章 24: Chapter 24 Starting from Scratch

In the afternoon, after a bit of preparation, Jiang Yuan and Wang Zhong each rode their own electric scooters to the crime scene neighborhood.

Located in the suburbs, the red-brick buildings still carried a sense of the times, and the two-way four-lane road was lined with large trees of uncertain species on both sides and in the middle. Sparse shrubbery proved that maintenance levels nearby were quite average, but the trees, planted with time, still maintained the basic quality of a residential area.

This was in the far suburbs of Ningtai County, but due to some nearby factories, it was more prosperous than many places within the county itself.

Of course, prosperous but not bustling. As far as the eye could see, there were clusters of old residential complexes and new temporary buildings, keeping the environment on par with an old industrial area.