Things had started looking bad for the Surveillance Department after the East District players' successive defeats. The East District blamed the department for not taking information gathering seriously. They should have taken notice when their inspectors were attacked again and again, instead of turning a blind eye as they always had.
So after cleaning up the Frozen Processing Plant, every member of Xu Huo's branch began reviewing old cases. Whether someone had filed a report or a body had been discovered, every registered case had to be checked.
Most of those cases had barely gotten started, though. There weren't even any proper, complete records. What could they possibly find by looking into them now? The people at the branch could only pick out a few that seemed particularly unusual.
Of course, Xu Huo thought this inspection was absurd and pointless. Never mind that the Surveillance Department gave them only one day to investigate; hardly anyone at the branch cared about wrapping things up. Some cases had been dealt with at the time, but the records hadn't been completed. As time passed, they were filed away just like the unsolved ones.
Very few cases were ever truly resolved, so the Surveillance Department had grown increasingly lax. After all, whether a case was closed or not made no difference to their pay.
As a newcomer, Han Cong couldn't understand it either, and he was a little sulky about it. For one thing, his rose-tinted view of the Surveillance Department had shattered. For another, he hadn't expected the colleagues with whom he was about to share life and death to be like this.
The other inspectors either didn't care or tacitly avoided bringing it up. In any case, everyone went about their own business. They only had to follow Headquarters' instructions; whether they