Training at the Coffee Shop (Part 1)
When Xiang Kun went to the precinct to take care of business, he did not run there this time. He arrived at around 10:30.
Officer Chen was not there, so a civilian staff member was assigned to guide him through signing the documents.
The signing process was actually very quick, taking less than three minutes in total. Then the money was transferred over. He immediately confirmed through online banking that it had arrived—exactly twenty thousand yuan, tax-free.
However, before signing the documents, Xiang Kun had waited at the precinct for over twenty minutes. He did not find it boring or difficult at all. On the contrary, he wished Officer Chen's colleague would stay busy with his own work and make him wait a little longer.
Because during those twenty-odd minutes, Xiang Kun had used his hearing and sense of smell to "explore" the building he was in.
From conversations between officers, he learned that a group of drug users had been arrested the previous night. From those people, Xiang Kun detected scents different from those of ordinary people.
Some smelled of a peculiar burnt stench, while others had a metallic odor mixed with sweat. It seemed to be a smell unique to drug users.
Some of them seemed to be ill, carrying the scents of certain unusual human hormones.
Some were injured, with the smell of blood on them.
Others seemed to be in the throes of withdrawal. Every scent on their bodies had become stronger, and they were streaming with snot and tears while babbling incoherently.
Collecting these scents would help Xiang Kun better identify other people's actions and identities through smell in the future.
He had even considered identifying the distinctive scent of police officers, but later found that it was