"I don't know either, but Lu Yuanhong just notified me to be discharged tomorrow and not to make any more moves."
Su Kangxi's heart skipped a beat. "Could he suspect you, so he sent someone to make the first move?"
To ensure Su Su's quiet transfer, he had withdrawn the plainclothes officers protecting her to minimize the number of people who knew.
Su Su had also asked Xiao Lin to transfer all the bodyguards to the villa to protect Xiao Xingxing and the others. He had only intended for Xiao Anjing to quickly transfer Su Su to a secluded private hospital. He never expected such an accident to happen in such a short period, costing him a colleague.
Su Kangxi's mood was incredibly heavy at this moment. Taking advantage of the arrival of police cars, he put on a police uniform and pretended to be a police officer maintaining order in the hospital, heading to Qin Tianyi.
"That shouldn't be. From his tone, I don't think he suspects me," Qin Tianyi said. "As for what exactly happened, you'll have to wait until I get back to Lu Yuanhong and figure it out, and then I'll tell you immediately."
"Why hasn't this patient left yet? You're the only one left in the entire inpatient department," a nurse suddenly said, standing at the doorway of the ward.
Su Kangxi immediately pretended to be checking Qin Tianyi's ward and said, "Yes, hurry up and leave this building. The hospital has arranged other places to accommodate you patients."
Qin Tianyi recognized the nurse. She was the one who had conveyed Lu Yuanhong's orders earlier. He gave Su Kangxi a look and said, "I'll pack my things and leave now."
Su Kangxi adjusted the brim of his hat, glanced at the nurse at the door, and said, "Didn't you medical staff also evacuate with the patients? Why are you still here?"
The nurse replied, "The head nurse sent me to check the wards again to see if there were any remaining patients."
Su Kangxi said "Oh" and sternly told her, "Firefighters are still checking for fire hazards. You shouldn't stay here either."
The nurse immediately said, "Thank you for your hard work. I'll take this patient with me."
As Qin Tianyi quickly packed his belongings and left with the nurse, he didn't forget to say to Su Kangxi, "Thank you, officer." He gave him another meaningful look, hoping he would understand and quickly investigate the nurse's background.
Su Kangxi watched Qin Tianyi and the nurse get into the elevator. He recalled Qin Tianyi's repeated glances, as if he wanted to say something but couldn't.
He immediately contacted the head nurse of the hospital and asked if she had sent a nurse to search for patients in the inpatient building.
The head nurse replied inexplicably, "Officer, all our inpatient nurses are busy accommodating patients. We can't spare anyone to go back to the inpatient building." After that, the head nurse hung up, saying she was very busy.
Su Kangxi realized the nurse was suspicious and immediately notified his colleagues downstairs to stop the nurse and ascertain her identity.
However, the police downstairs found no one coming out of the elevator. The elevator had stopped on the second floor when it went down and hadn't moved since.
After Qin Tianyi and the nurse entered the elevator, the nurse directly pressed the button for the second floor.
"Why are we going to the second floor?" Qin Tianyi asked.
The nurse said, "You'll know when we get there."
"Could Mr. Lu have any new instructions?"
The elevator quickly descended from the fourth floor to the second. As soon as the doors opened, the nurse pulled him out and said, "No, but someone thinks you're too useless. To avoid complications, I've been told to get rid of you!"
Qin Tianyi instantly understood that the nurse was an assassin and asked, "Did you set the fire on the fifth floor?"
"You don't need to know that." The nurse took out a nylon rope from her pocket, straightened it with both hands, and kicked him.
Qin Tianyi dodged and engaged her in a fight, wanting to capture the assassin directly.
However, despite being a woman, this nurse was very skilled and clearly professionally trained.
They fought back and forth, with neither gaining an advantage. The nurse said furiously, "I didn't expect you to be quite good."
"You weren't sent by Mr. Lu. Whose person are you? Why are you disrupting Mr. Lu's plan?" Qin Tianyi felt that Lu Yuanhong's side should not have uncovered his identity, and this female assassin had been bought by someone else.
The nurse continued her combat movements and said with a laugh, "I disrupted your plan? I was just helping Mr. Lu implement it ahead of time, and I've already resolved it."
This female assassin spoke of murder and arson as casually as discussing the weather, indicating she was no stranger to killing.
At this moment, police officers from the first floor were heading to the second floor, and Su Kangxi, on the fourth floor, was also rushing to the second floor via the elevator.
The female assassin heard footsteps and stopped entangled with Qin Tianyi. She fled towards the fire escape, not downwards to the first floor, but upwards.
When the police from the first floor arrived, they only saw Qin Tianyi and asked, "Where is the nurse who was with you?"
"She ran up through the stairwell," Qin Tianyi said, feigning panic. "She, she suddenly tried to hold me hostage, and luckily I resisted fiercely..."
The police didn't wait for him to finish and quickly chased after him up the stairs.
When Su Kangxi arrived on the second floor, he didn't see anyone else and quickly asked, "Are you alright?"
Qin Tianyi raised his arm and looked at the abrasion on his arm, saying, "I'm fine. That nurse just now was the assassin, but she wasn't sent by Lu Yuanhong."
"If not Lu Yuanhong, then who? Jia Nanfang!" Su Kangxi guessed.
Qin Tianyi felt his guess was correct and said, "It seems there's a disagreement between them, and they're not as in sync as they appear."
"A disagreement is good. That's our breakthrough," Su Kangxi said.
Qin Tianyi nodded and said, "I need to leave, lest I arouse suspicion."
As Su Kangxi helped him out of the main entrance on the first floor, they heard a loud bang. A person fell from the top of the inpatient building, landing on a car not far from them, then bouncing off the car roof to the ground. In an instant, flesh and blood flew.
Qin Tianyi couldn't bear to look directly. He glanced and asked, "Was that the nurse, the female assassin?"
People around them screamed. Su Kangxi took out his phone to notify other police officers and replied to Qin Tianyi, "Yes, it's a shame we can't get her confession."
This night was destined to be restless. The hospital's inpatient building had experienced a fire and now two lives were lost. The police would be busy.
...
At night, Lu Yuanhong was not at the Lu family's old residence but at Jia Nanfang's place.
The nanny and Xiaoxiao had already gone to bed. Only the two of them were left in the living room.
Lu Yuanhong was telling her that she shouldn't have acted rashly and prematurely, as it might have ruined everything.
Jia Nanfang countered with a string of reasons, saying he shouldn't have sent a newcomer recently transferred from Southeast Asia, who was not only unreliable but also prone to mistakes.
She could no longer tolerate Gu Susu living so freely.
"How could someone recommended by Kun Sang fail?" Lu Yuanhong was displeased with her constant unauthorized actions and her private bribing of his men.
Jia Nanfang said with a laugh, "What is Kun Sang? He was just a small-time hoodlum under you before. He knows how to judge people, and you trust him so much? Have you forgotten what you always said, that in this world, you can't trust anyone but yourself!"