0p0 Chapter 166 This is what it means to be ungrateful and forget one's roots!
Chapter 166 This is what it means to be ungrateful and forget one's roots!
half an hour.
The postgraduate entrance exam candidate who had run away returned, followed by a group from Xiaoshan.
Because he was tasked with protecting Jiang Chengcheng, Xiao Shan was also assigned to work as a base guard, and of course, he couldn't just have the original hundred men under his command.
“Miss Jiang, this is the surveillance footage from that time. However, the laboratory involves classified information, so there are no surveillance cameras installed inside. We can only see approximately how many people entered and exited the laboratory during lunchtime. I have already had those people taken into custody and are awaiting your instructions.” Xiao Shan gave Jiang Chengcheng a composed military salute as soon as he entered, and then spoke.
"Okay, take me to see who they are." Jiang Chengcheng took the computer from Xiao Shan, nodded to him, and her expression was cold.
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Anyone who entered or left the laboratory was put in a dormitory. Every room was locked, and even the windows were strictly guarded. It was practically impossible to escape!
Jiang Chengcheng checked each room one by one, from left to right.
A total of three people entered and exited the lab during lunchtime.
The first dormitory room was occupied by the youngest person before Jiang Chengcheng arrived, named Xu Liangchen, who graduated from Harvard University in the United States and had only been back in China for less than three years.
"Chief Engineer Jiang! What happened? Why did the alarm go off? Why are Zhao Yanhai and I being detained?" As soon as Xu Liangchen saw Jiang Chengcheng come in, he rushed over impatiently, but he was blocked by Xiao Shan when he got halfway there!
"Don't rush, I just want to ask you some questions. Why didn't you eat lunch, and why were you going in and out of the lab?" Jiang Chengcheng didn't have any evidence at the moment, and she wouldn't treat all these people as spies. She gestured to Xiao Shan, walked up to Xu Liangchen, and patted his shoulder gently to comfort him.
"Huh? I still had some academic papers to finish in my dorm at noon. I originally planned to finish them before going to eat, but halfway through, I realized I left my phone in the lab, so I went back to get it. After returning to my dorm and tidying up, I was just about to go to eat when the alarm went off. I wanted to go see what happened, but I was stopped halfway there." Xu Liangchen thought for a moment and briefly explained his itinerary for the day, without any hesitation in his expression.
"Did you encounter any suspicious people along the way or when you went to the lab?" Jiang Chengcheng nodded, noticing that Xu Liangcheng didn't show any unusual changes, and took a step back to continue asking.
"Suspicious persons? No! Zhao Yanhai and I went together, and we didn't encounter any suspicious persons along the way," Xu Liangchen replied with a frown.
"Okay, you stay here for now. Once this incident is resolved and you're cleared of suspicion, they'll release you." Jiang Chengcheng felt she had asked enough questions, and left the rest to the people from Xiaoshan to continue the investigation.
The second room the group came to was next to Xu Liangchen's, and it was occupied by Zhao Yanhai, whom he had mentioned before.
"Chief Engineer Jiang, how's the lab? Xu Liangcheng and I are innocent! We've been together all along!" As soon as Jiang Chengcheng entered the room, Zhao Yanhai rushed over to ask the same question.
Zhao Yanhai and Xu Liangchen are alumni; both graduated from Harvard University in the United States, except that Zhao Yanhai was a year ahead of Xu Liangchen.
"How...how did you know the problem was in the lab?" Jiang Chengcheng had just entered when she heard these words, which were tantamount to an admission of guilt.
"This... the alarm went off, doesn't that mean something happened in the lab? I was just guessing." Perhaps realizing the problem with his words, Zhao Yanhai quickly tried to cover it up.
"Really? Well, you guessed pretty accurately." Jiang Chengcheng didn't react to this explanation, but slowly walked to Zhao Yanhai's side and gently patted his shoulder.
In the blink of an eye, the scene before Jiang Chengcheng's eyes changed as the Eye of Reincarnation was activated.
In the footage, Zhao Yanhai made an excuse to leave Xu Liangchen's sight, then climbed through the window into the corridor, took advantage of the blind spot of the surveillance cameras to enter the laboratory, destroyed the energy engine, and burned Jiang Chengcheng's original system manuscript.
"Let's go." Now that Jiang Chengcheng had found the culprit, she was too lazy to waste any more time with him. She ignored Zhao Yanhai's panicked expression and turned to leave the dormitory.
As expected, after routine questioning of the people in the third dormitory, nothing unusual was found.
As Jiang Chengcheng left the dormitory building, she waved to Xiao Shan behind her.
"Go check the windows around the lab corridor for fingerprints, footprints, or anything like that. Compare them with the lab staff, then come back and report to me." Jiang Chengcheng couldn't just tell Xiao Shan what she saw with her Eye of Reincarnation, so she could only give him a general idea.
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About an hour later.
Xiao Shan returned with his men to report, and as expected, Zhao Yanhai was the one behind him.
"Let me go! Let me go! What right do you have to arrest me!" Zhao Yanhai struggled incessantly, still trying to break free from the control of the people around him.
“Miss Jiang, the culprit has been found. I investigated according to your instructions and found half a set of fingerprints near the window in the dead corner of the corridor. After examination, it belongs to this person.” Xiao Shan pulled Zhao Yanhai from behind with a cold expression, then kicked him to the ground, angrily shouting.
"be honest!"
"What right do you have to arrest me! I've already secretly obtained a green card from the United States! I'm a citizen of the United States now! The United States is the country I swore allegiance to!"
"You have absolutely no right to deal with me! You better watch out, I'll take this to the International Court of Justice! You'll regret it! You filthy and lowly Chinese!" Seeing that things had been exposed, Zhao Yanhai simply stopped pretending and blurted out nothing but disdain and slander against China.
"Is this person born abroad?" Jiang Chengcheng looked at Xiao Shan with a somewhat complicated expression, having never seen herself scold herself before.
“No, this person is a student studying abroad with Chinese government funding. His family isn’t well-off. There’s only one person in our experimental base who was truly born and raised abroad, and that’s Mr. Liang Chengshan… His family is currently in the United States, being held by the American military.” Xiao Shan didn’t hide anything about Liang Chengshan, implying that this person absolutely could not be released alive.
Liang Chengshan comes from a family of scientific researchers. His family members are controlled by the United States. Even though he is over seventy years old, he was forced to return to China as a spy. If he hadn't been so unwilling to cooperate, China would definitely have been tricked in this matter!
"Ha! You talk so high and mighty, as if it's all perfectly natural! I thought you were poisoned by American education from a young age! I could understand your situation! But I didn't expect you to be even worse than those people! If they are ungrateful, then you are a complete ingrate!" Upon hearing Xiao Shan's words, Jiang Chengcheng was too lazy to argue anymore and launched a series of punches! She was determined to make him understand why the flowers are so red!