Immediately, the conference room was enveloped in a suffocating silence.
Everyone exchanged glances, their eyes filled with bewilderment.
Especially Director Lu and Zhang Biao, sitting in the front row, whose expressions were so grim that water could almost drip from them.
In fact, ever since they received the notice from the provincial department, learning that a special investigation team would be dispatched to reopen this long-neglected cold case, their hearts were filled with resistance and skepticism.
In the eyes of Director Lu and Zhang Biao, this was nothing more than another instance of formality outweighing content, adding only to the reception burden on the grassroots level, without any actual significance.
After all, the case had been investigated by a special team five times before, with experts from the provincial department supervising multiple times, yet no breakthrough had been achieved.
