Chapter 7 “Mr. Liang…”
Ji Ying picked up her phone.
"I'm going out for a bit. Don't tell anyone. I'll be back soon."
"Then you..." Be careful.
Before Aunt Yang could finish speaking, her figure had already disappeared at the door of the ward.
She went to the cake shop where the accident happened that day.
The police issued an accident report yesterday, and Chen Yuan is negotiating compensation with the shop owner on her behalf.
Ji Ying walked into the store, where most of the interior remained as it was after the explosion.
The shop owner, a young man, was cleaning.
"This place is closed now. Come back tomorrow to get a refund for your membership card," the young man said without looking up.
"Let me take a look," Ji Ying said.
The young man turned to look at her.
He wasn't in the store when the explosion happened, so he didn't know Ji Ying.
Ji Ying pointed to a bloodstain on the ground, "I was lying here at the time."
The young man, shocked, nodded repeatedly, "Go ahead and look."
This shop has been open for less than three months, but the taste is really good, so Ji Ying became a member and comes to the shop to buy cakes every other day.
That very afternoon, with a loud bang, she was sent to the brink of death.
In the last moments before she regained consciousness, she called Gu Yanchen, but he did not answer.
For days she had been unwilling to recall this dangerous experience, but standing here, needing to follow the clues and find evidence that it was not an accident, she finally had to grit her teeth and face the past.
But when she pieced together the events into a timeline, a chill ran down her spine.
When she called Gu Yanchen, he probably hadn't boarded the plane yet, but in the end he still entrusted himself to the medical team and went to Aalborg.
It's already clear who's more important and who's less important.
Even though he agreed to stay this time, his heart had already flown to that woman's side.
Ji Ying's eyes dimmed.
"I have no idea why that apprentice was cooking instant noodles on a gas stove in the shop. That's not allowed."
The young man felt he had been wronged.
Ji Ying came to her senses; the gas stove couldn't be that powerful.
"What happened to your apprentice after the incident?"
"Sigh... He came to work at my shop, but his ID card was fake when he applied. He ran away after the incident, probably because he was afraid of losing money."
“Madam,” the young man didn’t want to miss this opportunity, “I just started my business. The money to open the shop was raised by my parents. I haven’t even made back my investment before this happened. Could you please consider the compensation? I really can’t afford it.”
Ji Ying did not answer him, but carefully searched for clues among the fragments on the ground.
She didn't know how much time had passed. Suddenly, she discovered a piece of battery remnant that resembled ordinary electronic waste.
To an unprofessional person, this is just a piece of junk.
However, she was once a top student in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering. Although she married Gu Yanchen and lived a life of being a wife and mother, she has paid close attention to cutting-edge research reports on new energy battery development in recent years.
She immediately recognized it as the combustion debris of a special high-energy battery. Because it was unstable and had an extremely powerful explosion, it was abandoned during the laboratory research and development process.
By analyzing the proportions of the ingredients, we can find out where it came from and who handled it.
Then we'll know who killed her.
"I patronized your establishment, yet you couldn't guarantee my safety. You mismanaged your employees, but you expect me to sympathize with you and waive compensation. Am I just supposed to suffer this for nothing?"
The young man was speechless at Ji Ying's words.
Ji Ying carefully wrapped up the small piece of battery debris she had collected and walked out of the cake shop.
As soon as she reached the car, a pair of eyes locked onto her from a black SUV not far away.
A sixth sense of crisis awakened Ji Ying. She glanced at the car that was making her heart pound, forced herself to remain calm, opened the car door, and got into the driver's seat.
She's not dead, so why won't they give up?
Or did the other party suspect she had found a clue and want to silence her?
Or perhaps I'm overthinking it.
Ji Ying fastened her seatbelt, steadied herself, and started the engine. The SUV in the rearview mirror also started moving the moment she started the engine.
She suppressed the restlessness brought on by her rising adrenaline and slowly drove the car into traffic.
She was supposed to go back to the hospital, but she turned around and drove towards Chenxi Group.
Ji Ying had an undisputed thought in her mind: Gu Yanchen was there, and he could protect her.
But just after crossing an intersection, a car accident occurred ahead.
The black SUV following behind also sped up and caught up.
Ji Ying understood that they didn't want her to go to Gu Yanchen herself.
With no other option, she adjusted her direction again.
To get to Chenxi, you need to drive along a coastal highway.
Ji Ying sped up while dialing Gu Yanchen's number with trembling hands.
"The number you dialed is currently switched off."
Boom... Ji Ying's fingernails dug into the steering wheel, her mind went blank.
Gu Yanchen's private number is never turned off, unless...
While racing against the car behind her, she quickly found Chen Yuan's phone number.
Chen Yuan was in a meeting and didn't answer the phone for a long time.
Ji Ying glanced at the rearview mirror and saw that the other party was chasing from the side. She gripped the steering wheel tightly.
Chen Yuan assumed she had discovered that President Gu had left and was confronting him about it.
So he answered the phone and said, "Madam, it was Dr. Xiao who called suddenly. He said Miss Gu's condition is critical and he can't handle it, so Mr. Gu has decided to go to Aalborg at the last minute. But he said he'll be there soon..."
Before Chen Yuan could speak, the line went dead.
He thought Ji Ying was angry, so he took a deep breath and sighed, "When President Gu comes back, I'm afraid I won't be able to appease his wife until he's exhausted."
Ji Ying was violently struck by an off-road vehicle, causing the vehicle to shake violently and almost causing her to lose control of the steering wheel.
She felt the car being thrown off the road like a toy, crashing through the guardrail, and finally plunging into the sea.
Suddenly, the world around us fell silent.
The car slowly sank, accompanied by the cracking sound of the broken windows unable to withstand the pressure of the seawater.
Ji Ying gasped for breath, trying to take in the last impressions the world left on her.
Just then, someone knocked on her car door.
Ji Ying then noticed that there was someone in the water next to her.
The other person was wearing a miniature respirator, so their face was obscured, but they gestured for her to unbuckle her seatbelt.
Ji Ying did not hesitate and calmly did as instructed.
Once everything was ready, the other party used tools to smash the window violently.
The salty, icy seawater, carrying a tremendous force, rushed into the carriage instantly, even filling Ji Ying's mouth and nose, blurring her vision.
But at the same time, the other person grabbed her hand.
An irresistible, powerful force pulled her out of the sinking car.
Then the icy seawater was shaken off, and the sunlight made it impossible for her to open her eyes.
She was rescued and brought ashore.
"Mr. Liang..."
Someone stepped forward and quickly offered a towel to the man who had rescued her.
Ji Ying looked up and saw that the soaking wet black clothes clung to the person's body, outlining a powerful silhouette.
No need to look at his appearance or know about his family background, just his back view alone exudes an air of refined elegance.
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