Bai Yidao had been kneeling on the ground crying incessantly. He kept saying that he wanted to call his father, but everyone just ignored him.

Officer Liao sighed and ordered the officers to take him back to the police station. I took the Wealth Beckoning Cat into my hand and scrutinized it. I put my ear on it and listened while tapping my finger on it. It sounded like there was a corpse in there.

The figurine wasn’t large enough to fit a human body inside it, so I surmised that it was probably the corpse of a cat.

I told Huang Xiaotao of this discovery. 

“Are you going to open it?” she suggested.

“No, this thing is too mysterious for me to deal with. It’s probably best left undisturbed.” I then wrapped it up and handed it to Officer Liao and told him, “You should take this to a hospital and check what’s inside with an X-ray.”

“Okay, I’ll do that,” he nodded.

Because there were many people in the hotel,...