342 Lost Clues_2

Scott and his colleagues exchanged glances, nodded, and continued to review the documents and listen to the recordings. Six trainee agents had already checked all the corresponding people for the cell phone numbers, including a dozen unregistered phones. Even the names noted for reference were investigated, but to little avail—as names alone revealed hardly any useful information.

The recordings they were listening to were nearly a month's worth of phone call records of journalist Ashi before his death, obtained by the NSA. They were arranged in chronological order according to the phone numbers, and all of them had to be listened to and analyzed to determine which calls were related to the case and which were irrelevant contacts.

It wasn't an easy task, but it couldn't be delegated to the few trainee agents; it was up to the three of them to bite the bullet and handle it themselves.