Some encounters are completely unexpected.
About five minutes earlier, led by Dou Dou, Shen Xin's group of nine officers and three dogs had entered the eastern section of Huibei Village.
Huili Road split the village into eastern and western sections.
Huili Road was lined with small shops and had a wet market in the middle, making it a very lively area.
The rest of Huibei Village consisted of old, six-story walk-up apartment buildings. Only the side near the wet market had some old houses that hadn't yet been demolished.
It wasn't a gated community. There was no property management, not even a perimeter wall.
The inner roads of the village were cramped and narrow, with a distinct lack of greenery.
It was now almost midnight.
The village had many tenants and even more elderly residents, so only a few lights were scattered here and there.
There were few pedestrians, save for some young people heading to Huili Road for a late-night snack.
