Qiu Susan sat up straight, turned her head and looked at Yi Jiayi without blinking.

Lin Wangjiu and others also turned their heads and looked at the little policewoman who looked like a mascot in confusion.

"I was wondering why the deceased went to King's Park alone and read on the lawn by the lake. She was obviously staying outdoors, but she seemed afraid of being seen by others." Seeing that Uncle Jiu and others didn't understand what she meant, Yi Jiayi continued:

"When I was fifteen or sixteen years old, I did everything with my friends. I would go to the park to read, go to the library, and go shopping with my friends. I never hid in a deserted place to read.

"From the testimonies of the deceased's relatives and friends in the case file, the deceased was a lively and cheerful girl who liked to be with her friends the most.

"I know that Team A has ruled out some special circumstances during the investigation and concluded that the deceased went to a quiet place to study when she encountered an unknown stranger. Rape and murder are often crimes of passion, which is consistent with the information shown by all the clues in this case.

"But, I still want to assume, is it possible that the deceased made an appointment with a friend to study together?

"Isn't this more in line with the behavior of a girl who is well-behaved, timid, lively and cheerful, and likes to mingle with people?"

"The testimony of the deceased's friend mentioned that she rarely spent weekends with her best friends before her death. Her family said that she would go out on weekends, but because her academic performance did not decline, everyone suspected that she might have gone to the library, or some small bookstores and book stalls." Fang Zhenyue thought for a while and said:

"It is also possible that she made a new friend."

"This new friend is her secret, a secret that she is unwilling to share with her family and classmates." Liu Jiaming joined in. "

Is it a secret dating?" Lin Wang frowned.

"Underground love? Teacher-student love?" Gary's reasoning suddenly turned away.

"Gary, you and Uncle Jiu should go to the deceased's school and her home and ask her if she had a crush on someone, a male teacher she had a particularly good relationship with, or some social relationships worth paying attention to." Fang Zhenyue stopped talking, thought for a while, and added:

"As for the new 'friend' the deceased made about a month before her death, from her confession, she didn't spend weekends with her classmates, which was probably about a month before her death.

"By the way, ask what the deceased did, where she went, and who she came into contact with during that period of time a month ago."

"Got it, Brother Yue. "Uncle Jiu and Gary immediately stood up and left, swiftly and fiercely.

"Sir Fang..." Yi Jiayi saw Gary and the others leave, and spoke again, but was a little hesitant.

If they were looking for the person who was with the female victim, they would definitely not find him, because the boy had died before the female victim.

But, why didn't the police find the body of the male victim at all? Was he taken away by the murderers?

"Yeah. "Fang Zhenyue nodded encouragingly, motioning her to continue.

Liu Jiaming had already turned the chair he was sitting on upside down and leaned towards Yi Jiayi.

The little policewoman is okay. After a few meetings, she learned to think and reason independently, and was accepted by Brother Yue. Her perspective is very good and she is very smart.

Qiu Susan stared at Yi Jiayi, carefully observing the expression of the little policewoman, as if thinking about something.

Yi Jiayi was immersed in how to transform the content she saw in her mind flow image into something she inferred and show it to everyone.

After considering the words, she asked Fang Zhenyue:

"Sir Fang, if, the person who was with the deceased that day was her boyfriend..."

"The deceased may have been raped and then killed by this boyfriend who came from an unknown origin." Fang Zhenyue followed her words and sorted out a possibility.

"But why did he beat the deceased so badly? The deceased was obviously not a fickle bad girl, and she shouldn't have angered a man to this extent." Yi Jiayi stopped talking, and then said, "If it was really done by her boyfriend, he is too perverted."

Fang Zhenyue thought for a moment, and then said, "If it wasn't done by her boyfriend, she was at the scene when the incident happened."

"Yeah." Yi Jiayi swallowed and asked again, "If it was you, Sir Fang, what would you do?"

"Protect the deceased and fight the murderer." Fang Zhenyue thought for a moment and then said, "Based on the injuries of the deceased, there is more than one murderer. This boyfriend is likely to be defeated."

"Another victim?" Liu Jiaming clapped his fists and suddenly said loudly.

"But where is he? "Everyone reasoned together for a while, and Qiu Sushan's emotions were also mobilized. She stood up, stared at the whiteboard and began to think quickly, "Did he escape? No, the murderer will not let the witness go easily after killing someone. Chased him to other places and killed him?"

"It's possible." Fang Zhenyue thought for a while, and asked, "Has there been other homicides near King's Park half a year ago?"

"I'll go check." Qiu Sushan turned and left. She had extremely high authority and could check all homicide files in Hong Kong.

After Qiu Sushan left, Fang Zhenyue proposed another possibility:

"If the male victim was not chased out of the King's Park Park, he would have died in King's Park. During the investigation of Team A, no trace of another victim was found. Where could the body be?"

"Lake! "Liu Jiaming clapped his hands suddenly and stood up from his chair.

Fang Zhenyue asked Sanfu to borrow a police dog without saying a word, and he took Liu Jiaming and went straight to King's Park.

Before the jeep started, Yi Jiayi also got in the car.

Fang Zhenyue glanced at his watch, "It's almost time to get off work, and you're working overtime with us again?"

"I called my brother." Yi Jiayi sat in the back seat and said obediently.

This answer seemed to say that as long as the head of my family agrees, I can go home later.

Fang Zhenyue chuckled and flew out of the police station.

His lineup today was exactly the same as that of the God of Wealth, sitting down to attract wealth, a boy and a fairy.

No matter how you think about it, you will have good luck going out today.

...

Before Fang Zhenyue went to King's Park, he first went to a grocery store, turned into the back room, and greeted the informant who was playing mahjong inside.

Six months ago, there were some abnormalities among the unemployed people near King's Park Park, and there were various possible phenomena and details that might be related to the King's Park murder case. He asked the informant to ask around, and then turned back to King's Park.

The police dog ran around, the range expanded, and as expected, there was no harvest, and it was sent back by Sanfu as it was.

Walking around the park, most of the grass grew the same, and there was no place that looked like it had been turned over and buried. In addition, it was too difficult to operate, so the possibility that the person was buried in the park after killing someone was basically ruled out.

Standing by the lake, Fang Zhenyue walked around a little and gave up the idea of ​​searching the lake himself.

He left the park to make a phone call and came back with a large team of people - professional frogmen, trailers loaded with professional small salvaging boats, and professional salvaging tools.

"This must cost a lot of money, right?" Liu Jiaming was stunned. Could the agency approve such an expenditure?

Fang Zhenyue smiled and said nothing.

"Brother Yue is going to pay out of his own pocket." Liu Jiaming walked to Yi Jiayi and said, "What do you rely on to solve a case? Money."

A group of people were working by the lake in the park, and Fang Zhenyue and others were standing by with empty stomachs.

Yi Jiayi turned around and called her eldest brother. Ten minutes later, Yi Jiadong came on a scooter with a box of milk tea, ice pops and pork chop buns.

"Thank you, brother Jiadong, you saved my life." Liu Jiaming was hungry, so he rushed over to get a bottle of ice pops, a pork chop bun, a mouthful of dry food and a mouthful of milk tea, and ate them voraciously.

"Put it on the account." Fang Zhenyue gave Yi Jiayi 5,000 Hong Kong dollars a week, and asked her to pay for all her afternoon tea expenses here, and to ask him for more money when she ran out of money.

He also paid for her overtime meals, and occasionally when she helped to order and take care of everyone's lunch at noon, Fang Zhenyue would also invite her to eat with everyone.

Most of the time, Yi Jiayi took care of her own business, so she didn't lose out anyway.

On the contrary, she took advantage of it. She handed Fang Zhenyue a pork chop bun and thanked him.

Fang Zhenyue said you're welcome, said hello to Yi Jiadong, and went back to the lake to supervise the work:

"Be careful, if there is a corpse, don't destroy it."

Yi Jiadong put down the food and quickly rushed back to Yi Ji. It was the peak business period, and he had to hurry back to take care of the business.

It was getting dark, and the high-wattage lights were turned on, and everyone's faces became more and more gloomy.

Fang Zhenyue received a short sentence sent by Qiu Susan on the pager, which made his aura even lower.

The word "no" obviously meant that there was no murder case in Hong Kong in the past six months that could match the boyfriend of the female victim in their reasoning.

Now, almost all hope is placed on the lake. If there is no corpse in it, everything may have to start from scratch again.

He turned to look at the policewoman standing beside him, but found that Yi Jiayi's expression was particularly determined. She looked at the salvage boat working on the lake without any anxiety.

"Are you so confident?" Fang Zhenyue asked.

"There is no perfect crime in this world. There must be clues. We will find them eventually." She turned to Fang Zhenyue and nodded, her tone seemed to encourage Officer Fang.

Fang Zhenyue couldn't help laughing, patted her shoulder, and turned back to the lake.

There were a lot of words here, and the lights on the salvage boat were bright and hot, attracting mosquitoes from all around.

Fang Zhenyue had to take out the mosquito repellent he carried with him and kept spraying it around him.

Just when everyone was getting annoyed by the mosquito bites, the dark-skinned man on the salvage boat suddenly groaned.

Twenty minutes later, the frogmen cooperated with the salvage boat to salvage the body, along with the water plants, mud and fallen rocks that had entangled the body, and brought them ashore.

The forensic officer and colleagues from the forensic department hurried over. Xu Junhao was wearing an expensive-looking suit. He had obviously finished his work and went home, but he was urgently called back to work.

The body had been soaked in the lake for half a year, and now only a skeleton was left. The traces left on the hair and clothes were not optimistic.

Even if there were fingerprints left on the clothes, after half a year, there was nothing left.

The body and many other things that were salvaged were taken back to the police station as important evidence.

...

You Zhaohua had just led the team to conduct a new round of reasoning and discussion on the case that was being solved. This case also gradually reached a dead end.

They had suspects, but the strong evidence seemed to be playing hide-and-seek with them. It always almost appeared, but was proven useless.

"Everyone go back and have a good sleep today." You Zhaohua rubbed his aching head. He didn't want to give up the case, but he had a premonition that he had no way out.

Another unsolved case, another one...

He hated himself for not being able to capture evidence, and hated that many of the collected evidence could not produce more accurate verification results with the current technology.

"Brother Hua, you should also go back and have a good rest." The subordinate agent walked out and turned back to persuade him.

Suddenly, there was an unusual noise outside the door, as if a group of people with turbulent emotions were rushing back in a noisy manner.

"What's the matter?" You Zhaohua walked out of the A team office and looked towards the door of the police station.

With his eyes slightly narrowed, he actually saw Fang Zhenyue.

"It seems to be..." The detective who was walking in the front and saw Fang Zhenyue's entire team turned around and looked at You Zhaohua hesitantly:

"Another body was found in the central lake of King's Park."

"..." You Zhaohua's eyebrows were curled up, and he stood still for several minutes. Suddenly, he strode out of the corridor and headed for the forensic autopsy room.

...

The ropes that bound the feet of the corpse and the stone were initially identified as two shoelaces tied together. What kind of shoes they belonged to and whether there were other important clues required the next round of experiments and verification.

Only the skeleton was left of the corpse. Based on the remaining injuries on the skull, it can be judged that the victim was killed by a blunt weapon.

"No stones stained with other people's blood were found at the crime scene. At that time, we tested all the blood samples collected nearby, and they all belonged to the female victim." When You Zhaohua heard that the skeleton in front of him might have died from a blunt weapon, he immediately thought of the large and small stones on the lakeside and the grassy slope, and couldn't help but interrupt and ask:

"Can the time of death be determined?"

Did she really die in King's Park Park on the same day as the female victim of the King's Park murder case?

Could there be more than one victim at that time?

But they have been investigating for so long and have not found any trace of the other victim...

Is it possible that these two cases are completely unrelated?

"The murder weapon may have been thrown into the lake with the body, and there is no need to retrieve it now." Xu Junhao looked up at You Zhaohua, then turned back to examine the body from top to bottom for a long time before saying:

“The time of death must be determined comprehensively based on the results of the forensic department’s tests on clothing, etc.

“The body completely turned to bones in the lake water. At that temperature, two weeks was enough. The reason why the skeleton is well preserved is entirely due to the clothes he was wearing and the aquatic plants that were entangled with him.

“The clothes were long-sleeved spring clothes, which was obviously not summer. Putting aside the possibility that this young man was particularly afraid of cold, the time of death should be February, March, or April. If the young man was very energetic, January is also possible.

“As for the aquatic plants, I remember that the lake had a centralized treatment of the aquatic plants at the beginning of the year. I will call tomorrow to inquire about the specific treatment time and the height of the aquatic plants after treatment.

"Judging from the fact that the corpse is almost completely covered by the aquatic plants, the corpse must have fallen into the aquatic plants when they were very short, and then grew to this height...it really took several months.

"I will ask the forensic experts to ask about the specific growth rate of this aquatic plant tomorrow."

Although Xu Junhao has not given a definite answer, You Zhaohua's expression has become complicated. Judging

from the current clues, the skeleton in front of them is most likely to have died half a year ago, and it is very likely to be another victim of the King's Park murder case.

Then...it is also the most important breakthrough clue that their Group A has not found after several months of investigation.

You Zhaohua's face twitched slightly, and he turned to look at Fang When Fang Zhenyue came to the scene, his expression became embarrassed and bitter.

Fang Zhenyue did not look at him, but kept staring at the corpse, constantly looking at the style of the corpse's clothes and other information.

Next, the people from the forensic department carefully took off the clothes, pants, socks and other items, packed them in bags and took them away for testing.

The forensic officer laid the corpse flat, checked the maturity of the skull, teeth and ossification centers, stood up, and said to Fang Zhenyue and others:

"The growth plates are partially closed, and it can be judged that the person is around 18 to early twenties.

"Male, about 1.75 meters tall.

"Judging from the thickness of the bones and the condition of the bones where the muscles are connected to the bones, the person is of moderate build and not fat.

"Judging from the comparison of the left and right arm bones and leg bones, he is right-handed."

"Jiaming, go check the missing persons in Hong Kong in the past six months." Fang Zhenyue immediately gave the order.

Liu Jiaming took the notebook with the bone information and left after receiving the order.

When Fang Zhenyue retracted his gaze, he caught a glimpse of Yi Jiayi staring at the skeleton, her eyes red, her fists clenched, and she looked very unstable.

He nodded to Xu Junhao, reached out and grabbed Yi Jiayi's arm, and led her out of the forensic autopsy room.

You Zhaohua was still standing in the autopsy room, staring into the eyes of the forensic officer Xu Sir for a while, then nodded awkwardly, turned around and left with his head down.

……

……

When the body was recovered, Yi Jiayi was unable to get close. In the dark, she seemed to see the body, and it seemed that she only saw a pile of tangled water plants.

But once she entered the forensic autopsy room, the body was placed on the autopsy bed, and the forensic department gradually peeled off the water plants, and she finally saw the white bones clearly.

The room with a cold light without any temperature, and the bones that were almost the same color as the light, pulled her into a flow image.

The deceased was a tall and thin teenager with a childish face, about eighteen or nineteen years old.

When the two murderers covered the mouth of the deceased's girlfriend and dragged her down the grass slope, the deceased struggled hard to get up, but was held down by the other three people. No matter how hard he resisted, he could not escape.

While the deceased was struggling, three young men who looked older than him kept hitting him with whatever they had. When stones flew away, they used their fists and feet. When their fists hit the deceased's forehead and broke it, they picked up a stone and continued to beat him.

The tallest young man with a crew cut yelled while beating him: "Admit your mistake and I will spare you. What's wrong with giving us your girl? Brothers are like hands and feet, do you know? Do you know?"

He asked, and then raised a stone and smashed it down fiercely.

The deceased kept gritting his teeth, neither begging for mercy nor admitting his mistakes.

With red eyes, he rushed down the grass slope when he got the chance, and fought back desperately when he was caught. He responded

to the young man with a crew cut on his cheekbone and bit the ankle of the young man in the green jacket fiercely.

Fists and feet have no eyes. During the struggle, I don't know how many kicks and punches landed on the three abusers. Even if they couldn't kill him, he didn't give up. Like a tiger or wolf surrounded by wild dogs in the wilderness, with blood in his eyes, he knew he was no match for his opponent, but he still fought desperately.

During the conflict, the deceased rolled and crawled along the hillside for nearly ten meters towards his girlfriend. When he was about to hit the young man who abused his girlfriend, the bald man was finally aroused with the strongest malice and anger.

He raised a bigger stone and smashed it hard on the shoulder of the deceased while the thugs held him down.

This probably smashed the shoulder of the deceased. Such pain is definitely enough to make people cry and kneel down to beg for mercy, or even fall to the ground.

But in the agony of death, the deceased's adrenaline surged, as if he no longer felt pain. All he

could see was his girlfriend's face, which was blurred by blood and tears and no longer beautiful. He gritted his teeth and said nothing from beginning to end. One shoulder was limp, and he still wanted to turn over and bite the young man who bullied his girlfriend.

The young man with a crew cut held a big stone, and his anger swept away his emotions. He roared, "Then die!" He smashed the stone hard on the head of the deceased.

The deceased's limbs twitched, and the young man who seemed to have the strength of a tiger and an ox finally collapsed on the ground, no longer struggling or fighting back.

He still clenched his teeth, and his eyes were full of hatred.

...

I don't know if it was because the male deceased's emotions were too strong, or if the two of them really died too tragically.

Yi Jiayi felt cold all over until she followed Sir Fang out of the autopsy room for a long distance. Her left hand was clenched into a fist, and her knuckles turned white without her realizing it.

"You're going to see Forensic Doctor Xu and the reports received from the Forensic Department in the next week. Have you written down all of them?" Fang Zhenyue noticed her silence and distraction, wondering if she was scared by the corpse, so he changed the subject and asked about work.

Yi Jiayi raised the file in her hand, nodded and forced a smile: "I've written down everything."

"Yeah." Fang Zhenyue nodded, "Let's go home after work."

"Yeah." Yi Jiayi was in a bad mood and answered weakly.

Fang Zhenyue patted her shoulder and watched her drink a cup of hot water. When she packed her things and prepared to leave, he pulled her back to the B team office.

The policewoman looked at him in confusion, as if asking: You just asked me to finish my work, why don't you let me leave again?

"Stay here for a while and wait until you feel better before riding your bike. It's unsafe to be distracted." Fang Zhenyue walked to the whiteboard and wrote two words:

[Shoes]

"What do you mean?" Sanfu stared at the two words, and then looked at Fang Zhenyue in confusion. Why didn't he remember that there was anything wrong with the shoes of the deceased?

"The body was wrapped in water plants and slowly decomposed, so the clothes were on. Moreover, the deceased's socks were all there, but not a single shoe was found." Fang Zhenyue narrated.

"He was not wearing shoes when he sank into the lake." Sanfu answered immediately.

"It is impossible for a person to not wear shoes." Fang Zhenyue drew two horizontal lines under the word "shoes". "The shoelaces that tied the body and the stone may have come from the shoes worn by the deceased. The murderer took off the shoes of the deceased specifically, perhaps not only because he wanted to use the shoelaces of the deceased, but also because he liked the shoes of the deceased."

"!" Sanfu clapped his hands suddenly, "The shoes are most likely worn by the murderer now."

Fang Zhenyue nodded.

The clues were almost all sorted out. Fang Zhenyue added the contents found tonight one by one on the whiteboard and discussed for a while, but there was no definite progress.

If we want to move to the next step, we have to wait for the new report from the forensic department and the forensic doctor, or Liu Jiaming to find a missing person who meets the conditions of the deceased and confirm the identity of the deceased.

Fang Zhenyue decisively disbanded the team, leaving only Liu Jiaming to work overtime.

Gary and Lin Wangjiu met the family of the female victim, and after receiving the notice from Fang Sir to finish work, they happily went home to rest.

The female victim's classmates and teachers will visit her after school tomorrow.

At this time, Jiayi was still sitting in the office, repeatedly recalling the flow images triggered by the male victim's corpse. Seeing that she had recovered a little, Fang Zhenyue simply picked her up and the old bicycle, threw them into his jeep, and sent her home "on the way".

After returning home, Yi Jiayi washed up, then went back to the small room and spread out the pen and paper again.

She wrote down the information she remembered, thinking and screening them one by one, trying to find some information to determine the identity of these murderers.

The murderers knew the male victim, and they might have been brothers in the past.

But… who was this male victim?

…

…

Because she had worked late the previous night, Yi Jiayi felt a little listless the next morning.

After washing up, she was still nodding her head in disbelief until she saw the table full of delicious food. She raised her head in disbelief and asked, "Are there any neighbors coming to have breakfast together today?"

"Are you tired from work recently?" Yi Jiadong put the last plate of egg tarts on the table, looked at his sister with some heartache, and gently rubbed her long hair that she had just tied up. "Eat more, don't lose the meat I have raised for you for so many years when you just start working."

The table was filled with crystal clear shrimp dumplings, thick-cut pork roasted wheat, fragrant scallop and seafood porridge, mung bean paste steamed cakes, fish fillet and intestine vermicelli dripping with fresh soy sauce, freshly baked egg tarts, chicken and pineapple buns...

How early did her brother get up this morning?

Turning her head to look at Yi Jiadong, the broad-shouldered and thick-chested man still wearing an apron looked at her expectantly, his eyes full of desire to praise her.

In the memory of her previous life, she often snuggled in her brother's arms and acted coquettishly.

After she came here, she thought that this body was now a big girl, and it was natural for her to be a little distant from her brother.

But at this moment, the spoiled Yi Jiayi wanted her brother's hug and wanted to be close to this simple, kind and gentle big brother.

She reached out her hand clumsily and measured his side. After several attempts, she still failed.

She raised her head and smiled a little embarrassedly. Yi Jiadong was amused by her stupidity. He slapped her shoulder hard and knocked her down on the chair. He said cheerfully:

"Eat quickly, otherwise it will be cold."

"Then I'll start!" She raised her hands and announced happily, and then picked up the chopsticks.

Looking at the table full of delicious food, she didn't know what to eat first.

The slippery and soft seafood porridge first tasted the sweet seafood flavor, and then slowly savored it, and then tasted the rice fragrance.

She drank two big spoonfuls before picking up the shrimp dumplings. After

the elastic and transparent rice skin was bitten, the salty juice flowed out, and then the teeth pressed down and bit, and there was the elasticity of the fresh shrimp and the tenderness of the meat paste.

Tasting one by one, Yi Jiayi felt like a little gourmet.

Yi Jiadong sat opposite her and also tasted two shrimp dumplings.

Seeing his sister's depression slowly being healed by the food, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Being the eldest brother is still very strong, and he can easily make his sister happy.

Satisfied.

This morning, Yi Jiadong realized the meaning of being a human being from his sister, and felt that he was strong and great, and started the day happily.

Yi Jiayi was warmed by her brother's delicious food, and set sail again with full energy. She brought some leftover breakfast to the police station and distributed it to the hungry children in the Serious Crime Unit B, and received unanimous thanks from the children.

The child Liu Jiaming still said "I saved my life" and he would not change his words every time he had a meal. However, in order to express his sincerity, he casually improvised and called "Sister Jiayi".

Jiayi's face turned red after being called, and she put down her things and ran away. What

awaited the Serious Case B Team next was a whole day of tedious investigations and visits.

Liu Jiaming continued to ask one police station after another if there were any missing persons who met the conditions of the male victim in the King's Park murder case, whether they were on file or not.

Lin Wangjiu continued to take Gary to visit the school of the female victim, interview teachers, and ask classmates. He also had to be as gentle as possible so as not to scare the children.

The busy running around and hard work may all be in vain and gain nothing.

This is what a detective's job is like. You have to do it even if it's thankless. You have to do it even if you may not get anything. No matter how annoying or tired you are, you just swallow it with ice cola, digest it yourself, and get used to it.

After three days of hard work, Liu Jiaming identified the identity of the deceased as five missing persons, and then visited the police stations where these five people reported their disappearance.

In the end, the target was identified as Ding Baolin, a missing person in Sham Shui Po, 18 years old, 176 cm tall, unemployed vagrant. Almost half a year ago, not long after the King's Park murder case, his family went to the Sham Shui Po Police Station to report the case.

"Did you leave a phone number? Inform the family to go to Yau Ma Tei Police Station to identify the body." Liu Jiaming walked through 6 police stations and finally turned back to Sham Shui Po Police Station. Although he had also informed the families of the other 5 people, he always felt that this one best met the conditions of the male victim.

"Their family is very poor and has no phone. After Ding Baolin disappeared, there was only a 70-year-old old lady who received the minimum living allowance and a 13-year-old boy who was still in school. They were Ding Baolin's grandmother and younger brother. This is the address. I'll take you there to inform them." The uniformed police officer looked at his watch. It happened to be the time for students to get out of school. After he took Liu Jiaming there, he should be able to go home directly.

"Okay, thank you for your hard work." Liu Jiaming looked at the sky outside. The sun had been shining all day, and it was the hottest and muggiest time outside. With a bitter face, he said to himself "thank you for your hard work" in his heart before he went out with the uniformed police officer.

After leaving the police station and crossing Lai Chi Kok Road, they finally found Ding Baolin's house after twists and turns.

Ding's house was dirty, small, and broken. Several families shared one bathroom, and there was a strange smell everywhere.

Ding Baoshu had not finished school yet, so Liu Jiaming and the police officer were waiting under the eaves of the alley, fanning themselves and chatting awkwardly.

After waiting for more than half an hour, Liu Jiaming was about to give up, and Ding Baoshu came back dragging a big bag.

The boy was still young, about 1.5 meters tall, thin, with a delicate face and short hair. If you didn't look carefully, you could easily mistake him for a girl. With

every step he took, his bag jingled, and it was obvious that it was full of sellable garbage such as cans and bottles.

After the uniformed police officer explained his purpose to him, he just nodded, took the big bag home, talked to his grandmother, and then walked out, following Liu Jiaming silently.

The boy kept his head down and remained silent as they walked.

Whether it was because he was precocious or something else, he was particularly indifferent to the news that his brother might have died.

There was no wind on the street. Liu Jiaming asked Ding Baoshu to take a double-decker bus and slowly arrived at the Yau Ma Tei Police Station.

When they entered the room, the air conditioning blew very strongly. Liu Jiaming breathed a sigh of relief, but Ding Baoshu shuddered.