He needed to get back to his hotel room before dawn because, due to the earlier gunfight, Jimmy's suit had become scuffed and dusty from rolling and dodging and would be too noticeably strange if seen by others during the day.

Upon returning to his room, Jimmy did not rush to open the briefcase to check its contents; instead, he changed his clothes, cleaned up the things on the bed that had been disguising him, and went to sleep. After he woke up, Jimmy finally opened Scott's briefcase, and looking inside, he frowned.

There were no other bags in Scott's car. Jimmy had assumed Scott would carry some important items with him, but the bag contained only some documents. At a glance, Jimmy saw they seemed to be corporate financial data.

Jimmy didn't know much about these documents. He had hired an accountant to handle his own company's affairs in Little Rock, and he usually didn't pay attention to them, just checking in over the phone with the accountant from time to time.

After carefully inspecting the briefcase and ensuring there were no hidden compartments, Jimmy closed the briefcase, planning to take it out and destroy it later.

Taking out Scott's phone, Jimmy noticed a name, Tim, marked on it; looking further into the call logs, he saw that Scott had called this Tim a few days ago.

Jimmy wrote down the phone number, then turned off the phone and threw it into the briefcase; this could be destroyed too, along with the gun he had used that night, which also needed to be dismantled and destroyed.

Jimmy packed everything that needed to be destroyed into the briefcase, then glanced at Scott's set of keys.

Jimmy recalled the route he had tracked Scott on before, from the supermarket to one of Scott's properties, and then to his safe house. The keys must open the door to that property.

As Jimmy flipped through the keys, he suddenly noticed one marked prominently with the number "46." Interesting. Keys marked with numbers usually have a specific purpose; considering its shape, it wasn't for a safe. Could it be for a storage unit or locker? And specifically, where?

As Jimmy pondered, he saw that the letters "KA" were probably an abbreviation. He took out a notebook and began to search for rental storage in Albuquerque, though he was aware that not all rental storages could be found online; it would largely depend on luck.

After searching for a while, Jimmy closed his laptop, changed into casual clothes, and left with the briefcase. After having lunch and buying a backpack, he drove to Scott's house.

Jimmy made sure there was nobody in the house before he used the keys to try the front door. Wearing gloves, he tried several keys, successfully opened the front door, and entered. However, Jimmy was disappointed. It seemed unlikely that Scott lived there, as there were no traces of long-term habitation; many pieces of furniture were even covered with sheets for dust protection.

After a brief search, when Jimmy didn't find anything particularly special, he left the house, feeling a bit disappointed. It wasn't a big deal though, as he hadn't come to New Mexico for plundering. As long as he took care of his own business, everything else was trivial.

Jimmy returned to his car and drove out of the Albuquerque city area to the northern edge, to the Gobi desert area. Finding a spot where no one would see him, Jimmy squatted by the roadside and burned all the documents in the briefcase directly, then buried the ashes with soil, effectively destroying the evidence. As for the gun, he took it apart and scattered pieces of it along the way, ensuring that no one could ever reconstruct it completely.

With everything handled here, Jimmy started to think on his drive back to the city about whether to move on or not. He had already exacted his revenge, but there was still one fish that got away, the deputy leader of the Azte gang, Tim Spark, who executed the attack.

Tim was tricky because Jimmy lacked any real intelligence on him. He could only use the previous phone number to pinpoint that Tim had been near Hobbs City at the junction of New Mexico and Texas, but several days had passed, and it was uncertain if he was still there.

Hobbs City was also problematic. Jimmy had gathered some information over the past few days. With a population of only 20,000-30,000, it was too small to harbor a significant underworld presence. To effectively shield gang activities, a location would need a large population to conceal such individuals within the normal societal framework.

Another reason Jimmy was reluctant to go was similar to in Albuquerque; as an Asian, he was as rare as a giant panda there, making everything inconvenient for him, and too easily leaving an impression. Should anything happen, others could easily track him down based on any clues.

Jimmy drove back to the hotel, collected a phone book from the front desk, and returned to his room. Now in the early 21st century, the internet wasn't yet comprehensive for information gathering, turning to phone books or directly calling directory services was actually the best method to locate warehousing companies.

Compared to the internet, phone books typically included a variety of business service phone numbers and addresses, and the information was updated yearly. For many, in an era where the internet wasn't widespread, searching through phone books was much more convenient than trying to find information online.

After spending some time, Jimmy was unable to find a storage company starting with KA in the warehousing services section and had to give up.

Jimmy placed the phone book on the nightstand, laid on the bed and stared at the ceiling. There must be something special in the storage or deposit box that this key opened, something important that Scott needed to keep safe. If he could find it, there might be unexpected surprises.

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