"Well, NYPD handled it, but I made a special request to bring the files over for you to look at. What do you think, based on the current clues, what should our next step be?" Chris looked at Jimmy with a smile, waiting for an answer.

"Uh, for this kind of case, we definitely need to determine the identity first, but the body is so decomposed, the surface features are likely gone. The best method is to check dental records for any matching characteristics. At the same time, record the DNA, in case someone reports a missing person, we can perform DNA testing to match with their relatives."

"Anything else?"

"Uh, investigate the surrounding ground to see if there's anything else buried, because the body was naked, her clothes and jewelry were either taken or buried nearby. Also, look into whether there were any transport vehicles that could accommodate a body passing through this area. Either the incident happened nearby or the body was transported from elsewhere. In any case, the environment around the body needs to be carefully examined."

"OK, it's still an NYPD case, but you can go and investige." Chris waved his hand, setting Jimmy's task.

Jimmy blinked, "That's not right, why get involved if it's not our case? Besides, do we really not have any cases of our own?"

Chris nodded, "We really don't have any cases. The recent ones are all being handled by NYPD themselves. For a simple murder case to come our way, it must either be very serious, or the victim is a Federation employee. The chances are indeed very slim."

Jimmy was speechless, "If there are no cases, then let's take a break, seriously." Jimmy put the photo back into the file and got dressed to head towards Brooklyn.

This time was for investigation, not specific case handling, and Chris didn't even come out, it was just Jimmy wandering alone, perhaps as a way to develop his abilities.

Jimmy drove to Prospect Park and found the police line that NYPD had set up by the lakeside grove. There were no longer any officers maintaining order on the scene, but because a body had been discovered here, an unlucky occurrence, there were no onlookers either.

Jimmy put on gloves and holding the file, he stepped inside the police line. Even though it was noon, he still felt a chill in the area. He first came to the pit where the body had been excavated, then activated Heart Eye to begin his observation. Something was off. In his Heart Eye vision, it seemed that once again there appeared a color boundary line. Jimmy walked outward to the location of the color boundary line, which was invisible to normal sight, but in Heart Eye mode, he could see everything was grey but the area near the body's location seemed deeper, ever so slightly.

Jimmy began to move along the color boundary line, eventually concluding that it was an irregular circle, not an ellipse, more like when one randomly draws a circle and some waves appear at the edges. On his way back, he took a map out from his car, but unfortunately, the scale of the map he brought was incorrect. It was a New York map. If it had been a Manhattan map, the marking would have been much easier.

Comparing the map with this park's area, and the protruding location by the lake's shore, the small grove wasn't very large, but it was impossible to mark the circle he had discovered on this map; it was too small.

Back at the location of the body, Jimmy continued to use Heart Eye to determine the position. Unable to mark it on the map, he decided to simplify the process by pacing it out on foot. He walked roughly diagonally across, finding the circle had a diameter of about 40 paces, a little over 70 centimeters per step, meaning the diameter should be around 30 meters, with a radius of about 15 meters.

After establishing the distance, Jimmy began searching for the center of the circle, then started to look for anything anomalous in the vicinity. Until, with the help of Heart Eye Observation, he noticed an underground block with a slightly different color, not very big, appearing to be 20 cm in length and about 10 cm wide, the width of a palm..

Jimmy didn't dig right away. He turned off Heart Eye and began to observe the surroundings. About 5 meters from here to the hole where the body was, it was impossible for NYPD's investigation to overlook this spot. They simply observed the ground surface without digging. It now seemed this patch of ground looked no different from the rest, but if he started digging on his own, could that cause any trouble?

Jimmy went to the color boundary line observed by Heart Eye, marked the perimeter with a few sticks inserted into the ground, and then left the cordoned area.

The body had been there for several days; it was unlikely that something problematic would emerge within a day. He marked it well, planning to return tomorrow to see if there had been any changes.

Jimmy was about to leave, having removed his gloves, when his phone rang.

Jimmy: "Who is this?"

A man's voice came through the phone: "Are you Jimmy? Jimmy Yang?"

Jimmy: "Yes, that's me. Who is this?"

The man spoke: "Roland asked me to deliver a box to you; where are you?"

Jimmy was silent for two seconds: "Which Roland are you talking about?"

The man said, "Dark Tower."

Jimmy: "I'm by the lakeside in Prospect Park, Brooklyn; come find me here."

The other end didn't continue speaking and hung up directly. Jimmy was going to leave, but now decided to wait here a bit longer.

It was odd for Roland to arrange a box delivery when he had sent Jimmy two paintings via courier before and then disappeared for several months. What exactly had happened?

After waiting for more than half an hour, a black man arrived next to Jimmy carrying a box. There was no helping it, at the lakeside there were simply too few Asian men, and at the moment he was the only one.

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