The summer heat in Jin City was unbearable.
At nine o'clock in the evening, a middle-aged man, about fifty years old and smelling of sweat, ran into the office of the Criminal Investigation Team at the Front Hill Public Security Branch. Looking frantic, he said that his accomplice was going to kill someone and that he wanted to report a crime.
Huang Jianjun, the deputy bureau chief on duty that day, was an experienced police officer. After hearing about the situation, his thick eyebrows furrowed. "Were you kidnapping for ransom, but now it had turned into a case of kidnapping and murder?"
The middle-aged man's eyes were bloodshot as he said with a trembling voice, "We only wanted to earn some money. We don't want to kill anyone."
"Where are your accomplices, and the children? Were they taken to the hospital?"
