The intelligence showed that the first "Back of the Head Attacker" incident had occurred near Red Light Street in the commercial district of Stephenson's main city. The victim was an apothecary who had just finished having fun. According to the technician who had received him, he had left around midnight, and not long afterward, she heard screams.
By the time the Law Enforcement Team arrived, only the unconscious apothecary himself remained.
His head had suffered severe trauma. The back of his head had been struck by a blunt object, and he was still in a comatose, unconscious state.
What exactly the suspect had done to him remained unknown. In Stephenson, for certain special reasons, divination spells were heavily restricted. No matter how powerful a divination spell was, it could not recreate a crime scene.
That was one reason the Law Enforcement Team held so much power.
Very quickly, the officers on duty that day classified the incident as malicious retaliation born of a personal grudge.
They identified several targets and detained them in the Law Enforcement Agency for questioning. Yet during that time, several more similar cases occurred near the commercial district in succession!
This gave the law enforcers quite a headache.
The victims in these cases were highly similar to the victim of the first case, so they were naturally handled as a series of related crimes. The Law Enforcement Agency temporarily formed a squad to deal with the matter, and Thomas was one of its members.
According to the case files Xu Nan had, after the subsequent incidents broke out, the Law Enforcement Team increased its patrols. The "Back of the Head Attacker," apparently wary of the team's authority, began to operate much more quietly.
Until a week later, when the Aurora Celebration drew near and the Law