New Year's Day seemed to have little to do with Chengxiang Port. The streets here were outdated and empty.
Even the few figures passing by hurried along without lingering, as if they always had urgent matters to deal with.
Mei Sheng flipped through her notebook, organizing Tian Xiaolian's various details in her mind before saying softly:
"The employer at the Fourth Branch wasn't the Tian family. That means there was more than one victim, perhaps not even just two.
"Although we still don't know what the death scene of the victim contacted by the Fourth Branch was like, I suspect it was largely similar to ours.
"The killer's serial murders must have had a purpose. If we can find that objective, our next task will become much easier."
Ji Li pulled up the collar of his trench coat against the cold wind, lowered his head to light a cigarette, and said quietly:
"We haven't handled many serial murder cases, but gathering information one piece at a time ourselves is too inefficient and leaves too much room for mistakes.
"Call Yu Guo and have him find someone at the branch. I need the police's complete Case File on this case."
Hearing that unfamiliar name, Mei Sheng looked up at him with a complicated expression but said nothing.
Only then did Ji Li suddenly realize that Yu Guo, who had handled this sort of work in the past, was gone. After his slip of the tongue, he stood there in a daze for a while.
After taking a hard drag on his cigarette, he shook his head slightly and changed his words.
"Contact Tong Guan."
By all rights, Shanming City was a highly developed metropolis.
For such a brutal serial murder case, even if the police had suppressed the news, it could