The next morning, Lin Dongxue found many body bags piled up under the stairs south of the corridor. When she learned that one of the corpses was Lie Guoxiao, her frame of mind was indescribable.

A police officer from the third team told her what had transpired last night. Lin Dongxue then relayed to Chen Shi that gunshots had been heard from Lie Guoxiao’s villa in the suburbs last night. When the police arrived, they found Lie Guoxiao and a dozen of his men lying in pools of blood. In particular, there were dozens of knife wounds on Lie Guo Xiao's body.

At first, they thought it was a gunfight due to underworld clashes and so on, but the initial autopsies found that all of the deceased had died of knife wounds. However, they grasped pistols in their hands, which should have been bought by Lie Guoxiao through smuggling...