After confirming Yuan Si's identity at the city bureau, Captain Fu drove back to Ping County around three in the afternoon. They were on a tight schedule with a critical mission. He needed to deploy his team immediately to find the man in the knit cap as soon as possible. The fear was that an arrest on their end would tip off the target, who would then escape, making him much harder to catch in the future.
Yuan Si, on the other hand, had to stay for a few days on a 'business trip.' However, since she was a person of interest in the case, it wasn't appropriate for her to participate in the investigation for the time being. So, she had nothing to do. According to Captain Ma, all she had to do was check in once in the morning and once in the evening, and that was it.
