Because of one remark from Bao Dating, who had chosen to lie flat and let things rot, He Zhao felt as if some signal in his brain had been triggered. His Spiritual Perception kept reminding him, making him sense a loose thread in the disappearance cases.
When he filtered through all his memories in his mind, going over them again and again and carefully sifting through them, he discovered one especially interesting point—the rutting Big Tiger!!
The two times he had run into Wang Xing without the Strange Beast in tow on his way home, a case had occurred the next morning. Once might have been a coincidence, but could twice still be a coincidence?
Last night, Xiao Wang had sent Big Tiger back to the [Beast Pen] to vent again. Then, the next morning, he learned that a Sha Refiner had abruptly vanished the previous night.
Add to that the fact that he had spent four days searching four suspicious locations and found nothing. Especially the first time he had infiltrated the Disciplinary Team's headquarters—back then, the Strange Beast Big Tiger had not been "in heat" and had been brought back to the courtyard at night.
"Interesting."
A Strange Beast disguised as part of the market, obedient and well-behaved when it was not committing crimes, wearing a loyal and brave appearance. And it was originally a member of the Disciplinary Team. Have their own people investigate their own beast?
How was that possible? Everyone would subconsciously overlook it. From beginning to end, no one had ever thought it was the work of a beast. After all, every case had been handled extremely cleanly, with the aftermath dealt with so seamlessly that not a single trace had ever been found at the scene.
Other than a Sha Refiner, who could