Jia City Construction Site
In the supermarket, a tiny figure pushed a shopping cart much bigger than himself, racing through the aisles.
"Red dates, red dates! Replenish that blood~~"
Several large bags of red dates tumbled into the cart.
"Everything else is snacks!!"
With a loud shout, he sent the cart hurtling toward the snack aisle.
Tao Xingzhi watched Doudou dart past him in some surprise.
Whose kid is this, running wild in the supermarket...?
He glanced around but saw no adults. The child probably belonged to a nearby family. They were certainly carefree, letting someone so young come out shopping alone.
But Tao Xingzhi had neither the inclination nor the energy to think about cases involving child abductors. Such "minor matters" were hardly worth mentioning compared with the pressure he currently faced.
He put a few packs of chewing gum and cigarettes into his basket, then turned toward the checkout to pay.
This was his third visit to Yue City in a short span of time, though this time he was only passing through and checking on the situation along the way.
The golden window for solving the river incident had long since passed. Although the phone booth destroyed by the blast had been found, no valuable clues had been recovered from it.
The only somewhat useful lead left was the recording of the emergency call.
But that was much like recovering fingerprints from a crime scene. With such a vast population, building comprehensive fingerprint and voiceprint databases remained a distant prospect. You could not test everyone in a needle-in-a-haystack search.
Normally, samples were only taken and tested once a "suspect" had more or less been identified. At present, the national fingerprint database only included people with criminal records. As for a voiceprint database-dream on.
Voiceprint analysis was even