Tinglin City, southern suburbs.

At night, rolling dark clouds flood the sky and rain pours down.

Lightning flashed, and a faint thunder rang out. A black bus, like a coffin being hauled, slowly drove down the potholed suburban road, which was particularly abrupt.

Correspondingly, the carriage was filled with a dull and oppressive smell.

The 21 passengers on the bus were dressed in surprisingly uniform attire — ill-fitting gray-black protective suits blurred their genders, and white masks concealed their real faces.

The seats were divided into two rows, and they sat on them, looking solemn and solemn, as if they were about to go to a funeral.

"So nervous?"

In the last row, a magnetic and deep voice sounded in Zhuo Xuan's ears.

Zhuo Xuan was stunned, his body stiffened.

He thought he had hidden it well enough, but the irrepressible trembling movement of his legs had clearly attracted the curiosity of the passengers next to him.

"I'm sorry." He tilted his head to the side, his tone perfunctory.

There was a sharp tingling sensation in his wrist, which made Zhuo Xuan's mood a little bad. He habitually stroked his right wrist, but touched a hard object.

The outline of the watch is printed under the protective suit.

He hasn't gotten used to it yet.

Zhuo Xuan's teeth were tight, so as not to let himself make a sound. But looking back on the experience of these days, he only felt as if he had fallen into an abyss that he could not climb out of, and his whole body was cold.

-

From receiving a phone call from the police officer handling the case to breaking into the Metropolitan Police Department in a hurry, Zhuo Xuan spent a total of thirty minutes.

As soon as he walked into the Metropolitan Police Department, Zhuo Xuan saw Zhang Lian, a police officer who had only been in contact with him a few days ago. His lips moved, as if he had a grain of sand, and the way he wanted to speak made Zhuo Xuan already have a bad premonition in his heart.

Led Zhuo Xuan to a secluded place, Zhang Lian didn't seem to be at ease, looked around for a while, and then said slowly: "Zhuo Xuan, I understand your feelings about wanting to find your parents quickly, but I suggest you ...... Look no further! ”

"Why?" Zhuo Xuan's face changed slightly, and he blurted out.

"After careful investigation, we found that the last place where your parents appeared was the Huashang Department Store, and from the surveillance, we also found that there were indeed two figures that matched your parents' description," Zhang Lian considered the words, "and then, the clue was cut off." Your parents, two people disappeared here. ”

"Disappear?"

"Yes, disappear!" Zhang Lian also knew that his words did not seem to be convincing, "Disappear out of thin air, evaporate from the world." The surveillance video is as if it has been edited and spliced together, and the next second they disappear. ”

"How can this be......" Zhuo Xuan's eyes widened, his face full of disbelief.

"Then, we found your parents' backpack," Zhang Lian took out an earthy yellow backpack from the locker, "It stands to reason that we can't give this thing to you, but the above suddenly ordered us not to continue to investigate." Don't act rashly. I'm sorry...... This is the last bit of my thoughts. ”

Without studying the "order from above" in the mouth of police officer Zhang Lian, Zhuo Xuan carried his backpack in despair and returned to the rental room unconsciously.

Turn on the lights, rummage through backpacks, keys, books, wallets...... It's just something ordinary.

"It's ......"

Zhuo Xuan's gaze suddenly stopped on a piece of paper that he had found in his wallet.

"This is the deposit note from the locker of the Chinese Department Store?" Looking at the barcode on it, Zhuo Xuan's heart suddenly froze, as if he had grasped some important clue.

As if there was a force pulling him in the dark, Zhuo Xuan immediately set off for the large shopping mall where his parents disappeared.

At ten o'clock in the evening, the mall closes. Zhuo Xuan pretended to be calm and opened the locker, but his fingers trembled with excitement.

"Click."

With a soft sound, a cabinet door popped open beside him, and the empty locker was filled with only a black watch.

Zhuo Xuan, who was pale, took out the black watch, he remembered that it was a black watch that his father never left his body, and he would not even take it off every time he took a bath.

"Daddy, he really ......"

The tip of his nose was a little sour, and Zhuo Xuan put the watch on his right hand in a daze, moving slowly, as if he was using this to hang his parents who didn't know life and death.

However, in the next second, Zhuo Xuan's face suddenly turned purple.

A piercing pain came from his right wrist.

Zhuo Xuan looked like a person about to drown, he clutched his wrist tightly, the pain hit like a tide, making him almost unable to breathe, and his brain was left blank.

There seemed to be a spike under the watch, invisible to the naked eye, piercing his wrist; Some information that could not be stated suddenly appeared in Zhuo Xuan's mind, almost squeezing his head!

"Number: 0239 Signal Device Reconnect Terminal—"

"The connection is successful."

"Welcome back, number 0239. The task will start immediately, please go to Chenghua Avenue in the southern suburbs of Tinglin City as soon as possible and wait for instructions, the countdown is 23:59:59......"

Zhuo Xuan fainted.

-

"Sir, sir?"

"Hurry up and hit 120!"

"Don't!"

The bizarre dream shattered, and Zhuo Xuan opened his eyes suddenly and exclaimed.

His eyes seemed to be blurred with a layer of mist, and then his vision gradually became clearer, and he looked around, and at some point he had surrounded several supermarket shopping guides, forming a circle, and surrounding himself in the center.

Staring at a shopping guide in front of him who was holding his mobile phone and didn't know whether to continue dialing, Zhuo Xuan didn't realize that his expression had become very hideous, he got up from the ground and quickly fled the scene under the strange gaze of passers-by.

His mind was still as ignorant as if he was in a vacuum, but the throbbing pain in his wrist seemed to always remind Zhuo Xuan of an important fact - this was not a dream!

The time is still counting down. Zhuo Xuan didn't dare to stop. The bright neon reflected his pale face, and his steps grew faster and faster, despite the monster-like gazes of passers-by.

"You have to do what you say! Otherwise...... Will die! ”

Like a common sense that has been deeply rooted in the bone marrow since childhood, Zhuo Xuan has no doubt about the consequences of taking off his watch.

In the dream after the coma, he clearly saw the horrific appearance of himself when he took off his watch and died violently, and the real pain made him even more determined not to take off his watch.

"Moreover, Dad's disappearance definitely has something to do with this."

If this watch belongs to Dad, then you can imagine what kind of dangers and fears he faces every day...... However, he always showed his smiling face to himself.

"Dad, he must be waiting for me to find him." Zhuo Xuan took a deep breath of air, until his lungs were swollen and painful, and he had a little sense of reality that he was still alive.

-

Zhuo Xuan's thoughts stopped here, interrupted by a rough voice.

"Get out of the car and walk!"

The driver is also wearing a gray-black protective suit, his figure is burly, and his voice is very much in line with the impression brought by his appearance.

Everyone in the car was wearing a black watch, just like Zhuo Xuan, including this one who temporarily acted as a collar. The driver's guide. They were like a silent and resolute army, giving Zhuo Xuan the impression of being slaughtered.

Compared with them, Zhuo Xuan is more like a weird alternative, flustered, and simply wrote the word "unprofessional" on his face.

However, no one here cared about his superfluous little movements.

It was as if they had formed a tacit understanding, no one was presumptuous to inquire about the rest of the people, and everyone was as silent as a sculpture.

The black bus stopped in the rain, the raindrops beat the windows, and a car of people walked out of the car in a very orderly manner.

No one held an umbrella, but silently walked into the rain. Zhuo Xuan hesitated slightly, and followed everyone silently. After getting out of the car, Zhuo Xuan suddenly felt that someone was staring at him in the dark. As soon as he looked up, he collided with an unfamiliar sight.

The young man wearing the mask nodded at Zhuo Xuan with a friendly smile in his eyes.

Zhuo Xuan recognized that this young man was the passenger sitting next to him, and he couldn't help but feel a warm current in his heart, and nodded in response.

"Bring your gear and listen to me," the burly driver cleared his throat, he stood at the front, his height was oppressive, "we are not newcomers, and no one will treat each other as newcomers; Once inside, don't make a small move, or I'll be the first to kill him. Also, cliché topics, try not to distract from the action. ”

"Next, let's settle our destiny. I mean, if the heavens existed. ”