I'm a police officer.

To be precise, a cop who is not very good.

The life of the criminal police is actually very boring, except for some places where the law and order is not good, most cities in China do not have the kind of murder case that is played in the TV series every day, except for the police officers who run the grassroots every day, the police like him who stick to the second-tier cities, in addition to losing things every day, are civil disputes, and slightly big cases are nothing more than robbery or fraud.

But he was not bored at all, but felt grateful for the uneventful life - every young man who had never been to the battlefield longed for war, and every veteran who had experienced purgatory prayed for peace.

And he is the one who has seen purgatory.

I vaguely remember that I was still about 20 years old at that time, just an assistant policeman, and when I was running at the grassroots level in Yunxiang, I was fortunate enough to experience the murder and corpse fragmentation case that shocked the entire police community.

At that time, he came to Yunxiang as a temporary police officer from all over the country and participated in the largest lockdown operation in modern China.

The whole city was locked down in order to arrest only one person.

Although he was not at the scene in person like Yan Feng, as one of the police officers who investigated door-to-door, he still gradually understood the details of the case after meeting and studying, and as he understood the case more deeply, the overwhelming horror buried in the case also emerged.

Serial corpses, human flesh fed to pigs, without a trace, the murderer even carefully arranged the organs neatly......

All kinds of details, coupled with the photos revealed at the scene, and the fact that the case could not be solved in the end, all of this was like pouring a basin of cold water on the head of the hot-blooded and righteous Zhang Yu at that time, extinguishing the enthusiasm, leaving only a deep chill, but even so, he was still looking forward to the day when the demon was caught, and he believed that as long as the police officers who participated in the event at that time would firmly remember the name of this person and wait for the moment to capture it.

This has nothing to do with good or evil, just some kind of affection that is buried deep under the word "human" and shows after the cruel murder of the same race.

Xu Huanying, if demons have names, then this is the purest and most terrifying name among them.

Although the task force has not been disbanded to this day, he has to face up to the fact that the "Yunxiang Murderer" may not be caught.

No matter how much has changed in the past ten years, just when the city was closed and cracked down, that demon was able to completely avoid all the investigation methods of the police, and drilled a loophole in such a tight net and disappeared into the sea of people.

And after that incident, he also saw it.

Every unsolved murder case is a pain in the hearts of the police, and it is clear that the extraordinarily large homicide case involving at least 43 victims already has the power to tear a huge hole in the young police officer's heart.

And after that...... One more thing happened.

Something enough to turn this hole into an abyss.

It was late one night, and the young police officer dragged his tired body back home in the middle of the night after fighting the demon, only to see a shocking scene.

The windows were wide open, as if they were a big mouth that had chosen to devour people, and the house was in shambles, and the elderly parents had long since fallen in a pool of blood.

And his beautiful fiancée has been dead for a long time now, and what makes him even more devastating is that her naked body and the tear stains on her face seem to silently tell the atrocities she suffered in her life.

In the subsequent examination, the time of death of the three was only an hour and a half ago.

As long as he got off work a little early, as long as he didn't try so desperately to catch that demon, he could have returned home before they were killed!

Everything can be reversed!

Juvenile crime, the indifferent gaze of the three teenagers seemed to be a cold sharp knife stabbing him in the heart, after hearing the sentence that was not the death penalty, he seemed to go crazy in the courtroom, but in the end, all he got was a few innocuous words of comfort.

What is the point of fighting against darkness for the sake of light, but light cannot shelter its loved ones?

After that, Zhang Yu began to gradually become extreme, judging everything according to his own subjective assumptions, and even violently extorting confessions many times.

And in a rape case, a certain door to the abyss hidden in his heart was completely opened, perhaps the same nature stimulated him, or maybe the opposing lawyer wanted to use dirty means to escape punishment for the suspect as a "minor", the abyss hidden in his heart was finally completely opened at this moment, in order to be able to receive the most severe punishment for those other people, he did not hesitate to use many means that were beyond his scope of responsibility to force him to confess, even including perjury.

Of course, in the end, the matter was revealed, and the court took into account his behavior, not only did not give a heavy sentence, but finally the punishment for betrayal was even lighter than the suspect's lawyer requested.

In front of the victim's family, he knelt down, crying and kowtowing to apologize, but he didn't know whether he was asking for forgiveness from the victim's parents, or if he was asking for the forgiveness of the only little conscience he had left?

In the end, the victim chose to be relieved because he couldn't stand the pressure, and because of his actions, he was transferred to Yichuan and left the city, and at that moment, his heart was already cold.

The blood metamorphosed into cold, and the last life-saving straw broke, this case directly made him the most unaccustomed to the kind in his eyes, every day "take the salary to retire, the case can be solved, and if it can't be broken, it will be scolded a few times".

The heart is like ashes, and it can no longer light a single flame.

And it is precisely this mentality that led to the fact that after that, the promising young police officer chose to ignore the child's call for help due to pressure from some aspect in an incident.

"Uncle policeman, why don't you believe me! They...... They beat me...... Abused me! They're all bad guys! ”

The boy's cry still pierced into his heart like a sharp knife in retrospect, except for the bloody wound of the past, but it brought him a little sobriety at that time, like the last struggle of a man who fell into the water.

Why did I become like this?!

The bathroom mirror shattered to the ground, and blood flowed out of his glass-clinging hand - he was shocked to find that he was already transforming into a monster!

"You can't escape!"

The identities of the former prey and the hunter were swapped at this moment, and the self in the mirror turned into the appearance of the demon, who opened his mouth wide and covered with fangs, enveloped in darkness, and grinned to devour him!

Resist, resist! What a cop does! Pull out your gun called "Justice" and arrest it!

No! No matter how much pressure there is ahead, that little boy does have traces of abuse, as a policeman, shouldn't he pursue justice?!

But...... He was tired.

In the days of fighting evil and darkness, time has mercilessly left ugly scars on him, and these scars have turned him into a monster in the eyes of ordinary people.

"People covered in ugly scars are terrible monsters in the eyes of others, but in the eyes of those of us who are covered in scars, those with smooth skin are not monsters?"

Xu Huanying's hysterical roar gradually calmed down, and another extremely calm word came into his ears.

The police officer, who was slumped in the bathroom, just laughed stupidly.

If it had been a few years ago, I would have had the determination and courage to move forward, and I would have had the absolute courage and confidence to stand up when I encountered injustice, even if I knew the disparity between the power of the enemy and the enemy.

When I was a teenager, I had enthusiasm and absolute belief in justice, although naïve and ridiculous, but at that time, my heart did beat.

It used to jump so powerfully.

But now...... Why did it stop beating altogether?

Why can't I feel happy anymore? Why don't you have too many emotions anymore, just live again and again, day after day?

No longer angry at the crimes committed by the criminals, no longer sad for what happened to the victims, indifferent to everything with the gaze of a bystander, no longer any emotional fluctuations.

Speaking of which, that demon-like figure hasn't been asleep for a long time......

Does this mean that I have finally come out of that shadow, or does it represent ...... My heart, which has long since stopped beating, has long stopped caring about this case?

Before the boy was taken away, the helpless and questioning gaze was deeply engraved in his memory, like the eyes of the policeman who did not dare to look at him directly, penetrating deep into his soul and penetrating his heart, constantly questioning over and over again:

Why!!!

Tears slowly flowed out of his eyes, Zhang Yu looked at his bloody hands, hugged his head and cried.

I have lost the courage to hold the victim's hands......

I'm really tired...... I'm sorry.

His fingers slowly touched the edge of the mirror, and the imaginary Xu Huanying merged with his consciousness in an instant, and he finally accepted the darkness.

At this moment, he stretched out his right hand to the world, which represents reconciliation, and in the face of dark assimilation, he no longer struggled, but accepted it all with a smile.

The young police officer who used to be has long since disappeared.

In fact...... The silence and relaxation in the darkness are not bad......

Thinking back to the present, Zhang Yu just quietly looked at the seven people sitting around, and then ...... looked at Zhang Zijie, who was sitting in the No. 1 position, and nodded.

Plan...... Begin!