Eight Uncles' Beloved Treasure (Lily)

After eleven o’clock at night,

All the shopping malls had closed down, and the stores facing the street had lowered their shutter doors.

Only a few streets and alleys, along with night snack stalls, bars, and nightclubs, remained open, creating a lively nighttime atmosphere.

Lilly and the others stood in front of a coffee shop.

The ambiance was serene at night, but having encountered the girl that was burned multiple times during the day, Josh and the others felt that the scene before them was even more peculiar now.

Josh tightly clung to Lilly’s arm.

Hannah, too, tightly held onto Lilly’s other arm.

Zachary could only tag along.

Blake asked, “Where are we going?”

Lilly squeezed her fingers and finally pointed in a certain direction, saying, “Daddy, where does this direction lead us?”

Blake took a glance and replied, “A small alley behind the shopping complex.”

This area was a bustling commercial center. Recently, the small alley behind the coffee shop had undergone renovation and was intended to be leased to the owner of a food street, transforming it into a charming alley of culinary delights.

hidden alleys offering delicious yet affordable delicacies, although the hygiene standards might not

still in the planning stage, the

asked, “Uncle Blake, did the missing girl enter this

discovered various rumors. Some claimed that the girl had been taken into a coffee shop to be… dismembered, while others suggested she had walked into the alley and was abducted, or that

quickly online through forums, attracting the attention

responded, “I’m not sure, it’s

proceeded into the

at the empty alley stretching before them and murmured, “This doesn’t look like what I saw

glanced at him and asked, “What did you see on the

said that a bloodstained cloth was found in a corner of the alley… I guess the

led to. Another person said that the girl might have been dragged into it, disappearing from

Blake sneered, “What else?”

leading to the mall’s bathroom. They guessed that the

for gifts and likes before dramatically kicking open the

nodded, saying, “That’s

curiously,

“Nothing

it possible that investigators failed to notice such a prominent and bloodstained cloth? Moreover, once discovered, the evidence would have been swiftly collected, rather than leaving it in place for others to take pictures of. Lastly, crime

fool would believe such an obvious mistake. If you think about it for a while, you’ll realize it’s

numerous anxious internet users would undoubtedly be tempted to ask, “Where is the DNA evidence? Why wasn’t DNA testing conducted? Are the investigators incompetent?

they opted to place their trust in certain alleged evidence

face was red and asked awkwardly, “What about the dog