Those who travel back in time

Chapter 9 Bomb

"Say it again? Bomb?" The ground crew's expression changed drastically.

"UA632 has a bomb! I just went to the restroom and overheard someone on the phone saying that there's a bomb on UA632." Chen Qing pointed to the plane on the tarmac.

"Command Center! Red Alert! Bomb Threat Received! Repeat, flight has received a bomb threat! Immediately abort all procedures for UA632 and initiate emergency evacuation!" The ground crew quickly pressed their shoulder-mounted walkie-talkies, reported the incident, and then asked Chen Qing for details: "Did you see the person making the call?"

"I heard someone making a phone call outside while I was in the cubicle. When I came out after putting on my pants, no one was there anymore."

What are the distinctive features of his voice?

"Sounds like a middle-aged person in their thirties or forties."

"What else did you hear?"

"I didn't hear anything else."

When the ground crew questioned Chen Qing, they gestured to three of their colleagues. They approached from both sides, politely but firmly gripping Chen Qing's arms to form a triangular control position.

Two minutes later, the on-site patrol officers arrived quickly, took Chen Qing from the ground staff, handcuffed him, and quickly searched him.

The cell phone he had kept on his person as a timekeeping device was immediately found during the search.

As for the fruit knife that threatened Li Mengfei, it had already been thrown away before she contacted the ground staff.

Five minutes later, the first batch of reinforcements arrived, cleared the scene, and set up a cordon.

The police chief conducted an emergency on-site interrogation of Chen Qing, focusing on only three questions: "Where is the bomb?", "Did you plant it?", and "Are there any accomplices?"

Chen Qing insisted that she had overheard the conversation in the restroom and refused to answer any other questions.

Eight minutes later, Chen Qing was escorted into a police car and left the terminal through a special passage to the airport police station's case-handling center.

On the way, Chen Qing also saw a bomb disposal vehicle speeding by and a police car full of special police officers.

Twenty-three minutes later, Chen Qing was taken to the interrogation room of the case-handling center. Gao Zhen, deputy captain of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Airport Branch of Jiangxin City Public Security Bureau, and Zhao Jie, an investigator of the Criminal Investigation Detachment of the Airport Branch, presided over the interrogation, which was recorded in its entirety.

This inquiry was much more detailed and more intense than the one at the airport.

Chen Qing adopted the same strategy, insisting that he heard someone making a phone call while he was in the toilet, and refused to answer any other questions.

But Chen Qing's lie was quickly exposed, because after reviewing the airport surveillance footage, the police discovered that Chen Qing had never gone to the restroom.

Not only that, his approach to and coercion of Li Mengfei was also clearly seen.

Chen Qing stopped answering any questions and remained silent no matter what the police asked.

Even so, the police still found out his purpose in approaching Li Mengfei because Li Mengfei was very cooperative and told the police everything.

"So, he believes he comes from the future, from 2044 to 2022, to stop Li Mengfei from boarding that plane, because the plane will crash?" Gao Zhen summarized Li Mengfei's statement.

"Boss, is this guy out of his mind?" Zhao Jie pointed to his temple.

"He first set a fire at the entrance to the employee passage, then slipped inside. To prevent Li Mengfei from boarding the plane, he even bought a fruit knife to threaten her. It's clear he deeply believed the story he was telling." Gao Zhen tapped his fingers lightly on the table.

"Boss, have the people at the airport withdraw. There's no need to check anymore. There's no bomb at all. It's obviously just an excuse he used to stop Li Mengfei," Zhao Jie said.

"That's not right." Gao Zhen shook his head: "He used a fruit knife to force Li Mengfei to sit in her seat, which already achieved his goal of preventing her from boarding the plane. Why did he leave Li Mengfei at the last moment and say there was a bomb on the plane?"

"He's mentally unstable; who knows what he's thinking?"

"Claiming the plane was bombed at the last minute doesn't make sense." Gao Zhen glanced at Li Mengfei's statement one last time, then stood up again. "Let's go, let's go meet him again."

"Captain Gao, there's something going on!" Just then, a young policewoman rushed in through the door: "We just got a call from the airport; they found something on the plane..."

"Is there really a bomb?" Zhao Jie suddenly stood up.

"It's not a bomb," the young policewoman hurriedly said. "They've discovered a malfunction! They found metal fatigue in the internal servo valve of the rudder power control module. If we take off, the probability of a crash is as high as 89%!"

"What?" Zhao Jie exclaimed in disbelief, "The plane really crashed?"

"Is this kind of fault easy to find?" Gao Zhen asked the policewoman.

"It's hard to find. If it weren't for the bomb threat, they wouldn't have conducted such a large-scale and thorough search. They wouldn't have been able to find it."

"That makes sense, that makes sense," Gao Zhen said in a deep voice. "The reason they claimed there was a bomb was to make us thoroughly inspect the aircraft, find out the cause of the malfunction, and completely eliminate the possibility of a plane crash."

"Could this person really be from the future?" Zhao Jie murmured.

"Although it was eventually confirmed that his purpose was to save people, there are still many mysteries surrounding him." Gao Zhen strode out of the office, intending to go to the interrogation room to interrogate Chen Qing again.

But when he arrived in the corridor outside the interrogation room, he found that the lights above his head were flickering intermittently.

For some reason, Gao Zhen had a bad feeling. He took a few big steps and pushed open the door to the interrogation room.

Inside, it was empty; there wasn't a soul in sight.

"Escaped from the police interrogation room? How... how is that possible?" Gao Zhen exclaimed.

"Can this person just disappear into thin air?" Zhao Jie asked, equally incredulous.

Chen Qing really did disappear into thin air; he was no longer in the 2022 timeline and was recalled to 2044.

"Don't move!" As soon as he stepped out of the time machine, a cold gun barrel was pointed at his forehead.

Chen Qing looked around and saw five or six people holding knives and guns in the morgue. Dr. Fang, who was wearing a white coat, was also being held to the neck by a one-eyed middle-aged man with a knife.

"What happened?" Chen Qing was taken aback. How could the situation in the base be so different after returning from a time travel trip? Even Dr. Fang, the leader of the base, had become a fish on a chopping board.

"Wasn't this supposed to be a freezer? Wasn't it supposed to contain fresh meat?!" the one-eyed middle-aged Dr. Okata roared. "Why did someone walk out of the freezer after the door was opened?!"

"A freezer?" Even at this moment, Dr. Fang laughed out loud: "What kind of freezer would look like this? Only an idiot like you would be so easily fooled."

"Who is he?!" the one-eyed middle-aged man asked.

Before Dr. Fang could answer, the one-eyed middle-aged man heard screams and gunshots. He turned his head and saw that all his men had fallen into pools of blood, while the man who came out of the "freezer" was holding a gun and looking at him with a blood-covered face.

"you……"

boom!

A gunshot rang out, and the one-eyed middle-aged man fell to the ground.