Chapter 102
When Lu Shiyu was going upstairs, she met Tang Zeyu who was about to go downstairs. Tang Zeyu asked her what the result was, and Lu Shiyu could only shake her head.
"My boss said he didn't notice it. I wanted to ask him for the surveillance footage, but he said it was broken."
Lu Shiyu glanced down and said, "I feel like he's lying. He definitely knows something."
"Since the person in charge arranged for us to stay at this hotel, I guess there must be something special about it."
But Tang Zeyu did not intend to find the hotel owner and torture him, but took Lu Shiyu back upstairs.
At this time, Yan Hong and Shao Xingyang had searched the two rooms and the corridor thoroughly, almost lifting up the floor to see if Chen Yunliang was hiding inside.
"I can't find him anywhere," Shaoxing Yang said, frustrated and impatient: "Where else could he go?"
Yan Hong sat on the bedside table and said, "I think he might not have left on his own, but was taken away by someone."
"How do you say that?"
Yan Hong raised her hand and pushed Chen Yunliang's backpack, and the things inside poured out.
"Chen Yunliang would never leave his bag open on the bed. This violated two of his rules. The only possibility is that someone else touched his bag, but Chen Yunliang would not allow strangers to touch his things. So the most likely conclusion is that Chen Yunliang was kidnapped."
Yan Hong's speculation coincided with Lu Shiyu's. It was not difficult to think of this, but the difficult part was to figure out who kidnapped him.
"Is it the person in charge?" Shao Xingyang quickly rejected it again: "No, if it was him, he could have ordered his men to kidnap us all at once. What's the point of only kidnapping Chen Yunliang?"
When he was at a loss, Lu Shiyu suddenly thought of the letter Professor Chen gave them.
"Tang Zeyu, where is the letter from Professor Chen?"
"Have you found anything here?"
Tang Zeyu handed the envelope to Lu Shiyu, but Lu Shiyu did not open it after taking it. Instead, he rubbed it gently with his fingertips.
You can clearly feel that there is still paper inside the envelope, which means that there is indeed a letter written by Professor Chen himself.
The original purpose of Professor Chen giving them this letter was to allow them to meet the base commander smoothly, but it was completely useless when they entered the Dawn Base. The people at the Dawn Base did not stop them much. Not only did they bring them into the base, they also arranged accommodation for them.
Looking back now, it seemed a little weird how smoothly it went. Who would be so polite to a group of outsiders of unknown origin?
Perhaps their friendliness from the beginning was a disguise to deceive them and lower their vigilance.
Lu Shiyu did not think that they came with malicious intent. Just like Shao Xingyang said, he was already on their territory. As long as they wanted, they could catch them in the trap. There was no need to be hypocritical with them. Lu Shiyu was more inclined to believe that the other party did not trust them.
"Yan Hong, can you find the base commander's residence?"
"Eh? Me?" Yan Hong thought for a moment and said, "I don't know where she lives, but as the base commander, she must need to go to the office every day. I can try to find her office location."
"That's good. Take this," Lu Shiyu handed the envelope to Yan Hong and instructed, "Find the base commander as quickly as you can and give this letter to her. Hurry."
"So anxious? This is... a letter from Professor Chen," Yan Hong said, puzzled. "We've already entered the Dawn Base and have an appointment with the base commander this afternoon. This letter is no longer necessary."
Lu Shiyu shook his head and said firmly, "I can't explain the specifics, but this letter must be delivered to the base commander, otherwise our fate will be uncertain."
"It's that serious."
Yan Hong glanced at Tang Zeyu. Tang Zeyu leaned against the door frame and nodded slightly, indicating that he should do as Lu Shiyu said.
"Then I'll go now."
Yan Hong felt pressured after hearing Lu Shiyu's words. After carefully putting the envelope away, she jumped out of the window and moved quickly on the roof of the next house. Soon her figure could no longer be seen.
Shaoxing Yang was still out of the situation, feeling like he might have missed something.
"So that person in charge is really a problem? Damn, then should we just arrest him and make him release Chen Yunliang?"
Lu Shiyu sighed: "I don't know what's going on, but it doesn't seem that simple."
In fact, her command was very risky. She had no solid evidence at hand, but she had a strong feeling telling her that she should do so. However, her uneasiness did not disappear after sending Yan Hong out, and she no longer knew what to do next.
Tang Zeyu went downstairs to ask the hotel owner for a map of the Dawn Base. This time the owner did not refuse and directly gave the map to Tang Zeyu.
The layout of the Dawn Base is compact and reasonable, and it seems that a lot of effort has been put into saving space.
Located in the center of the Dawn Base is the base's Central General Affairs Office. There are direct buses to all areas of the Dawn Base, so it is not difficult to find. However, whether Yan Hong can get through the heavy guards and find the base commander depends on his personal ability.
Shaoxing Yang looked at the extensive transportation routes and felt dizzy.
"Is it true that Yan Hong won't get lost along the way?"
"No way, she was walking on the rooftop. How could she get lost if there was no road?"
Tang Zeyu held his forehead with his hand: "Don't tell jokes at a time like this."
"Oh, right, business," Lu Shiyu said, "I think the innkeeper is the biggest suspect. Even if he's not the mastermind, he's at least an accomplice."
Shaoxing Yang agreed: "I also think the hotel owner is a big suspect. His motive is too obvious."
Lu Shiyu glanced at him and asked, "What's your motive?"
Could it be that the hotel owner is trying to take credit from the person in charge and is therefore using any means necessary?
Shaoxing Yang Shenqi said seriously, "Perhaps this is actually a black shop. They accept guests during the day and commit murder and arson at night. They will target guests from far away and kill them for money. This time, he targeted us, the newcomers, but because there were more of us, he had to take advantage of our absence this morning to kidnap Chen Yunliang."
"Next, he'll have his accomplices pretend to be robbers and call us, demanding a ransom or else they'll kill us!"
Lu Shiyu's expression instantly fell after hearing this.
"Yan Hong is right. You really should read fewer novels."
"What! Is my reasoning wrong?!"
Bullshit.
Lu Shiyu turned to look at Tang Zeyu: "What about you? What do you think?"
Tang Zeyu pondered for a moment and said, "I want to wait and see."
"Wait? What do you want to wait for?"
"Waiting for the meeting in the afternoon," Tang Zeyu looked up at Lu Shiyu and said, "The person in charge said that our meeting with the base commander is scheduled for the afternoon, and no one will be waited for after the time."
"That's true," Lu Shiyu asked, "but do you really think we can meet the base commander smoothly?"
"We'll have to wait until then. I think if he doesn't want us to meet the base commander, he can just say his application wasn't approved. There's no need to go through so much trouble."
Lu Shiyu: "Maybe it's because we told him we were diplomats, so he thought he had to receive us."
"However, he should have already verified whether the two bases had any diplomatic activities. Logically, he should have known we were lying, so why didn't he expose us?"
"Maybe he wants to see what we are going to do."
After all, there are only three of them now, and no matter what, they can't make much noise.
Outside the surveillance footage, the person in charge sat in a chair, looking up at the three people discussing him in the room.
"It's quite clever, but it's a little lacking."
The person in charge picked up the teacup, took a sip, and spat out the tea leaves around his mouth.
"Where's the one who ran away?"
The technician's fingers kept tapping on the keyboard, his eyes moved back and forth, and his brows were furrowed as if he had encountered a very difficult problem.
"Strange, this person's speed is abnormally fast."
The image on the big screen shrank, revealing countless small screens. Several of these small screens were selected, enlarged, and displayed in front of several people.
The screen showed a bustling street, no different from before, but the technician dragged the progress bar to the left and finally stopped at a certain point in the picture.
"Captain, look here," a white arrow pointed to a dark figure on the screen, "This is the woman who ran away."
"Hmm?" The person in charge raised his eyebrows slightly, seeming very interested.
"Her speed was so fast that even the surveillance equipment couldn't accurately capture her. She couldn't even make out a human form; she was just a black shadow."
The technicians captured the moment when Yan Hong moved from the screen to disappeared. The whole process took less than 0.1 seconds. The technicians slowed down the process several times before they could barely make out a dark shadow passing by.
"The speed is comparable to that of a high-speed vehicle. This is definitely not something a normal person can do. I suspect she is a person with special abilities."
"A superpower? Interesting. What are the superpowers from the Dawn Base doing here?"
The technician ignored the person in charge's mumbling and continued to retrieve and amplify the surveillance footage along the way.
On the screen, Yan Hong's figure disappeared without a trace in an instant, like a black spot on an electronic screen.
"At this rate, she'll be at the Central General Affairs Office by noon," the technician said, typing away on his keyboard. "Should we intercept her?"
The person in charge chuckled: "Can you stop it?"
The technician was silent for a few seconds, then said, "If weapons are used..."
The person in charge waved his hand and said, "Alright, stop doing that. That's not human. If someone uses weapons, they'll be caught, but what about the residents living nearby? If it's not your home, you won't feel bad, right?"
The technician lowered his head in shame. Fortunately, the person in charge had no intention of chasing him to lecture him. After taking a sip of tea, he said, "Since the plan has changed, let's move the meeting up."
"It would be best if we could get rid of them without firing a shot."
*
On the high wall of Dawn Base
The fierce wind ripped at Guan Wei's coat without mercy, as if a ghost was going to tear his clothes off. Guan Wei sat on the edge of the wall, not worrying at all that he might be blown off by the strong wind at any time.
Lina climbed up the wall with great effort. Just as she was about to stand up, she was frightened by the wind and quickly squatted down, fearing that she would fall down if she lost her balance.
After she had completely stabilized herself, Lina stood up straight and walked towards Guan Wei.
"I heard you arrested that shady middleman and sentenced him to a serious crime without even a trial."
"Well, is there any problem?" Guan Wei didn't care and continued to look at the scenery.
Lina pinched her fingers and said, "You locked him up without even confirming with him whether what I said was true or not."
"Do you want me to ask him whether what you said is true or not?"
Lina choked, and seemed to not understand what the purpose of running over to ask this question was.
Seeing that she didn't reply for a long time, Guan Wei turned around and said, "I don't care how much of what you say is true and how much is false. That person is indeed not a good person. You will also accept long-term labor reform. The result is no different."
Lina asked teasingly, "But if I'm not as innocent as I say..."
"No one is as innocent as they think," Guan Wei said. "People always try to glorify themselves, thinking that all mistakes are others' and that they are victims. They make excuses for themselves and portray themselves as pitiful to win public sympathy."
Lina didn't know if he was mocking her, but she heard him continue, "It's the job of the police and judges to find out the truth and clear people's names. I'm not responsible for helping people solve cases."
"Besides, with your talent and abilities, it would be a waste to spend your whole life as a mercenary."
Guan Wei stood up, the strong wind ruffling his hair. Lina vaguely heard him say, "You still have a chance to return to the right path, so I'm willing to help you."
Lina was just a little touched when Guan Wei became serious again for only three seconds: "So you should just work honestly for me to pay off your debt, reform yourself and become a new person."
Lina: “…”
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