Chapter 663 — A Flying Car to the Rescue
The Blossom Guardian · Page 2 of 2
"Young man, the police are after us, stop the car!" the driver said in alarm. This was the end - they'd impound the car for sure! Seven hundred yuan wouldn't even cover the fine...
Wei Zhao frowned slightly. He hadn't expected the police to react so swiftly - locking onto his position in such a short time. He had no choice but to call Qiu Lingshan. Fortunately she was not at the kidney-trafficking ring's headquarters, so her phone had signal. Wei Zhao dialed.
"Hello? Qiu Lingshan?" He didn't wait for her to speak. "My car has caught the police's attention. I'm on my way to the hospital to save someone - call them off."
When Qiu Lingshan answered Wei Zhao's call, she assumed he was asking whether she had already dismantled the kidney-trafficking ring's headquarters. She hadn't expected it to be something else entirely. This time, though, Wei Zhao's command did not provoke much irritation in her, and she did not ask questions. She merely said, "Your plate number?"
"What's your plate number?" Wei Zhao asked the driver.
"Song 8224." The driver was astonished - this man knew Qiu Lingshan? Given his line of work, he ought never to have heard the name, but he had caught a radio news report about the newly appointed criminal investigation captain Qiu Lingshan cracking a bank robbery and capturing the robbers, and the name had stuck. A while back she had nabbed another wanted fugitive, which had convinced him this captain was a force to be reckoned with - and so the name had lodged itself in his memory.
But what he had not expected was that Wei Zhao would actually address Qiu Lingshan directly, and in a tone that seemed far from courteous. Just what was this young man's standing?
Wei Zhao had no time to wonder what the driver was thinking. He simply gave Qiu Lingshan the license plate number.
Qiu Lingshan noted it down and called the traffic police command center. There was no way she could leave the matter of Wei Zhao alone, and besides, he had made himself perfectly clear: he had gone to the hospital to save someone. Wait - to the hospital to save someone?
It suddenly came back to her: a subordinate had reported earlier that a case of mass student fainting had occurred at Songshan First High School. But Qiu Lingshan had been busy with the kidney-trafficking ring case, so she had sent one of her squadron leaders to investigate at the school.
Could it be that Wei Zhao had gone to save those poisoned students? Considering that Wei Zhao was himself a student at First High and had been hired by Gu Pengzhan, it made sense that he would go to the rescue. But this was not within Qiu Lingshan's purview, so she did not press further.
Suddenly it struck her that a moment ago Wei Zhao had called her by her name rather than "brain-dead girl," and for no reason at all her heart skipped a beat. Had he simply been too anxious to tease her, or had his attitude toward her actually changed?
To hell with it! Whatever he thought did not matter - so long as she kept on good terms with him. Qiu Lingshan had no desire to dwell on such tangled relationships, and she put the whole matter out of her mind.