Chapter 338 - 336: Someone Was Rescued

Chapter 338: Chapter 336: Someone Was Rescued

Meng Shuyi said Zhuang Yanzheng would be back in a little while.

But that "little while" stretched until closing time. Su Miaoyi had finished reading all the case files, and he still hadn’t returned.

As soon as it was time to clock out, Su Miaoyi got up and went to Lu Zhishen’s art studio.

She pushed the door open and went inside.

Lu Zhishen was sharpening a pencil. When he saw her, the first thing he said was, "I hear you’re tired of looking at us."

Hearing this, Su Miaoyi stumbled at the doorway, nearly falling flat on her face. "What?"

"A university campus is full of new faces," Lu Zhishen said.

Su Miaoyi: "..."

Lu Zhishen chuckled. "There are some new snacks in the snack cabinet. Help yourself."

Su Miaoyi walked over to the snack cabinet. "What did you guys do to Little Xingrou? Did you bully her? How did you hear that voice message?"

"She hit the voice record button by accident," Lu Zhishen said. "Captain Zhuang happened to hear it and mentioned it in the group chat."

Su Miaoyi stuffed some snacks into her pockets. "You really can’t talk about people behind their backs."

Zhuang Yanzheng sent a message in the group chat, telling everyone to wait for him so they could have a meeting before leaving.

Su Miaoyi ate her snacks while watching Lu Zhishen sharpen his pencils.

When it was about time for Zhuang Yanzheng to get back to the municipal bureau, the two of them headed to his office together.

The moment they stepped out of the art studio, they saw Yan Cheng walking over, also on his way to Zhuang Yanzheng’s office.

Yan Cheng was stretching his wrists. When he saw Su Miaoyi, he smiled and said, "I hear you’re starting to get tired of us."

Lu Zhishen let out a laugh.

Su Miaoyi scratched her cheek. "Forensic Doctor Yan, you know I have multiple personalities. A lot of things... might not have been said by me."

’Tsk, so now you’re making me take the fall, are you?’ a voice suddenly said in her head.

Su Miaoyi shook her head slightly.

Yan Cheng nodded. "I get it. It was definitely you who said it, because the other one doesn’t really talk to us."

Su Miaoyi: "..."

The three of them went to wait outside Zhuang Yanzheng’s office.

A little while later, Chu Xingrou, Qi Feng, and Brother Zheng came over too.

The six of them waited at the door for a while longer before Zhuang Yanzheng finally returned.

"I didn’t lock the door, did I? Why are you all standing out here? Plotting how to blow up my office?" Zhuang Yanzheng said as soon as he opened his mouth.

"Like we’d need to plot for that," Su Miaoyi retorted instantly.

"Well, well, if it isn’t Ms. Seen-It-All," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi: "..."

Everyone laughed except for Chu Xingrou.

Chu Xingrou looked a little guilty.

"The scope of who I’m tired of seeing doesn’t include you," Su Miaoyi said.

Zhuang Yanzheng pushed open the office door and looked back at her. "Did a dog bring your conscience back?"

Su Miaoyi said, "We were talking about being tired of seeing handsome people. You’re not handsome."

Lu Zhishen and the others filed into the office.

Zhuang Yanzheng stared at Su Miaoyi. "I should take you to get your eyes checked later. What kind of taste is that?"

Su Miaoyi glanced at him, then pursed her lips, shook her head, and entered the office.

Zhuang Yanzheng: "..."

He closed the office door.

They discussed the cold case they were going to reinvestigate.

None of the seven had ever been involved with this case; it was completely new to them.

For over two hours, the seven of them familiarized themselves with the case and discussed it.

The final conclusion of their discussion was that this case would depend on Su Miaoyi putting her ability to use.

After so many years of investigation with no results, their only hope was Su Miaoyi.

So, the rest of the discussion focused mainly on Su Miaoyi’s Special Ability and how to make it manifest.

"Based on your descriptions..." Brother Zheng stroked his chin. "It’s all been passive, hasn’t it? You don’t see things actively."

Su Miaoyi nodded. "You could say that. Even though I’m actively trying to see something... it’s like some invisible force. I can only see what it wants me to see. If it doesn’t want me to, I can’t."

"But there is good news," Lu Zhishen said. "Even though we no longer have the body and can’t touch the victim’s wounds, she has had an experience where she saw visions after touching a door at a crime scene. So, we can try visiting the scene of the crime."

"The problem is... does the crime scene still exist?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"We’ll have to ask about that tomorrow," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"It’s been fifteen years. With so much rapid development and change, is it likely to still be there?" Brother Zheng said. "If it’s gone... are there any other methods? Like, chanting a spell or something? My dad has a book of spells at home. We could try them one by one."

"Let’s put that method on the back burner for now," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi looked at the photos on the table. "In Yao Ying’s case, I think I saw something when I looked at a photograph."

Hearing this, the others quickly pushed all the photos in front of them over to her.

Su Miaoyi looked at them one by one.

Everyone held their breath, not daring to make a sound.

After looking at the last one, Su Miaoyi shook her head.

"Take your time," Yan Cheng said.

Zhuang Yanzheng said, "Alright. That’s all for today. Tomorrow, we’ll go check on the crime scene. Everyone else can go home. You three, stay behind. We need to talk about the Yanjing Village case."

Brother Zheng, Qi Feng, and Yan Cheng clocked out.

"What happened with the case?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"Tian Min was broken out," Zhuang Yanzheng said, pinching the bridge of his nose.

As soon as he said this, the eyes of Su Miaoyi and the other two went wide.

Silence spread...

After a long moment, Chu Xingrou said, "Tian Min was broken out?! How? She, she... How could that happen?"

’Yeah, how could that happen?’

Su Miaoyi was also very surprised.

"I got the news from Captain Duan on my way back to the municipal bureau," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "By then, it had already been nearly three hours since it happened. After Tian Min arrived in Chang City, she was being held at the branch bureau. This afternoon, they were transferring her to the detention center. Then, halfway there, three cars suddenly appeared and broke her out."

"They intercepted a prisoner transport vehicle? In the middle of the street? And just broke her out?" Lu Zhishen had been working for so many years and had never heard of something like this. "Who would be so audacious? Are they insane?"

"That’s right," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Guns were involved. They injured a bystander while escaping, so it caused a huge commotion. The news has been suppressed, which is why it’s quiet online. Chang City is conducting a full-scale manhunt, but when Captain Duan talked to me, there were no new leads."

Chu Xingrou rubbed the goosebumps that had formed on her arms. "That’s just too brazen."

"Did the surveillance cameras capture anything?" Su Miaoyi asked.

"They were all masked. Couldn’t see a thing," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"Three cars, and not a single person was caught?" Su Miaoyi asked again.

"One of the cars flipped while escaping. The two people inside died on the spot," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "Two men. Their identities haven’t been confirmed yet. Captain Duan said it felt like they weren’t from this country."

"Was it Sister Ying who broke her out?" Su Miaoyi frowned.

"But why save Tian Min?" Chu Xingrou couldn’t quite figure it out. "And cause such a huge scene. Could Tian Min have been hiding other things from us? Is she actually a very important person to Sister Ying and her people?"

Su Miaoyi was silent for a moment. "I don’t think Tian Min seemed like she was hiding anything from us."

"When she wasn’t speaking, that innocent act of hers completely fooled all of us," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"But we also dealt with her after she could speak."

"What do you mean?" Chu Xingrou asked.

"It’s easy to be misled by someone who can’t speak. Remember how I said her ’startled’ reactions seemed a bit rehearsed? I think she was only trained to use her weakness to gain sympathy for when she was pretending to be mute. Based on my interactions with her, the version of her that could speak didn’t have the ability to deceive people or interfere with their judgment," Su Miaoyi explained.

"So if she wanted to lie without being found out, she could only do it by pretending to be mute," Chu Xingrou said.

Su Miaoyi nodded. "If I’m right, then why would Sister Ying rescue her?"