, right?”

At the mention of Lin Yan, the man holding the wine glass seemed to be in a slight trance, a touch of bitterness added to his smile.

“What’s the hurry? That old thing is keeping a very close watch on the factories underneath him now, I can’t find any opportunities for the time being.”

“I don’t think it’s that you can’t find one, but that you don’t want to find one.” Kuba reached out and handed him a cigar, lighting it for him.

The old man took a few puffs. In the swirling smoke, his expression was somewhat inscrutable.

“Could it be that you still want to be your Lin family’s Eldest Young Master?”

Lin Ge gradually clenched his jaw.

He continued: “Don’t forget who the main culprit is. All of this is what you deserve.”

The old man waved his hand. Kuba handed over a box. When opened, it revealed blue test tubes arranged in a row. Because the liquid’s color was too deep, it appeared slightly purple.

“It’s called ‘Drunken Dream’ No. 15. New formula, 50% purity makes it easy to get addicted to and not easy to have adverse reactions. You take it to him, consider it a meeting gift from me.”

The old man said, a faint smile on his lips, as if lost in memories.

Lin Ge stared at the test tube and slowly finished the wine in his glass.

The old man stubbed out his cigar in the ashtray and stood up: “I’ve already given you the sample. In half a month, I want to see your laboratory mass-produce it. Then package it with the gimmick of a functional beverage, many people should buy it.”

The old man patted his shoulder: “You can’t lose the woman and the money too, right? My people will pick up the goods at the old place. Waiting for your good news.”

As he spoke, he left, trembling slightly, supported by Kuba.

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LP: I just want people like these to disappear from earth (ง ◉ _ ◉)ง

Re-translated on July 22, 2025

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