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.

offering delicious yet affordable delicacies, although

was still in the planning stage, the alley remained

did the missing

shop to be… dismembered,

case, panic and anxiety tend to escalate quickly online through forums, attracting the attention of those seeking clout and fueling their

responded, “I’m not sure, it’s difficult to

proceeded

at the empty alley stretching before them and murmured, “This doesn’t

“What did you see on the

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

discovering a dark and mysterious dog hole in the alley, not knowing where it led to. Another person

Blake sneered, “What else?”

people claimed there’s a back door in this alley leading to the mall’s bathroom. They guessed that the girl disappeared from here

and likes before dramatically kicking open the door

nodded, saying, “That’s

curiously, “Is something

“Nothing seems

scene, would the bloggers be the ones taking pictures? How is it possible that investigators failed to notice such a prominent and bloodstained cloth? Moreover, once discovered, the evidence would have been swiftly

believe such an obvious mistake. If you think about it for a while, you’ll realize it’s fake,” Blake commented

undoubtedly be tempted to ask, “Where is the DNA evidence? Why wasn’t DNA testing conducted? Are the investigators incompetent? Is there

the official explanation, they opted to place their trust in certain alleged evidence and collectively embarked on

and asked awkwardly, “What about