Ye Tianming also frowned slightly.

That would cut off the trail!

The other body could not be found, and the murderer was another victim.

The cause of death can only be attributed to natural death?

There must be a big problem here.

There must be some things they've overlooked.

But none of them can find the answer right now!

The timeframe is two days later.

It's Wednesday, around 8:50 a.m., and Ye Tianming is still driving on the road.

His youngest apprentice, Ling Yaqing, was sitting in the passenger seat.

The two had just passed through the Cross-Harbour Tunnel and were heading towards West Kowloon.

At that moment, Ye Tianming's phone, which was in the car door storage compartment, suddenly rang.

He picked it up with one hand and glanced at it, only to find that the caller was none other than Gu Zechen.

Gu Zechen must have something important to say to him at this time, otherwise he wouldn't be calling him at this particular moment.

So Ye Tianming put on his Bluetooth headset, tapped the button twice on the side, and answered the call.

"Ah Chen, I'm on my way now, what's up?"

Ye Tianming asked.

Do you remember that case from two days ago?

"That's what Gu Zechen said on the other end of the phone."

"Of course I remember. How could I forget such an outrageous case? What's wrong? Any new discoveries? Has another body been found?"

Ye Tianming asked.

Gu Zechen called now and brought up the case from two days ago again, so there's a high chance there's been some new progress.

They had absolutely no clues before.

The human tissue samples sent for testing ultimately failed to detect any toxins.

This is either some kind of new virus that can disappear quickly without leaving any trace, or the woman did not actually die from poisoning.

But Ye Tianming still preferred the former.

If the latter is true, then they would have no choice but to believe that the woman had truly died of old age.

That’s outrageous!

"No, it's a new murder, and the circumstances are exactly the same as the last one!"

"That's what Gu Zechen said on the other end of the phone."

What?! Someone else has died?

Ye Tianming slammed on the brakes, and the car came to a steady stop at a traffic light intersection.

Ling Yaqing, sitting in the passenger seat, also looked at him curiously.

"Master, is it another case like the one from a couple of days ago?"

she asked.

Ye Tianming nodded to her.

At this moment, Gu Zechen also gave Ye Tianming an address and asked him to go and take a look at the scene.

"Okay, I'll be right there. Wait five minutes."

After Ye Tianming finished speaking, he hung up the phone immediately.

Just then, the red light ahead turned green.

Ye Tianming floored the accelerator, and the car roared off in another direction.

More than four minutes later;

Ye Tianming arrived at the entrance of a residential community.

A large crowd of onlookers gathered outside the residential area.

Ye Tianming honked the horn a few times to disperse the crowd blocking the entrance and exit, and then he drove into the residential area.

The 16 buildings in the residential complex.

Several police cars were parked downstairs.

Some uniformed police officers were maintaining order at the scene, with police tape in place.

Ye Tianming put on his ID, called to Ling Yaqing, and the two got out of the car together.

"One of our own."

Ye Tianming showed his identification and then led Ling Yaqing into the cordon.

The door to room 703 on the 7th floor of building 16.

It's open and wide.

People from the Major Crimes Unit were coming and going, and forensic personnel were also busy inside, collecting suspicious items.

Ye Tianming put on shoe covers, disposable rubber gloves, and a disposable medical mask at the door before leading Ling Yaqing into the house.

"Amin, over here!"

Gu Zechen saw him come in and quickly waved and called out.

Ye Tianming walked over.

The first thing I saw was the deceased lying on the sofa, looking as if he were fast asleep.

The deceased was a woman.

He looks to be in his early twenties, very young.

"You said on the phone that this case is the same as the last one? So she killed someone too?"

Ye Tianming glanced at the corpse, then asked Gu Zechen, who was standing to the side.

“Our people checked the nearby surveillance footage and retrieved the footage of her committing the murder from three different cameras.”

Liang Xiaorou then walked over and answered Ye Tianming's question.

"Is there a video?"

Ye Tianming asked.

Liang Xiaorou nodded and handed over a tablet.

Ye Tianming clicked on the first video above.

That was probably a video taken by city surveillance cameras. It wasn't very clear, but it wasn't blurry either. You could clearly see that the woman in the video was indeed the woman lying on the sofa in front of you, no longer breathing.

They are definitely the same person.

In the video, a woman is holding a baseball bat and repeatedly hitting a man on the head.

The man fell down after the first heavy blow.

The subsequent dozen or so heavy blows were likely mostly acts of desecrating a corpse.

After the dozen or so heavy blows ended, the woman in the video grabbed the man's leg and dragged his body away from the surveillance camera's view.

"Wait! She can drag the body of a dead adult male? And she does it quite easily."

Ye Tianming raised his head and looked at the people in front of him.

"This is also a point of doubt."

Liang Xiaorou said.

Ye Tianming didn't say anything more; he continued to watch the next two videos.

One of the two videos was captured by a surveillance camera outside a shop across the street, and the other was footage from a dashcam in a car.

The footage captured by the store's surveillance cameras was very blurry, indicating that the cameras used by the store were of poor quality and too cheap.

However, the footage captured by the dashcam was extremely clear.

It seems the owner of this car has spent a lot of money on this, probably because he's been scared off by staged accidents.

Regardless, the individual aspect is the clearest.

This footage is sufficient to confirm the identities of the murderer and the victim.

"Have you checked this person's identity?"

Ye Tianming pointed to the man who had been beaten to death in the picture and asked Liang Xiaorou, who was standing next to him.

"We checked, and he's a petty thug who's done some extortion. He usually hangs out in this area, and many businesses around here know him."

Liang Xiaorou replied, "However, this guy has no family in Hong Kong. His parents are divorced and have immigrated, so we can't contact him for the time being."

Chapter 490: Important Clue! The Body Has Been Found? An Ice Sculpture!

What about the interpersonal relationships around you?

Gu Zechen asked.

"It's very simple. There were a few so-called brothers, but when my buddy called them, as soon as they heard someone had died, they all hung up on him. When he called back, their numbers were blocked."

Liang Xiaorou shook her head and said.

How many of these gangsters in society truly consider each other brothers?

These days, most friends are just fair-weather friends, or even worse, just superficial buddies.

When they eat, drink, and have fun together, they put their arms around each other's shoulders as if they have an extremely good relationship.

When people drink too much, they're quick to say they'd go to great lengths for their brothers.

But what if something really happens?

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