Chapter 37: Surveillance

"Immortal... I was wrong! I won't dare do it again!"

Inside the broadcast room, under the watchful eyes of everyone present.

The moment this human trafficker saw Lin Nan, he actually threw himself onto the ground and began kowtowing!

*Clang, clang, clang—*

"Whoa, what's going on here..."

"Starting off with New Year's greetings? What's wrong with this guy?"

Hearing the dull thuds against the floor, Jiang Tao and the others couldn't help but mutter.

Given the trafficker's identity, everyone felt nothing but utter disgust; there wasn't a shred of sympathy.

Some even felt like stepping on him a few more times!

Even if the trafficker kowtowed until his head was bloody, people would only feel sorry for the broadcast room's floor tiles.

At that moment, Ye Qing heard the words the trafficker was mumbling and turned to glance at Lin Nan.

"It seems like... he thinks Lin Nan is an immortal?"

As soon as Ye Qing spoke, no one doubted her.

After all, everyone had witnessed the trafficker's behavior firsthand.

It was just that they weren't quite sure why he was acting so... mystical?

It was as if he had been scared into insanity!

While the bystanders were in the dark, Lin Nan knew exactly what was happening.

After all, the power of the two bolts of heavenly lightning he had unleashed earlier was truly not to be underestimated.

Coupled with the fact that two consecutive strikes had fallen, and both had landed incredibly close to them...

The odds were lower than winning the lottery jackpot!

Even an atheist would have doubts swirling in their mind.

These traffickers were already acting guilty.

In their state of mental confusion, seeing the "God of Thunder" appearing in such a manner...

The tension in their minds naturally snapped!

Lin Nan glanced at the kowtowing trafficker, a cold light flashing in his eyes.

"Oh, wouldn't you know it..." Wang Chengyu joked from the side.

"With the way Brother Nan is dressed right now, who wouldn't want to bow down to him?"

Meanwhile, two police officers stepped forward to pull him up.

However, the trafficker continued to mutter incessantly, looking as if he had been scared senseless.

"Hmph..." Liang Yuzhu, who was taking the statement, spoke in a low voice without looking up. "He's been like this since we picked him up."

"I don't know if he's actually having mental issues or if he's just faking it."

Hearing Liang Yuzhu's words, the group took another look at him.

Looking at his forehead drenched in cold sweat and his trembling, unstable stance...

If the officers hadn't been holding him up, he certainly would have continued kowtowing like a pounding pestle.

He looked like a walking corpse that had lost its soul to terror!

If he really were playing dumb... he could probably win a Best Actor award!

At this point, Liang Yuzhu couldn't help but frown.

Her original intention in bringing the trafficker here was to have him identify the scene and explain the kidnapping process.

But looking at his current mental state—especially after encountering Lin Nan, as if he had suffered some sort of shock—his emotions had become extremely unstable.

Seeing this, the police had no choice but to set it aside for now.

They planned to reconstruct the case through the zoo's surveillance footage.

Before that, Liang Yuzhu first took statements from Lin Nan and his friends.

She simply treated them as a group of enthusiastic college students who took livestreaming as a hobby.

No one could have linked the overcast sky earlier, or the lightning that destroyed the van...

To the Lin Nan standing right in front of them!

"Thank you for your cooperation."

After a brief questioning, Liang Yuzhu spoke to Lin Nan and the others

"If we need your help in the future, we might have to trouble you again."

"Hey, no trouble at all, no trouble at all~ Officer Sister."

Wang Chengyu rarely saw female police officers, let alone one so beautiful.

His chubby face was plastered with a smile, acting extremely solicitous

"Cooperating with the investigation is just what we should do~"

"How about leaving a contact method? I basically understand the situation here."

Wang Chengyu pulled out his phone and showed a QR code, but instead of receiving a friend request, he met Liang Yuzhu's icy gaze.

He shuddered and looked away to change the subject

"Brother Nan, did we lock the dorm door when we came out?"

"...Maybe we should let the officers get to work? Let's head back quickly."

As he spoke, Wang Chengyu's pea-sized eyes darted around nervously.

Seeing this, Lin Nan exchanged a look with Jiang Tao, shook his head with a smile, and then, under Director Zhao's farewell, the group departed the park.

Liang Yuzhu did not stop for a moment, leading the officers to check the surveillance.

"Officer Liang, this way please..."

"I guessed you would come to investigate, so I prepared the surveillance in advance."

Director Zhao cooperated enthusiastically with the police investigation, pulling up all the footage related to the kidnapping case.

"Look, these segments are the surveillance videos related to the case."

As he spoke, Director Zhao led Liang Yuzhu through the footage.

Seeming to remember something, the Director remarked with emotion upon seeing a certain clip

"Speaking of which, this is all thanks to Lin Nan—oh, that student streamer who was playing the god."

"If he hadn't been so sharp-eyed, we might not have realized it so early... we might still be searching the whole park."

"Lin Nan..."

Liang Yuzhu murmured the name, and the image of that figure surfaced in her mind. However, she didn't think much of it. Following that, Liang Yuzhu and the officers gradually saw the progression of events through the surveillance footage.

As the video played, the other officers couldn't help but gasp.

Strange expressions gradually appeared on their faces.

"Hiss... that's something."

"This Lin Nan, how did he realize something was wrong?"

In the surveillance video, the trafficker had accidentally bumped into Wang Chengyu, yet he still shielded the child in his arms without showing any sign of anything unusual.

Furthermore, his technique seemed quite seasoned; the wrapped blanket showed no human shape from the outside at all.

But the officers present saw Lin Nan's reaction in the footage...

Dressed as the God of Thunder, his gaze had been staring intensely at the trafficker.

It was as if his vision had pierced through everything, seeing the boy hidden in the trafficker's arms with his own eyes!

The officers couldn't help but feel puzzled.

After all, a normal person wouldn't naturally assume a child was wrapped inside that blanket, right?

But how did Lin Nan find out?

And why did he keep staring at the trafficker's retreating back?

However, that point alone wasn't enough to prove anything.

Moreover, the police's investigative goal was the criminal process of these traffickers.

As the footage continued, seeing Lin Nan's group head toward the broadcast room, Liang Yuzhu could roughly guess what happened next.

It was a series of exchanges that confirmed they had encountered the trafficker, followed by Ye Qing calling the police.

Then came the police chase, until two thick bolts of lightning struck from the horizon.

But soon, as the footage played on...

Liang Yuzhu and the officers on site all fixed their eyes on Lin Nan!

They watched his various actions in the broadcast room.

They even witnessed Lin Nan gradually closing his eyes, his hands beginning to form mudras and chant incantations.

What was even more absurd was the sky outside, which was perfectly synchronized with Lin Nan's actions...

It actually grew dark and gloomy!!

As the officers witnessed this, they couldn't help but feel astonished.

It wasn't until the end of the video, when the dark clouds in the footage finally dispersed, that Liang Yuzhu looked at the boy's mother, who was repeatedly thanking Lin Nan, and murmured thoughtfully

"Could it be... that these were all just coincidences?"

(End of Chapter)