The bloody slaughter at North Tower Goods Yard was not widely known among ordinary people, but it naturally sent shockwaves through the entire Patrol Department.
After Sentry Chief Liu Yidao received the notice from Headquarters, he immediately gathered a group of Patrol Officers and held a case discussion meeting.
The newcomers had been given the chance to attend, supposedly to learn from the experience of solving cases.
But though they were all newcomers, they received very different treatment.
Xiong Yuan, Kang Ziyan, and the other students could only sit at the back of the conference room, pricking up their ears to listen to the discussion and pretending to take notes.
Cheng Han, meanwhile, had been granted observer status.
Liu Yidao gave a brief account. "...There were twenty-four victims in total, with no survivors... Every killing blow was fatal in a single strike... The crime took only twelve seconds. Fast, ruthless, precise—this person has mastered all three principles. He is undoubtedly a cold-blooded butcher who has killed countless times!"
Cheng Han quietly touched his chest.
Cold-blooded?
Nonsense!
His heart's blood was still hot. He was a thoroughly warm-hearted man!
"...The Thirteenth Patrol Station, which first discovered this massacre, urgently extracted samples from several corpses and sent them overnight to Black Armor Army Headquarters.
"After multiple rounds of tracing through the Source Tracing Array... the killer was confirmed to be Xiang Zhengqi, Deputy Director of Qinglin City's Transportation Bureau..."
The conference room erupted.
Discussion immediately broke out.
"That's impossible!"
"A Deputy Director wouldn't likely have a motive to commit such a crime."
Cheng Han nodded lightly and voiced his opinion for the first time. "In the supernatural world, there are countless methods to turn a target into a puppet, then manipulate that puppet into killing."
He had merely picked a random "lucky