After the True Heiress Travels Back
Chapter 555: Forming a Rough Guess

Chapter 555: Chapter 555: Forming a Rough Guess

"It seems like they’re discussing the explosion case in Wolong Town."

This barrage comment failed to attract netizens’ attention.

Compared to the complex and burdensome case, celebrity gossip is much more intriguing.

"President Shang pursued Shi Yaoguang in vain, and only promoted Shi Yiqing to spite her and catch her attention," this speculation became more intense in the Weibo topics.

Many netizens who enjoyed watching the spectacle supported this development; after all, who doesn’t love a good show?

When Shi Yiqing saw this content, her face twisted with anger.

Up to this point, the only man she could rely on was Shang Minghao.

Although Quan Sicheng was still her fiancé, compared to Shang Minghao, Quan Sicheng was far inferior.

Therefore, Shang Minghao was somewhat more important to her than Quan Sicheng.

Now, Shi Yaoguang wanted to take away even this last person, and naturally, Shi Yiqing couldn’t accept it.

Just as she noticed the comment about the "Wolong Town explosion case" scrolling through the barrage, an idea suddenly came to her.

Shi Yaoguang might be proud now, but...

If everyone knew that she was just a person who faltered when it mattered and caused trouble when she attempted anything, would she still be so adored?

By then, those who were promoting their match would surely no longer find Shang Minghao and her to be a good pair.

Not to mention fabricating any love triangles or quadrangles.

Little did Shi Yaoguang know that she was planning to interfere with these matters.

...

After this meeting, she continued to participate in the recording according to the rules of the production team.

For the next few days, everything proceeded without incident and nothing out of the ordinary happened.

Shi Yiqing did not take advantage of the situation to further her own benefits or to show off anything.

Her unusual behavior did catch Min Zekai’s attention, however.

But after observing for a couple of days and detecting nothing amiss, he let the matter go.

After several calm days, the production team completed the first phase of filming and gave the guests a few days of rest.

After all, they are all celebrities with continuous schedules.

The production team was able to invite them by promising not to hold them back on set and by allowing fixed holidays for the artists to resolve their work commitments.

Having parted from the production crew, Shi Yaoguang didn’t leave Wolong Town.

She had made arrangements with Professor Lin to investigate the truth behind the explosion case in Wolong Town.

As the host, Zhuge Qingqing naturally followed.

"Sister Fairy, where are we going now?"

After meeting, they all got into Shi Yaoguang’s car.

This car was given to her by Quan Jinbei and had extremely high-security features.

When they met, they had agreed to go check out the Wolong Town Chemical Plant, which had exploded.

But now Shi Yaoguang wasn’t following the navigation to the designated address, resulting in Zhuge Qingqing’s question.

Shi Yaoguang glanced at the rearview mirror and said, "We’re being followed."

Upon hearing this, Zhuge Qingqing’s expression immediately grew solemn.

Professor Lin also looked as if he were bracing for imminent danger.

"The Wolong Town Chemical Plant explosion case has already been taken over by a colleague, but there has been no follow-up, and I hadn’t seen any issues at the time. However, now it seems, the problem is way too serious!"

After Professor Lin finished speaking, Zhuge Qingqing responded, "The chemical plant explosion was mysterious in itself, why did you think there was no issue?"

Professor Lin sighed, "It’s a long story. The chemical plant explosion was not an isolated incident; a friend of mine had handled several cases before but never found any problem. Initially, I thought it was just a regular explosion case, but then later..."

Just then, he suddenly fell silent.

Zhuge Qingqing was eager to hear what followed, but seeing him suddenly stop talking, she became a bit anxious, "And then? Why did you stop halfway through?"

Professor Lin gave her a glance, then continued, "Later, someone discovered that the remnants of the chemical plant explosion were mixed with an unidentified substance. This substance couldn’t corrode metal, but it could cause irreversible damage to living organisms..."

Zhuge Qingqing was a strategist, not a scientific researcher.

Therefore, even though Professor Lin said a lot, she only understood one sentence.

Professor Lin felt that there was something fishy about the chemical plant explosion because a certain harmful substance had been found.

This substance was previously unknown, and that’s why it had attracted attention.

On this matter, Zhuge Qingqing also had her own opinion, "Could you be overreacting? Maybe this harmful substance is just in your heads, thinking too much?"

Hearing this, Professor Lin looked at her, "Miss Zhuge, do you have any thoughts?"

Zhuge Qingqing shook her head and said, "The harmful substances you found near the chemical plant might not be related to it at all?"

"Or maybe after the chemical plant explosion, various chemical elements combined to form a new substance."

Professor Lin sighed, "We had this hypothesis before, but it has already been ruled out."

"Really?"

"Mm."

Speaking of this, Professor Lin’s expression turned grave, "We still can’t determine what exactly happened with the chemical plant explosion, nor can we be sure how the harmful substances around it were formed after the explosion."

Whether these were the result of human action or accidental combination, they had no idea.

And this was precisely the greatest threat.

Listening to the conversation between Professor Lin and Zhuge Qingqing, Shi Yaoguang suddenly had a speculation in her heart.

"I think I might have a clue."

Upon hearing this, both Professor Lin and Zhuge Qingqing wore expressions of shock.

This...

You have a clue already?

Hasn’t everything just started?

This clue came a bit too easily.

Shi Yaoguang didn’t care what they thought. With the description of the new substance by Professor Lin, a rough outline had already formed in her mind.

If her guess wasn’t wrong, this substance probably wasn’t synthetically made.

But to know for sure, she would have to wait until she could investigate the site in person.

Before that, she needed to take care of the small fry tailing her.

"Boom—"

Taking the car to a secluded area, Shi Yaoguang floored the accelerator and increased the speed of the car.

The vehicle tailing her followed closely behind.

Zhuge Qingqing turned her head to look back and couldn’t help but sneer, "Where did these idiots come from? They can’t even tail someone properly, following so obviously..."

If the tailing was this obvious and the car being followed didn’t notice, then there was no need for them to tail in the first place, because...

Without even this bit of vigilance, getting caught would be just a matter of time, and there wouldn’t be any need for such a troublesome tail.

Conversely, if the tail was so blatant and they were discovered...

Then there was even less point in tailing!

After all, once they were exposed, what was the point of continuing to follow?

To sum it up, the people tailing them were idiots.

The person who instructed them to tail was the biggest idiot of them all.

If not for a certain level of idiocy, why would anyone hire such idiots to tail someone?