By the time they reached Jin City, evening had fallen.
As they got out, a man from the car behind them ran over to greet Song Ning.
His face was wreathed in smiles.
"Sister-in-law! Hello! We finally meet!"
Song Ning thought he looked familiar, like someone from the Southwest Military Region, but she didn't know his name.
Han Xiao stood beside her, rolling his eyes.
"What are you calling her that for? Stop stirring up trouble!"
The man grinned.
"So I can't call you sister-in-law? Then I'll call you Sister Ning! Sister Ning! I'm Xiong Gang, from the Southwest Military Region! The boss called me over with Han Xiao and Chen Liang before!"
"Hey, hey-have you forgotten how old you are?"
Han Xiao shot him a fierce glare. "Sister? She's a young woman, and you're making her sound old!"
Xiong Gang puffed out his chest and glared right back. "So what? I'll call her sister if I want! If you hadn't been a complete idiot and given us the wrong information before, I'd have been calling her that ages ago!"
Fortunately, Chen Liang came out to meet them just then.
"You're here? Let's go straight to the conference room!"
They were at the Public Security Bureau in Jin City's Southern Suburbs district.
Captain Chen of the criminal investigation team, who had first taken charge of the case, briefed everyone-
Chief Engineer Li had arrived at the Third Smelting Plant in Jin City's Southern Suburbs district on the afternoon of October 21.
Accompanying him was his assistant, Wang Honglin, a young technician.
The two had stayed at the Third Smelting Plant's Guesthouse.
According to Wang Honglin, Chief Engineer Li had hit a bottleneck in the smelting process for a certain alloy. He had come to the Third Smelting Plant to discuss