Although Liu Zhaodi and Qiu Yongfei had good news of a successful search for relatives, this did not affect the netizens’ boycott and loathing of Huo’s. Everyone spread the word online, sharpening their knives, eagerly awaiting the live broadcast of the Huo’s press conference in the afternoon.
Of course, Jiang Ning was temporarily unaware of the netizens’ high spirits...
At this moment, she and Qi Xingzhou were busy with another matter.
There was no need to speak of the efficiency of the small animals; as soon as the little sparrow with the camera attached flew out, not only sparrows but also the community’s stray cats and dogs emerged from the shade of the trees and corners to help.
Besides, other birds also flew out from their nests, chirping away, and in no time, they had formed an air and ground search team.
After having lunch, Jiang Ning lay down for a nap on the big bed in the bedroom, while Qi Xingzhou took a short rest in the guest room next door.
Waking from her nap, as soon as Jiang Ning came out of the bedroom, she saw Qi Xingzhou standing on the balcony outside. He too seemed to sense something and turned to look at Jiang Ning, "We’ve found the bad guy."
"That fast?" Jiang Ning was slightly surprised, "Where is he now?"
As she asked, Jiang Ning’s attention also glanced at the System’s navigation.
Indeed, ever since the System issued the mission regarding Miao Wenjun, Jiang Ning could determine his location based on the little red dot.
Miao Wenjun seemed not at all afraid after committing the crime, for ever since the System released the task, Jiang Ning had noticed the little red dot representing Miao Wenjun moving around near the community, right up until she woke from her nap. The little red dot was still nearby!
Looking at that little red dot moving on the map, even Jiang Ning was baffled.
"He’s nearby, take a look." Qi Xingzhou walked in from the balcony, handed his phone to Jiang Ning, and with one glance at the screen, she could see the monitoring footage displayed on it.
The sparrow tied with the camera seemed to be perched high up, the steady camera aimed at a supermarket entrance, where under the blazing sun, people occasionally came and went.
Jiang Ning looked at the name of the supermarket, "Isn’t this Jiaduofu next to our community?"
"Mhm," Qi Xingzhou nodded, seeing that Jiang Ning didn’t seem to notice the presence of the bad guy, he pointed with his long finger on the screen and indicated a short, skinny man standing at the supermarket entrance smoking, "That’s him."
Had Qi Xingzhou not mentioned it, Jiang Ning really wouldn’t have noticed.
Although the System had provided her with personal information and a photo of Miao Wenjun after issuing the task, the little sparrow was stationed up high and the quality of the footage from the distance was blurry, to the point where features of passersby were indistinct, not to mention Miao Wenjun was wearing a hat for disguise and had a mask over his face.
It would have been strange if Jiang Ning could recognize him.
However, after Qi Xingzhou’s prompt, when Jiang Ning shifted her gaze back onto the man, the more she looked, the more she felt his height and slightly hunched back gradually matched the figure she had just seen in the control room.
"Huh, it really is him." After looking carefully for a while, Jiang Ning playfully tested Qi Xingzhou, "But we don’t have any evidence of his misdeeds, how do we catch him then?"
"I will go." Qi Xingzhou’s eyes dropped, the color deepening. His finger moved slightly, switching pages on his phone, and found the evidence he had just screenshot to show Jiang Ning, "He hasn’t changed his shoes, and when we were in the control room, I noticed a scar under his left ear."
The opened image was a series of close-up photos of Miao Wenjun. It was unclear whether Qi Xingzhou had directed the sparrow to fly close to Miao Wenjun before taking the screenshots.
In one of the photos, Jiang Ning could see the scar mentioned by Qi Xingzhou, a small scar less than two centimeters long just below Miao Wenjun’s left ear.
Jiang Ning had also seen the surveillance footage pulled up by the police, and after thinking hard, she couldn’t remember if there was a scar under Miao Wenjun’s ear, or if he was wearing these shoes?
Jiang Ning couldn’t recall at all, but she had a vivid memory of the food delivery uniform Miao Wenjun had worn previously to deceive the security guard... whereas Qi Xingzhou hadn’t even approached to look at the footage closely, simply standing to the side in silence, yet he had remembered so many details.
Thinking this, she couldn’t help but glance up at Qi Xingzhou, only to see his handsome profile, with his long neck and perfect lines of his nose and jaw.
Qi Xingzhou probably hadn’t noticed it himself, but when he spoke, his precise and stable demeanor was filled with a chill, and the emotional barriers and autistic tendencies he had before seemed to have disappeared by at least ninety percent at the moment.
Not receiving an immediate response from Jiang Ning to his words, Qi Xingzhou turned his gaze to her.
As their eyes met and he looked at Jiang Ning, all the coldness and aura on Qi Xingzhou’s face shattered in an instant. He lowered his head and whispered softly, coaxingly pleading with Jiang Ning, "Is that okay? Can I go catch him, please?"
He didn’t want to see this person, who might threaten Jiang Ning’s safety, remaining so free.
Qi Xingzhou’s tone was both affectionate and sweet as he spoke, naturally proficient in acting spoiled; yet his expression also showed a hint of impatience due to Miao Wenjun’s presence.