After becoming a detective, Duanmu Huai had handled quite a few cases, but even he had not expected this assignment. Unlike other cases that only required one or two people to investigate, this one had three detectives from the Detective Association, while the Metropolitan Police Department had also sent three officers to work with them.
There was no mistaking it—the lineup alone made it clear that this case was not to be trifled with.
As for the reason, Shionji Yuko had already told Duanmu Huai about it on the way there. Simply put, a large number of disappearances had been discovered in March City, where B District was located. The number was far above average, which was what had attracted the Metropolitan Police Department's attention.
Of course, in a medium-to-large city, there were quite a few missing persons every year. Disappearance cases were also different from major cases such as murder. To be honest, if the missing person was not found at the time, the case would basically be classified as unsolved later on. After all, police manpower was limited. Rather than waste their efforts on disappearances with no clues, it was more worthwhile to solve a theft case. So in this world, most disappearance cases were generally handled by detectives—after all, detectives had nothing better to do.
However, every city had a baseline. As long as the number of cases did not exceed it, everything was considered normal; once it did, the situation was abnormal. That was also why this matter had been exposed. The mother of one missing person wanted to find her child, but the police had made no progress, and the detectives she hired had found no clues either. Perhaps she had been so consumed by longing for her child that she developed paranoid delusions, believing