Chapter 130

Chapter 130: I Think You’re Throwing Shade at Me

“What?”

On the other end of the phone, Du Bi Xiao cried out, and in the living room, everyone who was listening to the call also shouted at almost the same time.

Du An Rao’s face had never been this serious.

The reason she knew so much about this case was because the book had a very detailed report on it.

That report revealed every little detail of the case. It told the number of people hurt and killed, how the suspect got into the mall, how he avoided everyone while planting the bombs, the exact locations of the bombs, how many weapons he carried, and the real reason why he did all this.

“The person who planted the bombs in the mall is a man under forty, surnamed Yao,” Du An Rao said. “Three months ago, he was cheated by a close friend, which made his company lose a huge amount of money. His chain of funds broke, and the company went bankrupt. Not long after that, his only daughter was taken hostage in the mall by a cornered robber. There was an accident during the police rescue, and his daughter died on the spot…”

By now, Du Bi Xiao’s call had already been patched into the team’s public line, so everyone could hear what Du An Rao was saying and adjust their plans.

A young police officer suddenly cried out as he listened: “I think I know who it is!”

In an instant, the group chat blew up.

“Spit it out, spit it out! If you play mysterious at a time like this, be careful, Boss will skin you!”

“It’s that gold store robbery case from not long ago,” the young man said. “Because the robber had a gun, everyone in the South District ran over to help. The talks were going well, and the robber was already softening. But then some woman suddenly screamed and scared him, and the gun went off. The little girl he was holding died on the spot. The people from the South District took it really hard. When they came back, more than half of them applied for psychological counseling.”

After he said that, the young officer suddenly thought of something and sighed: “Come to think of it, that robbery also happened at Jiangyu Plaza.”

The group went silent.

When the young officer looked up, he saw his colleagues all staring at him with sharp, meaningful little eyes, and it made him jump. “W-what is it?”

“Sometimes it’s not a bad thing to be clueless. The clueless are not afraid,” someone said.

The young officer: “…”

[I think you’re talking about me, but I have no proof!] he thought.

After reading the case summary in the group and the detailed information on this likely suspect, the first thing Du Bi Xiao thought of was Du An Rao’s warning that night.

Back then, Du An Rao had said she suspected that this suspect might have a grudge against them, and was making such a big scene on purpose to lure them over and die together.

If the suspect really was this man, then it all fit.

Du Bi Xiao passed on what her colleagues had found to Du An Rao. After hearing it, Du An Rao still wasn’t completely sure whether it was this person.

In the scene she had accidentally scrying before, she hadn’t seen the man’s face. In the book, he had only ever been called by a fake stand-in name like “Yao So-and-so”.

“I’m not sure if it’s this person,” she said. “I only know he has a scar on his left wrist.”

Even though she didn’t get a clear answer, Du Bi Xiao was not disappointed. After all, the information that Du An Rao had already given them was more than enough. If they still couldn’t handle the rest, they really should just go home and eat plain rice.

“Alright, I know what to do now,” she said. “Thank you for your help. I’ll call you again when it’s all over.”

“Okay. Cousin, remember to wear a bulletproof vest,” Du An Rao said. “Everyone who goes should wear one, just in case.”

At that, Du Bi Xiao remembered how that night Du An Rao’s inner mutter had told her to weld a bulletproof vest to herself for a while.

She couldn’t help laughing, and some of the tension in her nerves finally eased.

“Alright, I’ll pass that on for you,” she said. “Don’t worry, we’ll all be fine.”

“…Okay.”

Even so, for something this big, how could anyone really relax before everything was settled?

As one of the main people in charge, Du Qi Chang hurried outside to make phone calls as soon as he learned everything.

In the living room, the clock ticked away, each minute and second sounding like a death warrant from the underworld.

The Du family had never felt one single hour crawl by so slowly. In this mood, no one felt like bringing up any other topic to pass the time.

Even Du De Sheng set aside his obsession with his lover for the time being and waited quietly for news from Du Bi Xiao.

When the shortest hand on the living room clock finally pointed to the 3, Du Qi Chang walked back in from outside with a face full of exhaustion.

“How is it?” Du De Sheng was the first to stand up and ask in a deep voice.

“It’s fine, it’s fine, everyone is fine,” Du Qi Chang said. Only then did a bit of a smile return to his face. “Bi Xiao arranged things very well. Because they weren’t sure if the suspect had some device to set off the bombs early, they had experts disguise themselves as customers and slip in ahead of time to defuse the other bombs. Then they quickly found the man’s position in the mall and held him down before he could grab a hostage.”

“What about the bomb on him?” Du An Rao asked.

If she hadn’t mentioned it, Du Qi Chang might have stayed happy a little longer. As soon as she brought it up, his face darkened, and he ground his teeth. “That man is really crazy. The one strapped to him is the most powerful and also the hardest to defuse. The experts from the Bomb Disposal Unit managed to use some methods to pause it for now, but taking it off him will still take time.”

Du Qi Chang was angry and hateful. He really couldn’t understand how someone could be this ruthless to himself, willing to throw away his own life just to take so many people with him.

[He probably never planned on staying alive from the start, so he went big. After all, when your whole family is dead, you probably don’t have much desire to live either. This is why people say you shouldn’t bully quiet, honest people. When an “honest” person goes mad, he really might destroy the whole world. But that’s still not a reason for him to drag innocent people in. In the end, it just proves that people we call hateful usually have something pitiful about them too. Him being pitiful doesn’t erase the judgment he deserves.]

The Du family members: “Uh…”

Du De Sheng frowned. “If it’s only paused for now, where are they?”

“They first moved the suspect,” Du Qi Chang said. “They also evacuated everyone from Jiangyu Plaza. It’s just…”

“Just what?”

“Some news outlets somehow got the news early,” he said with a sigh. “They waited outside Jiangyu Plaza and took photos of Bi Xiao and the others as they evacuated the crowd. Some newspapers have already put out articles accusing them of mishandling the case, twisting the facts, stirring up public emotion, and spreading panic. To keep things from getting worse, I might have to go back now.”

“Then go back,” Du De Sheng said. “The matter has been handled, and the reason you came here has already been settled. There’s no need for you to stay.”

Du Qi Chang glanced between Du De Sheng and Du An Rao, and in the end he still grit his teeth and left.

Watching his back as he walked away, Du An Rao looked confused.

[Is it just me, or does it feel like this uncle really didn’t want to leave?]