Early the next morning, Fang Zheng drove to the crime scene.
The entire site had been completely sealed off by police tape, and the bodies had long since been removed. Still, the various outlines on the ground proved that people had indeed died here.
And quite a few of them.
"What happened here, a gang shootout?"
Fang Zheng counted them. There were at least a dozen outlines on the ground. This definitely qualified as a major case.
"Three days ago, someone called the police and claimed that civilians had clashed with the construction site here."
"A clash? What kind of clash? Forced demolition?"
Fang Zheng rolled his eyes speechlessly, while Date shook his head.
"According to the police investigation, the residents here could no longer tolerate the construction site's disturbances, so they came to stop it. Then they attacked the workers at the construction site... At least, that was how it looked on the surface."
"So you're saying that wasn't what really happened."
Fang Zheng was not surprised by that answer. Things like this were not uncommon in Japan, but for more than a dozen people to end up dead was still far too outrageous.
"That's right. This is the surveillance footage from the time."
As he spoke, Date opened his laptop and played a video.
In the recording, a group of men who clearly did not look like decent people stood there holding clubs, looking aggressive and ready to cause trouble. Then, in the next instant, a goat-headed monster appeared out of thin air before them, its entire body pitch-black as it floated in midair. The monster waved its hand, and the previously menacing thugs immediately screamed and collapsed to the ground, turning into corpses. Then the goat head vanished into the air as if it had never appeared