Who was trying to investigate her?
After all that commotion, Annie was eventually found again by the PDC Security Department agents. She had not deliberately hidden herself at all, but had openly returned to the hotel to rest, appearing generously within the surveillance teams' field of vision. Thus, a certain PDC Security Department captain naturally received the news and relaxed again.
However, since the PDC had been unable to discover Annie's identity for so long, as if she had appeared out of thin air, and since she was still a child, the suspicious Earth Defense Security Department agents did not disturb her immediately. They quietly took over the hotel with a large number of agents and armed police, established tight surveillance within a two-kilometer radius, and only then did an official one rank above Captain Shi report the matter.
For several hours afterward, the Earth Defense Security Department agents at the scene received no further orders. As for how the Planetary Defense Council and the higher-ups of the Earth Defense Security Department intended to handle it, that remained unknown for the time being.
Perhaps they were still engaged in heated discussions and investigations?
After all, the little girl's identity was suspicious. More absurdly, she had repeatedly managed to evade assassinations that would have instantly killed anyone else—even PDC's elite agents. Most crucially, every escape had been due to sheer coincidence. It was simply too outrageous.
Some PDC higher-ups even began to suspect that this was some sort of act deliberately staged by the Trisolarans and the ETO.
Honestly, if the PDC higher-ups had not known what the Trisolarans and those ETO scum were like—if they had not known that the Trisolarans could not conceal their thoughts, that their thinking was highly transparent and lacking in subtlety, and that they neither