booktalesy Chapter 55 Self-Preservation
Chapter 55 Self-Preservation
"Let's go, Ah Huai, come with me to fill out the case file."
After saying that, Ling Yue pulled Gu Huai downstairs without saying another word.
Gu Huai's current position is in the mobile standby group, but strictly speaking, he doesn't have any specific work assignments.
But that doesn't mean he can slack off. He's now like a brick in the revolutionary work, ready to be moved wherever he's needed.
"Be gentle, sis, I'm not going to run away." Gu Huai struggled to pull his hand away and muttered in a low voice.
"Comrade Xiao Gu, wait a moment." Just as the two were talking, Section Chief Feng from the General Affairs Section came up from downstairs.
"Wang Zhi wants you to go to his office."
"Okay." Gu Huai nodded readily and replied, "I'll go right away."
After responding to Section Chief Feng, Gu Huai said with a grin to Ling Yue, "I'm sorry, Sister Ling, it's not that I didn't want to go with you to work on the case files, I really wanted to go with you, but Branch Manager Wang suddenly called me..."
"Go away," Ling Yue rolled her eyes at Gu Huai, "You're getting a good deal and you're still acting innocent, you're asking for a beating."
Gu Huaiqi was not the kind of person who would stand there and take a beating, so he quickly ran downstairs.
Knowing the way well, Gu Huai arrived at Wang Weiguo's office and gently knocked on the door.
"Come in, the door's open."
Gu Huai opened the door and quickly glanced inside, finding that Wang Weiguo was the only person in the office.
It seems he only called himself.
"Wang Zhi, you wanted to see me?"
Wang Weiguo sat behind his desk, pointed to the chair opposite him, and said, "Come here and sit down."
Gu Huai strode to the chair and sat down, his back ramrod straight.
The atmosphere at the scene was so serious that Gu Huai became a little nervous.
"Xiao Gu," Wang Weiguo picked up his teacup and blew away the foam floating on top, "what are your thoughts on today's meeting?"
Upon hearing this, Gu Huai immediately focused his attention.
When a leader asks you for your opinion on a matter, they are generally not really asking for your opinion on that matter.
Instead, it makes you guess his opinion on the matter.
The more questions you answer correctly, the better impression your boss will have of you.
But if you guess completely right or completely wrong, then things will get complicated.
He carefully observed Wang Weiguo's expression, trying to discern something from his face.
However, whether it was because Wang Weiguo was not interested or because Gu Huai's perception was not sharp enough, he could not glean any information from Wang Weiguo's face.
After some internal struggle, he decided to take a more cautious approach.
"I've gained a lot," Gu Huai replied. "After listening to the speeches of the leaders, I have a deeper understanding of criminal investigation work."
"Don't give me that." Wang Weiguo put down his teacup, staring at him. "That's not what I'm asking."
"That..."
Seeing Gu Huai feigning ignorance, Wang Weiguo, a former soldier, didn't keep him in suspense any longer. "I'm asking you, did you encounter any difficulties during the investigation of this case? And what are your thoughts on these difficulties?"
Faced with Wang Weiguo's almost explicit question, Gu Huai remained silent for a few seconds.
He didn't know why Wang Weiguo asked this question, but he knew very well that he absolutely could not answer it directly.
So he took a deep breath and said, "Chief Wang, to be honest, I think there was a lot of luck involved in solving this case."
"Luck?" Although Wang Weiguo's original intention was not to ask this, Gu Huai's mention of luck successfully piqued his curiosity.
"Tell me more about how you apply luck."
"Yes." Gu Huai nodded and said, "If I hadn't happened to ride in Zhang Shengli's car, if I hadn't happened to know about the taxi driver's income, if Yangcheng hadn't provided the clue about the Rain Night Butcher, and if Luo Xiaojun hadn't happened to go to that ship with Luo Zhenbang, then this case would definitely not have been solved so quickly."
Wang Weiguo narrowed his eyes slightly. "Go on."
"So my thought is that while it's certainly good to be happy when a case is solved, if solving a case requires combining so many 'what ifs', then it's too reliant on luck."
Gu Huai took a deep breath and spoke his mind, "Institutional development, information sharing, and technological means—these are the fundamentals. For example, if Guangzhou had issued a notice for assistance when the butcher committed his first crime on that rainy night, we wouldn't have needed to rely on luck."
Wang Weiguo leaned back in his chair, stared at the ceiling for a while, and then slowly said, "I know all that you're saying, but these things aren't something I can decide. We have to take it one step at a time."
As he spoke, Wang Weiguo sat up and looked intently at Gu Huai, saying, "When you become a department head, you can put these things into practice."
Seeing that Wang Weiguo thought so highly of him, Gu Huai waved his hand repeatedly, "Wang Zhi is joking. If we're really talking about who should be the director, it should be you, Wang Zhi, first."
"You certainly know how to talk," Wang Weiguo said with a laugh, then changed the subject, "You've said so much, you must have something on your mind. Tell me, what do you want to do?"
"Uh..." Wang Weiguo suddenly asked him to make a request, which put Gu Huai in a difficult position.
In fact, Gu Huai hadn't thought about these things at all before he arrived here. The reason he was able to express those insights was that he had just gotten carried away with his words, and the rest was what he had learned from watching the news over the years.
As for the specifics of how to do it, he had no idea.
After thinking for a long time, Gu Huai finally spoke, "I was wondering if the brigade could assign a full-time forensic doctor to our team?"
It's not surprising that Gu Huai suddenly made this request; it's just that he suffered from a lack of forensic knowledge in the previous case.
Unlike some smaller branches, the Pengcheng Municipal Public Security Bureau has its own dedicated technical team for forensic doctors, and Gu Huai was completely unfamiliar with them.
When it comes to actually handling a case, communication barriers are inevitable.
Having spent his entire life in business, Gu Huai understands the importance of resource integration and knows that professional tasks must be left to professionals.
Wang Weiguo stared at Gu Huai for a long time before slowly saying, "You certainly know how to make demands. Regardless of whether this violates any rules, if anyone should make a demand, it should be Old Wu. What you're doing is..."
Gu Huai waved his hands repeatedly and said, "I was just saying it casually, Wang Zhi, if it doesn't work, then forget it."
"Did I say it was impossible?" Wang Weiguo said, "A new intern forensic pathologist has joined the forensic department. He's in the same batch as you, and the next case can be assigned to your team."
Seeing that Wang Weiguo had actually agreed, Gu Huai quickly stood up to thank him.
However, after expressing his gratitude, Gu Huai looked at Wang Weiguo's ambiguous smile and finally remembered the meaning behind his words.
"Chief Wang, you just mentioned the next case, does that mean there's another case?"
"You're pretty smart, kid."