Chapter 341: Chapter 339: Felt No Malice

Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng rushed into the municipal bureau.

Zhuang Yanzheng started running to get the surveillance footage, but after a few steps, Su Miaoyi yanked him to a stop. "Hold on, hold on."

Zhuang Yanzheng heard a sharp RIP come from his short-sleeved shirt.

But he wasn’t sure where the sound had come from and paid it no mind.

Su Miaoyi said, "Lock down every exit from Jinghai. Don’t let anyone escape the city."

"Got it," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

After speaking, Su Miaoyi quickly bounded up the stairs.

Chu Xingrou was still at her desk, packing up to leave for the day.

Su Miaoyi grabbed her hand. "Xingrou, come with me to the sketch room."

"Oh." Chu Xingrou quickly stood up and went with her to the sketch room.

"You saw something?" Lu Zhishen assumed she had seen something about the brick factory case.

Su Miaoyi closed the door and said, "It’s Lu Xian. I saw Lu Xian, here in Jinghai. But I don’t know the exact location. I need your help."

Lu Zhishen quickly grabbed some drawing paper and a pen. "Go on."

"First, I saw a very long alley that ran east to west. Inside, there were stacks of cardboard, all tied up neatly. They were probably either ready to be sold for scrap or had been collected by someone living nearby," Su Miaoyi said. "Beyond the long alley were tall buildings. They were very high, looked a bit old, and their exteriors were painted gray and beige."

Listening to the description, Chu Xingrou considered the combination of tall buildings and a long alley and started searching for a match on her phone.

Su Miaoyi watched Lu Zhishen draw. "I saw this from Fan Hui’s perspective."

"The bar owner from Chang City? He’s in Jinghai too?" Lu Zhishen asked, surprised.

"Yes. Lu Xian came specifically to take him out." Su Miaoyi pointed at the drawing paper. "In the vision, he runs out of the alley onto a small, north-south concrete path. The path is lined with ginkgo trees, and then you have the tall buildings. I was standing at this spot, at the mouth of the alley. I didn’t look up, but I could feel how oppressively tall the buildings were. I saw one building here, another here, and one here."

She tapped her finger on various spots on the page.

Lu Zhishen sketched rapidly.

"Sister Miaomiao, what’s on the other side of the alley? Did you see it?" Chu Xingrou asked.

Su Miaoyi thought for a moment. "No, the vision started from inside the alley. But there weren’t any tall buildings on the other side, so it must be single-story houses or something similar."

Chu Xingrou nodded, her foldable phone already open as she zoomed in and out on the map.

"Fan Hui and Lu Xian started fighting on that north-south path. Lu Xian took Fan Hui down with just a few kicks. Fan Hui fell right here," she pointed, "and hit this tree. While he was on the ground, he saw a very tall utility pole to the northwest. It was a bit far off, at least fifty or sixty meters away, so he could only see its upper half."

Then Fan Hui got up and ran south, but when he reached the intersection, Lu Xian caught him and knocked him to the ground again.

The intersection opened onto an east-west road.

There were residential communities on both the north and south sides of the road.

"The community on the south side was painted brick-red and beige. There were no people or cars on that east-west road," Su Miaoyi said. "Fan Hui was prone on the ground, and about a hundred meters to the west, he saw a massive sphere on some kind of pedestal."

As she spoke, a puzzled expression appeared on her face.

’She couldn’t quite understand why there would be a large sphere on a pedestal sitting on a wide road between two residential communities.’

"It was huge. From my perspective on the ground, the sphere completely blocked the road, and that road must be five meters wide."

"Like this?" Lu Zhishen quickly sketched it out.

Su Miaoyi nodded. "I saw from a distance that there were quite a few flowers planted inside the base."

"I’ve never seen a place just put something like that up to block a road," Lu Zhishen remarked.

Chu Xingrou looked at Lu Zhishen’s sketch.

Lu Zhishen described the colors of each part of the scene to her.

Chu Xingrou mentally added the colors to the image, piece by piece.

Then she lowered her head and resumed her search for the location.

Lu Zhishen looked at Su Miaoyi. "How can you be sure the vision is from today?"

If it were a vision from the past, she wouldn’t be this anxious, her words tumbling out at twice their usual pace.

"What Lu Xian said, and the date and time on his watch," Su Miaoyi explained. "The time I saw in the vision was twelve minutes behind our current time—I was seeing something that happened twelve minutes ago. Also, Lu Xian said something to Fan Hui: ’Fan Hui, I’ve been looking for you for three years. To think you’d be hiding here. You were betting I’d be unwilling to come back to Jinghai, weren’t you?’"

"Found it," Chu Xingrou said. "Wan Tang District and Yinxing Garden. To the east, Yinxing Garden borders the historical buildings downtown. There’s a long alley that runs between those buildings. And there’s a sphere west of the road between the two districts. The building colors match up, too."

"The exact address."

"I just sent it to the group chat." Chu Xingrou was so anxious she was starting to sweat.

The three of them immediately went to find Zhuang Yanzheng.

They had confirmed the exact location, but some time had already passed. Lu Xian wouldn’t still be waiting there for them to come and arrest him.

Lu Xian would definitely have left after dealing with Fan Hui.

They needed to widen the search area, using the two residential districts as the center.

The group gathered around the map as Zhuang Yanzheng quickly organized search parties for the various surrounding roads.

While they checked the surveillance cameras on every road, they also needed officers on-site to search the blind spots.

"Lu Xian might have a gun. Everyone, carry your firearms," Zhuang Yanzheng ordered.

After the swift assignments, everyone moved out at once.

As Su Miaoyi walked toward her car, putting in her earpiece, she saw Brother Zheng dash past her and jump into his own vehicle.

She glanced at him before quickly getting into her car.

The cars peeled away from the road in front of the municipal bureau and went their separate ways.

Su Miaoyi sat in the passenger seat, studying the map.

Zhuang Yanzheng said, "Right as we were leaving, I got a call. They couldn’t find him on the surveillance footage."

Su Miaoyi looked at him.

"The location you described is outside the municipal bureau’s jurisdiction, so our cameras don’t cover that area," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "We did check our own footage from that time frame, though, and there was definitely no one there. So we went to get the footage from nearby shops, but the one camera that could have filmed the location just happens to be broken."

"Broken? When did it break?"

"Three days now," Zhuang Yanzheng said. "It hasn’t recorded anything for three days."

"Three days." Su Miaoyi fell silent for a moment after repeating the words.

Zhuang Yanzheng glanced at her. "You think the camera was sabotaged? Has someone been at that location for the past three days? On a stakeout?"

"I don’t know, it’s just a guess," Su Miaoyi said. "I’m not sure why, but I feel like someone’s watching me. I don’t sense any malice, though. That time Mia was secretly watching me at Weiyang Palace, I clearly felt her ill intent. But this time, there’s nothing like that."

"They’re expanding the surveillance search. Let’s wait for news," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"Alright."

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