[Blue Star Calendar: January 29, 2010]
[Western Calendar, Friday.]
[Summer Calendar, Ji-Chou Year, Twelfth Month, Tenth Day. Auspicious for divination and changes, inauspicious for visiting the sick.]
After hanging up on Olov, Qin Siyang sat on the bus, staring at the Blue Star calendar on his phone for a long time, 'Avoid visiting the sick, huh... Guess I should check the Blue Star calendar today.'
Qin Siyang put away his phone and gazed out the bus window with some exhaustion.
'Not that it matters. I can't just leave Teacher Zhu alone in the hospital. If I don't visit today, she might not make it.:
Qin Siyang had agreed to cooperate with the police investigation and provide any clues he knew.
Even though he wouldn't actually provide anything.
Because the timing of Zhou Yang's death was too suspicious.
It happened right after he killed Zhou Zhe.
Qin Siyang even vaguely suspected that whoever killed Zhou Yang did it with some ulterior motive, perhaps even to help him.
If it were just Zhou Yang being killed, it wouldn't be a big deal.
The problem was, that person also killed the female officer tracking him, Roylena.
Killing a cop, especially one with sequence abilities, was undoubtedly a major crime.
If caught, there was no escape from death.
According to Olov, after killing all three, the perpetrator burned the bodies, completely eliminating any chance of investigating their pre-death memories.
A name surfaced in Qin Siyang's mind.
'Wen Shu.'
'Is it her?'
'Probably not.'
'After all, Roylena had sequence abilities, while Wen Shu is just an ordinary person.'
'To kill three people effortlessly, the killer has to be someone with a combat-type sequence ability at the very least.'
'But if it isn't Wen Shu, then who else would have wanted Zhou Yang dead?'
'Could Olov himself be the culprit, crying wolf?'
Qin Siyang's gaze became empty.
He didn't want to think anymore.
Too exhausting.
Too much brainpower required.
Today had drained him enough already. He was utterly fatigued.
In a while, he still had to pull himself together and go to the Bureau of Sequence Abilities to meet Qian Wenzhao.
Resting his head against the window, Qin Siyang drifted into a light sleep.
More than an hour later, he woke up.
After resting for a bit longer, he finally arrived at the Bureau of Sequence Abilities.
Stepping off the bus, he patted his face, shaking off the drowsiness, and walked toward the towering building.
Outside the Bureau, he saw Shen Shisong looking extremely anxious.
"Qin Siyang, you're here!", Shen Shisong's face lit up like he had seen his savior. He quickly walked over.
"Finally! I've been waiting forever! Let's hurry inside!"
"Okay."
The two entered the Bureau's main entrance. Shen Shisong identified himself and requested to visit Qian Wenzhao with Qin Siyang.
A Bureau officer led them to the third floor, stopping in front of a fully enclosed room.
Four guards stood outside. From their build, they were all sequence ability users.
"Section Chief Qian is inside. You have one hour to talk."
"Got it. Thanks."
The two stepped into the room and saw Qian Wenzhao.
His eyes were filled with killing intent. Arms crossed, veins bulging on his forehead.
Upon seeing Shen Shisong and Qin Siyang, he took a deep breath.
"Thanks for coming. Take a seat."
"I originally didn't want to make our relationship too obvious. But now that I'm in trouble, I don't have any friends I can truly trust besides you. That's why I had Shisong call you, to see if you could come up with something."
Qin Siyang pulled up a chair and sat down in front of Qian Wenzhao. Shen Shisong, knowing he couldn't be much help, obediently sat beside Qin Siyang, silently listening.
"Section Chief Qian, what's going on?"
Qian Wenzhao withdrew his killing intent, "I'll keep it short. Someone in the Bureau embezzled sequence potions and framed me for it."
"Any evidence?"
Qian Wenzhao nodded, "Yes. They checked the surveillance. That day, I was the only one who entered and exited the sequence potion storage."
"It's not ironclad proof, though, since they haven't found any evidence of me selling or using the potions illegally."
"Do you know who framed you?"
Qian Wenzhao shook his head, "That's what's bothering me most. I never offended anyone in the Bureau, I just focused on my own work. So why would I be dragged into this mess?"
"How many bottles do they claim you took?"
Qian Wenzhao let out a bitter laugh, "Ten bottles. Perfectly calculated, just enough to get me the death penalty. If this hadn't happened, I was set to be promoted to Bureau Director next week."
Saying this, Qian Wenzhao chuckled again, "I heard you went hunting gods and had quite the haul. I was planning to leech off your luck. But looking at things now, it's a good thing I didn't. Otherwise, I'd really be knee-deep in shit."
Qin Siyang nodded slightly.
Qian Wenzhao probably meant that he had intended to ask for a few sequence potions from him.
But since the room was monitored, he kept his words vague.
The reason Qin Siyang had earned 1,600 points was ultimately thanks to the sandworm scale Qian Wenzhao had provided.
If Qian Wenzhao had asked for ten bottles, he likely would've given them.
Even if Qian Wenzhao didn't ask, he would've offered something in return.
But Qian Wenzhao hadn't spoken up, and Qin Siyang had been too busy to check in on him.
Unexpectedly, by the time they met again, Qian Wenzhao had already been detained.
Suddenly, Qin Siyang's eyes sharpened, "Section Chief Qian, do you think the person who framed you might have guessed our relationship and assumed I'd gift you something as thanks? And that's why they set you up right before your promotion?"
Qian Wenzhao's triangular eyes flickered, "That makes sense! If you had really given me something, and they found incriminating evidence in my house, my guilt would be undeniable."
Qian Wenzhao narrowed his eyes, "So, our connection was being watched all along?"
"Your sequence ability is outstanding, and you've been rising steadily in the Bureau. Someone must have been eyeing you for a long time."
Qian Wenzhao gritted his teeth, "I was too careless. Those bastards, I never provoked anyone, yet they're trying to ruin me!"
Qin Siyang asked, "Section Chief Qian, what's your plan now?"
Qian Wenzhao didn't hold back, "Originally, I wanted you to tell the Bureau that you accidentally took ten extra sequence potions last time and return them. That way, I'd be cleared. I'd owe you one for that."
Qin Siyang was stunned.
'That plan... it can actually work!'
But since the room was monitored, now that Qian Wenzhao had spoken out loud, the method was exposed, it could no longer be used.
Qin Siyang stared at Qian Wenzhao in shock, unsure of his intentions.
Qian Wenzhao sneered, his triangular eyes gleaming with killing intent, "After your analysis, I see it now, someone has been targeting me all along. But I never took the potions. The surveillance doesn't show me taking them. Whether they test my blood for sequence potion traces or search my home, they won't find anything incriminating."
"If they want to trap me, I'll play along. They think I'm some harmless bureaucrat?", His molars ground audibly, "I want to see who ends up dead in the end!"
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