Silent

Qin Ran carefully read through the information on the Missing Persons Murder Case in the file.

The contents of the folder could roughly be divided into two parts.

The first part concerned the missing person, Rock.

Ten years ago, Rock, who was only fifteen at the time, had suddenly disappeared on his way to school.

The police had devoted considerable manpower and resources to the search but had found no trace of him—until about three days ago.

Rock, who should have remained missing and had even been declared dead, had reappeared after ten years.

Not only had he reappeared, but he had also brutally murdered a taxi driver named Mente.

The information about the murdered taxi driver had been classified as the second part.

Mente, taxi driver, aged fifty.

He had been murdered in his own home.

Rock's fingerprints covered the room.

Mente was friendly and enjoyed reading. Apart from being divorced, there was nothing particularly noteworthy about him.

Of course, that lack of anything noteworthy applied only to the information recorded in the folder.

More questions had already arisen in Qin Ran's mind.

"Is there anything else you can tell me about this Mr. Mente?"

Qin Ran looked up and asked Shiqi.

"I know what you're getting at!"

"A boy who disappeared for ten years reappears and kills a taxi driver. There has to be some connection between them!"

"The taxi driver might even have been the one who kidnapped him back then!"

"That was what I thought at first, too, but... our investigation found nothing out of the ordinary!"

Shiqi shook his head helplessly.

"Nothing out of the ordinary?"

Qin Ran frowned.

"To our eyes, there was nothing out of the ordinary,

"which is why we need help from someone special like you, someone who can look at