Chapter 979: The Correctness of Being Ahead of Time

Lin Qiupu took the man back to the bureau and handed him over to other policemen, but Lin Dongxue stood at the entrance and refused to go inside.

Lin Qiupu asked, "What? You really don't regard yourself as a police officer anymore?"

"I have already handed in my police badge and my gun. Am I still a policeman? But I don't regret it. This is the seventh person today. I have stopped all of the criminals predicted by the observer of humanity. I have peace of mind because I have saved the people. By the way, Brother, why are you here?"

"Guess!"

"Old Chen asked you to come?"

"He was embarrassed and recounted the matter to me from beginning to end, saying that you’re acting alone now outside. I couldn’t help feeling uneasy, so I came to find you. By the way, he even apologized to me."

"Why did he apologize to you?" Lin Dongxue smiled. A few days past the incident, her heart had already calmed down.

"Isn’t apologizing to me the same as apologizing to you? He said that he shouldn't have gotten so angry that day. As a young couple quarrelling, you two should be more considerate towards each other. He is wrong in some aspects, but he is now the captain, and he must insist on certain things."

"I can understand that!" Lin Dongxue lowered her head.

"But..." Lin Qiupu put his hand on her shoulder. "You save people out of kindness. No one will blame you for that. The police represent justice, but the police are also human beings, and kindness is fundamental to being human."

"Brother, thank you. I should go now."

"Where are you going?"

"Going home. Since the matter has been taken care of, of course I’m going home."

"Go back to the team. You didn't formally resign. Take your police badge and pistol back. The second team is short on manpower right now, how can they have you leave?"

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"But I have already said something like that..." Lin Dongxue was still hesitating.

Several police cars stopped at the entrance, and Chen Shi got out of the car. Two police officers walked in with a suspect, and the forensic police behind him carried three body bags.

Upon seeing the suspect's face, Lin Dongxue widened her eyes in astonishment and stopped him. "It's you?!"

The suspect said dejectedly, "I'm sorry, Big Sister, you stopped me that day, but when I went back, the more I thought about it, the angrier I got, so I still put them..."

"Go!" The escorting officer pushed the suspect and took him away.

Lin Dongxue stood still in shock and didn't even notice that Chen Shi had stopped in front of her. Chen Shi said, "He is one of the seven people that the observer of humanity predicted would commit a crime. Did you stop him? In the end, he still committed murder two days later."

"Why is this happening?! I clearly spent several hours persuading him. Why was he still so impulsive?"

"Dongxue, this was not an impulse. It’s his nature. It is difficult for humans to change. His background, his family, and his education determined that he would embark on the path of crime. Without the intervention of powerful external forces, it’s impossible for him to change by himself."

Lin Dongxue felt the urge to cry, and asked weakly, "Who was killed?"

"His stepfather, biological mother, and younger brother. After killing them, he kept stabbing them while calling the police. When we arrived, he was still sitting on the ground, stabbing his stepfather's body continuously."

"I thought I had saved them, but in the end, they just lived for a few more days."

"You guys can leave first!" Chen Shi said to the others, and nodded to Lin Qiupu who was standing below the porch. Then he pulled Lin Dongxue away with him.

The two went to a small park near the Public Security Bureau and sat down in a secluded place. Chen Shi said, "It is very difficult for you to stop them from committing crimes using police methods. In the end, there seems to be only one answer: to kill these people. In that case, how is this different from the observer of humanity?"

"Is there no other way? I really just want to save those people!"

"Dongxue, I’ve been thinking these past two days too. The accuracy of the life function is obvious to all. So, what should we do? Stop the observer of humanity and let the crimes that are going to happen be or take a laissez-faire attitude and let him quietly lower Long’an's crime rate?"

Lin Dongxue glanced at him. "Are you saying this as a police officer?"

"As Chen Shi, an ordinary person, I think the observer of humanity is correct!"

Lin Dongxue couldn't believe that this sentence had come out of Chen Shi's mouth.

Chen Shi went on to say, "But any kind of correctness has its limitations. The correctness of the observer of humanity is far in advance. Just like a person who travels from the future wanting to kill future criminals. In his view, this is saving people and it is a noble act. However, to the people living in the here and now, it is undoubtedly a crime. We live in the present, and to people living in the present, being right ahead of time is evil!"

Hearing these words, Lin Dongxue suddenly burst into tears, and trembled as she hugged Chen Shi's shoulders. Chen Shi gently patted and soothed her. "Don't be sad. Everyone has limitations to their abilities, and you’re already doing very well."

Lin Dongxue just cried without speaking.

Chen Shi grabbed her shoulders, held her at arm’s length and wiped her tears away. He asked, "Have you had a hard time outside these two days?"

"It hasn’t been hard. I just missed you."

"I missed you too. Only now do I know what it means when one day seems like a year."

"I'm sorry!" Lin Dongxue hugged him tightly again. She said in his ear, "I won't be so wilful in the future."

"It's okay, it’s okay. That’s just how you are: kind and forthright."

The two embraced each other, and the loneliness of the past few days was assuaged. Chen Shi felt deeply that he would never be able to leave Lin Dongxue. She was his soul mate, his best friend, as well as his next of kin.

The phone's ringtone interrupted the two's reunion, and Chen Shi took it out for a look. "What? Hao Yunlai has been poisoned?"

"Who is 'Good Luck Comes'?"

"I'll explain to you on the way. Yueyue is over there!"

"I'll go back and get my badge."

"No need." Chen Shi took out her police badge from his bosom. "Take it."

The badge was still warm. Lin Dongxue smiled and kissed Chen Shi's face. "Thank you for accommodating me."

"Well, you are my wife." Chen Shi also smiled.

The two rushed to a hospital. Tao Yueyue and Xu Xiaodong were waiting for them. Tao Yueyue couldn't hold back her excitement when she saw that Lin Dongxue had come with him.

Xu Xiaodong told Chen Shi, "We’ve been watching him since early in the morning. He ate instant noodles at home, smoked a few cigarettes, drank a glass of wolfberry tea, and then he went out shopping. He suddenly collapsed on the ground while walking, foaming at the mouth and twitching all over. We don't know what's going on either."

"You brought him to the hospital?"

"Yeah, we couldn't stand by and watch, but he was unconscious. He certainly wouldn't know that we were the ones who brought him to the hospital."

"What now?"

"He’s in the emergency room."

Lin Dongxue said, "Maybe it's not poisoning, but acute illness?"

Xu Xiaodong said, "It doesn’t look like it. He is so young, how could he be ill?"

Tao Yueyue jeered, "He’s almost fifty years old, how can he be described as being ‘so young’?"

Chen Shi said he’d go in and take a look. The other three stood at the door. After a few days of not seeing each other, Tao Yueyue had a lot to say to Lin Dongxue. She said, “Uncle Chen sent me on this boring mission. I was so bored. I asked him why he asked me to go on a stakeout but he said it was to hone my patience and let me learn how to get along with idiots."

"Does ‘idiot’ refer to me?" Xu Xiaodong asked, pointing to his own nose.

"Don't eavesdrop on other people's conversations!" Tao Yueyue continued to say to Lin Dongxue, "But Big Brother Xiaodong is very nice. He has taken good care of me these past two days. It was him who went to buy us food every time."

"Haha, that’s his greatest strength. He took care of me too when he was my partner."

The two kept talking and Xu Xiaodong couldn't even interject. Standing beside them, he was a little embarrassed. He thought that this mother-daughter pair was very close despite not being related by blood.

At this time, Chen Shi rushed out and interrogated Xu Xiaodong. "How did you keep watch?! The person in the emergency room isn’t him at all!"