Miss Forensics – Chapter 124

Volume Two: Second Scroll

The Nail¹

I want to welcome my beloved girl home in the light.

“Captain Song, Captain Song!” In a daze, someone was shouting her name in her ear, but Song Yuhang could already gradually not hear clearly.

“An officer is injured! Stretcher! Stretcher!” Several medical personnel ran over, carried her onto the ambulance, stuffed a tube into her mouth, and pounced on her body to do chest compressions.

Under the watchful eyes of the public, the ambulance, with lights flashing and siren wailing, sped all the way away.

The people from the city’s Anti-drug Detachment also arrived, helping to clean up the battlefield and escorting the thugs who were still alive but had lost the ability to resist onto the police cars.

At this point, the armed forces hidden in the deep mountains and dense forests of the Jiangcheng City suburbs had been completely wiped out.

As soon as Feng Jianguo returned to the City Bureau, a call came from the Provincial Department². Not long after, important leaders of the Municipal Party Committee³ gathered together to hold a meeting and discuss the next steps.

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City Center Hospital.

Sheet after sheet of critical illness notices were passed out from the operating room. If Ji Jingxing hadn’t been tightly supporting Mother Song, she would have almost collapsed limply on the ground.

Finally, the light in the operating room went out.

The doctor took off his mask and walked out, his expression grim.

“Multiple organ failure throughout the body, complicated by a widespread infection. Send her to the ICU.”

This meant that for a very long time, she would not be able to get out of bed and walk, but luckily, her life was saved.

Mother Song cried tears of joy and, together with Ji Jingxing, supported the gurney as they walked towards the intensive care unit.

Fang Xin, Duan Cheng, and the others all followed beside them. After the person was sent in, Zheng Chengrui patted his good friend’s shoulder.

“I’m going to the restroom. Call me when you all are leaving.”

Duan Cheng was squatting on the ground comforting Mother Song. He turned his head and muttered in a low voice, “Go quickly and come back quickly. We still have to return to the bureau for a meeting in a while.”

Fang Xin glanced in the direction Zheng Chengrui had left. He disappeared at the end of the corridor. There was nothing abnormal.

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“Hello?” The man took another card from his pocket, inserted it into his phone, and dialed a number.

“She’s not dead yet, but she’s very heavily injured.”

The person on the other side paused slightly, with a hint of gritted teeth.

“She’s really got a tough life.”

“Isn’t this very good? No one will mess things up again.”

The man on the other end of the phone understood his meaning.

“Have you gone soft? Things have already reached this point. Once the bow is drawn, there is no turning back the arrow.”

The man was silent.

He continued, “Kill her, and our great revenge will be achieved.”

The sound of flushing came from the washstand outside the restroom. Someone came in. The man hung up the phone, pulled out the SIM card, and threw it into the toilet. After the sound of rushing water, he walked out.

Jiangcheng City Public Security Bureau.

Operations conference room.

“In summary…” Before Xue Rui could finish his words, he was interrupted by a sudden knock on the door. A group of high-ranking police officers in uniform walked in, surrounding a middle-aged man in the lead.

His shoulder was also adorned with silver olive branches, and his police rank was actually on par with Feng Jianguo’s.

How does this formation look so much like they’re arresting a criminal suspect? Xue Rui took a step back.

That group of people closed the door. The leading officer walked to the front of the platform, his expression serious, and said in a deep voice.

“Hu Senji⁴, Deputy Director of the Binhai Province Public Security Department’s Anti-drug Bureau. I am acting on the orders of the higher leadership of the Provincial Public Security Department to establish the 7.15 special case team⁵ regarding last night’s armed conflict, and to completely take over all of the City Bureau’s anti-drug and drug prohibition work.”

Below sat not only people from the city’s Criminal Investigation Detachment, but also leaders from the Anti-drug Detachment. At this moment, they all looked at each other in dismay.

What does this mean? We’ve all been excluded from this case?

More importantly, for a matter as big as establishing a special case team, no word had been revealed to the two main leaders of the City Bureau beforehand.

Feng Jianguo kept his composure, but in contrast, the other deputy director could not sit still.

“What is the meaning of this? This is a case within our jurisdiction. It should be handled jointly by the City Bureau and the Provincial Department.”

That Director Hu snorted coldly: “For such a major incident to happen in your jurisdiction, the only reason responsibility isn’t being pursued is because your merits and demerits are cancelling each other out. Don’t be shameless after being given face, and don’t give an inch and advance a foot.”

These words were a bit harsh. The deputy director slammed the table and rose to his feet: “You…”

The old fox Feng Jianguo stood up, still smiling, his belly stuck out and his face full of kindness.

“Aiyo, look at this. The incident just happened last night, and in less than four hours, Director Hu has come over. The journey must have been tiring. Thank you for your hard work, truly, thank you for your hard work.”

“Please, sit down. Xiao Xue, pour a cup of tea. As it happens, we were just discussing this case and would also like to hear the opinions of the provincial leaders.”

Everyone present was sharp; how could they not hear that Feng Jianguo was pointing at the mulberry and cursing the locust tree⁶, saying their noses were more sensitive than a dog’s.

As for his latter words, they were purely polite pleasantries. After all, the other man was also a top leader; it was impossible to tell him to get out in front of so many people.

Hu Senji pulled at his tie and had no choice but to swallow his anger, sitting down in the empty seat next to Feng Jianguo.

As soon as he sat, Feng Jianguo began. He clasped his hands and looked at him with a peaceful gaze.

“I saw Director Hu a few years ago when I went to the Provincial Department for a meeting. At that time, you were still following Department Head Zhao, responsible for part of the anti-drug work. You are still as dashing as ever, not like me, who already has half a body in the grave.”

Hu Senji was a few years younger than him and had just been promoted to deputy director not long ago. This was him putting on the airs of a senior.

He almost spat out a mouthful of old blood. He cursed in his heart: Damn old fox, he’s practically become a spirit.

“Cough…” Hu Senji coughed lightly into his hand. “Let’s discuss the case. It won’t be too late to reminisce with you after the case is closed.”

Feng Jianguo raised a hand: “Xiao Xue, continue.”

If the enemy doesn’t move, I don’t move.

If the director didn’t move, his subordinates naturally wouldn’t dare to move either.

Xue Rui again braced himself and stood at the podium.

“Last night, we destroyed a stronghold of an armed force located in the suburbs of Jiangcheng City, seized a large amount of a new type of drug, arrested dozens of criminals, impounded five vehicles involved in the case, and another twenty-one people died in the firefight with the police…”

Speaking in front of so many people, he was actually a bit nervous, as he had just taken office not long ago. But he remembered everything that happened last night, and Feng Jianguo’s hopeful gaze from below the stage.

Xue Rui took a deep breath and gradually began to speak with confidence.

While he was giving his report to the leaders of the City Bureau and Provincial Department, several police cars drove out of the City Bureau gate, sped through the streets like lightning, and drove directly to the entrance of the Huange Nightclub.

The car doors were pulled open, and armed criminal police jumped out, broke down the door, and arrested several involved personnel from inside. There were employees in waiter uniforms, social elites in suits, and some heavily made-up, scantily clad women. All of them were handcuffed, lined up, and escorted onto the police cars.

A seal was pasted on the magnificent main entrance of the Huange Nightclub, which was officially closed for business.

The crowd of onlookers pointed and gestured.

“What’s going on? It was doing so well, how did it suddenly get shut down?”

“Hah, they must have committed a crime. Looking at this commotion, it’s a big one.”

“Good that it’s closed, wonderful that it’s closed. I heard long ago that they weren’t doing any proper business.”

“Shh, keep your voice down. To be able to open here for so long, maybe behind the scenes…”

Rumors spread like the wind.

In the City Bureau’s interrogation rooms, the emergency interrogation of the surviving thugs was also proceeding in full swing.

The personnel coming and going in the corridor all had serious faces and hurried steps.

After Xue Rui finished explaining the general details of the case, the entire operations conference room was silent.

Although Hu Senji had heard some things before coming, when he saw those images, he still swallowed.

The recording that Song Yuhang risked her life to bring back became the most direct evidence exposing the criminal facts. It was this piece of evidence that forced the entire public security police force of Jiangcheng City, and even Binhai Province, to mobilize. It was an unstoppable trend.

Feng Jianguo had not only sent a copy of this evidence to the Provincial Department, but of course to others as well. It was just that he couldn’t say who yet.

The old fox rubbed the pen in his hand. “Through investigation, we have learned that in seven days, the drug traffickers will conduct a transaction worth two hundred million with a mysterious buyer. The great drug lord Ding Ye, who moves across China, Myanmar, and Thailand, will also participate.”

The moment his voice fell, Hu Senji fiercely slapped the table.

“That will be the perfect opportunity for us to catch them all in one net! I will take full responsibility for the on-site command…”

Feng Jianguo interrupted him: “Director Hu has also seen it. The drug traffickers are tightly organized, have heavy firepower, and are numerous. Relying solely on the special police, criminal police, and anti-drug police forces is likely not enough.”

“I will apply to the higher-ups to dispatch Armed Police⁷ combat units to participate in the battle.”

The old fox’s expression was undisturbed. “The procedures are complicated. I’m afraid it won’t be completed anytime soon.”

“You…” Hu Senji was choked up for a moment. He thought to himself: Damn it, you’re a dignified department-level Public Security Bureau director. Mobilizing the Armed Police detachment in your own jurisdiction is just a matter of signing a paper.

Before he could speak again, a steady voice interjected.

“In urgent matters, one must act according to the circumstances. I have already communicated with the leadership of the Ministry of Public Security⁸ and the Armed Police Force. I will bear this responsibility.”

Everyone stood up one after another. “Department Head Zhao.”

“Department Head Zhao.”

“Department Head Zhao.”

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The old man’s face was weathered by the years, his hair and beard all white, yet his tie was impeccably knotted. Inside was a snow-white, high-grade uniform shirt, and there wasn’t a speck of dust on his dark blue police uniform. His epaulet was adorned with a silver olive branch encircling half of the national emblem. Surrounded by several high-ranking police officers from the Provincial Department, he walked in and went directly to the main seat.

Feng Jianguo slightly lowered his head and made way.

He sat down, clasped his hands, and tightened his lips. Looking at the room full of people, he solemnly announced.

“From now on, the 7.15 case has been officially listed for supervision⁹ by the Ministry of Public Security and is directly under the Provincial Department. All other brother units will give their full effort to assist the Provincial Anti-drug Bureau in solving the case. We must crush the criminal syndicate in one fell swoop and restore peace to our country’s southwestern border!”

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After a day and a night of escape, checkpoints had been set up on the expressways, at the airports, train stations, and bus stations. But no one expected that they were still within Jiangcheng City.

This is the so-called most dangerous, which is also the safest place.

Ding Ye’s group arrived near Binhai Pier. Someone received them and hid them in a fishing village.

Lin Yan did not expect that Ding Ye had an inside contact even near the pier. She was secretly alarmed, but also quietly memorized the terrain.

Once the people were safe, Tiger and the others pointed their guns at her.

Liu Zhi was the first to load his gun, and shouted along with the brothers Lin Yan had brought.

“What are you doing?! What are you doing?!”

“Put down the guns!”

“You put them down first!”

The two sides were at a stalemate. Lin Yan sat in a corner of a roughcast house on an abandoned construction site, while Ding Ye sat on the other side, sizing her up.

A slight smile lifted the corner of her lips.

“What is Ding Ye doing?”

“Not doing anything. I just feel that you all came a bit too quickly.” Ding Ye waved his hand. Tiger took a step back but still held his gun.

“Bring her up.” Lin Yan was long prepared; she hadn’t forgotten to bring Chen Fang along during the escape.

The woman was thrown on the ground like a broken sack.

A match was struck. Liu Zhi respectfully offered her a cigarette. The flame leaped at the corners of the woman’s eyes and the tips of her brows. Her face showed only ruthlessness; the fragility from just before was swept away.

“Tell us yourself what you did.”

“Yes, yes, yes… I’ll talk… Hong-jie… Hong-jie, don’t kill me! I’m willing to be your beast of burden, your beast of burden!”

Chen Fang knelt on the ground, her face covered in tears, kowtowing continuously with thumping sounds. While kowtowing, she wept bitterly and revealed, in full detail, the entire process of how she got to know the police mole.

Lin Yan listened while smoking, calm and composed, as if she didn’t care what was being said or whether it was beneficial to her.

As she sat there, she unexpectedly emitted an aura powerful enough to rival Ding Ye’s.

In front of these old hands, lies would be easily seen through, but the truth would not.

Chen Fang did indeed know the police mole, but she didn’t know his true identity. She only thought that, like Wang Qiang, he was someone who worked for Ding Ye. For money, fame, and even drugs, she had offered herself up.

This physical relationship was maintained for a considerable period of time, and she told them everything without missing a word.

Of course, the premise was that she wanted to live.

After Wang Qiang died, Lin Yan had secretly found her, thrown the video of his death in front of her to play on a continuous loop, and even taken her to see the scene of the corpse burning, pressing her head and slamming her into the rainwater.

To this day, she still remembered that fishy, stinking, muddy taste. Chen Fang shivered and didn’t dare to look up at her.

But in the end, it was also Lin Yan who helped her up, held her face, and, word by word, looked into her pupils.

“Do you want to live? Do you want freedom? If you do, listen to me. When this is over, I will send you out of Jiangcheng. Don’t ever come back.”

These were all the facts Chen Fang knew. What she didn’t know was that the mole she knew had, by a lucky coincidence, been subdued by Song Yuhang, and that she had disguised herself and infiltrated the group.

Everyone present had seen Song Yuhang. Her face was hard to forget.

Therefore, when speaking of his physical features, Chen Fang paused slightly and carefully glanced up at her.

Lin Yan’s heart skipped a beat. It’s over. She doesn’t know what to say, and there wasn’t enough time for them to coordinate their stories. Most importantly, she shouldn’t be looking at me.

She calculated in her heart. Out of the corner of her eye, she glimpsed Ding Ye observing her. Her hand quietly closed over her pistol, preparing to shoot to wound and knock the person out if it came to it, but Chen Fang was just a physically weak, ordinary woman and might not survive.

In that moment of hesitation, Liu Zhi had already kicked her in the shoulder, knocking her to the ground, filled with righteous indignation.

“Damn it, you shameless woman! Ruining Hong-jie and Wang-ge’s relationship, and hooking up with a cop, you almost ruined everything!”

The tense atmosphere disintegrated. Lin Yan’s hand loosened from her holster, and she lightly flicked the ash from her cigarette.

“That’s the situation. Does Ding Ye have anything else to ask?”

“I don’t believe it, Ding Ye! This woman is full of tricks. It was the same last time when she took a batch of our goods. She definitely has some selfish motive for coming to save us!”

Before Ding Ye could speak, Tiger had already rushed to speak.

“Selfish motive?” Lin Yan sneered and crossed her legs¹⁰ the other way.

“I do indeed.”

“You…” Tiger was furious. Before he could take a step forward, Liu Zhi’s gun was already pressed against his forehead.

“After being the number two for so long, one also wants a taste of being the big brother. Ding Ye, I think you should be able to understand me.”

Lin Yan said, holding a cigarette and pointing at Tiger.

“This son of a bitch, when he comes to the mainland, he’s always shouting orders¹¹ in the nightclub, bullying my brothers, and sometimes he doesn’t even respect me. Last time, he even humiliated a song girl, and the person died in the private room. Damn it, you have to see who the owner is before you beat a dog.”

What Lin Yan said was indeed the truth. Tiger’s face flushed red, and not caring about the gun pressed to his forehead, he started cursing loudly.

“Bah! What the hell are you, a bitch ridden by a thousand men and mounted by ten thousand? This old man not only killed your subordinate, I also want to see what you look like pressed under me, unable to breathe, begging this master to let you go…”

Before his voice had fallen, a gunshot broke the silence.

Tiger’s crotch felt empty, and a wave of coldness washed over him. He looked down, and a cold sweat broke out all over his body.

Lin Yan blew the smoke from her muzzle. “Keep your mouth clean. I advise you to recognize what kind of situation you’re in right now.”

The bullet had hit his belt buckle, springing it open, and the metal part had been knocked to the ground.

The lights weren’t on in the room, and in the dark at such a close distance, hitting the target 100% was not easy. If she had been off by a single inch, the bullet would have entered his abdomen, and he wouldn’t be standing here spouting nonsense now.

Tiger swallowed, his legs began to shake, and his face turned shades of green and white. He quickly pulled up his pants but didn’t dare to curse loudly again.

Only then did Liu Zhi put away his gun and stand behind her again.

As employees of the Huange Nightclub, they knew Tiger was always bossy whenever he came. At this moment, the faces of the people Lin Yan brought all showed some anger, especially after hearing his words.

But perhaps because she ruled them with extreme strictness, anger was anger, but no one spoke again, waiting for Lin Yan to issue an order.

Ding Ye smiled, clapping for her intermittently. “Worthy of being Hong-jie. The younger generation is to be feared. You’ve really broadened this old man’s horizons.”

Lin Yan also smiled and threw away the cigarette butt.

“Ding Ye, you’re too polite. It’s just that some of these subordinates are really pieces of work.”

Ding Ye glanced at Tiger. “When we get back, I will naturally give you an explanation.”

Tiger’s heart went cold, and a chill ran through his body. With a mournful face, he said, “Ding Ye…”

“Get out and go on patrol!”

No one expected him to suddenly get angry. That sudden burst of ruthlessness made everyone present’s heart tremble.

Those murky eyes seemed to emit a man-eating light.

Tiger knew that he truly had killing intent towards him now. His scalp went numb, and he didn’t dare to stay any longer, taking his gun and going out.

Lin Yan pointed at Chen Fang, who was trembling on the ground.

“This person is under my command, after all. Now that something like this has happened, let me deal with it myself.”

Ding Ye gave a nod, approving.

Lin Yan gave a signal with her eyes, and two burly men walked in from outside, grabbed Chen Fang, and dragged her out.

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The special care ward¹² of the City Center Hospital.

Rainwater washed against the glass window.

The woman lying on the bed sat up, lifted the oxygen mask herself, and looked at the dark figure standing before the window.

“How is Lin Yan?”

“Latest news: she has already penetrated the enemy’s interior.”

“What about the person I subdued?”

“A double agent¹³. He has already been locked up.”

Song Yuhang didn’t seem surprised by this result. “Interrogate him well. We’ll definitely be able to get more information out of him.”

She lowered her eyes and thought for a moment, then brought up the most urgent matter: “The transaction location?”

Feng Jianguo shook his head. “Such important information… Ding Ye won’t reveal it until the last moment.”

Song Yuhang gritted her teeth. Holding on until the last moment also meant that she would inevitably be drawn into the war, bearing pressure from both the criminal syndicate and the police.

“No. Before the final battle, I must bring her back.”

Feng Jianguo turned around, bathed in darkness. A bolt of lightning streaked across the night sky, briefly illuminating the room.

“Her codename is ‘Nail,’ and your codename is ‘Dagger.’ Do you know what that means?”

Song Yuhang was startled, her hand wrinkling the bedsheet.

“Even if we kill Ding Ye and take down this massive transnational criminal syndicate, saving countless lives, if she were to…”

“If she were to…” Her eyes suddenly reddened, and she gritted her teeth.

“That is not what my heart wishes for.”

“Then what can we do? If well-trained, experienced police officers don’t do these things, should we let unarmed civilians do them?”

Look at these words, how familiar.

She had also said this to Lin Yan.

For some reason, she suddenly felt some regret. She regretted that her former self was so righteous, took it all so for granted, and saw sacrifice and dedication as the entirety of life.

It turns out that only when it happens to the person closest to you can you thoroughly understand that kind of grief.

Lin Yan… Lin Yan, you are still too foolish.

Weren’t you always unconventional?

Weren’t you always disdainful?

Weren’t you always a cold bystander to others’ life and death?

How could you disregard your own safety to this extent for just a few of her words?

“From the moment we put on this police uniform, it means that although we are of flesh and blood, we carry on our shoulders the stability and future of this region, and even the entire country and its people. There is always bloodshed, and every day there are sacrifices. Should we then not do it? Should we let darkness swallow the world?”

Song Yuhang got off the bed and sat on the edge, looking with him at the dark night and pouring rain outside the window.

“I understand everything you’ve said. But let me ask you, would you be willing to let your granddaughter enter this profession in the future?”

Feng Jianguo was startled, and his brows furrowed. After a long moment, he let out a long sigh and said, “I am not willing. But it is precisely because of this that I must break through the darkness for them, clear the obstacles, and see the light again.”

Not her, but them.

A slight smile hooked the corner of Song Yuhang’s lips.

“You are right. The nail is the blade on the dagger, and the dagger is the body for the nail. I also want to welcome my beloved girl home in the light.”

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LP: Re-translated on August 26, 2025

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