Chapter 1 Key Witnesses

Inside the police station, Su Tiannan and Lu Feng, as key witnesses in the Manager Pang kidnapping case, were immediately separated upon entering the lobby and taken away to be questioned personally by officers of superintendent rank.

During the interrogation, Lu Feng mainly stuck to two points. First, he claimed that he had tried to resist during his captivity but was discovered in advance and beaten. Second, the bandits released him and Su Tiannan after they successfully escaped from The Dragon City.

In this statement, Lu Feng did not add his own judgments, nor did he supplement details when the police officers didn't ask. He only focused on the above two points, clearly explaining the matter.

Lu Feng was an absolute old fox. By giving his statement this way, he wouldn't offend those desperados and risk retaliation, nor would he be questioned by the police station if a certain criminal was caught and the case was solved, because he had stated all the key points.

Lu Feng's deeper thought was that he didn't want to fight with Yu Mingyuan's team anymore. Otherwise, he wouldn't have pulled the stunt of turning himself in last time. Therefore, he didn't see the need to disgust Su Tiannan by saying a few extra words.

…

District One.

Gou Liuzi was walking on the beach, pondering how to "unintentionally" hold An Qiqi's little hand in a natural way.

Under the bright night sky, the waves roared, the water shimmered, and there were lounge chairs and couples' cabins all around. It was an ideal scene for a man and woman to… well, you know.

Su Tianyu blinked, just about to reach out.

"Dilingling!"

A phone rang, but Su Tianyu ignored it.

An Qiqi walked barefoot on the sand: "Buddy, your phone's ringing!"

"Ignore the phone, and don't talk! My lips are chapped, I need your saliva...!" Su Tianyu was ready to make his move.

"You're disgusting!" An Qiqi felt a chill and pushed Su Tianyu away with a laugh: "Answer the phone!"

"So annoying!" Su Tianyu took out his phone from his pocket and pressed the answer button: "Hello?! The person you've dialed is about to go to sleep...!"

"Something happened at home!" Kong ZhengHui's voice sounded: "Your older brother is in the police station."

"Why?" Su Tianyu instantly sobered up.

"He's fine. He ran into a kidnapping case during dinner tonight. He's a witness." Kong ZhengHui said in a low voice: "I'm calling you because I'm afraid your family will worry and try to contact you. I'm telling you in advance, he's fine, we've all arrived and are waiting."

"Who was kidnapped?" Su Tianyu asked.

"Recently, wasn't it...!" Kong ZhengHui started chatting with him on the phone.

…

At the headquarters of the Bao Long Group, a beautiful woman in her late twenties, wearing a fitted professional suit, took off her high heels in the office, put on flat sports shoes, and tied up her beautiful hair, asking: "What did the police station say?!"

"Two hostages were released. They said the bandits have left the city," the secretary replied.

The beautiful woman picked up her coat from the hanger and asked softly, "Have the newly recruited workers for the First Work Zone settled into the dormitories?"

"Yes!"

"Notify the mining company's project team and have them take over Lao Pang's work." The beautiful woman put on her coat and walked out with a resolute stride: "The construction period cannot be delayed, but it must be stable!"

"Understood!"

"Go to the police station with me. I want to ask about Lao Pang's case."

"Okay!" The secretary replied, then asked, puzzled, "President Zhang, I don't quite understand. Who would make such a big splash at this time to kidnap Manager Pang? Isn't this...!"

"Lao Pang used to be from the pharmaceutical company. He... his background is very complicated." The beautiful woman paused and said, "There are many people who want to mess with him."

The secretary nodded slowly, no longer speaking.

The beautiful woman took her secretary downstairs, bent over, and got into a stretched business car, heading straight to the police headquarters.

…

At four o'clock in the morning, The Dragon City suddenly had a heavy rain. This was a coastal city, and once it entered the spring typhoon season, the weather became capricious.

In the No. 1 mining area of the Bao Long Mining Group.

The director of the monitoring department was awakened. He put on his raincoat, took a flashlight, and rushed out of the dormitory building with six or seven technicians.

"Are there any cave-ins in the pipeline?!" the monitoring department director asked.

"There's a bit of a cave-in at the entrance, but we've expanded it with supports, so it's not a big problem. The drainage system at the tunnel entrance is also open, and the situation is currently stable." The technician behind him replied in a low voice, "It's just that there's a bit of a problem with the underground tunnel. The engineering department and our department had a meeting before and speculated that there might be an underground river underground, so we're afraid that once the water rises, it will affect the subsequent expansion."

"Did anyone go down?" the director asked again.

"Six people went down. Currently, the monitoring shows no problems, but we still need to think of some preventive measures!"

"Mm!" The director nodded and didn't say anything else.

The group arrived near mine shaft 03, their feet sinking deep with each step. The director of the monitoring department lowered his head and glanced at the entrance of the tunnel, seeing the drainage system buzzing and spraying water upwards, everything was operating normally.

"Add two more pipes. We don't know how long this rain will last!" The director turned his head and shouted, "Call Lao Yao from the engineering department over. We'll go down and take a look together!"

"Okay!"

About ten minutes later, a middle-aged man in his forties, with five or six people, also rushed over in raincoats.

As soon as the director of the monitoring department got close to the other party, he smelled a strong smell of alcohol on him.

"You've been drinking?"

"Ah! I couldn't sleep at night, so I had a little drink!" The middle-aged man from the engineering department nodded, his eyes bloodshot.

"Are you okay?"

"How many years have I been doing this? What could be wrong? It's fine." The middle-aged man waved his hand.

"It's stuffy down there, or you can call other on-duty personnel over and have them go down." The monitoring department person advised.

"Hey, it's okay!" The middle-aged man from the engineering department waved his hand: "I'm in charge of mine shaft 03. Who would be willing to go down and do this for us on a rainy day!"

"Then you go down and take a look and check the equipment inside the tunnel." The director of the monitoring department pointed to the phone and said, "We'll use the phone to compare the data later!"

"Okay!" The middle-aged man from the engineering department turned around and shouted: "Find me a hundred miners, experienced ones!"

…

Five minutes later.

Uncle Jiu from the Tongji Association, who lived closest to the No. 3 mine shaft, was awakened. He stood at the door and asked, "Isn't it supposed to start work next week?!"

"It's raining!! All the mine shafts need to be repaired, and there aren't that many people." The engineering department person waved his hand and shouted, "Find some skilled people and go down into the well to take a look!"

"Then how is this calculated? Is it considered work?!"

"Yes, we'll give you an attendance allowance, hurry up!"

"Okay!"

After the two finished talking, Uncle Jiu went back to the house to call people.

Around 5:10 a.m., Uncle Jiu got into the tunnel car and looked back at the gray sky outside: "This rain is really heavy...!"

…

Inside the police station.

The beautiful manager of the Bao Long Group asked the police chief with some curiosity, "The bandits killed people in the house, so why would they release the two hostages? That's very strange!"

District One.

After Su Tianyu and An Qiqi returned to the hotel, they booked plane tickets. His vacation was coming to an end, and he was preparing to return tomorrow.