That night, after midnight.
At an abandoned, unfinished building.
"Someone actually got killed in the rich district of the inner ring? I hear it's causing a huge stir."
"You're telling me. I heard one of the dead was the son of a director at the Biotechnology Company. Now there's a city-wide bounty out for the killer."
"So who do you think was bold enough to kill someone like that…?"
The slurred shouts of passing drunks, reeking of alcohol, drifted up from the street below.
Lu Chao slipped into the abandoned building, his face a mask of indifference as he climbed the stairs toward the sixth floor.
He had been interrogated three times today. It wasn't just the Patrol Department and the Superpower Bureau; even the Biotechnology Company had shown up at his door.
They had nearly searched his apartment, and he'd been tailed all day. The surveillance only let up late at night, when his followers finally, quietly, dispersed.
