Killer Nights

Chapter 29: The Woman in the Ditch

“Hey Liu Na, is Wei Xin in the office?”  Jiang Zhengkai had called Wei Xin on her cell phone, but she didn’t pick up, so he’d decided to call her desk phone at the sub-bureau.  Her officemate Liu Na was the one who answered.

“No, Inspector Jiang,” Liu Na replied over the phone.

“I see.  Thank you,” Jiang Zhengkai said as he hung up.  “Where the hell could that girl be?” he quietly complained.  Wei Xin was normally a very hardworking police officer, so it wasn’t like her to skip out on work without telling anybody.  Perhaps she was physically and mentally exhausted from working this case and needed to relax for a bit.  In any case, Jiang Zhengkai decided he would go back and re-inspect the crime scene.

Meanwhile, a young man with a shaved head ran into an internet cafe and yelled at the cafe’s owner, A-Tao, “Brother Tao, there’s a woman in the ditch!”

“Goddamn it, why the hell are you yelling in broad daylight?” A-Tao snarled back...