Leading the group was Xia Miaoyan, followed by several others.
Seeing Lin Chen, Xia Miaoyan greeted him as "Master". Lin Chen glanced at her but focused on the few people behind her.
There were five people in total—four men and one woman. They were the reliable software developers Xia Miaoyan had found for Lin Chen.
All were recent graduates. After introductions, Lin Chen greeted them and sat down.
After chatting a while, Lin Chen was pleased with the five graduates. He preferred hiring students straight from university because they were more straightforward and less complicated than people already mixed in society.
As long as they worked diligently, he wouldn't treat them badly later.
Lin Chen explained his development plan to them and discussed other details before talking contracts and salaries.
He offered a generous salary—double what other companies paid—but with a five-year contract term, with annual raises.
The five had no major objections. Lin Chen treated them to lunch and then finalized the contracts.
Lin Chen now had over ten million yuan, enough to support QQ Chat's development and promotion for a while.
Shrouding the Sky's subscription performance was ideal, allowing the book to support the software initially without much trouble.
In the afternoon, Lin Chen registered a company with pre-prepared documents. Using his pen name "Tian Chen", he named the company "Tianhai City Tian Chen Computer Co., Ltd".
The registered capital was ten million yuan. The next day, all the paperwork was done, and the company was established.
Lin Chen realized someone must have helped him expedite the process.
With the company established and five skilled software developers hired, Lin Chen rented office space and had them start design and development.
While busy developing QQ Chat, Tianhai City Police Station detectives were intensely investigating a case.
Recently, two brutal murders of young women occurred along the Baofeng Line 3 bus route in the suburbs.
The first victim was found and reported by bus driver Xu Yongjian during his night shift at the seventh stop.
The second was discovered around 8 p.m. by a couple passing a bus shelter.
Both victims were strangled with ropes made of size 3.5 fishing line. After killing them, the killer hung the bodies inside bus shelters.
The police station formed a special task force for the bus shelter murders, led by Miao Yunfei with Zhang Tian'ai as deputy leader.
At a police station meeting, Miao Yunfei scanned the faces and said, "Both murders were by the same perpetrator. Forensic autopsy found ether in the victims' bodies, indicating the killer likely drugged the victims first, then committed the crime."
"Neither victim showed signs of sexual assault. After strangulation, the killer cut off a patch of scalp from their foreheads."
"Then using fishing line, the killer hung the bodies inside the bus shelters."
"The first victim was hung in a hand-raised pose to hail the bus; the second showed a strange bent posture with one leg raised."
"The killer is cunning—no fingerprints or skin tissue found at the scene. Everyone, please share your thoughts."
After her words, Fang Xinzhou said, "The killer didn't harm the bodies beyond strangulation and scalp removal. This indicates either a special fetish or a mentally disturbed person."
"Highly likely mentally disturbed," Zhang Tian'ai nodded. "The victims' belongings weren't stolen, so the motive wasn't money or sex—perhaps just for amusement…"
Hanging victims in bus shelters just for fun sounds creepy, but such behavior is possible for some mentally ill individuals.
The detectives discussed at length but still had no leads.
Miao Yunfei sighed, "After these incidents, we feared public panic and kept the news locked down. But word spread, and higher-ups instructed us to catch the killer quickly. There can't be a third victim."
Everyone nodded, acknowledging the difficulty in catching the killer after so many days with no leads.
Miao Yunfei looked out into the night beyond the meeting room and involuntarily thought of someone.
Biting her red lips lightly with her teeth, she murmured to herself, "We can solve this case without involving him. I won't look for him either."
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