Chapter 309 - 310: Filling The Dots-III

Taking a closer look toward the picture frame, was a picture of Tian Yi giving the annoying grin he had always seen his uncle gave as he wrapped his hand on the shoulder of the two boys who stood beside him. One boy with black hair who looked lazy with only half of his face that was caught by the camera which was him; and another young boy with a wide smile who hugged Tian Yi's waist.

Yue took a moment to stare at the picture, his lashes casted down and he rose his hand to turn down the picture from staring back to him.

As the night close in where Xiao Yun waited for Wang Li Lei in his study room, meanwhile, Wang Li Lei was sitting on the rounded table with the other two heads of the the groups. Despite their meeting had been declared for all groups to come at the fixed time, only one group was not present in the table at the moment, the head of Wushin Group, Zhao Min.

Ye Xinye knit his brows at the sight of the empty seat. That fool, he thought his foxy eyes shifted toward Wang Li Lei who kept a face that could be compare to a wall then toward Tang Guanyu who was staring at the seat top with a worrisome expression. When Tang Guanyu looked up to have their eyes meeting, he gave a small smile where Ye Xinye shrugged his shoulder.

For more than months now, rumors kept appearing of how the Wushin Group had a hand on the murderers that happened throughout the districts that were under the four groups. The meeting that was held today was an important one for them to hear Zhao Min's excuse and alibi yet the person didn't come. If Zhao Min didn't come to the meeting, that would only mean he acknowledge all the accusation that was pointed to him.

Ye Xinye looked at the watch on his right hand and when the clock hand struck right at the number ten, he exhaled a sigh.

"Let us begin with the meeting." said Wang Li Lei being a punctual man he was he didn't missed a second when the hand of the clock struck for the two men across the table to cast their eyes away from what they had been doing to him. "I assume everyone have received the notice of the topic we will be holding tonight."

Tang Guanyu and Ye Xinye gave a nod of their heads. "The recent murders in China." replied Tang Guanyu. "I heard of the dead of Mr. Zuan, it was a horrible dead I heard from someone who had seen the crime scene."

"Yes, it was a great loss for our groups and his families," replied Ye Xinye. "What's more, the police have edict the warrant to investigate the murderers that created another noisy business around. Not that I am saying our business is shady for us to not want them keep on sniffing around our turf but it is not something my or everyone's group ever want them to do."

"I am more concerned of the killer's next target." replied Tang Guanyu. "We all know how strong Mr. Zuan is, he was not only strong but could be said in par to Mr. Su, Suan Lung's second in command. More importantly, what we are in dire to know is their next target." he pressed his words when he said target. Wang Li Lei heard Tang Guanyu who had showed a genuine confusion in his voice and Ye Xinye who had put up his guard and nodded.

"About that, our group have find a complete thread of the attack." stated Wang Li Lei. Raising his face slightly, Jang Hyun who stood beside Wang Li Lei's chair nodded and went to turn on the large projection screen behind them. The black screen switched to white and Jang Hyun cleared his throat not so subtly to gain the attention of the people inside the room.

"As we all know gentlemen, the attack had started from Ye Group's south branch. The victims are a small office that was directed by the man named, Mo Renlin." The screen projected the image of a group of four men who died with knife wounds.

While letting the people to stress their sight to the victim, Jang Hyun continued, "The small office was opened around April this year and there are a total of fourth seven men in this group. With the help of the police forensics we have found the attacker's victim died in the same manner that was caused by blood loss and in most cases such as the dead of Mo Renlin, instant death for his heart was stabbed by a knife."

"Knife?" Tang Guanyu questioned finding nothing odd with the knifes.

"Yes," replied Jang Hyun. "We will now move to the crime scene we seen as the most important and the ones we think leave more clues." and as he spoke, the screen switched from the first crime scene to the other places. With all the crime scene showed one after another, it didn't take one to be a genius to know that the killer have used the same killing method over and over again.

Ye Xinye and Tang Guanyu squinted their eyes to spot any differences or clues that perhaps they could take after the secretary's words when the last picture flashed to their eyes.

Ye Xinye was first taken aback when the picture appeared. For someone who had seen the crime scene pictures, he didn't expect to see a large wall. It was not any normal wall but a wall that was filled with horrosome letters that was wrote by using red liquid that they perceived to not be red paint but blood. The writing was distorted and something about it made it seem as if the writer was making a mock when he had wrote the words.

What was written was none other than, 'Dead to Wang Li Lei!' the characters looked smudged bellow as the blood dripped down. Even when they were not at the scene, they could tell the outburst of malice the writer had for Wang Li Lei as it was evident with how the killer wrote his name by using plenty of blood on each stroke that made it stood out with thicker lines.