“Do continue.” He nodded at Wu Wenqing, who promptly pointed at another location, “The next incident happened at this place. Callidy KTV, located in Wanda Plaza, just south of where Bright Avenue first leads into the city.”

“1407 hours, An old man was discovered hanging from a drying rack inside a six-story low-rise building along Chongming Road. A resident who was hanging up his laundry noticed him. Upon closer inspection, he discovered the old man to be nothing more than… dangling human skin.”

As Wu Wenqing spoke, Secretary Ma tilted his head slightly, and another secretariat walked forward to hand out information sheets to everyone.

Qin Ye picked it up and scanned through its contents. Credit where it was due, the city government had acted with incredible speed. Within the span of merely a few hours, they had already managed to gather all related information, including details pertaining to the resident’s relationship with his neighbours, full particulars of his children and their whereabouts, and so on and so forth. Their inferences and conjectures were also done up neatly and cogently.

The LED screen played a video captured from a nearby surveillance camera, revealing a regular rooftop area of a residential building, decorated with a variety of items, replete with a number of cardboard boxes that were stacked neatly on the side. However, their focus all lay on the left corner of the video footage, where the complete set of human skin remained intact on the drying rack, fluttering...