CHAPTER 2352: CHAPTER 2352: NO NEED TO SEARCH

In the past few months, the streets of Sky City have been riddled with countless major and minor issues, yet no one has stepped forward to address them.

Even when Lu Tianfeng sent people to handle the matters, they did so half-heartedly, barely scraping by with superficial efforts.

In truth, when it comes to this, the citizens harbored doubts about Young Master Tianfeng. After all, if he truly were a virtuous person, how could he turn a blind eye to the frequent troubles plaguing the city?

Occasionally handing out porridge and feeding the poor—who wouldn’t be able to do such things?

However, once Lin Baizhong arrived, everything was promptly dealt with, even when a gruesome murder occurred.

The townsfolk firmly believed that within a few days, the Commander’s Office would provide an explanation for the cause of death.

A comparison between the two leaders was stark and immediate.

Lu Tianfeng was overshadowed in an instant, and the people of the city were widely discussing the situation.

...

Inside the Commander’s Office, Lin Baizhong personally came to inspect the horribly mangled corpse.

"Where was this discovered?" he asked the guard beside him.

"Back to Commander, it was found near the street beside the inn where those murderers were caught," the guard replied.

They found it odd—was there some kind of curse at that particular street against the Commander’s Office? First, they caught the killers responsible for the city’s frequent murders, and now, a disfigured corpse appeared there.

But the key question was—given the state of the body, which had been mutilated beyond recognition—how would they uncover the identity of the deceased?

"That place again?"

Upon hearing the guard’s response, Lin Baizhong frowned deeply and cast a peculiar look at the corpse.

Could it be that this corpse was connected to those men?

Or was it merely a coincidence?

"Have you found Three?" he asked.

"No,"

The guard shook his head. Three seemed to have vanished into thin air, leaving no trace behind.

They had followed leads to places where he was supposedly meeting contacts, but not even a shadow was found. And within the city, Three’s whereabouts remained completely untraceable.

The guard even suspected that perhaps Three realized his comrades had been captured and fled the city immediately.

"Commander, Three must have escaped, right? We’ve already pursued him in the directions they mentioned," the guard said.

"No need to look for him."

Lin Baizhong chuckled coldly, his gaze fixed firmly on the corpse before him.

"No need to look for him?"

The guard was taken aback. This didn’t sound like something their commander would say. After all, Three was the most dangerous among the five culprits.

Wasn’t he said to be highly intelligent?

"Commander, are you sure we shouldn’t search for him? Wouldn’t this make it difficult to explain to the citizens of the city?" he reminded.

The residents of the city still remembered the slain alchemists. Those deaths couldn’t be in vain; the guards had to capture all the perpetrators and prevent them from continuing their crimes.

They also had to demonstrate to those outside Sky City that Sky City was a place bound by the rule of law.

Wasn’t this what their Commander Lin frequently emphasized?

Why was he acting so strangely today?

"Why search? Isn’t he right there?" Lin Baizhong replied blandly.

"Huh?"

The guard followed his commander’s gaze to the mangled corpse nearby and instantly gasped.

"Hiss! Commander, are you saying this corpse is Three?"

Indeed, it wasn’t impossible. Wasn’t it said by the others that there was someone behind the scenes directing them?