Chapter 237 The Revenge of Baicaotang?
The night wind howled, whipping her stray hairs wildly around her ears.
The strong, pungent smell of burning in the air grew stronger and stronger, almost suffocating people.
The entire night sky over Hainan Island was bathed in an eerie orange-red light from the towering flames.
The piercing sirens, the roar of fire trucks, and the panicked shouts of people intertwined to create a chaotic symphony of apocalypse.
When she arrived at the port, Pier 3 had become a living hell.
The enormous warehouse had been reduced to a charred skeleton, billowing black smoke and flames licking at everything that could burn.
Firefighters in fireproof suits and dockworkers in only vests are rushing towards the inferno again and again with water hoses and sandbags, trying to stop the fire from spreading.
The entire dock was in complete chaos.
Su Yue didn't approach. She threw her bicycle aside and went around to a relatively secluded high ground downwind.
Unlike the others, she didn't panic or impulsively rush to help.
She simply stood there, her clear eyes fixed on the raging inferno, observing the direction of the fire and the color of the smoke.
Something's not right.
Something's really wrong.
In a typical warehouse fire, the flames should be orange or reddish-orange.
However, the fire in front of us had several different ignition points, and the flames were all in an extremely abnormal, eerie blue-green color.
This color...
Su Yue's brain was working at lightning speed.
This color of flame can only be produced under the action of certain chemical accelerants!
This is no accident!
This was a premeditated arson attack!
"Su Yue!"
Gu Beixiao caught up with him, panting heavily, his face full of anxiety and worry.
Why are you running so fast! It's too dangerous here! Come back with me right now!
He reached out to pull her.
Su Yue seemed not to hear, her eyes still fixed on the firelight, her mind racing with a frenzy of chemical formulas colliding and combining.
“Gu Beixiao,” she suddenly spoke.
"what?"
"Use all your connections immediately to go to the port's dispatch center and retrieve for me all the vehicle records for the hour before the explosion—not a single one can be missing!"
Gu Beixiao was stunned by her frighteningly calm demeanor.
What kind of time is this? Instead of thinking about how to minimize the losses, crying, or being afraid, she actually wants to check the vehicle records?
But when he looked into Su Yue's eyes, there was no trace of panic, only a cold, sharp glint.
He nodded almost unconsciously: "Okay. But what should we investigate?"
"Pay attention to all trucks registered as transporting 'seafood,' 'fertilizer,' or 'chemical raw materials.'"
Su Yue slowly exhaled, each word sounding as if it had been pulled from an ice cellar.
"This fire was deliberately set. The accelerant was a mixture of potassium chlorate and red phosphorus."
"These kinds of things are very difficult to obtain in China, where arms control is extremely strict. But they have one characteristic: they can be easily disguised as fertilizers, disinfectants, or even fish medicine for preserving seafood for transportation."
Gu Beixiao was completely stunned.
He looked at the woman in front of him, whose figure appeared particularly thin in the firelight.
She was making deductions that would send chills down anyone's spine, yet her logic was frighteningly clear, well-organized, and without the slightest bit of redundancy.
At this moment, Gu Beixiao truly realized that the energy contained within his sister-in-law, whom his brother doted on and whom the Huo family cherished like the apple of their eye, was far more terrifying than he had imagined.
That's not the kind of energy an ordinary woman possesses.
It is a power powerful enough to stir up the winds and clouds and overturn the world.
He dared not delay any longer, immediately turned around, and ran towards the port's office building.
The energy of the Gu family was brought to its fullest potential at this moment.
Less than ten minutes later, Gu Beixiao ran back to Su Yue's side with a note he had just copied from the dispatch room.
"Found it!" He handed the slip of paper filled with vehicle information to Su Yue, panting as he said, "An hour before the explosion, a total of seven trucks that matched your description entered and left the port."
"Six of them have matching drivers and cargo, and the people are still at the port cooperating with the investigation."
"There's only one car..."
Gu Beixiao paused, then pointed to the last line of text on the note.
"This vehicle was registered as a return transport vehicle for 'Baicaotang,' and it was supposed to be taking a batch of expired medicinal residue to the suburbs for landfill. It had just left the port twenty minutes before the explosion and its whereabouts are now unknown."
Baicaotang......
The moment those three words came into view.
Su Yue smiled.
That smile, under the towering flames, appeared incredibly eerie and chilling.
So it was them.
Those dogs whose spines she had personally broken, who should have been crawling on the ground like dogs, barely clinging to life.
They actually had the audacity to retaliate against her in such a crazy and brutal way.
They attacked her, set fire to her house, and destroyed everything she owned.
I want her to go bankrupt, I want her to be burdened with huge debts, I want her to fall from grace and never be able to rise again.
good.
That's really great.
"You want me dead?"
Su Yue murmured softly, her nails digging deep into her flesh, bringing a sharp, stinging pain.
She slowly raised her head and looked at the sea of fire that seemed to devour the entire world. All her emotions had faded from her beautiful eyes, leaving only boundless, chilling killing intent.
"Let's see who goes to hell first!"
The next day, the fire at the port was finally extinguished, but another invisible fire broke out in the military medical equipment factory on Hainan Island.
The entire factory was shrouded in a deathly despair.
The workers gathered in twos and threes, their faces no longer showing the enthusiasm and pride of the past, but only fear and confusion.
"Have you heard? Our factory is probably really going to be finished this time."
"Millions of dollars worth of goods! All gone in a fire! How much compensation will we have to pay?"
"Losing money is a minor issue; the key problem is the loss of credibility! Who will dare to give us overseas orders in the future?"
Rumors of impending bankruptcy spread like a virus throughout every corner of the factory.
Chief Engineer He seemed to have aged ten years overnight.
His eyes were bloodshot, his lips were chapped and peeling, and he sat blankly in his office, clutching a preliminary loss report in his hand, the paper crumpled beyond recognition.
The core technicians next to him also looked ashen-faced.
"I'm so sorry to everyone... I've let down Comrade Su Yue's trust..." Chief Engineer He's voice was extremely hoarse, filled with deep self-reproach. "Such a big thing has happened, and as the factory director, I bear an unshirkable responsibility. I will apologize to everyone and to the organization at the meeting later!"
Just then, the conference room door was pushed open.
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