The more Wang Lan deduced, the more suspicious he found Ma Bo to be, and by extension, the more suspicious Ma Bo’s bodyguard seed.
"Brother, I don’t like that man," Song Jia said, noticing Wang Lan hadn’t changed the channel.
"I don’t like him either, but... wait a mont, I’m going to make a phone call." Wang Lan took out his cell phone and dialed Hu Qing’s number.
"Wang Lan, how are things? Did you figure out what’s happening with Ms. Wang?"
"My aunt is fine now. By the way, are you free right now?"
"I’m free; I’m on leave today. What’s up?"
"Could you co over to Fragrant Courtyard Bay?"
"Sure! Just wait for ."
"Jiajia, go watch TV in your aunt’s room. I need to find so information."
Seeing Wang Lan’s serious expression, Song Jia obediently nodded.
Wang Lan returned to his room, turned on his computer, and quickly searched for Ma Bo from Senma Pharmaceutical. Soon, he found many photos of Ma Bo on the web, and in every photo of Ma Bo, the female bodyguard was with him. He printed out these photos. Not long after, Hu Qing arrived outside his aunt’s villa.
Wang Lan welcod Hu Qing inside. "Hu Qing, I rember you said a woman delivered the Demonic Transformation Potion to Crow. Was it her?" Wang Lan pointed to the printed photos and hurriedly asked.
Hu Qing frowned, studied the photos for a long ti, and eventually shook his head. "I’m not sure. The woman had changed her attire and hairstyle, wore heavy makeup, and had sunglasses on. Honestly, if you dress up any woman like that, no one could tell them apart."
"What’s your gut feeling?"
"Gut feeling?" Hu Qing gave a bitter smile. "We can’t identify a person based on a gut feeling."
"Why would you think this woman is the one I saw? I rember the person standing next to him was Dr. Ma Bo, right?" Hu Qing asked, puzzled.
"Yes, and I also suspect that Ma Bo is the developer of the Demonic Transformation Potion," Wang Lan said in a low voice.
Hu Qing inhaled sharply. "Don’t just say things like that! Dr. Ma Bo is a globally renowned scientist, an authority in the dical field, and soone who has made outstanding contributions to the country. You suspect him? Do you have any solid evidence? If not, you absolutely must not voice such a thought."
"Why are you so nervous? I’m just suspicious."
"Suspicion can be very dangerous! Especially now that he has developed Life Number One, which has been verified by the drug regulatory agency as the most effective cancer drug currently available. Do you know what that ans? It ans all of humanity will rember his benevolence; all of humanity will protect him. Whoever dares to harm him is making an enemy of all humanity."
Wang Lan’s eyebrows knit together slightly; he had thought of that too. The launch of Life Number One wasn’t just about a simple cancer dication; it was also Ma Bo’s protective amulet. As long as Life Number One existed, Ma Bo couldn’t be touched haphazardly.
"Wang Lan, what evidence do you actually have to suspect Ma Bo? And please, don’t ntion ’gut feeling’ again."
"My aunt was protectively arrested by the Tianjian Bureau."
"Huh?" Hu Qing looked at Wang Lan in surprise.
"The reason given was that the Gene Potion she developed was actually the Demonic Transformation Potion, and cancer patients treated with her Gene Potion began showing signs of Demonization. The Gene Potion and the Demonic Transformation Potion are ninety percent similar. Soone clearly frad my aunt by swapping her Gene Potion with the Demonic Transformation Potion. And then yesterday, on New Year’s Eve, Ma Bo personally visited my aunt, offering to exchange the entirety of Senma Pharmaceutical for fifty percent of the shares in Jiayi Biotech Company. My aunt refused at the ti... but this morning, incidents of patients experiencing Demonization during clinical trials occurred. How could it be such a coincidence? And today, New Year’s Day, Life Number One is released."
"According to my aunt, Jiayi Biotech’s Gene Potion fundantally cures inherent human conditions. It can treat cancer, but it’s not limited to just cancer. Life Number One requires three years of treatnt. A month’s treatnt costs one hundred thousand. That’s one point two million a year, and three point six million over three years. People diagnosed with cancer have often already spent all their money. Where would they find another three point six million for treatnt? The Gene Potion, with just a single dose, changes human genetics and eliminates defective genes by leveraging the body’s own immune system. If cancer could be recognized and repelled by the immune system, cancer cells would be nothing."
"Business competition is common, so I wouldn’t normally be suspicious. But the timing of these events is too coincidental; it forces to suspect him."
Wang Lan’s words made Hu Qing frown deeply. "Now that you say it, I suddenly rember sothing. While interrogating one of Crow’s n, he confessed to loan sharking and had locked up about ten people in the countryside. Among them were a woman and child, taken after the winter vacation started. He claid Crow ordered their kidnapping. Only after rescuing them did we learn that the woman’s ex-husband was a researcher at Jiayi Biotech Company—your aunt’s company."
"Ex-husband? What’s his na?"
"Qian Qihan. He was constantly busy with work and neglected his family, so his wife couldn’t take it anymore and divorced him last November. We weren’t sure why Crow wanted them—the mother and daughter—kidnapped, and we planned to look into it after the New Year. But now that you ntion it... could Qian Qihan have been the one who swapped the Gene Potion with the Demonic Transformation Potion at Jiayi Biotech?"
"It’s possible. If we add your information, then it all starts to make sense. Crow is directly linked to the Demonic Transformation Potion. He must have kidnapped Qian Qihan’s wife and daughter to coerce him into swapping the potions, thereby framing my aunt. Framing my aunt would also serve Senma Pharmaceutical’s agenda. Their Life Number One could then reap enormous profits for years."
"If that’s the case, what do you plan to do? Ma Bo is no ordinary person. We can’t just arrest him, nor can we investigate him directly. If we stir up public opinion, we’ll be in serious trouble."
"We don’t have to touch Ma Bo, but we can make a move on his female bodyguard. Suppose Ma Bo is the human traitor who developed the Demonic Transformation Potion and is collaborating with the Demon Clan. Then, wouldn’t the Demon Clan assign soone to monitor him constantly? Look, no matter the occasion, that female bodyguard is always right beside him. If the Demon Clan were monitoring Ma Bo, she’s the most likely candidate."
"What do you intend to do? Arrest her?"
"Verify! Let’s check this woman’s identity and ho address."
Hu Qing and Wang Lan acted separately, pulling out their mobile phones and beginning to search their respective network systems. This era had that advantage: the rise of smartphones allowed people from various departnts to access their internal information systems at any ti.
Soon, Wang Lan and Hu Qing found the female bodyguard’s identity. Ma Xiaoxue. Her official record states she’s Ma Bo’s niece and a graduate of Shenxing Bodyguard Academy—just an ordinary person. From this, Wang Lan was certain there was definitely sothing suspicious about her. Their previous eye contact had convinced Wang Lan she was definitely a Star Martial Warrior. That ant the information he’d found was falsified.
"At Jinghua Manor, Building Thirty-two, Room 2706," Hu Qing reported, having found Ma Xiaoxue’s ho address.
"Right now, Ma Bo is at the launch event for Life Number One, and it will be fully available starting tomorrow morning. So, Ma Xiaoxue should be with Ma Bo, not at her apartnt."
"Let’s search her apartnt," Hu Qing said, his face showing eagerness.
"Wait a mont." Wang Lan quietly left the room and opened the door to Song Jia’s room. Song Jia had been in there for a while and had already fallen asleep in bed, still in her day clothes and without having bathed. Wang Lan gently lifted Jiajia, tucked her under the covers, and then tiptoed out of the room.
"Did you bring your police uniform?"
"No, but I have my work ID. Why?"
"Just bring sothing to prove your identity to avoid any unnecessary misunderstandings. That’ll be fine. Let’s go now."
The two quietly left the house. They had gone no more than fifty ters when a plainclothes agent from the Tianjian Bureau appeared by the roadside. Wang Lan knew that from today onwards, his aunt’s villa would be under twenty-four-hour surveillance and protection by the Tianjian Bureau.
"Wang Lan, where are you going this late?"
"I have so theories I need to verify. Please look after Jiajia’s safety. If she wakes up before I return, please comfort her. I’ve left her a note; you can show her your credentials to earn her trust. Thank you for your hard work."
"What do you need to verify? Can’t we do it for you?"
"I’ll go. You can track my location through my phone. You can also report this to Director Wang."
"Understood. Be careful."
Wang Lan held a special status in the Intelligence Departnt, earned through his many concrete achievents. It was fair to say the entire Intelligence Departnt had imnse trust in him. Although Wang Lan leaving in the middle of the night deviated from the plan, his colleagues wouldn’t stop him. Naturally, they would report it to Wang Qianfeng.
Currently, Wang Qianfeng was sitting opposite Ms. Wang Qi, trying to console her. Wang Qianfeng and Wang Qi had known each other for a long ti and understood each other well.
"Ms. Wang Qi, is there a possibility that a third person knows about this? Are you sure only you and Song Zifeng knew?"
"That day, when I found out I was pregnant, Feng was so overjoyed he was practically bouncing off the walls at ho. He was too excited to sleep all night. After finally dozing off, he suddenly sat bolt upright, opened his laptop, and wrote down that formula. Even he didn’t fully understand the formula himself; it was rely a hypothesis. At that ti, Feng and I had already completed our graduation theses, and this was the intended direction for our future research."
"Feng was a cautious person. At that ti, he was having so academic disagreents with his professor, so he wouldn’t have shared such an important hypothesis with him. He was very self-assured and was determined not to discuss this potentially groundbreaking formula with anyone until he could prove it himself. Because I was pregnant, he didn’t let participate in the experints. He had already contacted a new laboratory and was planning to make a significant breakthrough after graduation to celebrate the birth of our child."
"He was supposed to be on leave that day, but his professor called him to the university to complete an important experint. Unexpectedly... the accident happened."
"Was that lab incident truly an accident?" Wang Qianfeng asked in a low voice.
"My sister personally sent people to investigate; it really was an accident. The equipnt had malfunctioned more than once or twice before, but the university refused to repair it. Previously, it had only resulted in power outages. No one expected that particular experint to cause an explosion."
"Could it be..." Wang Qianfeng began to ask, but his phone rang, interrupting him.
"Hello?"
"What? Wang Lan went to verify so theory? That kid..." Wang Qianfeng was about to scold but suddenly stopped himself.
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