Chapter 52: Chapter 52 Hot Noodles: We Have Changed the Future
“Who is the suspect?”
“Damn it, how is there still a gun?”
Wang Qiang asked as he took out his cellphone.
“Soone you wouldn’t expect!”
“It was Xiaocao who provided with the clue.”
“Otherwise, I’m afraid he would’ve gotten away.”
Song Lin said with a sigh.
“Xiaocao?”
Upon hearing this, Wang Qiang was taken aback.
“Yes, it’s Xiaocao…”
Song Lin nodded and said.
“It’s a pity I didn’t listen to her. If I had taken the person in earlier, otherwise…”
As he spoke, Song Lin slapped himself on the face with a frustrated expression.
“It’s all my fault…”
“I should have arrested him sooner…”
“It’s all because I was too by-the-book…”
Song Lin said with self-reproach.
Looking at the self-reproaching Song Lin, Wang Qiang turned to Shi Guang, asking with his eyes what had happened inside.
“The parents of the couple in apartnt 402 were also killed…”
Shi Guang said with a sigh.
Upon hearing this, Wang Qiang was startled.
Imdiately after, his expression also darkened.
Although it wasn’t Song Lin’s fault, the last thing a criminal investigator wants to see is the body of a victim, especially when the perpetrator was already identified but because of lack of evidence, soone was hard.
That kind of guilt stemming from the conscience is the most agonizing.
“Shi Guang, call the technical investigation departnt, forensic doctor over.”
Wang Qiang propped up Song Lin and instructed Shi Guang.
“Yes!”
Shi Guang responded and took out his cellphone to call his colleagues back at the station.
“Uh…”
“Also, call 120…”
Wang Qiang glanced at Song Lin, hesitated for a mont, and then added softly.
Song Lin’s eyes instantly widened as he glared at Wang Qiang.
“Hehe…”
“I got so agitated earlier that I forgot…”
Facing Song Lin’s angry stare, Wang Qiang said with an embarrassed smile.
“Having you as my apprentice is my good fortune…”
Song Lin said with rolling eyes.
“Also…”
“Shi Guang, call the bomb squad…”
“Uhm… there’s still a grenade inside.”
Song Lin said to Shi Guang who had just put down the cellphone.
This ti, it was Wang Qiang who was wide-eyed.
“I forgot…”
Song Lin replied.
“What do you an, there’s a grenade and we’re still here?”
Wang Qiang exclaid, wide-eyed.
“I can’t walk anymore, you’ll have to help if you want to leave.”
Song Lin said weakly, leaning against the wall.
“Shi Guang, co help out.”
Wang Qiang was about to support Song Lin and called out to Shi Guang.
“I’m young, I don’t want to die in the line of duty so early.”
Wang Qiang muttered.
Hearing Wang Qiang’s words, Song Lin gave a wry smile.
Wang Qiang and Shi Guang, one on each side, propped up Song Lin and stepped slowly toward the yard’s exit.
“Tick-tock, tick-tock, tick-tock…”
As the three of them reached the courtyard door, the sound of the second hand ticking was clearly heard.
The three of them were startled and instinctively looked at each other…
In each other’s eyes, they saw a look of horror.
“Damn, a ti bomb?”
Wang Qiang exclaid.
Shi Guang turned his head towards the sound and looked down at the flowerpot beside his feet.
The constantly jumping red numbers instantly filled him with sheer terror.
“Only ten seconds left, run!”
Without a second to spare, Shi Guang shouted and dragged Song Lin to run.
“Boom!”
An explosion roared and flas burst into the sky.
The windows of the cars across the street shattered instantly.
In the village, the lights were on because of the gunfight.
They flickered with the roar, and countless villagers ran out of their hos in a panic.
…
Police cars, ambulances, and fire trucks converged on the scene.
Surrounded by the villagers, three soot-covered people were carried onto the ambulance.
“Damn, nearly died on the job…”
From the ambulance, Wang Qiang’s voice could be heard.
The young female police officer ran towards the ambulance, her face filled with worry.
“Captain Song, Team Leader, Shi Guang, are you all okay?”
The young female police officer asked anxiously.
“We’re fine, just feeling a bit dizzy.”
Wang Qiang shouted hoarsely.
The intense explosion left their heads buzzing.
Their ears also went into a brief state of deafness.
“Master got shot a few tis, but he won’t die just yet.”
“Shi Guang got knocked out by the blast wave.”
Wang Qiang shouted, describing everyone’s injuries.
Before the ambulance arrived, Wang Qiang had woken up.
He had already checked everyone’s injuries.
“Comrade, it looks like my master is not going to make it.”
Pointing at the pale-faced, unconscious Song Lin, Wang Qiang yelled at the top of his lungs.
“You should go with us to the hospital.”
The doctor put an oxygen mask on Song Lin and said to the young female police officer.
“Okay!”
The young female police officer replied and got into the ambulance.
Amidst the clamorous sirens, the ambulance, led by the police car, sped towards the Central Hospital of Tang City.
…
The hotel!
Having just taken a shower, Fang Xiaocao sat in front of the dressing mirror, drying her hair.
[Croak croak croak!]
The sound of a frog croaking suddenly rang out.
Fang Xiaocao turned to look at the phone on the nightstand.
“Who could it be so late at night?”
Fang Xiaocao put down the hairdryer and muttered as she got up to grab the phone.
Picking up the phone, she saw a WeChat ssage.
Fang Xiaocao unlocked the screen and checked the ssage.
[Hot Noodles: Sothing happened in Tang City!]
Upon reading the ssage, Fang Xiaocao was stunned.
“What happened?”
Fang Xiaocao hurriedly replied, asking for details.
[Hot Noodles: Axi has been exposed. While killing an elderly couple, he was caught by the ambushing Song Lin. A gunfight ensued during his resistance, with Song Lin being shot three tis and Axi killed on the spot.]
Reading the ssage, Fang Xiaocao was astonished.
“How is Captain Song?”
Fang Xiaocao asked urgently.
[Hot Noodles: In your ti period, Song Lin is currently being treated. According to future newspapers, he will be fine and will even receive an award.]
“Phew~”
Upon seeing this ssage, Fang Xiaocao breathed a sigh of relief.
“What about the elderly couple?”
Rembering the lonely backs of the elderly couple supporting each other, Fang Xiaocao felt a pang in her heart and asked.
[Hot Noodles: Dead…]
[Hot Noodles: Axi planted a homade ti bomb in the yard. Sparks from the explosion ignited the house, which set off the gas canisters and grenades inside. Axi and the elderly couple were reduced to ashes…]
“Bomb…a bomb?”
Staring at the ssage, Fang Xiaocao exclaid.
“Axi… is that ruthless?”
Fang Xiaocao’s voice trembled as she continued to ask.
[Hot Noodles: Yes!]
Fang Xiaocao’s mood grew heavy.
Three lives were gone just like that.
Not even their bodies were left behind…
“Wait a minute…”
“Are we sure Axi is dead?”
Fang Xiaocao’s voice shook as she sent a voice ssage asking.
Sohow.
When she saw the words “reduced to ashes” in Hot Noodles’ ssage, Fang Xiaocao suddenly felt a shiver go through her and the image of Axi’s sneering face flashed across her mind.
At that mont, she had a premonition…
Could it be that Axi didn’t die and fled amidst the chaos?
Hot Noodles fell silent.
Fang Xiaocao received no reply for a long ti.
“No?”
“Could he really be alive?”
Fang Xiaocao asked tensely.
[Hot Noodles: I can’t answer that question. In my current tiline, history has already been altered, and so far, there have been no reports of a criminal like Axi, or soone resembling Axi.]
[Hot Noodles: The newspaper states that Axi was killed on the spot by Song Lin.]
[Hot Noodles: As for whether he is dead, all I can say is that in my tiline, Axi has vanished.]
[Hot Noodles: However, due to my arrival and your current actions, a lot of the future has changed. For example, Song Lin, Han Xue, Qi Yu; their futures have all been altered because of us. So, whether Axi is truly dead or not is sothing you will have to find out for yourself.]
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