Free Web NovelChapter 344: Chapter 280: Talk Is Talk, But Why Are You Poaching Again?
They won!
Li Jiahui, Chen Ran, and the others were ecstatic.
All targets had been found in just 6 minutes and 42 seconds.
Keep in mind, Peng An’s team had taken over seven minutes on Level 1 difficulty.
On Level 3, the Ningshan team had used a full 11 minutes and still hadn’t found all the targets.
The difference was clear at a glance.
Shi Xianbo and his team were also cheering wildly.
It was as if they had won themselves.
After all, Ningshan had lost!
The Peng An team had the same reaction.
But after Guo Song and his colleagues high-fived in celebration, he turned to see that Fang Weijie didn’t look particularly excited.
"Director, we won. Why aren’t you happy?"
As long as Ningshan lost, it was a win for them.
Fang Weijie grunted, his expression a bit unnatural.
Of course he was happy that Ningshan lost.
’But this isn’t how it was supposed to go in my head.’
He had wanted Peng An to win.
Who would have thought the competition would be this difficult, only to let Nanjiang steal the show?
"Yanfei."
Fang Weijie grabbed Li Yanfei and asked for his opinion on Tian Kui’s performance, and whether he was confident they could beat Tian Kui in the upcoming tracking event.
Peng An’s ace was "Yige."
Teaming up with Nanjiang to take down Ningshan was fine, but the championship had to be theirs.
But the ability Tian Kui had just displayed put Fang Weijie on high alert.
’He’s too strong!’
He barely seemed to search before finding the targets in advance.
In such a complex environment, he even found the hidden hazardous materials.
At the end of the day, this was a testament to his powerful sense of smell.
’If he can find targets and hazardous materials, does that mean he can’t find suspects, bloodstains, and physical evidence? Can’t he track them?’
Besides, Tian Kui was participating in multiple events, which clearly showed he was a versatile jack-of-all-trades.
Didn’t that mean he was a threat to Yige’s championship title?
Li Yanfei paused, finally understanding what Fang Weijie was worried about.
Recalling Tian Kui’s performance, Li Yanfei sucked in a sharp breath and whispered, "Director, it should be fine, right?"
He glanced at Yige beside him.
’He’s a national-level merit dog, after all.’
"’Should’ be?"
Fang Weijie heard the lack of confidence in his voice and sighed, a headache coming on.
’A criminal investigator from a different field has actually outshone all us seasoned veterans. Who can I even complain to?’
Just as he was thinking this, Shen Xin and his group emerged.
Thunderous applause erupted.
Yang Lichuan led the cheering, starting a unified chant of Tian Kui’s name.
They made it seem like the return of a king.
Shen Xin hadn’t even reacted yet, but Tian Kui was already soaking it all in.
He stopped with a smug look, lifting his head slightly as if accepting the cheers.
From his expression, if he had two hands, he’d probably be waving for the crowd to quiet down.
His fur was a little dirty, but that was a trivial detail.
And he wasn’t done yet.
He shook his head forcefully, signaling for Shen Xin to release the leash.
Once Shen Xin let go, he pranced like a dressage horse, striding forward with his eyes fixed ahead, proudly passing in front of the other police dogs.
He was showing off!
He even went all the way over to the Ningshan team and stopped right in front of Mumu.
He didn’t even give Mumu a direct look.
But his expression seemed to say, ’You? You think you can compete with me?’
Everyone was stunned.
They had never seen a police dog like this.
"Director."
Hou Ben Dong glanced at Tian Kui, who was turning to leave, and said numbly, "He’s practically become a spirit, hasn’t he?"
Given his reaction just now, and that intelligent point of his paw earlier, Hou Ben Dong would have believed it if someone told him there was a person hidden inside Tian Kui’s body.
Meng Fuqiang was also rendered speechless.
But then he recalled his first meeting with Shen Xin, when a few "Tsk, tsk, tsk" sounds from him had instantly silenced dozens of puppies.
Seen in that light, what was happening now didn’t seem so hard to accept.
After all, Shen Xin had even trained a tiger.
Sighing, Meng Fuqiang said, "See? I told you not to underestimate him. This kid is something else."
’We couldn’t even beat him on an open-book test. How embarrassing.’
Hou Ben Dong gave a wry smile, thinking, ’It’s not that I was careless, the opponent was just too strong.’
Seeing Tian Kui finish his gloating and start cozying up to Xinyun, the female Kunming Dog, Shen Xin strode over and gave him an exasperated swat.
’What’s this? You think you’re some hero with his beauty now?’
Before he could even speak with Li Yinjiang and the others, someone came striding over.
It was Zhang Ning’s direct superior.
Cai Zhiming, the Detachment Commander of the Ningshan City SWAT.
"Xiaoshen, got a minute?"
Cai Zhiming said with a broad smile, feeling a sense of relief.
’Thank goodness, thank goodness. The Division Chief of the Provincial SWAT Division had a meeting today and didn’t come.’
’If he had come and seen Tian Kui’s performance, I’m afraid I wouldn’t even get a chance.’
Shen Xin quickly walked over.
’No need to guess, it’s about Tian Kui again.’
Facing Cai Zhiming, Shen Xin repeated what he had told Zhang Ning earlier.
He explained that Tian Kui was being trained for the police dog donation program and would eventually be sent to a remote area that lacked K-9 units.
This was a program the provincial department was well aware of.
’Is Ningshan a remote area?’
Cai Zhiming was, of course, aware of this program. He said, "Xiaoshen, if you do that, wouldn’t you be wasting all of Tian Kui’s talent? Those remote areas don’t have a need for SWAT operations."
But he only pushed that one point before quickly adding, "How about this, you think about it. We’re in the middle of a competition, so let’s have a proper chat later."
As he spoke, he reached out to pet Tian Kui, only to be given the cold shoulder. Only then did he turn and walk away.
Zhang Ning hurried to catch up, saying they should seize the opportunity while no one from the division headquarters was here.
Once the people from the division found out, their chance would be gone.
"Idiot."
Cai Zhiming scolded him, then said, "Just because you don’t want the division to know, you think they won’t find out?"
"The key is the people involved. I’ve just figured it out. We can’t put Xiaoshen in a difficult position; he has to listen to his superiors too. So, the proper way is to have Director Lin step in and handle things on the Nanjiang side."
They absolutely had to get Zhao Hongjie’s approval.
Zhang Ning had a sudden realization and urged Cai Zhiming to act quickly.
"Captain Cai, if we had a police dog like Tian Kui for coordinated operations, I can’t even imagine how effective we’d be."
His voice was filled with excitement.
Not to mention anything else, just in the indoor combat scenario from earlier, having Tian Kui was like holding a royal flush.
Cai Zhiming repeatedly said, "I know, I know." How could he not have thought of the same things Zhang Ning had?
Turning to glance at Shen Xin, who was surrounded by the crowd, Cai Zhiming had another thought. ’Why go after Tian Kui? I should go after the man himself.’
’If I can get him to transfer over, will I ever be short on good police dogs?’
At that moment, Tian Kui had clearly become the center of attention.
Shi Xianbo and his group crowded around Tian Kui, clucking their tongues in amazement.
Whether he was a spirit or not was beside the point; the main thing was his intelligence, the kind you could see with your own eyes.
Yang Lichuan mimicked the way Tian Kui had pointed with his paw, saying he never would have imagined Tian Kui would use such a method to signal an alert.
"Experience?"
When someone asked how he had trained Tian Kui, Shen Xin shook his head and said, "I’m just a criminal investigator, what experience could I have? To be honest, my colleagues at the base helped with his training."
Shi Xianbo immediately chimed in, "Shen Xin, what are you doing as a criminal investigator then? Come train police dogs! If Nanjiang doesn’t want you, we at Pingyu do. Come to Pingyu, and I guarantee you’ll be satisfied with the compensation. Besides, we’re close by."
Li Yinjiang, who had been smiling proudly as he listened to everyone’s praise, immediately grew anxious.
’Talk is talk, but how dare you try to poach him?’
’What do you mean, "If Nanjiang doesn’t want you"? Tang Changhong would gladly give his own position to Shen Xin.’
’The problem is, Shen Xin doesn’t want to come.’
"Alright, stop fooling around. There’s still a competition going on," Li Yinjiang said, shooing them away.
Not far away, Lv Yuan and the other judges thought, ’So you finally remember you’re still in a competition.’
The way they looked at Shen Xin was also a bit strange.
They knew very well that when designing the events, such as the highest difficulty for this particular task, they had never considered that any police dog could pass with a perfect score.
Yet Tian Kui had somehow managed to do it.
It was Chen Ran’s turn.
Shen Xin quickly shared his experience, reminding him that it was perfectly fine to go a bit slower and be more thorough in his search.
’The goal isn’t to be outstanding, but simply to avoid mistakes.’
Chen Ran nodded nervously, taking it all in, and led Xiaoba to the competition area.
That was easier said than done. After all, this was Level 3 difficulty.
In the end, Chen Ran took nearly twenty minutes, found six of the eight target groups, and located only two of the four hazardous items.
It was mainly because a couple of the "Lao Liu" were just too sneaky.
One of them had even gotten off the ground and hidden behind a pile of clutter on the top bunk of a bunk bed.
But compared to Ningshan, who had an "open-book test," his results were actually quite good.
And Shi Xianbo and the others immediately understood that a slower, more cautious approach was the key to success.
The remaining teams completed the event one after another.
One other team also managed a perfect score.
But given the difference in difficulty, Tian Kui was still the undisputed first place for this event.
Or rather, Nanjiang was first.
Shen Xin’s score counted for Nanjiang.
Wan Chao stood up and, along with the other leaders, applauded and praised every police dog that participated.
Every police dog that could appear here and compete was an excellent one, having endured countless hours of grueling training.
So, in Wan Chao’s heart, there were no losers.
"Of course, the best performance still goes to Tian Kui. Xiaoshen, well done."
Wan Chao gave him a thumbs-up from across the field.
He found it truly incredible that Tian Kui could be trained to such a level.
The competition wasn’t over yet; this was just one event in the public security and crime prevention category.
Lv Yuan immediately called for everyone to move to the next competition venue.
It was still within the K-9 base.
Wan Chao and the other leaders followed on foot.
As they walked, Wan Chao remarked with emotion, "Seriously, that Shen Xin is a real talent when it comes to training police dogs."
And there was a huge shortage of outstanding police dogs.
At that moment, Wan Chao was seriously tempted to transfer Shen Xin to the provincial department, putting him in charge of K-9 training and research into training techniques.
Lin Weinian nodded in agreement. Bringing Shen Xin to the provincial department was no different from bringing him to Ningshan.
"Forget it."
Just then, Wang Peidong spoke up. Looking at Shen Xin in the crowd ahead, he said, "Don’t you all forget, he’s a criminal investigator, and a good one at that."
Training police dogs was fine; Wang Peidong had no objection to that.
He had the ability, so using it from time to time was no problem.
But Shen Xin’s primary job was still as a criminal investigator, and he did that job very well.
Wang Peidong had seen the reports on the cases Shen Xin had solved, especially a few of the cold cases.
He was truly excellent, and his ability was undeniable.
Therefore, in his heart, Wang Peidong still preferred for Shen Xin to continue developing his career in criminal investigation.
Wang Peidong was Wan Chao’s superior. Now that he had spoken, how could Wan Chao dare to bring it up again?
But Lin Weinian dared to press the issue, saying with a smile, "Peidong, it’s true he’s a good investigator, but training police dogs doesn’t have to interfere. Why don’t you figure something out, transfer him to Ningshan, and let him continue as an investigator there? It’s all the same."
"No."
Wang Peidong waved his hand. "Director Lin, I can’t help you with that. If you want him, you’ll have to negotiate with Nanjiang yourself."
Lin Weinian thought, ’It’s not like I haven’t tried. That Zhao Hongjie just won’t let him go.’
’He wouldn’t let him go before, and he definitely won’t let him go now.’
