Chapter 2014

The police rented a boat from a nearby fisherman to salvage the corpse ashore, brought forensics to the scene for identification and evidence collection, and bagged the body. Edison fought through the crowd and frowned. “Has the identity of the body been confirmed?” The detective turned to look at him. “It’s Bear.” Edison was startled as the zipper of the body bag was slowly pulled down. That pale and slightly swollen face was indeed Bear’s. ‘Bear has really died.’ The detective got up and said earnestly, “We’ve only found the suspect’s body so far, but we won’t give up on the search and rescue.” Edison nodded and sent the text message to Colton. … As soon as Colton arrived at the company, he received a text message from Edison saying that Bear’s body had been recovered, but Nollace’s whereabouts were still unknown. He placed the phone on the desk, leaned back in the chair, rubbed the bridge of his nose, and muttered to himself, “He should still be alive... right?” ‘He’d bett