CHAPTER 28: CHAPTER 28: TREATED LIKE A LUNATIC

Lin Xiaoyan kept glancing at the phone screen, checking the time anxiously, afraid of being late.

With just three minutes left, "Ding" the elevator doors opened.

Lin Xiaoyan quickly stepped out of the elevator, ready to dash for the time clock.

However, a delivery worker suddenly appeared outside, rushing into the elevator.

The two collided as one entered and the other exited.

The frail Lin Xiaoyan staggered back a few steps from the impact, but fortunately, someone behind her caught her, preventing her from falling onto the ground.

Despite that, Lin Xiaoyan was almost in tears. She "saw" the scene unfold before her and shouted in her heart, she would’ve rather fallen to the ground!!!

Lin Xiaoyan stiffly steadied herself and thanked the person behind her, "Thank you, thank you..."

Then she looked up at the man before her. Even though she had "seen" him, she was still stunned by his attractive face!

"Sorry, sorry, I’m in a hurry to deliver..."

The delivery worker’s apology brought Lin Xiaoyan back to her senses, pulling her thoughts away from the handsome man in front of her. She glanced at her phone.

Just one minute left!!!

Lin Xiaoyan hurriedly ran out of the elevator and managed to clock in at the last second!

Gasping for air, Lin Xiaoyan patted her chest, grateful she made it. Otherwise, her morning’s effort would have been wasted.

As the elevator closed, Jing Yi saw Lin Xiaoyan clock in and a smile flickered in his eyes. However, what exactly about Lin Xiaoyan attracted that guy Xiu Zhu He Qi’an?!!!

Lin Xiaoyan turned to the elevator, noticing it continued ascending. She didn’t know who that person was.

A bit anxious, Lin Xiaoyan saw the manager approaching with a smile and greeting her.

"Xiao Lin, good morning."

"Good morning, manager." Lin Xiaoyan greeted the manager promptly and returned to her desk.

Ai Lin placed today’s work on Lin Xiaoyan’s desk.

"Xiao Lin, this is the data you need to sort out today."

"Okay, Sister Lin."

Suppressing the panic in her heart, Lin Xiaoyan sat at the computer, feeling a little distracted.

Finally, when lunchtime came, Lin Xiaoyan quickly grabbed her phone and went downstairs to a quiet spot, intending to call He Qi’an.

Suddenly, she remembered the regulations of the investigation bureau, exited He Qi’an’s phone page, and dialed 110 instead.

"Hello, this is..."

This time, calling the police, Lin Xiaoyan wasn’t nervous or scared; after all, she was now also a member of a national unit.

"Hello, I need to report a kidnapping. Someone is going to be taken, but I don’t know him. You can investigate his information..."

Indeed, this morning when Lin Xiaoyan touched Jing Yi, she "saw" Jing Yi being kidnapped after work tonight!

The kidnappers pretended to be his driver. When Jing Yi realized it, he tried to seize the steering wheel to escape, causing an uncontrolled car accident...

The last scene was Jing Yi covered in blood, body twisted, unsure if he was still alive.

The operator today wasn’t Mao Hong but another staff member named Yi Bian.

Listening to Lin Xiaoyan’s jumbled report, Yi Bian, maintaining a polite demeanor, apologized and hung up.

"Sigh, how do people so young already suffer from mental illnesses nowadays?"

Yi Bian shook his head and sighed, pondering how someone as young as the girl who just called could have delusions this early in life!

Lin Xiaoyan froze for a moment after the call ended.

She dialed again, and the same person answered.

"Hello, um, what I said was true, that person is likely to be kidnapped tonight, really, I’m not lying to you, you can check his identity this afternoon..."

"Snap!"

The call was hung up again.

Lin Xiaoyan frowned. Was... she being treated like a lunatic?!

Lin Xiaoyan felt speechless. She hadn’t even fabricated a lie to cover up, yet they just hung up on her directly.

Helplessly, Lin Xiaoyan had to call He Qi’an.

He Qi’an, who was about to interrogate a suspect, felt his phone vibrating. He took it out and saw it was Lin Xiaoyan calling.

"Hello."

Hearing He Qi’an’s indifferent voice, Lin Xiaoyan instantly felt a bit tense. She didn’t know why, but she always felt nervous and scared around He Qi’an.

"Hello, it’s... Lin Xiaoyan..."

"I know, is there something you need?" He Qi’an waved his hand, instructing Li He and others to go to the meeting room first.

"Well, this morning, on my way to work, I saw a man getting kidnapped tonight..."

Lin Xiaoyan quickly recounted what she "saw" that morning.

He Qi’an’s expression changed upon hearing the word "kidnapping".

"Give me the time and place where you encountered that man."

He Qi’an took out a pen and paper and swiftly jotted it down.

"Alright, I’ll get someone on it first, and contact you once I find them."

"Okay, sure."

Hearing He Qi’an start looking for them, Lin Xiaoyan breathed a sigh of relief, ready to hang up.

"By the way."

"Yes?" Lin Xiaoyan continued the call.

"Your task is already completed. You can confirm it in your task progress."

He Qi’an reminded her, having noticed Lin Xiaoyan had not yet confirmed her task completion that morning.

"Oh, okay."

"I’ve already submitted your bonus request. The people at El Hospital have all been caught, we’ll be able to announce it in a couple of days.

I’ll rate your task five stars!"

"Thank you." Lin Xiaoyan didn’t know task completion required a rating; it felt like online shopping reviews...

He Qi’an wanted to ask Lin Xiaoyan why she cursed him in the operating room, but after thinking about it, he decided not to, fearing it might make him seem petty, so he hung up.

Lin Xiaoyan scratched her head, feeling a bit baffled by He Qi’an.

Not dwelling on it, she logged into the special investigation bureau’s app and confirmed the completion of her task.

"Wow, the new colleague just solved a case they joined!"

"Let me see, hey, really, but how come this new colleague didn’t go to the Beijing bureau?

We don’t have a single Superpower User in Sea City."

"No idea, maybe there’s a reason. I’ll say this, the case was pretty big, the bonus should be hefty."

"Indeed, but after the case, do you think they’ll contact us to head to that hospital to gather souls?"

"Hard to say, even if they contact us, there’s a queue, I still have five cases on hand."

"Tsk, I have three more..."

...

After hanging up, He Qi’an called Jing Yi directly. Since Lin Xiaoyan met that man in the company’s elevator, it should be easy.

He suggested Jing Yi get someone to check the surveillance; if the police were involved, there’d be all sorts of red tape, troubling.

"Hello, what’s a busy man like you doing calling me?"

Upon hearing Jing Yi’s voice, He Qi’an got straight to the point, asking him to investigate the morning’s elevator surveillance involving Lin Xiaoyan.