After Song Lang satisfied his smoking addiction, he returned to the scene and asked Peng Sijue how he was doing.

"Male, over fifty years old, and died within the last two hours. His body was only stabbed once. There is almost no blood on the surface of the body. It may be that blood had accumulated in the lungs and caused suffocation. The specific cause of death will have to be determined by the autopsy when he’s taken back. These are things we found on the body."

Peng Sijue handed over a wallet and a mobile phone.

There were a few thousand yuan in the wallet, a bunch of tiny metal keys, and a photo of a family of three that looked like it had been taken at some tourist attraction. The man in it was the deceased. His name was noted on an ID card - He Taiyang.

The phone had been dropped and couldn’t be turned on.

Song...