No one left for Blackstone Repository immediately.
Ding Wu clearly wanted to.
His entire body had gone tense the moment Liang named the place.
But Song Jia stopped beside the evidence table.
"Not yet."
Ding Wu turned sharply.
"We finally have somewhere to search."
"And we will search it."
"Then why are we still standing here?"
"Because we're about to send people toward an abandoned restricted site based on an impression nobody in this room actually read by themselves."
That stopped him.
Ding Shun's gaze moved toward the custodial sheet.
"Explain."
The Chief Imperial Investigator answered first.
"I noticed the indentations."
He pointed toward the sheet without touching it.
"But I could not read them."
That distinction should have been made immediately.
A senior Palace document examiner had been summoned from the Central Records Office.
His name was Qiao Wen.
He was now waiting outside with two clerks after completing his examination under witness.
