Lu Bosheng gave a sigh of disappointment. “I don’t even know if we’ll be able to bring the culprit to justice! This person was too cruel to destroy a young girl in this manner! I’d like to murder the person who did this with my two hands! Unfortunately, there’s been no clue to this case up to now. The doctor is also unsure if she can talk again, so the only thing we can do now is pray that she’ll be able to do so; at least then, she can provide some useful leads to the police!”


  “Did the police manage to find any substantial evidence?” Yun Shishi probed anxiously.

  The man shook his head while his wife replied after giving a sigh, “If we got even the slightest clue, we wouldn’t be so downcast. This case has dragged on for a while, and we have done all we could to exert pressure on the police, but it’s all in vain. We even managed to connect with the police chief, but it yielded no results. The chief was equally astounded that his men couldn’t find a single useful clue.”


  The actress mulled with knitted brows. “Logically speaking, sleuthing technology is so advanced now. It’s impossible not to find a clue at all!”


  “The police told us that they checked through all surveillance footage in that vicinity without finding any suspicious character lurking around when the crime happened.”


  “How is that possible?”


  Nowadays, every street and corner had a CCTV installed, so how was it possible that the police could not find anything suspicious with such an omnipresent surveillance system?

  Just as the young lady was about to voice her doubts, Lu Bosheng added, “The police suspected that the culprit had gotten into a car immediately after leaving the bar; that’s why the camera failed to capture the image. The authority tried following the lead on the person wearing the all-black attire, but after checking out the bar for two days, they failed to find any eye-witness.”


  A critical issue suddenly dawned upon the actress as she jumped in abruptly. “How about fingerprints?”


  “Fingerprints?” A look of alarm was palpable on the older man’s face when he heard the word.

  Mu Yazhe could see the strange reaction from the man and pressed on nonchalantly. “Tell us what you know.”


  Lu Bosheng related what he knew with some hesitation. “Your mention of fingerprints reminded me of what the police told us earlier. Actually, to tell you the truth, we asked a similar question to the police at the start, and they told us that they couldn’t recover any fingerprints at the scene. It sounded unbelievable to me as well.”


  She knew a thing or two about criminal investigation. Before this, she had enjoyed reading books, mystery novels, and even autobiographies of forensic workers, who were very certain on this fact: ‘To exist is to leave a trail.’


  A trail would say something; it could not lie. It would be ironclad evidence.

  As long as a person existed at a scene of a crime, one would definitely be able to find the slightest trace of it there.

  The actress persisted. “How about footprints?”


  The man glanced at his wife; her strong interest in this matter did not go unnoticed by him.

  He reckoned that she harbored the same suspicion—Lu Jingtian’s case was connected to her father’s case in one way or another.

  The two cases seemed completely unrelated and employed different tactics, but the details were identical.

  Lu Bosheng replied resignedly, “The crime happened at a bar with plenty of footfall. Trying to look for clues from footprints is like searching for a needle in a haystack.”