When Rhine and the others who had gone on patrol returned and reported that they had found no other suspicious people, he frowned. How could there be no one?
Those people could not have appeared here out of nowhere, so he felt there had to be others.
After thinking it over, he still felt uneasy, so he personally conducted another patrol. Yet he still found no other suspicious people. The only ones around were some elderly villagers.
He even inspected several border areas of the village, but found nothing there either.
There had never been many young people in this village. Most had gone to the big cities to work as migrant workers, while those left behind were elderly people who gathered in groups of three or five at road intersections to chat in their spare time.
But it was already evening, so those old people had gone home, and there was no one at the intersections.
Even if Rhine wanted to ask around, he could not find anyone to question.
Moreover, the village's only road ran through the village and led to the next one, so no one found passing vehicles unusual. With cars coming and going all day, who would watch the traffic and pay special attention to it?
After making a full circuit, he could only return helplessly to their base, the villa in front of the cliff.
His men had already dealt with Xiao Si and the others, secretly carrying them into the nearby mountains and burying them. They had also searched the bodies for identity information or clues.
Once the loose ends had more or less been taken care of, everyone sat in the living room and began discussing what had happened that day.
However, no matter how they discussed it, they could not come