Chapter 71: Indistinguishable Truth From Falsehood

Du Qiu couldn’t care less about the woman; he pushed her away and hurriedly ran back to his car.

“Don’t run!”

The woman chased after him closely. However, having been grabbed by Du Qiu before, she knew she couldn’t gain an upper hand and instead leaned against Du Qiu’s car hood.

“I’m telling you, you must give me a proper explanation for my Xiao Jin today, or I won’t let this go!”

At this moment, Du Qiu opened the car door and quickly scanned the backpack on the passenger seat.

It seemed like the backpack had been tampered with!

He quickly grabbed it, opened it to check, and found that the plastic-wrapped crystal cube replica inside was still there.

How strange, it wasn’t stolen.

Could it be that he was just being paranoid?

“Du Qiu, what’s wrong?”

A voice sounded from outside the car.

Du Qiu zipped up the backpack and carried it while stepping out of the car.

Seeing Xu Jie next to the car, “Oh, I thought someone had touched my bag, but it seems not. Did you see anyone open my car door when you came over?”

Since the passenger window of Du Qiu’s car was not open, if anyone had tampered with the bag, they would have had to open the car door.

Xu Jie shook his head, “I was stuck at that traffic light junction by a car and couldn’t catch up with you. I only got here after the light turned green, and it’s already congested.”

Du Qiu’s face changed, that was bad; he clearly saw a car following him just before.

He looked back and among the traffic jammed here, that car could not be seen, possibly slipping away through a side lane at the first chance.

Feeling the crystal cube in his backpack, Du Qiu was confused; why would the “Wolf’s Kiss” go through such great lengths and then not steal the crystal cube?

Could it be that they didn’t have enough time?

“Is the thing still there?” Xu Jie asked.

“It seems so, but something doesn’t feel right. We should quickly review the surveillance footage of this road section.”

“Okay, I’ll inform Su team immediately.”

Du Qiu then turned towards the woman lying on the car hood, who now sat on his car’s engine cover as if staging a rights protection like sitting on the cover of a Mercedes-Benz.

She kept talking non-stop to the surrounding people about Du Qiu’s terrible manners, as if he was an unforgivable villain.

Some were filming with their phones, others loudly echoing her…

The scene was chaotic.

A burst of police siren sounded, and naturally first to arrive were the traffic police.

Suddenly, someone shouted: “This dog has woken up.”

When the woman sitting on the hood of Du Qiu’s car heard this, she swiftly got off and in a few steps ran to where the Golden Retriever had collapsed.

Seeing that the Golden Retriever really lifted its head, seemingly attempting to get up, she quickly rushed over and hugged it.

“Xiao Jin, you’re not dead, thank goodness! Woo woo…”

Du Qiu felt speechless; the woman hadn’t cried when she thought Xiao Jin was dead, but now cries earnestly knowing it’s alive.

What exactly was this woman’s relationship with “Wolf’s Kiss”?

Although Du Qiu had no evidence that this car accident was intentional, all signs pointed to something fishy about this crash.

Du Qiu’s kick just now had only knocked the Golden Retriever out.

Once the traffic police got involved, things were handled quickly.

Of course, he also figured out the relentless woman’s identity.

Qian Lina, a director of a listed company, was also the sister of the chairman of the same listed company and owned another wholly-owned company herself.

Du Qiu guessed the woman was a wealthy lady, and it turned out she really was.

However, when Xu Jie came over and told him that the Mercedes-Benz belonging to Chen Han Sheng was registered under this woman’s company,

Du Qiu quickly took out the crystal cube from the backpack and carefully inspected it.

“What’s wrong, is there a problem with the item?”

Du Qiu carefully examined the crystal cube; after purchasing it, he only made sure it closely resembled the original.

Thus, after looking at it for a while, he could find no discrepancies.

The crystal cube in his hand indeed seemed no different from the one he replicated.

“Du Qiu, Su team has just had people check the surveillance from a camera that could capture the incident, but something blocked the view and no footage was captured.”

Du Qiu clenched his fists, “What blocked the camera?”

“Two balloons blocked it.”

“This is definitely premeditated; were there any previous footage showing who released those balloons?”

“There is only that one camera on this road, and the balloons came from a blind spot of the camera. If this was intentional, then the other party’s methods are very professional.”

“Xu Ge, please arrange for someone to keep an eye on this woman. I’m off to ‘Yue Ge Restaurant’ to see if Chen Han Sheng will show up.”

“Alright, that’s what Su team suggested too.”

When Du Qiu was ready to leave, the woman indignantly told the traffic police, “I have no problem compensating him, but he knocked out my Xiao Jin, he needs to compensate too.”

Right then, Du Qiu had no intention to engage in nonsense with this woman.

After receiving the traffic police report and greeting the officers, he drove away.

By the time he arrived at Yue Ge Restaurant, Su Jianming was already waiting for him.

“Xiao Qiu, this Chen Han Sheng is without a doubt a person sent by ‘Wolf’s Kiss.’ I found that he entered the country ten days ago as a U.S. citizen accompanying an investment delegation.”

“Is he an old acquaintance with that Qian Lina or a new one?”

“We need to conduct further investigation on Qian Lina for that.”

“Then summon Qian Lina; she should talk,” Du Qiu said anxiously.

“We have no evidence. How can we simply summon people? We can only go for a visit and conduct an inquiry at most.”

Du Qiu was stunned. He had been too hasty, as so far, it seemed that the other party had made no overt illegal moves.

Even Chen Han Sheng had not done anything criminal yet.

“I was presumptuous. So what should we do now? What if Chen Han Sheng doesn’t show up, what should we do next?” Du Qiu said with some regret.

“Can you now confirm if the item has been switched?”

Du Qiu tensed up, “You mean, the other party prepared a replica of the crystal cube beforehand and switched it during the chaos of the car accident?”

“It’s very likely, otherwise why go through the trouble of setting up such a scene at a spot with only one camera, and then cover it with balloons?”

Su Jianming furrowed his brows and asked Du Qiu, looking at him intently, “Can you really be sure that the item in your bag is the real deal?”

Du Qiu fell silent, “I’ve hardly examined this thing; who knows what features it has. If it has been switched with a replica, I wouldn’t be able to tell.”

Internally, Du Qiu was already certain, thinking to himself, “Chen Han Sheng is quite cunning, setting up a replica to switch out. However, he definitely has no idea that he went to all that trouble only to switch for another fake.”

Su Jianming reached out, “Give it here, let me see that crystal cube.”

Du Qiu took out the crystal cube from the backpack, and at this moment, he noticed that the plastic bag wrapping the crystal cube had a hole.

He distinctly remembered that the plastic bag had no damage before indicating a likely switch — someone in a hurry making a large movement and tearing the bag.

“Su Ge, it’s no use looking at it, I think there has been a switch. Look at this plastic bag, it’s torn now, but it was intact when I put it in.”

Su Jianming inspected the crystal cube carefully from all angles and finally placed it on the table, “How different is this from the real thing? I remember from the photo you gave that it looked no different from this item.”

“Yeah, I thought the original was a modern product, now with added replicas, heaven knows how to differentiate them.”