CHAPTER 155: CHAPTER 155: YES, I WAS REALLY WORRIED

After stealing the card, Gou Feng knew he didn’t have much time to plan, so once he got the SIM card, he quickly returned home, picked up the prepared butadiene, and headed to the laboratory.

He knew that today was a team-building event and the laboratory would be off tomorrow, as per the lab’s usual rules, providing him the perfect opportunity.

Arriving at the school in the middle of the night, Gou Feng couldn’t get in, so he had to wait outside until dawn. Once it was daylight, he first called Qin Xiao to confirm his arrival and then swaggered into the university.

Having worked in the lab for years, when the security checked his ID at the school gate, he lied about forgetting it. Seeing him often, the guard let him in.

In the lab building, Gou Feng went to the laboratory, but his fingerprint had long been removed from the lab’s fingerprint system, so he couldn’t open the lab door and had to stay in the hallway.

Though the hallway was also under surveillance, Gou Feng was familiar with the lab’s surveillance after so many years.

So, he confidently walked into the hallway and found a dead angle in the surveillance, where he placed the prepared butadiene canister by the laboratory window and opened it.

Opening the butadiene, he tied a string to a lighter and threw the string out the window, so later he only needed to pull the string from downstairs to ignite the lighter. The moment it ignited would be the explosion.

After arranging all this, Gou Feng went to the electrical control room on the first floor. He didn’t want to hurt too many people; although he deliberately controlled the amount of butadiene to reduce the explosion’s power, it was still an explosion, and there were many people in the lab building, so he had to find a way to evacuate people.

Timing Qin Xiao’s arrival, and estimating when he would come, Gou Feng sneaked into the electrical room. As there was a person on duty, he first threw a small bottle at the ceiling lamp of the duty room, and when the light went out, he knocked the person unconscious as they checked it.

He then went into the electrical room and turned off all the power.

Without electricity, the lab building lost all surveillance, and the monitoring room couldn’t understand the situation here.

Gou Feng, having cut the power, returned to the lab building entrance to watch. Seeing Qin Xiao enter the fire escape, he immediately rushed to the rope, timing it perfectly...

As he pulled the rope, he jumped aside and lay down, successfully avoiding the explosion. After the loud noise ended, he dusted himself off and looked at the exploded lab building, being shocked by the result.

The butadiene he prepared shouldn’t have had such a large explosion, at most only blowing up one floor. But now, the lab building was blown up two or three floors, with flames soaring...

What Gou Feng didn’t know was that the explosion wasn’t a single one. The first bomb was his prepared butadiene, with a small range, only blowing up the third floor, sending Qin Xiao flying.

But it was in a lab! A lab with many chemicals! After the initial explosion, a larger secondary explosion occurred.

Those killed or injured were mostly due to the secondary explosion...

Seeing the vast explosion range, Gou Feng panicked. He only wanted to kill Qin Xiao and destroy his lab, not cause something so big!

Seeing the raging flames, he got scared and hid immediately. Fortunately, with the lab building exploding, there were many people running around, allowing him to escape amid the chaos successfully.

Yet, only two days later, he was caught. While fleeing, he thought about how to exonerate himself if caught?

But he didn’t expect that the person he knocked unconscious in the electrical room had seen his face and identified him.

When Qin Xiao came home, Xiao Li was waiting at the door. Seeing Qin Xiao get out of the car, she immediately hugged him, "Uncle, you’re back."

Qin Xiao returned the hug to Xiao Li, "I’m back, sorry for making you worry."

Xiao Li shook her head, "Yes, I was very worried. You must be tired these past two days, hurry and go home to wash and rest well."

Qin Xiao smiled, "Not tired, though many people came to ask questions, they were just questions. I simply explained the situation truthfully."

As the head of the lab, it was normal for Qin Xiao to be questioned. With his status, and with support from the Qin Family, the Zhen Family, the Wen Family, and the Bai Family, he was not troubled...

As he spoke, he accompanied Xiao Li into the villa, where Father Qin, Mother Qin, Qin Tan, and his family were all present. Upon seeing Qin Xiao, Father Qin said, "Wash up first, and we’ll talk later."

Qin Xiao nodded, "Sure."

Xiao Li went upstairs with him, fetched him some casual clothes, and even wanted to help him bathe, but Qin Xiao wouldn’t agree and took the clothes to wash himself.

After bathing, Xiao Li brought a medicine kit to reapply medicine to his wounds.

Gently dabbing the wounds with a cotton swab, Qin Xiao watched Xiao Li intently. Seeing the dark circles under her eyes, he knew she hadn’t rested well these days...

Qin Xiao reached out to touch Xiao Li’s face, she looked up at him, "Did I hurt you?"

Qin Xiao shook his head, "This little wound doesn’t hurt.

I just feel for you, you haven’t rested well these days!"

Xiao Li nodded, "Yes, with you gone, I couldn’t rest well. Can you stay home from now on?

Just keep me company at home?

Or take me wherever you go."

Xiao Li wouldn’t shy away and say, it’s fine, I wasn’t worried.

Being worried is being worried, why deny it?

She just wanted to communicate her feelings clearly. While mutual understanding doesn’t require many words, it’s better to say them.

Qin Xiao lightly laughed, "Sure, I’ll just stay and keep you company, and take you with me wherever I go if needed."

Hearing this, Xiao Li lowered her head to continue treating Qin Xiao’s wounds. Once finished, he dressed and led her downstairs.

Downstairs, as soon as they came down, Mother Qin called for dinner.

The family sat together for a reunified meal, then gathered in the living room to discuss the lab explosion.

Taking a sip of tea, Father Qin said, "So, it was indeed Gou Feng’s plan.

From what you said earlier, he’s meticulous, capable, calculated everything. If he had channeled this ability into his work, he could’ve become an excellent researcher in the future.

What a pity!"

Upon hearing this, Mother Qin retorted angrily, "So many innocent people were hurt or killed because of him, and you pity him?

Have your wits dulled since you retired?

That man wanted to kill your son! And you pity him..."

Compared to Mother Qin’s agitation, Father Qin remained calm, "I’m merely stating facts!"