Seeing the crime scene flashbacks made me the darling of the police station.

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Keihai University.

Shen Shilan returned to her office after finishing her class.

Upon arriving at the office, she first poured herself a glass of water.

I turned on my phone while drinking water.

As soon as I unlocked my phone, a video suddenly popped up and started playing automatically.

She paused for a moment, thinking there was something wrong with her phone.

The next second, she suddenly saw Qin Leyan strapped to the medical bed.

Shen Shilan's eyes suddenly trembled.

Hearing the man's voice and the static in the video, my heart suddenly felt like it had shattered.

She took a deep breath, then seemed to suffocate and couldn't breathe.

The cup in my hand fell to the ground, spilling water all over my legs.

Tears fell drop by drop onto the phone.

My heart ached so much that my mind went blank. Almost instinctively, I wanted to call Qin Chengyuan, but the video wouldn't finish playing and I couldn't turn it off.

The phone can't make calls at all.

Unable to exit the video, Shen Shilan turned and walked out.

"Call the police, call the police, call the police first," she muttered.

She opened the office door and nearly bumped into the man standing in the doorway.

"Professor Shen." The man was pulling a suitcase and looked at her face covered in tears.

Shen Shilan saw him and said, "Could I use your phone for a moment?"

"Okay." The man took out his phone from his pocket, glancing to both sides of the corridor as he did so. Then, he suddenly pulled out a handkerchief from his pocket, covered Shen Shilan's mouth and nose, and pushed her into the office.

Shen Shilan hit him on the head with her phone, and the man fell to the side.

But Shen Shilan also collapsed to the ground and lost consciousness.

The man wiped the blood from his temple, locked the office door, covered Shen Shilan's mouth and nose with a handkerchief for a while, then took a hat from his suitcase and put it on to cover the wound.
As soon as Su Miaoyi left the Municipal Bureau, she called Shen Shilan.

She messaged Shen Shilan this morning and knew that Shen Shilan had two classes this morning.

However, class should have ended by now, and she wondered where Professor Shen would be, so she wanted to make a phone call to ask.

The call went through, but no one answered; it rang until it automatically disconnected.

She called again, and it was the same thing—it rang until it automatically disconnected.

Su Miaoyi felt inexplicably uneasy.

She sent a message to Qin Chengyuan and asked him about it.

Then I called Shen Shilan again, but no one answered.

My unease intensified.

Su Miaoyi asked again in the family group chat, tagging everyone.

Xia Ye replied first, saying that Shen Shilan had not contacted her today.

Su Miaoyi wondered who she could contact at Jinghai University.

Shen Shilan didn't know the contact information of her colleagues or her students.

Qin Chengyuan didn't reply to the message; he must be busy. She tried calling him, but couldn't get through.

Su Miaoyi glanced at her phone, wondering if it was broken, since she couldn't contact the two of them.

Suddenly, she remembered that Di Jia had filled out her contact information at the Municipal Bureau yesterday.

She looked at what he filled out, thought about his phone number, and then dialed it.

"Hello. Who is this?"

"I am Su Miaoyi. Are you at Jinghai University?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Hearing her voice, Di Jia was pleasantly surprised: "I'm here, what's up?" "Could you go to Professor Shen Shilan's office and see if she's in there?" Su Miaoyi said.

“Okay, I’ve just arrived at the entrance of the administration building,” Di Jia said. “Don’t worry, I’ll go take a look.”

"Third floor, East Wing, Vice Principal's Office," Su Miaoyi said.

"Okay." Di Jia ran straight up the stairs and quickly reached the third floor. He knocked on the door, panting, and said, "Should I just open the door?"

"it is good."

Di Jia pushed the door open: "There's no one inside. There's a water glass on the floor. There's also a cell phone on the floor, the screen is broken."

Su Miaoyi felt a chill run down her spine: "Does the phone case say 'calm and peaceful'?"

"Yes."

Su Miaoyi parked her car on the side of the road. Suddenly, everything went black for a moment, and she closed her eyes. A call came in on her phone; it was from an unknown number.

She said to Di Jia, "Di Jia, I have a phone call coming in. Thank you for today."

After she finished speaking, she answered the call from the unfamiliar number: "Who is this?"

"Su Miaoyi, right?"

Su Miaoyi heard the strange man's voice and replied, "Yes."

"What is your relationship with Shen Shilan? She's in my hands."

Su Miaoyi gripped the steering wheel tightly, her voice icy cold: "State your terms."

“You take her place,” the man said.

"Okay." Su Miaoyi agreed readily. "Address."

The man chuckled: "Find it yourself, isn't that what you cops are good at?"

“Since you want me, hurry up and give me your address. I’m coming over now,” Su Miaoyi said.

"Don't worry, I won't kill her. I'll definitely spare her life," the man said. "But you two hurry up. If I don't see you before dark, I'll chop off one of her fingers every hour."

The man hung up the phone after he finished speaking.

Su Miaoyi immediately dialed back, but the other party hung up.

She gripped the steering wheel tightly, her chest heaving, and her throat dry and sore.

A few seconds later, she slapped herself to calm herself down.

She called Zhuang Yanzheng and started the car: "Brother Zheng, my mother has been taken away. The other party called me and asked me to come and exchange her, but they didn't give me an address and told me to find it myself."

After she finished speaking, she gave a string of phone numbers: "Their phone numbers, have someone check them."

"Where are you?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

“I’m on my way back to the Municipal Bureau,” Su Miaoyi said quickly. “Please talk to the police station near Jinghai University and ask them to check the surveillance footage. My mother’s phone was in the office; the screen was broken. It must have been taken from the office.”

She lives too far from Jinghai University; the nearby police station would be faster.

"Okay. Be careful while driving."

After hanging up, Qin Chengyuan called, his voice a little hoarse: "Lele, what happened?"

As soon as he finished the meeting and turned on his phone, a video of Qin Leyan popped up. He couldn't exit the video, so he used his landline contacts to track it down. That's when he learned that the Municipal Bureau's Technical Department was investigating.

After the video finished playing, the phone was finally usable again. Only then did she see that Qin Leyan had sent her a message asking about Shen Shilan, and had also asked in the group chat. There was also a missed call that rang for one second.

The timing was exactly when the video was playing, and the phone didn't give any notification.

Qin Leyan wouldn't call him during his work hours. She even asked Shen Shilan, so something must have happened to Shen Shilan.

"My mother has been taken away." Su Miaoyi's voice was calm, almost mechanical. "I don't know the other party's information or the location. They told me to go and exchange my mother, and they told us to find the address before dark."

Qin Chengyuan grabbed the car keys and headed out, saying, "I know, don't worry, everything will be fine."

"Ah."

(End of this chapter)