Upon hearing Jiang Ning's words, Yang Sheng looked in the direction he indicated.
Indeed, she saw a surveillance cara pointing this way.
Yang Sheng felt puzzled, "The person who smashed my bike, aren't they afraid of the cara?"
Jiang Ning replied without pause, "Maybe the other party simply doesn't care."
He stepped forward, and as his right foot touched down, a glowing Array Plate erged on the ground, invisible to Yang Sheng and Xue Yuantong.
This was the Tracking Array, the Array that Jiang Ning used most frequently in the present world.
Based on the residual aura on the bicycle, Jiang Ning deduced that the vandal was no longer in the school campus, approximately six kiloters away from the school.
It was just after school let out, which was enough to suggest that if a student damaged the bike, then it was likely a student who flouted school discipline and routinely skipped classes.
Moreover, judging by the extent of the damage to the bicycle, the act of vandalism probably caused quite a commotion.
The bike shed of Fourth Middle School was sowhat distant from Classroom 8, and Jiang Ning's Divine Sense didn't usually extend very far; his hearing wasn't particularly keen either, only slightly better than an average person if he didn't make a conscious effort to use it, so he hadn't noticed the whole process.
Based on the traces on the bicycle and the surrounding footprints and scents, Jiang Ning could reconstruct the entire event.
Jiang Ning took out his phone, several flashes went off as he took so quick photos of the bike for records.
"Let's not move the bike yet, let's go to the security office," he said.
Yang Sheng also took several photos; looking at her damaged bike, her heart felt uncomfortably blocked.
The mountain bike had been given to her by her parents when she moved up to ninth grade, and it had cost a considerable amount of money.
In the spring and autumn seasons, she would often ride through the streets to and from school.
She always took care to maintain it well, cleaning it, oiling it, and making simple modifications.
To her, it wasn't just an ordinary bicycle; it was a record of her past life.
Although Yang Sheng was easygoing and carefree, deep down, she had traits of fragility; she was afraid of spicy food and extrely nostalgic.
The bicycle, which carried her mories, being so badly damaged, one could imagine her rage. If the perpetrator appeared before her, she might actually get physical.
Yang Sheng could not comprehend how soone could wantonly damage soone else's bicycle like that?
Xue Yuantong was pulling on Jiang Ning's sleeve, closely following him.
Although she wanted to go ho and enjoy so good food, since Jiang Ning was planning to help a classmate, she would definitely support him wholeheartedly and would not hinder him. Besides, Xue Yuantong was angry too.
She was worried that soday, soone would treat Jiang Ning's bicycle in the sa way.
Jiang Ning would be angry, wouldn't he?
Too bad she didn't know how to repair bicycles and couldn't help Jiang Ning fix his.
...
The security office of Fourth Middle School was located in Building 1, around the corner.
Although it was called a security office, it was actually just a small office with only three people in the entire departnt: a Director and two security guards.
The windows of the security office were lit, Jiang Ning stepped forward first and knocked on the door.
Xue Yuantong shrank behind him, her little face timid.
All students at Fourth Middle School knew that the Security Director was a legendary figure.
There were rumors that many years ago, outsiders had climbed over the wall into the school, acting extrely arrogantly.
Director Wang of the security office had stepped forward, unard, and chased them away in a humiliating defeat, thus establishing his authority.
Director Wang had a strict and rigorous manner, detested evil, and whenever he ca across misbehaving students in the school, he would always grab the culprits and take them to a little room in the security office, using his unique thods to educate them.
This little room, in the eyes of students at Fourth Middle School, was akin to a dark zone.
Many shuddered at the thought, their minds involuntarily conjuring up all sorts of terrifying images.
The door opened, and a burst of warm air greeted them from inside where the air conditioning was on.
A middle-aged man stood at the doorway; he had a buzz cut, his face was wide, just over five foot seven, not very tall but exceptionally strong like an ox, and he stood ramrod straight with a sharp deanor that made him seem quite unapproachable.
Jiang Ning had not encountered Director Wang before, but what he rembered clearly was that Dan Kaiquan had ntioned that Director Wang had a daughter in Fourth Middle School who was quite good-looking.
Jiang Ning had seen her a few tis last sester, and indeed she was attractive.
Forr athletes in his class had said that Director Wang used to be an athlete himself, responsible for training the school's athletes, holding a versatile position.
However, what lingered most in Jiang Ning's mory was Hu Jun, who often spoke about Director Wang with a sense of admiration, because Director Wang's wife was also exceptionally good-looking.
Hu Jun had ntioned it many tis from the back rows, his words tinged with lancholy.
Director Wang scrutinized the three students before him and asked in a deep voice,
"What's the matter?"
Jiang Ning didn't let Yang Sheng take the lead; instead, he said,
"Director, hello, it's like this, my classmate and I went to get our bikes after evening self-study, and we found that her bike was severely damaged. Here are the pictures."
Jiang Ning showed the photos he had taken earlier on his phone.
"So we'd like to ask who damaged the bicycle."
"And the bicycle isn't cheap," he gestured to Yang Sheng.
Yang Sheng continued, "My parents spent one thousand seven hundred on it."
Director Wang, being in charge of such security matters, was a just person; upon hearing this,
"Co inside and take a look at the cara footage."
The group entered the small office, and Director Wang sat down in his chair, clicking the mouse to bring up the footage of the bike shed.
"This is the place, right?"
"Yes, that's where my bike is," Yang Sheng pointed to her bike that lay on the ground.
Director Wang started reviewing the video, filtering through it, and quickly locked on to a clip where the before and after difference with the bicycle occurred within that ti fra.
As the footage played, they all clearly saw what had happened.
It seed that around eight in the evening, a bicycle suddenly fell over, knocking over Yang Sheng's bicycle, which in turn fell onto what appeared to be a high-end mountain bike.
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