I'm the Culinary God

She drove the car over, but felt that it wasn’t suitable at the alley entrance, so she moved forward a bit.

After stopping, she realized the car rear facing the alley entrance wasn’t easy to discern; the front facing the alley entrance would be better.

Thinking of this, she reversed the car, preparing to switch sides of the alley.

There was no one around, so Chen Yan felt a bit liberated.

She shifted into reverse gear and floored the accelerator, wanting to test the explosiveness of this Wrangler.

At that moment, the door of the second household in the alley opened, and a middle-aged man in his fifties with a buzz cut dashed out, running towards the alley entrance like a headless fly.

As he reached the alley entrance, he pulled out his phone and dialed a number, just about to connect, when the Wrangler crashed into him.

Chen Yan figured she might have hit someone and quickly braked, nearly scared out of her wits.

Could it be one of Ren Jie’s colleagues?

She hurriedly pushed open the door and got out, seeing a man in his fifties lying behind the car, not wearing a mask, and he didn’t look like Special Police.

"Are you okay?"

Chen Yan was traumatized by reversing.

Last time by the river, practicing reversing, she ended up hitting someone’s car. Luckily, that person was a fugitive; if it had been a regular citizen, who knows how it would have ended.

This time when driving the Wrangler, she originally just wanted to reverse but ended up hitting someone again.

Chen Yan wanted to check this person’s injuries but hesitated about calling 120, when Ren Jie jumped down from the nearby wall:

"Huh, saying the big fish got away, didn’t expect it to fall into your hands."

He jumped down from the wall, pulled a pair of handcuffs from his coat pocket, and handcuffed the hands of the unconscious man on the ground.

Big fish?

Chen Yan curiously asked:

"Is he Cao Liu?"

"Yes, today’s target. Didn’t expect the yards to be connected, with side doors between the houses, so we almost missed out."

As he spoke, Ren Jie took out a transparent evidence bag from his coat pocket, carefully placed Cao Liu’s phone inside, and checked again, finding three phones on the man.

Besides the phones, there was a wallet and a cardholder, with various bank cards from domestic and foreign banks, and the wallet contained some cash.

While inspecting, Special Police led a team out from inside.

The leader cursed and said:

"Didn’t expect the underground casino to be so rich. They bet not by counting the money, but by measuring the thickness, truly eye-opening."

Ren Jie curiously asked:

"Has the dirty money been confiscated?"

"Not yet, probably over ten million, and whether there’s hidden money places, we’ll need interrogation results... Since Cao Liu got caught by you, the credit goes to you."

Cao Liu had already woken up but could only groan, as his leg seemed to have been hit and fractured.

Two Special Police carried him to the car, planning to take him back for an examination first, then a thorough inquiry.

As for the casino members, after a simple inquiry, several implicated village officials were also arrested.

The village head’s brother-in-law who previously threatened Shang Weixing was included in those caught.

While they were arresting people, support from the Criminal Investigation Team arrived, arresting around thirty people including gamblers, and the dirty cash from the casino was being tallied with money counting machines, initially estimated at no less than fifteen million.

Additionally, five or six guns and hundreds of bullets were found in a small warehouse at the casino, which were more critical compared to the betting funds.

Ren Jie, having nothing else to do, found a pinhole camera behind the Guan Gong statue in the casino.

Following the lead from this camera, they discovered the internal surveillance system.

"Good job, didn’t expect things to go so smoothly."

Old Sun Head inspected the handgun and two backup magazines Ren Jie handed over, then submitted them to the Special Police Team.

The leader from the Criminal Investigation Team came over smilingly, saying to Ren Jie:

"With such a big case, you didn’t report to our Criminal Investigation Team, how did you end up involved with the Special Police Team?"

Ren Jie grinned:

"We initially came to scout, to get a feel of the casino’s situation. Didn’t expect luck to be on our side, catching Cao Liu red-handed counting the betting money."

Today was just filled with unexpected success, although using the Special Police team for gambling busts seemed overkill, the amount was over ten million, plus illegal military arms, making it a major case.

The Special Police Team’s leader was Old Sun Head’s former apprentice, who patted Ren Jie’s shoulder and said:

"You and your wife did a great job today; commendation is guaranteed. We’re not like some units that secretly take others’ credit for themselves."

Chen Yan felt he might as well directly mention the Haidian Criminal Investigation Unit by name.

As things concluded here, Ren Jie drove away from the village with Chen Yan.

Although there was much to do afterward, they couldn’t hog all the credit, others needed to share it, plus it was a hard-won day off, time to enjoy their own lives.

Working on unit matters during a holiday is truly a waste!

In the car, Chen Yan curiously muttered:

"At first, seeing you all armed to the teeth, I thought we might hear gunshots, but it ended just like that."

Ren Jie chuckled:

"Finding the weapons in the small warehouse had us sweating too, probably they were typically lax, believing they were protected from above, so they were careless... Of course, you could think of it in mystical terms, like maybe Dundun was blessing us?"