At noon, Xiaotao bought everyone a box lunch. Dali, who had been watching surveillance videos all morning, got up and excitedly shouted, “Food!”

I glared at him. The idiot was totally clueless about manners.

There was rice with pork chop curry or rice with teriyaki chicken. It was all very delicious. Each box cost about 20 yuan. I thought Xiaotao was really generous.

After the meal, the policeman who had just sent the investigation license plate came back and said that the owner was a self-employed wholesale towel distributor.

Upon hearing this news, everyone’s eyes gleamed with excitement. This was the first new clue we discovered after a dead end. It excited everyone. 

As soon as I heard of the area in which this self-employed person lived, I felt as if it...