Nighttime Pursuit of the Killer

Yuyuan County Police Station

By rights, only a small number of policemen should have been on duty at night.

But this Police Station was brightly lit, and every policeman was working diligently, with no one absent... It seemed they did most of their resting during the day.

A conspicuous large shrine stood in the lobby of the Police Station.

During the night, various calls came in, and the policemen sifted through them for "valuable" information to report upward.

One of the calls came from a pickup station operated by Shunbian Express. A shipment had reportedly been stolen while in transit, with the total value of the lost items estimated at around twenty thousand.

Theft cases involving sums that were not particularly high were generally treated as "low-level cases." Ordinary policemen would make time to take statements and handle them as best they could.

However, Shunbian Express had a cooperative relationship with Yuyuan County Police Station, and all shipments sent by the station were free of charge.

Considering this, the ordinary policeman who took the call still reported it and wrote "Shunbian Express" in the remarks column. It did not matter if the higher-ups chose not to handle it.

Half an hour later.

Two detectives dressed in Black Trench Coats arrived at the pickup station. The workers were stunned, as this was their first time seeing policemen dressed like that. They were just about to lead the detectives to the stolen truck when—

One of them seemed to have caught a scent and had already reached the rear of one of the trucks.

He reached out, touched a small amount of sticky substance on the surface of a package, and held it beneath his nostrils to smell it carefully.

"The smell of fish... Octopus? They aren't from around here. Wait."

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