Chapter 383 - The Tattoo (1/2)

It was a colored tattoo.

However, it was very abstract since it had no concrete shape or any distinguishable picture.

At one glance, however, it looked like a flying eagle…

“Eagle or a vulture?”

“This shape, it looked like a vulture…”

The officers involved in this case were no stranger to vultures.

This was because the location, Vulture’s Mouth, had a shape similar to that of the mouth of a vulture.

Moreover, at the Dark Clan’s base in Vulture’s Mouth, there were also pictures of vultures on the walls.

However, what was puzzling about this was the fact that these Dark Clan members, regardless of those who had died, caught, or surrendered, none of them had such a tattoo on their body…

“Could it be a symbol of the Dark Clan?”

“How could it still be a symbol of the Dark Clan if only this one has it?”

“…”

Silence took over.

Everyone kept quiet and looked at Bai Muchuan instead.

Bai Muchuan kept quiet for a while and looked at Cheng Zheng.

“Able to find out when he had this tattoo done?”

“It’s too difficult!” Cheng Zheng’s eyebrows furrowed slightly. “The only thing we know for sure is that it isn’t a fresh tattoo…”

If so, the possibility that someone else engraved the tattoo on the corpse or just before the death of this man was too low.

Silence took over once again.

The stillness of the surroundings swallowed the noise permeating around them.

The atmosphere was stagnant in the meeting room.

This silence was too heavy.

A good while later, Bai Muchuan opened his mouth. “Tu Liang, talk about our findings!”

Tu Liang cleared his throat and started to present their findings like a spokesperson.

“We’ve run a technical comparison between the deceased against the national list of missing persons. However, we found nothing regarding the identities of the deceased men in question. As of now, we have received no police report from the family of the deceased…”

After that, he gave a soft sigh. “It’s regrettable, but the identity of this person could not be determined for now.”

Someone asked, “Can we confirm that the deceased is a member of the Dark Clan?”

After all, this man had died in that region.

Not to forget the tattoo that looked like a vulture.

The possibility of the deceased being a member of the Dark Clan was high.

However, the more it pointed toward that direction, the more uncertain he was.

Bai Muchuan flicked the documents in front of him with a finger. He then swept a cold glance at everyone and spoke in a tepid tone.

“We shouldn’t be jumping to conclusions!”

Everyone kept quiet!

Bai Muchuan eyeballed each and every one of them.

“As long as the identity of the corpse remains unknown, we could not even relate if his death… is connected to the 121 case!”

As he said this, he looked at Captain Zhang who had been silent for the entire time.

“You’ll talk to the police in Wen Xin Town and make an announcement!”

A man had died.

The conclusion was that he had fallen to his death.

Whether it was murder or an accident, they had not come to a conclusion.

Who was he?

Finding out the identity of the corpse should be their priority.

The Nanmu region was also under the jurisdiction of the Xi City police. Thus, Captain Zhang was the best person to take on the task.

…

After their meeting, they released the news to the mass media in less than half an hour.

“Unidentified corpse found at a remote mountainous region!”

“Donned with a mask and a tattoo: man’s identity remains unknown!”

Headlines like that with approved pictures of the deceased and the enigmatic tattoo popped up on the Internet one after another.

Major police stations also issued notices looking for informants. In addition, they have pasted various notices all over the streets of Wen Xin Town and Nanmu City…

The public was asking, ‘who’s the dead man?’

Once the major accounts in Weibo posted such articles, it would trigger many others to follow by sharing or forwarding the articles with their friends and so forth…

‘Who is this dead man?’ It had become the hottest topic that day.

…

At the end of the corridor outside the office of the Criminal Investigation Unit in Xi City…