Beijing
Upon receiving news of yet another failure, Gong Changming's eyes widened in fury.
"Idiot! You designed it like this and still messed it up?!" Gong Changming slammed his phone down on the table, his heart pounding with anger.
Such a perfect plan, yet it still failed. Gong Changming felt it was simply a joke.
Gong Changhong will be away from the capital for at least a long time due to his mission. What's the point of Gong Chengjue keeping the capital as safe as an iron barrel?
Didn't you rush over as soon as you heard that Su Ziqing was in trouble?
This sudden scheme was devised by Gong Changming on the spur of the moment when he heard that Gong Chengjue had gone to City A and met Su Ziqing.
In other words, not to mention Gong Chengjue himself, even he probably wouldn't have been able to react in time.
Even such a spur-of-the-moment idea still failed!
Miyazaki, who wanted to make a groundhog's squeak sound, really felt that he couldn't calm down.
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The wildfire was raging. Officials sent firefighters to cut firebreaks and then deployed helicopters to fight the fire. It took a day and a night to extinguish the wildfire.
Gong Chengjue remained in City A, as if nothing, no matter how big, could make him leave.
In fact, Gong Changfan had urged him to return to the capital several times.
However, Gong Chengjue showed no intention of obeying...
The reason given was, "Let's talk about it after the wildfire is put out."
Su Ziqing is in City A, and she can't go to the capital with him, so the danger here must be resolved first. If she is indeed implicated by him, there is naturally a way to deal with the situation.
But if it's Su Ziqing herself who's on one side, then she has to act decisively and quickly.
Su Tianming and Su Tianhao have been in prison for so long. If they continue to cause trouble like this, then they will eventually be unable to cause any more trouble!
They were forced to transfer their shares to their children!
Look how energetic they are!
Finally, Luo Jinhan brought news: the car... had actually burned in the mountains!
"It was burned?" Su Ziqing was still surprised when she heard the news, even though she was somewhat prepared.
"Was it caused by a wildfire, or something else?" She said the car hadn't left at the time.
The news that Luo Jinhan brought back confirmed her guess: the car burned not far from the location she had mentioned.
In other words, the three people who left did not leave by car.
Was this a deliberate act of burning the mountain?
Luo Jinhan looked at Gong Chengjue, "The body has been found. The police are still examining it and we don't know if it matches the wanted person."
Gong Chengjue nodded.
"All three of them are dead?" Su Ziqing found it even stranger.
They kidnapped her, left the car there, and just left. The cigarette butt wasn't extinguished, and it caught fire…
Luo Jinhan shook his head. "We've only found two bodies so far. The other one..." He paused for a moment. "The wildfire was too big. If they had separated, it's possible that the other body was lost."
In other words, the person who tied her up just died?
So this inexplicable kidnapping case became an unsolved mystery?
Since all the kidnappers were dead, there was no way to find the right remedy, and even the car was burned to a shell.
A wildfire that burned for a day and a night—you can imagine how powerful it was.
"Could the cigarette butt catching fire really have been just an accident?" Su Ziqing murmured, otherwise she couldn't understand why the kidnappers would burn her to death.
In this day and age, who the hell wouldn't value their own life?
No one said a word.
Both Gong Chengjue and Luo Jinhan were considering this possibility.
Perhaps, the kidnappers kidnapped her to deliberately mislead Gong Chengjue's vision?
So, what does it mean to burn yourself to death?
There was a knock on the door. Luo Jinhan went to open it, and Lu Linghong, who had received news from the police station, rushed over. "The police station has news. They have found two bodies."
Seeing that Su Ziqing and the others weren't surprised, Lu Linghong looked at Gong Chengjue and asked, "You guys know?"
“We just found out too, senior brother. Do you think the wildfire was an accident?” Su Ziqing frowned.
Lu Linghong looked at her, "Do you have any paper?"
Su Ziqing pointed to the study, "It's on the table."
Lu Linghong took an A4 sheet of paper, then drew some lines with a pen. "You know this mountain is a mountain range, right?"
In other words, it's not a single mountain, but a series of mountains connected together.
He drew out a model, "This area is no longer part of City A. This is the Changhe River. If you leave from here and keep going, you can merge into the nearest foreign border. It will take about four hours."
Su Ziqing listened and agreed.
“Considering the time at that time, if they went into the mountains and then took a waterway, they would have already crossed the border by dawn,” Lu Linghong continued, glancing at them to see if they understood him.
"Mr. Lu means that the kidnappers had planned their escape route in advance," Luo Jinhan said.
"That's how it should be according to normal thinking, isn't it? And they didn't drive the car away."
Lu Linghong looked at Su Ziqing and said, "Didn't you say that after your movements were restricted, you basically didn't hear them say anything?"
Su Ziqing nodded.
“And they were wearing masks.” He glanced at everyone carefully. “But even so, Ziqing, is there one person you don’t recognize at all?”
Su Ziqing was taken aback. "Yes."
“That person should be the leader of the three of them.” Lu Linghong looked at Gong Chengjue. “If I’m not mistaken, we only know that two of them are wanted criminals.”
"You mean, the person Ziqing hasn't seen all this time is their leader?"
Lu Linghong nodded, "I recalled the sequence of events that night. Neither I nor Ziqing saw the third person."
"We've only found two bodies so far, and the car is still lying there. Could it be that the plan they described was what I drew up, but the real escape route is..." Lu Linghong made a throat-slitting gesture.
"Destroy the evidence?" Gong Chengjue asked with a dark expression.
“That explains why the wildfire was caused by a cigarette butt, the car didn’t leave the mountain, and two of the kidnappers died. Given the time the wildfire started, they shouldn’t have died in the wildfire.” Lu Linghong put down his pen. “Of course, this is just my guess. We’ll have to wait for news from the police station.”
No one spoke again. Su Ziqing was processing Lu Linghong's guess, and she also made a guess in that direction.
Then she asked, "Does the other side want to burn me alive, and also burn the kidnappers alive?"
She shook her head. "No, if that's the case, why would they commit a kidnapping? And in such a public place..."
“If we take into account the time when you were attacked…” Su Ziqing looked at Gong Chengjue and said seriously, “I think it’s more likely that I was bait. What do you think?”
"What time was the attack?" Lu Linghong was still unaware of what had happened at Su Ziqing's house that night.
Su Ziqing gave a brief explanation.
Lu Linghong glared at Gong Chengjue, "So, Mr. Gong, what do you think!"
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