Chapter 2153: Everyone, Let's Part on Good Terms

Jiang Mobai pursed his lips, his face reddening as he shook his head gently.

"Then did you tell her that you would take responsibility?"

Jiang Mobai's face turned even redder, and then he nodded.

"When you two parted ways, there was no unpleasantness between you, right?"

Jiang Mobai continued to nod.

At this moment, Jiang Mobai looked just like an eighteen-year-old maiden.

He was as shy and bashful as could be.

Qingkong found it very hard to get used to.

He rubbed his arm and then hurriedly jumped to the next topic: "So, time moves to the day of the gathering; you said Su Kexuan didn't come?"

"Yes."

"Then did she leave the house?"

This...

Jiang Mobai could not give a definitive answer.

However, he held clues in his hands.

He took out his phone and tapped on an image.

Over these past few days, Jiang Mobai had spent quite a bit of effort drawing the clues into a diagram.

These diagrams were crisscrossed and complex.

Qingkong leaned over to take a look and immediately felt dizzy.

At this moment, he finally understood why Jiang Mobai had been looking so depressed.

If it were him studying these things every day, he would go straight crazy!

While Qingkong was letting his imagination run wild, Jiang Mobai discovered something.

He pointed with his finger: "Su Kexuan went out that day."

"Oh, where did she go?"

"This... I can't tell, but she returned home two hours later. After that, she never went out again until I went to find her, and she was cold and distant."

Qingkong immediately snapped his fingers and drew a conclusion: "It seems the problem lies on the day of the gathering! But if she was out for so long, what else could she have been doing if not going to the appointment?"

Qingkong did not quite understand.

Both of them fell into deep thought.

But after a short silence, Qingkong suddenly raised an eyebrow: "It's very likely she went to the gathering site but didn't show her face!"

Jiang Mobai looked confused: "Why? We were all waiting for her and looking forward to her appearance!"

"You were looking forward to it, but what about the others at the gathering? Who was there at the time?"

"Some of my friends."

"You'd better contact one or two of them to reconstruct the scene at that time."

Jiang Mobai's expression was somewhat dazed.

He seemed to have fallen into his memories.

When he finished reminiscing, he said: "After the race ends in a while, let's go to a bar."

"Why? Do you want to celebrate with the racing team first, then go solve Su Kexuan's problem?"

"No. The place I agreed to meet Su Kexuan back then was at a bar. That bar belongs to a friend of mine; he was there at the time, and now, he is still the manager of the bar."

So that was it.

Qingkong realized suddenly: "Then let's just wait for the race to end."

Jiang Mobai took a light breath.

Afterward, the two of them turned their attention back to the racecourse.

The race was still very exciting.

Jiang Mobai's teammates were sometimes behind and sometimes in the lead.

When the race entered the white-hot stage, Jiang Mobai's palms were sweating from nervousness!

However, in the end...

Wang Zi did not win first place.

Both the individual and team first places were taken by another racing team.

After the race, Jiang Mobai went to the lounge.

He found that everyone was as wilted as frost-bitten eggplants.

The coach and the team leader were both silent.

Wang Zi's eyes were red.

Seeing Jiang Mobai enter, he choked out: "Brother Mobai, I'm sorry, I let you down."

Jiang Mobai felt very regretful.

But the race was already over, and everyone needed to move past the feeling of loss as quickly as possible, rather than sinking into negative emotions.

To encourage everyone, Jiang Mobai said: "You all performed very well, and the opponents were also excellent. Watching your battle was a treat."

"But a loss is a loss..."

"There is still the next race; everyone, keep working hard!"

After Jiang Mobai finished speaking, no one said a word.

The expressions on everyone's faces were not all the same.

Some were in pain, some were uneasy.

Yet no one dared to meet Jiang Mobai's eyes.

Jiang Mobai sensed that something was wrong.

He was just about to open his mouth to ask when he heard someone say, "You might not know, but the racing team... is going to disband."

What!?

Jiang Mobai instinctively thought that everyone was joking with him.

But...

How could that be possible?

No one would joke about something like this.

But if it were true...

Jiang Mobai could not accept it!

He stared intently at everyone present and demanded, "Why did no one tell me about this?"

"Because everyone didn't want to delay your recovery."

"But I would have found out sooner or later, wouldn't I?"

"This..."

"You don't need to worry too much; with me here, I won't let the racing team disband!"

Everyone believed that Jiang Mobai had the ability to do so.

But during the time he was away from the racing team, everyone had already made their own new plans.

The team leader spoke up first: "Mobai, don't force it. This is a decision made by those above, and we have all accepted it. Besides, some people have already made contact with other racing teams, so let's... just part on good terms."

Part on good terms?

So, this wasn't a spur-of-the-moment decision, but something planned long ago!

Jiang Mobai gave a light laugh and asked the team leader, "Where are you planning to jump to?"

"I..."

"That championship racing team, isn't it?"

The team leader's eyes flickered, and he asked, "You knew?"

"I only just guessed it now."

When Jiang Mobai was watching the competition, he had once noticed a detail:

As soon as that championship-winning racing team appeared, the team leader stood up to watch, looking as if he were very worried.

Before knowing the truth, Jiang Mobai had simply thought that the team leader was concerned about the opponent.

But looking at it now...

This wasn't concern for an opponent at all, but fear that his next employer would lose!

Hah!

The team leader felt very uncomfortable at Jiang Mobai's sneer.

But he did not feel that he had done anything wrong.

He even said, "That racing team is a dark horse; it will have a limitless future!"

"But our racing team is also very excellent!"

"It is excellent, but our team relies too much on you, and our ability to resist risks is too poor; this is unhealthy!"

"Then we can adjust slowly, rather than giving up!"

"Adjusting might not necessarily have an effect, and besides... if you cannot recover to your peak state, this racing team is finished anyway."

So, when it came down to it, the team leader did not have confidence in Jiang Mobai's future development.

Wang Zi had been silent the whole time.

Hearing this, he could no longer hold it in and shouted at the team leader, "What kind of nonsense are you spouting!"

"What do you mean nonsense? How are you talking to me!"

"I'm speaking my mind! I've long found you an eyesore, you're just like a weathercock!"

"You..."

"What, do you want to fight!"

"Hmph, you certainly deserve a beating! Today, because of your mistake, the chance for everyone to finally win the championship was ruined!"

The team leader was truly cruel.

With one sentence, he struck Wang Zi's sore spot.

Wang Zi stopped shouting and slumped dejectedly against the corner of the wall.

Jiang Mobai patted his shoulder to comfort him.

Then he said to the team leader, "Wang Zi has already done his best; this failure was more of a coordination issue!"

"Hmph, you have a good relationship with him, so naturally you would shield him!"