During the ninety years this modern state was established for, the government had always considered maintaining the stability its top priority. [1]
The total population of the five provinces in southwest China amounted to over four hundred million people and Shu Zhou took up only a tiny portion of it. To the outsiders, despite being widespread over the internet, the cases were regarded as common homicides. Not a hint of the heart-digging and scratch marks were mentioned.
Internally however, the authorities were taking the cases very seriously, for something very special had been extracted from the victims’ blood and flesh samples they tested—a poison.
Let’s now turn our attention to Bai Town for a change.
Before anybody realized, it was the end of October, when late autumn brought with it the cool breeze. The impact of the snake-biting incident had died down completely and the mountain had seen a recent surge of tourists which only subsided some days ago.
