Killer Nights

Chapter 88: Yao Tianyu's Recollection

Jiang Zhengkai sat in front of the computer monitor in his office.  On it was displayed a map of Guangxi Province. He pored over the electronic map in search of A-Xiu’s hometown.  The border hamlet was just a tiny dot on the screen, but Jiang Zhengkai did manage to find it in the end.

“There it is!” he exclaimed as he leaned back in his chair and rubbed his weary eyes.  Staring at a computer monitor for extended periods of time definitely takes its toll on a person’s eyesight.  On the map, it appeared that A-Xiu’s hamlet was no more than a few kilometers away from A-Di’s hamlet. The tiny dots representing these two neighboring hamlets were practically next to each other on the map.  Combined with information provided by A-Jiao and A-Ping, there was now sufficient circumstantial evidence to determine that A-Di’s first trip to this city had in fact been to look for A-Xiu. Furthermore, it was highly likely that A-Di had already known A-Xiu while still in Guangxi.  Again, this was corroborated by A-Ping’s stat...