Chapter 179 Kidnapping, Bai Shu's Thunderous Fury
Inside the temporary laboratory in Courtyard No. 1, the air was filled with a mixed smell of chemical reagents.
Wearing a white lab coat, Su Wantang was intently staring at the microscope, trying to isolate the deeper toxin structure from the drug sample given to her by Liang Hongbo. Finding it would allow her to formulate the true antidote.
The night was very quiet.
Lu Jingyan has been gone for three days.
Without telephones or telegrams, it was like a stone sinking into the sea, leaving no echo.
Su Wantang's fingertips tapped unconsciously on the cold lab table, and she felt inexplicably empty inside.
I miss him.
The thought had barely crossed her mind when she forcefully suppressed it. Longing is the most useless emotion; it only makes one weak. And right now, the last thing she needed was weakness.
Just then.
"Bang!"
The laboratory door was suddenly kicked open from the outside, accompanied by a gust of wind.
Qin Zheng's face, which was always as cold as an ice sculpture, was now filled with solemnity and urgency. He even forgot the rule of knocking and rushed in.
"Young Miss, something's happened!"
Su Wantang slowly raised her head, shifting her gaze from the microscope to Qin Zheng. She didn't speak, simply looking at him quietly; that silence itself was a form of pressure.
Qin Zheng's breath hitched. He forced himself to calm down and lowered his voice to a whisper, but could not hide the horror in it: "The bald-headed man... was captured by mistake."
Su Wantang's pupils contracted almost imperceptibly.
"Just an hour ago, in that tenement building where he lives," Qin Zheng reported quickly.
"When my men arrived, the stairwell was covered in blood, and the person was gone. The perpetrator was extremely professional and efficient, leaving almost no useful clues at the scene. It was like the work of someone from the military."
He paused, then took something wrapped in a handkerchief from his pocket and carefully unfolded it.
"We found this only in the gap of the door frame."
Inside the handkerchief is a small, exquisitely crafted metal cufflink shaped like an eagle spreading its wings as if about to take flight.
Eagle.
Eagle's Nest.
Su Wantang's gaze fell on the cufflink, her eyes gradually turning cold.
"Smack!"
A crisp cracking sound rang out sharply in the silent laboratory.
Qin Zheng looked up abruptly and saw that Su Wantang had crushed the expensive glass test tube in her hand to pieces!
Sharp shards of glass pierced deep into her fair and delicate palm, and bright red blood instantly gushed out, dripping from between her fingers and splashing onto the smooth ground, blooming into tiny, eerie blood flowers.
But she seemed completely oblivious to the pain, not even flinching.
A chilling, bone-chilling killing intent emanated from her slender body, and the temperature in the laboratory seemed to drop several degrees in that instant.
Qin Zheng subconsciously shivered.
Having been by Su Wantang's side for so long, he had witnessed her calm and strategic thinking, her ruthlessness when facing enemies, and even her rare vulnerability in Lu Jingyan's arms.
But he had never seen her like this before.
It was a kind of undisguised, pure rage and murderous intent that had reached the absolute bottom line.
Scrofula.
That street thug, that opportunistic local bully, that guy she used as a pawn and a dirty handyman.
Su Wantang knew very well that he was not a loyal subordinate.
But, that was her person.
She, Bai Shu, personally subdued and placed these pieces.
She can use him, she can put pressure on him, and she can even abandon him without hesitation once he loses his value.
But, he absolutely will not allow anyone to touch him!
Anyone who touches her is slapping her in the face!
Anyone who touches her is tearing apart the safety net she has painstakingly built!
In this cannibalistic world, she carefully and meticulously wove a protective shell for herself, step by step.
Qin Zheng is her shield, Du Kangnian is her eyes, and the bald-headed man and his gang of thugs are the outermost layer of tentacles she lays out to probe the way and scout for potential dangers.
Now, someone has severed her tentacles, and in this bloody way, has issued the most direct provocation to her.
This was a warning to her: if they could find the man with the scabies head, they could find her!
The intense desire to "live" instantly transforms into the intense hatred of the threat.
Su Wantang slowly raised her bleeding hand, looking at the fragments and blood in her palm, her eyes as cold as Siberian ice.
She turned around, pulled a roll of gauze from the first-aid kit, and without even looking at it, casually wrapped it around her hand a few times, her movements so rough that it was as if it weren't her own hand.
Blood quickly soaked through the white gauze.
"Young Miss, your hand..." Qin Zheng couldn't help but ask.
Su Wantang ignored him and walked straight to the huge sand table on the wall, which marked the entire topography of Beijing.
Her gaze swept across the sand table, finally settling on the red marker for "Renxin Clinic".
"Launch the 'Hound' program."
Her voice rang out, devoid of any emotion, like a piece of shattered ice, cold and hard.
Qin Zheng's body jolted violently.
"Hound" Project!
That was a top-level counter-tracking and counter-attack plan that Bai Shu had secretly prepared after subduing him. The manpower, resources, and finances involved in this plan were beyond imagination; it was a final trump card prepared for the most extreme circumstances, a plan to perish together with the enemy!
Now, for the sake of a bald head, the young lady has actually activated it!
"yes!"
Without the slightest hesitation, Qin Zheng straightened his body and replied in a deep voice.
He knew that the young lady's decision at this moment was not open to any questioning.
"Use all the resources we have hidden in the lower echelons of Beijing." Bai Shu spoke slowly.
"Those thugs, thieves, and all sorts of scoundrels, send them all out! I want the entire capital city to become an impenetrable net overnight!"
"Immediately contact Zheng Kai in Shanghai and have him use all his connections to provide remote support. I need to know the list and whereabouts of all suspicious individuals who have entered Beijing from the south or Hong Kong Island in the last three months! Especially those related to the German pharmaceutical company!"
"I want all the records of people who have entered and exited the 'Renxin Clinic' since its inception, not even the garbage collectors!"
A series of commands were issued clearly and decisively from her mouth.
As Qin Zheng listened, he memorized all the instructions, and cold sweat began to bead on his forehead.
He finally understood just how vast an underground kingdom the young lady had built was. This intricate network had long since permeated every capillary of the city.
Now, this dormant net is about to be completely awakened because of its master's fury.
"I don't care what methods you use, whether it's burning money or sacrificing lives."
Bai Shu turned around, her peach blossom eyes, now tinged with blood and murderous intent, fixed intently on Qin Zheng.
"Twelve hours."
"I need to know where the scoundrel is being held within twelve hours."
She paused, lowering her voice even further, her voice filled with a devastating madness.
"Also, inform Wang Kun in Shanghai that the batch of 'goods' I left with him can be released. Have him deliver them to Beijing as quickly as possible."
"Tonight, I will make sure that every rat hiding in the gutter of the entire capital city hears my voice!"
Qin Zheng accepted the order and quickly turned to leave.
His straight back even carried a hint of panic.
He could clearly sense that the gentle, smiling Su Wantang of the past had completely disappeared.
Standing here now is Bai Shu, who crawled out of a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, decisive in killing and vengeful!
He knew even better what the young lady meant by that batch of "goods" that even Lu Jingyan didn't know about.
Back then, Bai Zhu used rare medicinal herbs as payment to have the German mechanic Hans Schmidt smuggle a complete set of military-grade listening equipment from Europe through secret channels.
Young lady, is she going to... flip the table?!
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