After scanning another crossbow bolt, Qin He heard Shen Yilin's gasp of surprise beside her.
"Sister! Be careful!"
The next second, Shen Yilin was standing in front of her. Qin He looked at the young man before her. A steel crossbow bolt had pierced through his right chest!
The tip of the arrow protruded in front of her.
There was blood on the arrow tip. Shen Yilin stumbled in pain, and Qin He immediately panicked.
"Yilin."
The man in grey not far away clearly hadn't expected this and was stunned for a moment, but quickly began loading a new crossbow bolt!
Qin He used this opportunity to quickly help Shen Yilin to the side.
There was no other way!
Her expression turned grim as she looked at the man in grey!
She had to take the initiative now!
Shen Yilin couldn't move. She had to keep the man on his toes, preventing him from having the chance to harm anyone else!
Qin He dodged several steel arrows and ran quickly towards the man in grey!
Her speed was incredible, her movements agile, and the man in grey couldn't aim at her for a moment.
Moreover, aiming required stability. As he shot and retreated, his arrows flew further and further off target.
Qin He took a deep breath.
Thirty meters!
Twenty meters!
Qin He counted silently in her heart. When she was still fifteen meters away from the man in grey, he seemed to give up and turned to escape again!
Qin He quickly followed.
When the man in grey climbed over the wall and left again, Qin He immediately stopped.
This time, she didn't intend to chase the man in grey. Shen Yilin's condition was the most important thing now!
Qin He confirmed that the surroundings were safe and quickly returned to Shen Yilin's side.
Shen Yilin was already sitting against the wall, blood seeping out from the edge of the crossbow bolt in his chest!
"It hurts so much."
Qin He was flustered for a moment. Seeing Shen Yilin's hand reaching to pull out the arrow himself.
"Don't move!" she called out hurriedly. She didn't know where the crossbow bolt had injured him yet. Blindly pulling it out could lead to severe bleeding!
A few traces of blood appeared at the corners of Shen Yilin's mouth. "Sister, I'm glad you're alright."
Qin He bit her lower lip. The penetrating wound in her right chest made her feel pain just looking at it!
She quickly pulled out her phone from her pocket and called the hospital.
After the call, she immediately reached out and pressed down firmly on Shen Yilin's wound.
"Don't be afraid, Yilin, we'll be at the hospital soon."
The siren of a police car grew louder as it approached. Qin He, with her hands covered in blood, looked towards the direction they came from, supporting Shen Yilin.
When the police car stopped by the Swan Pond, Officer Li got out and his expression turned serious upon seeing the scene. He immediately ran over.
"What's going on? What happened?"
Qin He didn't have time to explain in detail: "I think I encountered the real culprit. When the culprit attacked me, Yilin saved me!"
Officer Li immediately ran to the side and opened the car door: "I'll take you to the hospital first."
Qin He supported Shen Yilin, pointed to some shoe prints on the wall, and handed Shen Yilin's blood-stained camera to Officer Li.
"Please take this. The footprints on the wall are the culprit's escape route. I need to take him to the hospital now. The rest is up to you!"
Officer Li hurried to say, "I'll take you."
Qin He shook her head: "No need. It's not convenient for you as a police officer."
Her voice was hoarse.
After carefully placing Shen Yilin in the back seat, Qin He got into the driver's seat.
Officer Li stood by the car, still a bit confused. Why would it be inconvenient for him, a police officer, to take someone to the hospital?
The next second, he saw his police car zoom away like an arrow!
At that speed on the road, they would definitely be stopped by traffic police!
The other police officers had already started collecting shoe prints and fingerprints by the wall.
Officer Li glanced at the camera on his phone and then said to the officers,
"Collect all the evidence of those footprints carefully!"
As he spoke, his gaze fell upon the steel crossbow bolts scattered on the ground.
"Using such an old-fashioned steel crossbow to kill people. This type of steel crossbow is more powerful than a gun at close range!" Officer Li's expression turned stern.
So many crossbow bolts on the ground, it looked like the culprit had fired quite a few!
Miss Qin was actually unharmed?
Officer Li felt a moment of doubt, but he still said to the officer beside him, "Pick up all these steel crossbow bolts and take them back to the police station for fingerprint analysis by the technical department."
Two streets away from Qingcheng University.
A man in grey entered a residential building. Shortly after, a man in a black suit carrying a briefcase walked out of the building.
He picked up his phone and answered it.
"How was it handled?"
The man in the suit gritted his teeth: "Sorry, it failed! I, I retreated in a hurry and even left some crossbow bolts at the scene. Those crossbow bolts— have my fingerprints on them."
The low, hoarse male voice on the other end spoke with anger.
"I told you to get rid of the evidence! And you left more evidence?"
The man in the suit gritted his teeth: "That Qin He is too difficult to deal with. Her martial arts are excellent. She deflected my steel crossbow with just a piece of clothing."
"When you say things like that, you shouldn't praise her martial arts skills, but rather call yourself trash."
The man on the other end said coldly.
"Was Qin He injured?"
"No, I followed your instructions and didn't aim for her vital spots, but still, not a single crossbow bolt hit her."
The man thought for a moment and added, "But one of the students near her was hit."
The hoarse voice on the other end replied, with a faint electrical sound: "What kind of student."
The man in the suit pursed his lips: "I don't know him, but I heard the boy call Qin He 'sister'—"
The call abruptly ended.
The man in the suit was a little confused, but hearing the sound of a police car nearby, his eyes flickered slightly. He walked into the subway station entrance with a normal expression.
Qin He drove the police car at breakneck speed down the road, quickly arriving at Qingcheng Third Hospital.
She quickly rushed Shen Yilin into the emergency operating room and waited anxiously outside the door.
Her phone rang again and again. She took it out to check; it was a call from Qin Yun.
Qin Yun's voice was panting: "He'er, I'm at the Swan Pond at Qing University now. Officer Li has told me about your situation. You're in grave danger! Stay at the hospital and don't go anywhere. I'm sending people to protect you now!"
"No need, brother. Those people aren't after me," Qin He's voice was hoarse.
The man in grey today must have been there to clean up the scene again and bumped into her while she was looking for clues.
With the only two pieces of evidence gone, those people shouldn't target her anymore.
Qin He stared intently at the operating room door, her heart filled with intense anxiety.
She tightened her grip on her phone slightly: "Brother, please call Shen Yizong and give him a leave of absence. Tell him to come to the hospital quickly."
"What's wrong?"
Qin Yun's voice was solemn, then he remembered what Officer Li had just said.
He exclaimed in shock: "The injured student is Shen Yilin?!"