The next day, Susu went to the obstetrics and gynecology department for a check-up. The baby in her womb was safe and sound.
She quickly reported her safety to Chen Ma, telling her not to worry. As she left the obstetrics and gynecology department, about to drive home herself, she saw Su Kangxi approaching her with two police officers.
"Kangxi... Officer Su, why are you here?" Susu asked in surprise.
Su Kangxi did not shy away from their acquaintance and said, "Sister Susu, I only heard this morning that you were in a car accident yesterday. These two are my colleagues responsible for yesterday's accident. We went to the villa to find you, but you weren't there. Chen Ma said you were at the hospital for a prenatal check-up, so we came directly. Are the test results okay?"
"Yes, the fetus is normal," Susu replied with a smile and asked, "Why are you specifically looking for me?"
A police officer standing behind Su Kangxi said, "We retrieved the surveillance footage from the parking lot of the Children's Center Hospital yesterday and found the person who tampered with your car. However, it was raining heavily yesterday, and the footage is a bit blurry. We'd like to ask you to come to the police station to identify the person."
"Okay, it's my duty to cooperate with the police," Susu nodded.
Su Kangxi said, "Give me the car keys. I'll drive your car to the police station, and you sit in the back."
Susu handed him the car keys and got into the back seat first.
After starting the car, Su Kangxi first tested the brakes to ensure they were normal, then checked other critical positions before driving off.
His two colleagues followed them in their police car.
"Kangxi, can you help me check if the flights to W City yesterday were normal?" Susu said, feeling something was amiss. "After Tianyi boarded the plane early yesterday morning, I haven't been able to contact him since. I also can't reach Xiao Anjing, who was with him. Their phones have been out of service the whole time."
"Okay, I'll help you check when we get back to the police station," Su Kangxi comforted her. "Mr. Qin and Mr. Xiao are two grown men traveling together, so they should be fine. Don't worry too much. Perhaps they are in a place with no signal."
Susu was even more puzzled. "That's unlikely. W City is a top-tier metropolis. How could there be a place with poor signal?"
"What are they doing there? Perhaps they aren't in the city but in a rural mountainous area with poor signal," Su Kangxi guessed. "Mr. Qin should contact you as soon as he has a signal."
"They are traveling together on business, likely for group matters. What kind of project requires them to go to a place with poor signal? Are they doing poverty alleviation?" Susu regretted not asking Tianyi what project he was going to discuss that night.
She was always accustomed to not inquiring about his company affairs, so she didn't think much of it or ask further.
"I don't know about that. You should be the most aware of Mr. Qin's business dealings," Su Kangxi said with a smile, looking at the road ahead.
"I don't understand his company's affairs, so I'm not clear about them," Susu said, looking out the car window, and suddenly wondered if Tianyi was deliberately hiding something from her.
...
Qin Tianyi and Xiao Anjing were trapped in an orphanage and couldn't get down the mountain for the time being.
Yesterday, as soon as they got off the train, they rushed to the orphanage built on the mountainside while the wind and rain were not too severe.
They had intended to investigate Yang Sijie's matter and then immediately descend the mountain to return to Lancheng. However, to their surprise, after arriving at the orphanage, the rain intensified, pouring down like a waterfall as if the sky had a hole in it.
Even the most experienced drivers in the area dared not drive down the mountain at that time. They could only stay overnight at the orphanage. Worse still, due to the extremely bad weather, there was no mobile signal at all.
The next day, the rain showed no signs of abating. The orphanage staff gathered the children in the highest and sturdiest large classroom. Everyone was saying that such heavy rainfall was unprecedented, and no one had ever experienced anything like it.
Qin Tianyi stood by the window of the large classroom, looking at the torrential rain outside. He noticed that the roads outside the orphanage had turned into muddy swamps. None of them could leave and descend the mountain now, and people from the mountain below couldn't come up.
If this continued, the orphanage would become an isolated island, cut off from the world. What worried him even more was whether the heavy rain would cause natural disasters in the mountainous area.
He turned to look at the fifty to sixty children gathered in the classroom, along with the staff. If something happened, how would they evacuate and escape from here?
Xiao Anjing, who had been chatting with a staff member, saw Qin Tianyi's unusual expression and walked over to him, asking, "What's wrong? Is there a situation?"
"Not yet," Qin Tianyi said, looking out the window again. Opposite them, a building backed onto a mountain. He was about to discuss with Xiao Anjing that if the heavy rain didn't stop, they would have to find a way to lead everyone away from here, but he realized it might be too late.
He suddenly grabbed Xiao Anjing's shoulder and pointed to the mountaintop not far from them, saying, "Look quickly, so many rocks are falling down..."
Xiao Anjing's eyes widened, and a sense of dread washed over him. "Oh no, a landslide is going to happen! It's over, will the place we are staying be buried by the landslide!"
"Probably," Qin Tianyi saw the rocks mixed with mud and sand rolling down faster and faster. The first building to be affected would likely be the one directly facing them.
Xiao Anjing turned around in terror and shouted at the children there, "Run! We can't stay here! Landslide... the landslide is coming!"
But for a moment, everyone didn't know where to run. Some staff members, instead of taking the children to escape, ran to the window and saw the rocks mixed with rainwater forming a surging mudslide like a flood!
...
At the police station, Susu looked at the surveillance footage retrieved by the police. Yesterday, when she was in Xiaoxiao's ward, a man in a black raincoat circled their car twice and then took out tools to tamper with the underside of the car.
However, the surveillance footage in the heavy rain was indeed a bit blurry, and the man's hood almost covered his entire face. The one shot where he briefly showed his face was a bit unclear.
The technician from the forensic department repeatedly enlarged the pixels for Susu to identify. Susu looked carefully again and could confirm that she did not recognize this person at all.
The police officer accompanying her said, "You don't even recognize the person who wants to harm you. Relying on this blurry screenshot for us to find this person is like searching for a needle in a haystack. The hope is quite slim..."
Susu, however, kept staring at the enlarged screenshot and made a new discovery, interrupting him, "Look, this person seems to be wearing a waterproof and shockproof watch on his wrist. Such a precise waterproof sports watch is not affordable for ordinary people. Can you replay the surveillance video? As long as we can see the style of this watch clearly, finding this person won't be difficult."
The officer's eyes immediately lit up. He asked the technical department to replay the surveillance and asked Susu, "Is this watch a limited edition? What is its general price range?"