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

Chapter 323 What Plan?
After breakfast, the DNA test results from last night came back.

The DNA matched that found on a mask in a house on the street north of the Temple of Aries.

Lu Zhishen and Chu Xingrou went to interrogate Twenty-One again.

Su Miaoyi sat in the courtyard of the police station, basking in the sun.

After a while, Zhuang Yanzheng moved a small stool and sat down next to her.

Su Miaoyi glanced at him, closed her eyes, and continued sunbathing.

“You’re still getting sunburned, you’re already tanned enough,” Zhuang Yanzheng said.

Su Miaoyi opened her eyes and looked at him.

Zhuang Yanzheng said, "I'm not kidding, it's really darker than in Jinghai."

Su Miaoyi ignored him and closed her eyes again.

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her and said, "Tell me your plan."

"I don't have any plans," Su Miaoyi said with her eyes closed.

"If you didn't have a plan, you wouldn't be so calm in the face of Twenty-One's silent provocation." Zhuang Yanzheng lowered his voice. "How do you plan to capture Tian Min?"

Su Miaoyi opened her eyes and looked at him again.

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her, waiting for her to speak.

"Why do you think Tian Min came back?" Su Miaoyi asked.

Zhuang Yanzheng thought for a moment: "So that I can still live with my younger brothers?"

Su Miaoyi raised an eyebrow: "Even if she successfully escaped, her brothers would become long-term surveillance targets, making it difficult for her to see them. She has attachments, she doesn't want to be exposed, and she wants to live a clean life, so she came back."

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at her: "You want to force her? To cut off her escape route?"

Su Miaoyi nodded: "We can't completely block her off. Letting her go home is the only way out we can leave her, a way for her to escape. If we push her too far, she'll try to run away and then she'll be exposed. But... that's what I thought yesterday, and I've already come up with a plan."

As she spoke, she glanced at the watch on Zhuang Yanzheng's wrist: "In fifty-seven minutes, I'm going to go find her."

"That's what you thought yesterday, but what about today?" Zhuang Yanzheng asked.

"Today," Su Miaoyi said with a very inscrutable expression, "I've been waiting for you to ask me."

Zhuang Yanzheng: "."

"What if I hadn't asked?"

“Isn’t that what you’re asking?” Su Miaoyi said.

Zhuang Yanzheng fell silent.

“Of course I’ll tell you if you don’t ask,” Su Miaoyi said. “There’s still a while, I’m letting the sun give me energy and organizing my thoughts.”

Just as Zhuang Yanzheng was about to say something, he saw Duan Wenrui coming over from next door. He stood up and asked, "Captain Duan, why didn't you sleep a little longer?"

Duan Wenrui pinched the bridge of his nose: "I received a phone call, and they told me they still haven't found Zhao Yongliang."

Su Miaoyi also stood up: "If there is no information about him at any of the intersections, he probably still came from the mountain."

"The weather was nice yesterday, and we used drones, but we didn't find anything yet. We're still looking today." Duan Wenrui looked up at the bright sun in the sky. "The weather forecast says it will rain, so the sun might disappear in a little while."

"If we keep walking along the mountain, we can get out of Changshi, right?" Zhuang Yanzheng said.

“Yes,” Duan Wenrui said, “You can get out by just walking, but it will take a very, very long time.”

"Along the way, there were fruit trees and cornfields, so we weren't short of food," Zhuang Yanzheng said. Then he added, "Could he be hiding somewhere?"

Duan Wenrui was worried. He turned his head and saw Su Miaoyi scratching her cheek with her right index finger, her head tilted slightly, but she was not moving.

"Advisor Su?"

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at Su Miaoyi and found that she was motionless and frozen.

"Advisor Su?" Duan Wenrui called her again, but when she didn't respond, he looked at Zhuang Yanzheng, "Captain Zhuang, this..."

Zhuang Yanzheng looked at him: "It's okay, she's just like that. When she's thinking, she doesn't easily hear what people are saying."

Duan Wenrui looked at him and then at her, his expression a mixture of belief and confusion: "Ah."

"Don't worry about her. That's just how she is when she thinks about things. We're all used to it," Zhuang Yanzheng said.

"Oh." Duan Wenrui nodded.

"Captain Duan, go and rest for a while." "Okay," Duan Wenrui said. "I'll go tell them the direction to find Zhao Yongliang before I go back."

"it is good."

Duan Wenrui went to his office and came out more than ten minutes later. Su Miaoyi was still in the same position as before.

"This"

Zhuang Yanzheng stood beside her: "You've been thinking for a bit too long."

"Are you really alright? Should we call a doctor?" Duan Wenrui asked.

"No need, no need," Zhuang Yanzheng said, but Su Miaoyi suddenly covered her neck and bent over to cough.

Her sudden movement startled Duan Wenrui.

Zhuang Yanzheng quickly supported her arm, patted her back, and leaned down to look at her: "Are you alright?"

Zhuang Yanzheng patted her back to help her catch her breath.

Su Miaoyi coughed so hard she could hardly breathe, and when she held her breath, she felt weak.

Zhuang Yanzheng helped her sit down.

Duan Wenrui was stunned for a few seconds before quickly going to his office to get some water.

Su Miaoyi's cough lessened a bit. She looked around and, seeing no one, took a breath and said, "Zhao Yongliang is dead. It should be in Tian Min's field, in a pit where they store things, and his body is in the pit."

Duan Wenrui hurriedly came out of the office with water and happened to hear her words.

He suddenly stopped in his tracks.

Su Miaoyi and Zhuang Yanzheng turned around when they heard the noise and looked at him.

You could tell from his expression that he had definitely heard it.

However, he was trying to pretend that he hadn't heard anything.

He stepped forward and handed the water to Su Miaoyi.

"Thank you." Su Miaoyi took it and drank a few sips.

Duan Wenrui said, "I'll go to sleep next door first. Call me if you need anything."

He then walked towards the next room.

Su Miaoyi touched Zhuang Yanzheng's arm with her hand.

Zhuang Yanzheng immediately said, "Team Leader Duan, we'll need you in a bit. Wait here for a while."

Duan Wenrui stopped and looked at them.

He knew they didn't fully trust him and were worried he might leak information, so he came back.

But how did she know that Zhao Yongliang was not dead?
Zhuang Yanzheng went to call Lu Zhishen and the others.

Su Miaoyi and Duan Wenrui sat together for a while.

The two sat there quietly, without saying a word.

When Chu Xingrou and Lu Zhishen came out, Su Miaoyi told Lu Zhishen about the location where Zhao Yongliang's body was buried, which she had seen in the footage.

Then she and Zhuang Yanzheng pulled Duan Wenrui away.

Chu Xingrou and Lu Zhishen led the police to find Zhao Yongliang's body.

“I’ll go myself,” Su Miaoyi said. “You guys stay around, but don’t get spotted.”

Zhuang Yanzheng nodded.

Besides waiting to see how things went with Su Miaoyi, he also needed to observe Duan Wenrui.

"You go by yourself?" Duan Wenrui asked anxiously. "Wouldn't that be too dangerous? Zhao Yongliang was quite skilled, but she still killed him. What if she..."

"It's alright," Su Miaoyi said. "I'll contact you immediately if there are any problems."

Seeing that she insisted, and that Zhuang Yanzheng did not object, Duan Wenrui did not object further: "Safety first."

"it is good."

(End of this chapter)