Chapter 174 174 But slippery like a fox

Fortunately, before Guan Xia and the others arrived at Wu Xingxian's company, they discovered the trace of the real Wu Yingze.

Guan Xia opened the surveillance video that could capture the main entrance of the bar and kept scrolling through the progress bar. Although Pang Le and the others saw the scene as extremely chaotic, with people everywhere covering their faces and fleeing, thanks to the plug-in provided by the system, Guan Xia easily recognized a figure in the crowd.

Guan Xia decisively hit the pause button, breathed a sigh of relief, and pointed at a tall figure half-bent over, struggling to run out. "That's him, Wu Yingze. He really did disguise himself and escaped among the crowd at the very beginning of the fire."

Guan Xia glanced at the time on the surveillance video in the upper left corner, then raised her wrist to check the current time. With a hint of anxiety, she said, "It's been an hour and a half since he left the bar. I'm afraid he'll be out of Shangshuang City before we even get there. He really planned it well, perfectly giving us a time difference and escaping before the police set up the checkpoint."

Aside from Lu Tingfeng, who was driving, everyone else leaned forward to look at the computer screen. After clearly seeing the figure Guan Xia was pointing at, they asked in surprise, "Are you sure it's him? Aside from the height, none of the other physical characteristics or build match at all."

In the eyes of Pang Le and the others, Guan Xia's confirmed figure was indeed a bit outrageous.

In fact, Guan Xia did not expect that Wu Yingze could be so exaggerated and so bold. He was a tall man who walked a little sloppily, but he actually disguised himself as a woman when he was fleeing. He even wore a dress, high heels, and a black wig. Even when he rushed out with his waist half bent, the unique curves of a woman could be clearly seen.

Guan Xia was a little hesitant to recognize it at first, but the system gave her an intuitive reminder, so she had to believe it even if she didn't want to.

"That's him," Guan Xia said again with certainty. "My intuition isn't wrong. Judging from the direction he was walking, I recalled that it should be the parking lot closest to the bar. Who has the surveillance video of the parking lot?"

Zhong Xiaoyu, who was sitting next to Guan Xia, raised her hand and said, "Here, I remember. I was watching the surveillance video just now and I remembered this figure. She was so tall, especially in high heels. I vaguely remember her getting into a black car."

Zhong Xiaoyu spoke briskly, constantly scrolling back the progress bar. After two or three minutes, she tapped the keyboard sharply, tilted the computer screen toward Guan Xia, and said excitedly, "I found it. I said I had an impression of it. It was this figure, just as I remembered. He got into a black car and drove away. He was in the driver's seat, which means he was alone. Judging from the direction the car drove away, it should be heading north to south on Guigang Middle Road."

Guan Xia glanced down and confirmed that the figure was indeed Wu Yingze, so he called Xu Nian and described Wu Yingze's disguised appearance very concisely, and then reported the license plate number of the car he drove to escape.

Finally, they found Wu Yingze's trace. The people in the car were happy and relieved.

Ji An couldn't help but look back at Guan Xia from the passenger seat and said, "It's a good thing you came, otherwise we wouldn't have known that Wu Yingze had escaped. It seems that Wu Xingxian might have escaped as well."

Guan Xia casually closed the computer and looked up to ask Ji An, "Have those colleagues who are responsible for keeping an eye on Wu Xingxian reported back any news? Is there any trouble over there, like a bar on fire, that could easily allow someone to take advantage of the situation?"

Ji An shook his head. "I just called about ten minutes ago, and everything is normal. Wu Xingxian is still working overtime at the company. We have people guarding the entrances and exits of the building where Wu Xingxian's company is located. Unless there's a commotion like what happened at the bar just now, he won't be able to leave quietly even in disguise."

Guan Xia thought about it carefully, but there were still some things that did not make sense. No matter how hard she tried, her mind just became confused. After a few minutes, she had to give up thinking and could only hope to solve all the mysteries after catching Wu Yingze.

It was already late at night, so there were not many cars on the road. Even though the bar was a bit far from Wu Xingxian's company, they arrived there in just over 20 minutes.

After parking the car on the side of the road, Ji An pointed to the still brightly lit building across the street and said, "That's the building where Wu Xingxian's company is located. Their headquarters isn't very large, with a total of over 300 employees, occupying the top three floors of the building. Do you see that window? The fifth large floor-to-ceiling window from the bottom is Wu Xingxian's office."

Guan Xia looked in the direction of Ji An's finger, and based on the keywords she provided, she easily found Wu Xingxian's office. Coincidentally, a figure walked to the window and looked out from above.

"That's Wu Xingxian," Ji An continued. "He has a habit of looking out the window every two hours on average, so it's very easy for the task force members following him to identify him."

Guan Xia raised her head and squinted her eyes, trying to see the figure in front of the floor-to-ceiling window clearly, but it was too far away. Apart from vaguely seeing the man's body shape, she could hardly see his appearance at all.

Guan Xia was just about to ask Ji An for a telescope, but before she opened her mouth, she suddenly had an idea.

In her opinion, Wu Xingxian was suspected to be related to that criminal organization. Even if he had nothing to do with Kangjian Physical Examination Center, he was still a criminal who had taken countless lives. If one looked at it from a systematic perspective, there must be a lot of blood-red thread-like things entangled in his soul.

Thinking of this, Guan Xia decisively called up the system from his mind and communicated with it: I want to share your vision for 10 seconds.

With an aura strength of more than 70,000 to ensure her safety, Guan Xia didn't feel bad at all for spending tens or hundreds of dollars.

Judging from the fact that the system can be upgraded through the halo value, it is not only important to Guan Xia, but also to the system, so the system immediately started vision sharing without any nonsense.

The wonderful scene that she had experienced a few hours ago unfolded before Guan Xia's eyes again. Without caring about emotion or novelty, Guan Xia immediately looked towards the place where Wu Xingxian had just stood. As expected, Wu Xingxian's soul was not only wrapped with a few strands of blood red, but was actually surrounded by blood red. At first glance, it looked a bit like the shell on the surface of Guan Xia's soul. Among the countless light balls representing human souls, it was very conspicuous, just like a bunch of white balloons mixed with a deep red balloon. Guan Xia couldn't take her eyes off it at all.

However, apart from Wu Xingxian, Guan Xia did not miss several other soul light balls that were not as popular but equally eye-catching. With Wu Xingxian as the center point, she tried hard to memorize the locations of the other soul light balls. As soon as the system's shared vision disappeared, she immediately looked at Ji An and asked, "Sister Ji, who else is working overtime at Wu Xingxian's company tonight?"

Ji An thought for a moment and said, "Previously, Xu Nian and the others investigated and found out that Wu Xingxian's company is planning to auction a piece of land. They've been working overtime every night these past few days. Besides Wu Xingxian, there are also his project team, secretarial team, and several department managers and vice presidents."

There are quite a lot of people here. Just looking from such a distance through the system's shared vision, it is really difficult to tell who those soul light balls that are also glowing red are.

Guan Xia was not disappointed even though her plan failed. After all, they would have plenty of time to deal with Wu Xingxian after Wu Yingze was caught. By then, they would conduct a comprehensive investigation and none of his criminal accomplices would be able to escape.

It’s good that the system has been upgraded. This plug-in is even more outrageous and more practical.

Guan Xia watched the figure standing in front of the French window gradually disappear before she spoke to Zhong Xiaoyu and the others, "I've confirmed it's Wu Xingxian himself. It seems Wu Yingze has truly given up on his father."

"That sounds a bit strange," Pang Le said with a frown. "In some of the crime dramas I've watched before, the fathers always used their sons as pawns and gave up at the slightest provocation. But in the case we're investigating, it's the other way around. But it seems that Wu Yingze, this son in his early thirties, is the biggest boss of the criminal organization centered around the Kangjian Physical Examination Center."

"What I can't figure out now is why he ran away," Lu Tingfeng was still thinking about that question, "Or maybe he had something he had to take out, but if he delayed any longer, he might not be able to take it out."

"Evidence?" Zhong Xiaoyu thought for a moment and said, "But wouldn't it be easier to destroy it than to take it out?"

Lu Tingfeng just had an intuition, but he couldn't put his finger on what it was, so he didn't answer and shook his head thoughtfully.

Ji An had an idea and suddenly said, "Maybe it's not evidence of a crime and cannot be destroyed. We can only take it away."

After Ji An's reminder, Guan Xia also thought of something. After pondering for a few minutes, she perked up and said in unison with Lu Tingfeng, "Organs."

Pang Le then said with sudden realization, "If it's a human organ, then it makes sense. It's very likely that the buyer couldn't wait any longer. The longer it drags on, the worse the situation will be for Wu Yingze. Plus, we're keeping a close eye on him. Any rash action will only lead to us finding a flaw, and Wu Yingze will be ready to escape anyway. We might as well kill two birds with one stone."

Although it was just speculation, Guan Xia thought it was extremely reasonable, so she decisively took out her phone and called Xu Nian again. While she was talking to Xu Nian, Guan Xia faintly heard someone sigh, "Now I just hope Wu Yingze is carrying a person, not just an organ."

Guan Xia couldn't help but distract herself and prayed in her heart, hoping that if it was a person, they could still find a way to save it. If it was just an organ, then all they would find was a corpse.

After confirming that Wu Xingxian and Peng Yuanwei were under close police surveillance, Guan Xia and the others did not waste any more time. Instead, after reporting to the task force, they simply followed the escape route that Wu Yingze had been found to have taken and drove straight out of Shangshuang City.

According to the latest news from the task force, after leaving the bar, Wu Yingze drove neither to the airport, the high-speed rail station, nor the passenger station. Instead, he drove through an overpass, a suburban main road, a provincial road, and a two-lane road with very low camera coverage, and drove into a small town with a small population 32 kilometers away from Shangshuang City. Now, some police officers from the task force have chased him.

When Guan Xia and her friends heard the news, their car had already driven out of Shangshuang City.

Everyone, including Guan Xia, was a little surprised. According to their speculation, Wu Yingze was carrying things that could not pass the security check, and he was in disguise, so he could only escape by car. So he should have raced against time to escape as far away as possible before the police reacted, instead of escaping from Shangshuang City and then going to a small town with a relatively less dense population but still full of cameras.

Everyone was lost in thought. Lu Tingfeng was the first to speak up, "Based on Wu Yingze's current cautiousness and cunning, perhaps that small town is his next move. He might change cars there, or use some other deceptive tactics to change his image once again, further reducing the possibility of the police tracking him."

"That makes sense," Guan Xia cheered up. "Then let's hurry over there. If he's really disguised himself again, we'll need to use the surveillance cameras in that town to determine the direction he fled."

As it turned out, things were exactly as Lu Tingfeng had guessed. Their car was still more than ten kilometers away from the town when Xu Nian called.

The task force followed the surveillance video to find the vehicle that Wu Yingze drove when he fled, but they only found the car and not the person. According to the testimony of witnesses, they did see a tall woman drive the car into the town and go to a small supermarket to buy some things, but no one noticed when he came out of the supermarket or which direction he went.

The task force is now urgently retrieving the surveillance video from the town to find out Wu Yingze's next movements. At the same time, the technical team has been searching for evidence on the car that Wu Yingze had previously driven.

Upon hearing this news, Zhong Xiaoyu couldn't help but slap her thigh. "This Wu Yingze is really cunning. He's young, but he's as slippery as a fox. If Guan Xia hadn't gone over to take a look and figured out he was trying to escape, by the time we really realized the person we were watching was just an imposter, he would have disappeared without a trace."

Guan Xia was actually a little relieved. Perhaps it was the system's intuition that always made her feel uneasy, so she noticed the abnormality as soon as she arrived. Otherwise, when she helped the task force track down the whereabouts of the missing persons and discovered that Wu Yingze had been replaced, even if she relied on the system's plug-in to track him, it would be difficult to really catch him back.

After driving for nearly half an hour, Guan Xia and the others finally arrived at the place where Wu Yingze was last seen.

After getting out of the car, Guan Xia first walked around the vehicle abandoned by Wu Yingze twice, focusing on the trunk.

Before she could figure out what was going on, Xu Nian came over and said, "I asked the technical team, and they found bloodstains in the corner of the trunk. Judging by the degree of oxidation and coagulation of the blood, it must have been left there in the past two days."

Guan Xia immediately understood, "In other words, our speculation is correct. Wu Yingze's goal is not just to escape, but also to take important people out with him."

Although Guan Xia was talking about important people, she knew in her heart that for Wu Yingze, what was important was not the person, but the organs in that person's body. She didn't know how important the buyer was, but now that the situation was at its peak, Wu Yingze had to find a way to transport the organs out.

Guan Xia knew what he wanted to know, so he stopped staring at the vehicle and turned around to look around, then looked up at the location of the nearby surveillance camera.

Unfortunately, this place was obviously found by Wu Yingze a long time ago. It looks desolate, but there are certain buildings to block the view. There are also gaps between the buildings to form alleys for people to pass through. In addition, these buildings are obviously unable to continue operating and are gradually declining, so the environment is very poor and there are few surveillance cameras. At least Guan Xia searched carefully and didn't find a single one.

Seeing this, Xu Nian added, "I've also asked my colleagues in the task force about the surveillance. They contacted the local police station when they set out from Shangshuang City, and the officers there immediately took action. Unfortunately, they only found the vehicle, not the person. Later, they assigned some officers to look for witnesses, while others retrieved surveillance footage. But the fact is, as we've seen, this area was originally going to be developed into the town's commercial center, but it didn't develop well. It can be said that it couldn't make ends meet. So, starting with some small businesses, everyone gave up on it one after another, until a shopping mall closed a few years ago, and this area was completely abandoned. Over time, there weren't many surveillance cameras left to use."

Guan Xia's expression was calm, and he was not surprised at all. After all, Wu Yingze had been operating in Shangshuang City for so many years, and with a terrifying number of peripheral members, it was not surprising that he was very familiar with every tree and blade of grass around him.