Jiang Zhengkai did not take a lunch break today. Instead, he stayed in his office and staring fixedly at the clock on the opposite wall. Although the digital clock didn’t make any tick-tock sounds like an analog one, Jiang Zhengkai could hear a ticking sound in his head with each movement of the second hand.

At two o'clock, the telephone on Jiang Zhengkai's desk finally rang. "Inspector Jiang! We found it." It was Lu Xiaoqiang's voice. "We found a dead body in the mud by the window of the first murder scene. It is already completely white and decayed. The gender is still undetermined, but from a cursory look, it seems like a female.”

“Is that so?”Jiang Zhengkai let out a long sigh of relief as he had been waiting for the news all morning. Then he sat up straight and calmly instructed, "Xiaoqiang, make sure the scene isn’t disturbed....