In the dead of night, Chen Shi parked his car near Heping East Street where the dismembered parts had been found. Lin Dongxue and Tao Yueyue were there with him that night to perform an "experiment."

Peng Sijue could roughly identify the bags that had contained the dismembered parts through DNA. However, this wasn’t very helpful, because the garbage bags brought back from the scene were all common, black, degradable plastic bags, which were previously very common. As garbage sorting had been implemented in Long'an, supermarkets are now selling transparent plastic bags.

The three sat quietly in the car. Chen Shi fished out his mobile phone to read Xin Bai's newly updated novel. Tao Yueyue was eating potato chips, and the sound of the chips crunching echoed in the car. Lin Dongxue stared at the night scene in a...