526: Incoming calls

Su Yue learned of their plan, not through the internet or any trick...

A Qi's thinking was off from the start.

The reason Su Yue knew their trap was because he had already seen through the trap's location.

Last night, although Zhong Qi had turned away, Su Yue could still observe A Qi's movements and outline with the help of the reflection on the door glass.

His mind palace began to operate, enriching and perfecting these movements and outlines in his mind. Even with his back to A Qi, Su Yue's perception was no different from looking directly at them.

Coupled with the arrangement order of the four records on the note, Su Yue easily determined the exact location where they set the trap.

...

Around three o'clock, Yan Qing discovered the suspicious figure.

She surprisingly recorded this surveillance video and sent it to A Qi.

However, after seeing this recording, A Qi was equally shocked. He watched Su Yue's swaggering appearance in the surveillance video, his heart burning with rage!

"Damn it!"

In the surveillance footage, Su Yue, wearing a hat, walked step by step behind the Municipal Bureau Officer Si, yet was not detected at all.

Su Yue, as if treating a close friend, stuffed the note into Officer Si's pocket, then turned and left.

Just like that, the distance between the two was almost zero, yet they still didn't realize Su Yue was right behind them!

But just as A Qi was feeling angry and surprised, his phone suddenly rang.

The caller ID showed an unknown number. A Qi was a bit confused, but still answered the call.

"Hello, who is this?"

A voice came from the other end of the phone: "Qi Team, I'm from the TV station..."

A Qi replied: "Deputy Station Head Tang?"

"Is there anything unusual?"

Station Head Tang hummed, and said with some hesitation in his voice: "I am Tang Ping... Qi Team, we received a note here."

"Left on it, is Su Yue's name."

Hearing this, A Qi felt a boom in his mind. He raised his arm and pressed his forehead, his thoughts swirling.

"He really went to the TV station?"

"Unexpectedly..."

"And left a note again!?"

"What exactly does he think we are!"

Just as he was thinking this, he was interrupted by Tang Ping's voice again.

"Captain Qi?"

"Hello?"

A Qi's thoughts were pulled back by the voice on the phone. Then he adjusted his mindset and asked: "Was the note found during the interview?"

Tang Ping hummed and reported in detail: "Yes... but we don't know when it was left, nor who left it. When cleaning the desk, this note was found among a pile of resumes..."

A Qi took a deep breath, trying his best to control his emotions.

Then he asked: "What was written on the note?"

Tang Ping read the message on the note word by word: "I am Su Yue, didn't expect that, A Qi."

Hearing this, a surge of nameless anger immediately rose in A Qi's heart.

But he also knew that Tang Ping was reading the note, which made him feel particularly aggrieved.

And Tang Ping's voice did not stop: "Haha... are you mad?"

"Guess where I'm going next?"

"By the time you hear this message, I will have already left Taoyang and embarked on the journey to the Holy Mountain."

"A Qi, how is the physical fitness of your team? Can you climb mountains?"

Tang Ping paused here, then continued: "Qi Team, that's all."

A Qi hummed and instructed: "Check the surveillance footage for any suspicious individuals, not limited to those who participated in the interview, but also those who approached that desk. They could all be Su Yue."

"We must find his whereabouts."

Tang Ping responded, and then both parties ended the call.

As soon as the call ended, Xiang Haitian's hoarse voice rang out. He asked: "What should we do? Are we still waiting here?"

Qi Si also spoke: "Forget it, since Su Yue has already seen through our plan, let's go back."

"This supplementary identity information registration is just a trial run anyway, let's just end it in three days."

"Leave two people here to guard, in case Su Yue suddenly comes back..."

However, A Qi seemed not to have heard Xiang Haitian and Qi Si's words. He said to himself: "Su Yue went to the TV station, and even left a note."

"What!?"

Qi Si suddenly stood up, clearly shocked that Su Yue actually dared to go to the TV station.

A Qi continued: "He is playing tricks on us..."

"But we can't even figure out his location!"

This cruel reality made them feel powerless. What made it even more difficult was that they had no idea how to respond now!

At this moment, Su Yue was still the top trending topic on Weibo, and the popularity remained high. There was no sign of people's enthusiasm for discussing this matter diminishing.

According to previous calculations, they didn't have much time left.

Since this method had completely failed, they had to rethink and replan...

A Qi felt like his brain was not enough.

Just now Su Yue said he was going to the Holy Mountain?

Mount Everest?

He asked about the physical fitness of the Special Task Force members? What did that mean?

Question marks rose one after another in A Qi's mind, making him feel increasingly confused.

Just then, a phone rang, interrupting his thoughts.

He looked at his phone. This time it showed "TV Station Deputy Station Head Tang".

A Qi was a bit confused. Didn't they just talk? Why was he calling again?

He answered the phone. Although he was angry, he still tried to maintain a calm voice and said: "Station Head Tang, is there something?"

Station Head Tang on the other end also sounded confused and said: "Qi Team, didn't you ask me to call you?"

A Qi froze for a moment, then retorted: "I didn't..."

Just then, A Qi suddenly widened his eyes and cursed loudly: "Fuck!"

"Sorry... Station Head Tang, it's not directed at you..."

"Um, I'm fine, sorry, sorry, I'll contact you later, I have something going on here..."

However, everyone in the Special Task Force was looking at A Qi at this moment, not knowing why he suddenly became like this.

Thump!

After A Qi hung up the phone, he fiercely kicked the table in front of him.

The legs of this table were directly bent by his kick!

The expression on his face became somewhat distorted due to anger, or perhaps it was due to pain...

A Qi seemed not to have vented enough, and he fiercely stomped his foot on the ground again.

Only then did he speak again: "Damn it! He played me!"

A Qi's angry appearance greatly surprised the other members of the Special Task Force.

They had never seen A Qi lose control like this.

Xiang Haitian saw him furious and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

However, A Qi acted as if he hadn't heard. He gripped his phone tightly, opened the call history, and redialed the number from there.

He originally expected to hear "The number you dialed is powered off," but unexpectedly, it connected.

"Hello?"

A young female voice came from the other end of the phone.

"Hello..."

A Qi had already realized something, so he asked: "Did someone just use your phone to make a call?"

The girl hesitated for a moment, then denied A Qi's statement: "No..."

"Who are you?"

"Why are you calling me?"

A Qi closed his eyes, looking very distressed.

But he immediately stated his identity: "Nothing, my friend just made a call using this number."

"Can I ask where you are now?"

"Just the approximate location is fine, I have absolutely no ill intentions."

However, A Qi's words did not gain the other party's trust.

After leaving a remark of "Lunatic," the other side immediately hung up the phone.

A Qi put down his phone, massaged his temples, and his face was even a bit flushed due to rising blood pressure.

"What exactly is wrong, Qi Team?" Qi Si's voice came over.

A Qi let out a long breath and said: "The call that just came was from Su Yue."

Qi Si immediately reacted: "You mean... the first call from the TV station was from Su Yue?"

A Qi nodded.

The others present also immediately realized what had happened.

Just now A Qi received two calls. The first one, which he thought was from Deputy Station Head Tang Ping of the TV station, was actually made by Su Yue.

This meant that the note actually didn't exist...

The information of a TV station's deputy station head is not difficult to obtain. One could even find the name of a station head surnamed Zhang with a little searching.

Combined with the fact that the real Tang Ping later called back saying he was looking for him, this could also be confirmed.

So Su Yue immediately said confusing words like "I am Tang Ping."

However, thinking about it in detail, A Qi couldn't help but get angrier the more he thought about it.

He actually fell for the simplest telecommunications fraud trick!

The other party first said their name, gave a general direction, and let him guess who it was...

It was just like those fraudsters who call elderly women in scam calls, saying their son was hit and is in the hospital in urgent need of money for life-saving treatment.

If an ordinary person fell for such a trick, it would be understandable...

But he wasn't an old woman!

He was the Captain of the Criminal Investigation Team of Qingzhou Municipal Bureau! He was the Team Leader of the Su Yue case Special Task Force!

Su Yue even deliberately said things like "I am Su Yue, didn't expect that, A Qi?"!

A Qi felt his brain throbbing with anger.

The atmosphere in the entire office building lobby was very subtle.

Not just A Qi, the entire Special Task Force felt disgraced.

"Damn it..."

That feeling of humiliation was repeatedly pounding his brain, making his heart rate almost too fast.

"Deep breaths, Qi Team."

"Don't fall into his trap, he just wants you to be like this..."

Qi Si's voice came over: "Just don't let him achieve his goal. He is in the dark and we are in the light, so it's not surprising that this kind of situation happens."

A Qi nodded, breathing deeply.

He knew that in the current situation, he absolutely could not lose control.

Otherwise, morale would collapse.

Moreover, they still had a final safeguard: Professor Lin Liqun's plan had not yet been implemented.

Coupled with the fact that Lin Liqun had likely anticipated such a situation last night, they still had hope.

At the very least, they could not let Su Yue continue to get away with it.

The current humiliation was nothing. As long as they could ultimately catch Su Yue, everything he had experienced could be compensated for.

Although he was comforting himself like this and taking deep breaths to adjust his emotions, he still couldn't accept the feeling of being toyed with.

He suddenly thought, when Su Yue said the message on the note in that deliberate, word-by-word tone...

What kind of mocking and teasing expression would be on his face?

"Damn it..."

A Qi became more and more angry the more he thought about it.

What he said about going to the Holy Mountain...

Did he mean he would stand on the mountaintop waiting for them to chase after him?

He gritted his teeth hard, then said: "Let's..."

"Let's go back."

"No need to waste any more time."

He thought for a moment and continued: "Dong Yang, Zheng Ze, you two stay here."

Then he led the way out.

As he passed by Qi Si, he suddenly remembered what Lin Liqun had said before.

If what he had experienced happened to Qi Si...

How would he react?

He hoped this day would never come. As Lin Liqun said, Qi Si was a good prospect. Even if he couldn't catch Su Yue, he could play a bigger role in other areas.

He suddenly had an idea, wanting Qi Si to temporarily stop following the Special Task Force's actions...

But he ultimately did not say these words.

A Qi knew very well the obsession in Qi Si's heart. If he were to protect him in this way, it would be no different from stifling him.

In the end, he just paused slightly in his steps, and then left the place.

...

Zhonghai City.

Chu Qing flew directly from Jinrong to Shanghai and contacted the local newspaper office, wanting to inquire about what happened with Su Yue there at the time.

But the effect was not ideal.

The newspaper offices in Shanghai seemed to have received some instructions. No one was willing to reveal more details about the Su Yue case.

Whether editors or reporters, as long as they were personnel related to the newspaper office, they would immediately hang up as soon as they received a call and heard the two words "Su Yue."

But Chu Qing did not give up.

She came from a wealthy family and knew from a young age how powerful money could be.

She found the information for Zhonghai Restaurant and located the phone number of the General Manager who had been dismissed.

She knew that this General Manager had cooperated with the Zhonghai Municipal Bureau's work back then.

And it seemed that it was precisely because he cooperated with the Zhonghai Municipal Bureau's work that he lost this job.

However, it was also precisely because he lost his job that he was now very short of money.

Chu Qing only used five hundred yuan to get him to talk.

This former General Manager named Li Yang began to recount what happened at Zhonghai Restaurant in July:

"That kid was prepared long ago..."

"He used Wang Linlin's ID card to book a room..."

"And used peripheral personnel in the lobby to attract attention."

Chu Qing was startled: "Peripheral?"

Li Yang gave a bitter laugh and said: "Yes, peripheral."

"I was dismissed because of this matter."

"Although it had little to do with me, I was still pushed out to take the blame."

The bitter expression on Li Yang's face made Chu Qing sense a hint of a news story, but she knew very well what she should focus on.

"Su Yue? Peripheral?" she thought to herself, "This sounds like big news."

She smiled and nodded, signaling Li Yang to continue his story. However, Li Yang's subsequent words had nothing to do with the periphery. But Chu Qing was not disappointed, because she heard even more shocking content!