"Can you get in touch with that profiler?" Sun Hang asked.
"The profiler resigned from the '101' Private Detective Agency after completing the commission. They have since left Chang'an, and their whereabouts are unknown," the Mainframe replied.
"Whereabouts unknown... Don't tell me they were already silenced." Sun Hang muttered. "Can we find the records from the profiling process? As far as I know, profiling requires extensive information analysis, right? The analysis and deduction process should have been recorded, shouldn't it?"
"According to the agency director, the profiler preferred using pen and paper for deductions rather than electronic devices, so no records were left on the agency's computers. Furthermore, at the anonymous client's request, all paper documents recording the deduction process were destroyed after the profile was completed."
"They cleaned things up pretty thoroughly." Sun Hang glanced at his phone. "Looks like I only have one clue left."
The recipient of this package.
The mission briefing Copper Finger had forwarded to Sun Hang never explicitly mentioned who the recipient was. It only instructed him to place the package in a safe in Yumen's abandoned urban district within the allotted time and set the specified password.
Yumen had originally been larger than Dragon City, but as living conditions in the Hexi Corridor deteriorated, large numbers of residents moved inland. This once-greatest city in the Hexi Corridor gradually declined before eventually being completely abandoned.
But a starving camel was still bigger than a horse. Aside from the outskirts swallowed by the desert, the remaining main urban area still covered more than two hundred square kilometers. The safe mentioned in the mission description was located at "turn left at the third bridge on Sima Heng Street, former site of Yumen Bank's Sima Branch, basement level one"—but for a hunter completely unfamiliar with the abandoned