Chapter 376: 79 Route Bus

I had originally intended, after the handover was finished, to take the yacht out to sea for a spin and conveniently "pick up" the Aircraft Carrier to hand it over directly.

But the timing was far from favorable; Yangcheng suddenly began to drizzle, and the sea grew windy, making a sea trip in this weather clearly an unwise choice.

Xu Mo simply gave up the idea, and after the handover he drove, taking the four girls toward home.

"What an unlucky coincidence, it actually rained; I even brought my swimsuit."

"No problem, we can just have Xu Mo take us next time when the weather's good; there are plenty of chances."

"Exactly! The yacht is bought, not rented, we have all the time we need; we can just pick a good‑weather day next time."

"……"

On the road, the four of them felt regretful that they couldn't ride the yacht out to sea this time.

But at that moment, a huge roar came from ahead.

"Bang!"

About a hundred meters away, a Bus 79 suddenly erupted in a violent explosion, and the blast wave also damaged all the private cars standing beside it.

In an instant, traffic was paralyzed; the exploded bus and the nearby private cars caught fire. Fortunately, a light rain was falling, which, though insufficient to douse the flames, helped curb them, lest the growing fire trigger a secondary explosion.

Shattered glass from the blast also injured many unprotected pedestrians.

"Ah!!!" screams erupted from the crowd as people rushed to leave the scene; the area was already a tangled mess.

Just from the scene, it's easy to guess that the casualties this time won't be few…

In the car, the four girls were already petrified.

Fortunately they were inside the car, shielded from the flying glass, and far enough from the bus that the explosion wouldn't have reached them.

"Xu Mo… do you think this could be terrorists taking revenge on society?" Yang Jingxuan asked tremblingly.

"Definitely. There were no signs before the blast; it couldn't have been a self‑ignition of the bus—it's certainly man‑made," Xu Mo said, pulling out his phone and calling Han Fei.

Han Fei didn't answer the first call, so Xu Mo dialed a second.

"Beep… beep… beep…"

After the long ringtone, the call connected.

On the other end, Han Fei sounded a bit hurried: "Hello, what's up?"

"I'm on Tuanjie Road; a Bus 79 just exploded. I was right behind it, saw the blast with my own eyes, and it didn't look like a self‑ignition—more like there was a bomb on board."

"Bus 79… why is Bus 79 being bombed again?" Hearing that, Han Fei frowned deeply and rubbed his head twice.

Bus 79, again Bus 79.

In the morning, the Police Station received a report that a Bus 79 had exploded while in transit.

After the report, the officers immediately began investigating; they found chemical substances in the debris, confirming the blast was man‑made, but they couldn't determine who set it off.

The investigation took the whole day; by evening the morning explosion still hadn't been fully resolved, and now another Bus 79 exploded.

"Bombed again? Why say 'again'?" Xu Mo couldn't help but wonder, "Isn't this no longer the first Bus 79 that exploded?"

"Hmm, not the first. This morning, when you arrived at Baiyun Airport, a Bus 79 exploded; the one that just blew up is the second… Where are you? I'm sending people over now."

"Right on Tuanjie Road."

…

When Han Fei arrived with the officers, the exploded Bus 79 and the nearby cars ignited by the blast were reduced to blackened frames, and the light rain had stopped.

As for the passengers on the bus, they had lost any chance of survival in the initial violent blast.

"Who the hell did this? He's got a problem!" Li Chen muttered upon seeing the bus reduced to a blackened skeleton.

"You haven't found out who did it?" Xu Mo asked instinctively.

Han Fei's expression was grim; she shook her head: "No, the bus's onboard cameras were destroyed, and the surveillance at the bus stops along the route is too blurry to pinpoint a suspect…"

Speaking of that, Han Fei changed tack.

"However, both bombed vehicles were Bus 79, so preliminarily we think the same person did it. We can try comparing the video footage from the stations the two buses passed; anyone who boarded both buses before the two explosions is likely the bomber."

We hadn't found anything before because there was only one segment of footage, making it hard to investigate.

The bus's onboard cameras were destroyed by the blast, so we can only check the surveillance at every bus stop along the route; however, those recordings are very blurry, and some faces weren't captured at all—let alone identifying a suspect, there are already many unidentified people.

But now the Police have more than one segment of footage—they have two.

Since the perpetrator blew up two Bus 79s, he must have been captured twice by the surveillance at the stops the buses passed.

Finding someone who appears twice in the footage is far easier than trying to spot a suspicious‑looking individual directly.

A few officers stayed to disperse the crowd and clear the scene; Han Fei took another group back to the Police Station to start reviewing the footage, and also notified the bus company to halt all Bus 79s to prevent a recurrence.

As for Xu Mo, he took a detour to bring the four girls home, then returned to the Police Station to lend a hand.

Police Station.

When Xu Mo arrived, he saw the officers furrowing their brows while reviewing the footage.

Obviously the footage review wasn't going smoothly; they hadn't gleaned any clues.

But Xu Mo still asked, "How's it going, found anything?"

"None," Li Chen shook his head. "We've watched it twice and found no suspicious persons; you can take a look too."

Hearing that, Xu Mo also stepped forward to compare the two clips, but he too found no identical person in both.

"Did you notice anything?" Li Chen asked.

Xu Mo shook his head: "Nothing."

"Neither of you saw anything?" Han Fei, standing nearby, couldn't help but change expression. Xu Mo's eyesight is sharp—Han Fei knows that—and Li Chen, nicknamed 'Eye Camera', also has excellent vision.

Even these two 'gods' together couldn't spot a single person appearing in both footage segments.

Could it be that more than one person planted the bombs?