The group of men who just attacked us were all handcuffed. I remembered one of them shouting about us killing his brother. I asked him what his name was, but he ignored me. He just glared at us with eyes full of vengeance and gritted his teeth. It seemed that he really didn’t like the ‘experts from the city.’

“Trust me, we’re nothing like those people,” I assured him. “If you cooperate with us, we’ll be able to clear your brother’s name!”

“That bastard named Qin said the exact same thing, and my brother ended up getting executed anyway!”

He then burst into tears and lost control of his emotions. I asked him his name again, in a much gentler tone, and he finally answered that he was Wu Laosan, Wu Mou’s brother.

He worked in a factory in the city. Yesterday, he saw how the police welcomed the task force from the city and was so infuriated that he sneaked into the hotel parking lot and smashed the windows of our cars. He was told that...