After they clarified the direction of the next stage of work, everyone quickly threw themselves into action.
Zhang Yean led a few young scene examiners and carried out a meticulous examination of the footprints they had just found.
They did not overlook even the tiniest trace, as if each one might be the most crucial piece of the case's jigsaw puzzle.
However, the second sweep of the wooded area still yielded no breakthrough—perhaps because the grass there was low and sparse, so even if someone passed through, it would be hard to leave any obvious footprints.
The forensic team searched over and over again and still came up empty, so they had no choice but to temporarily shift their focus back to the clues along the riverbank.
At the same time, Wan and Qin Feng, this pair of "old partners," teamed up once again and headed straight to the traffic management bureau to coordinate the retrieval of surveillance footage.
