October 2019

The room was dim and filled with smoke.

He was holding an old photo in his hand, in which Liu Ying was smiling brightly, and they took this group photo by the West Lake sixteen years ago. The slightly rough fingers gently caressed the photo, and such a smile has become less and less common since marriage. He couldn't figure out whether Liu Ying had changed or he had changed, maybe life had changed both of them at the same time.

Only one cigarette after another can make him feel alive and inhale hard... Exhale again.... He likes to pull the curtains down to the slightest crevice, enjoying the temporary peace that the darkness brings him. I recalled the bits and pieces of him and Liu Ying in my mind, everything was like this smoke, vague but left a faint taste.

A tear fell on the photo, making the yellowed photo look clear. His heart fell silent, and the pain was numb at the end. He didn't know who he would be thinking about at the last moment before he died, only the red dots of the cigarette burning reminded him that he was still alive and that he still had unfinished business.

When he was young, he once visited the top ten criminal police in the country, and Lao Yan arrested 387 fugitives.

He asked Lao Yan for the secret. Lao Yan looks very ordinary, with an ordinary figure and an ordinary face. Ordinary to the point that everyone will forget when they look at him in the crowd and turn their heads, but he has a special pair of eyes, usually without light, when talking about fugitives, he can feel the energy of Lao Yan's gaze in an instant, and the target targeted by this eye will never escape.

Lao Yan doesn't smoke or drink alcohol, and he said that these things are easy to distract him.

The conversation between him and Lao Yan was very short, and he tried hard to recall this passage of Lao Yan in his mind.

"A good hunter who has nothing in himself and only prey in his eyes. The city is a forest of concrete and concrete, and the perpetrator is a cunning boar, fox, wolf, or worse, a beast that is inhumane, and if you hunt down a beast with all kinds of distractions, you will eventually get lost in the forest. You are like me, not afraid of any obstacles, the last stranglehold of the beast is terrible, they will use all the power at their disposal to stop you, to strike you, to destroy you. This is also the reason why many excellent criminal police officers can't move forward at the last step. What sets me apart from them is that I'm willing to pay anything until I catch my prey. They all say I'm crazy and won't let go when I bite my prey.... ”

During a chase three years ago, Lao Yan jumped off a cliff with the suspect.

"You can catch the same life and the same thinking as the prey." This was the last sentence that Lao Yan left him.

Du Yongning walked to the window and opened the curtains violently, letting the sunlight shine in.

A few days ago, Tang Tiantian showed him a video of this twenty-eight-year-old science and engineering genius girl with pain on her face.

"This would have been an erased drone record." Tang Tiantian said: "I found it back through the bottom repair. ”

Footage of a cold lake captured by a drone at an altitude of 50 meters.

The top-down picture with a resolution of 1080 is very clear, and the process is also familiar to Du Yongning's repeated investigations. He fast-forwarded to see what happened after he fell unconscious.

Familiar scenes flashed in front of his eyes, and Yun Chenming was shrouded in white light... The black tentacles are retreating... The white mangs are gradually weakening... Black tentacles are back... Ball lightning fell from the sky... Black tentacles wrap around it... An intense light shines... The tentacles turn into nothingness... Ball lightning violently swirls and vibrates... A twisted "door" opened, and white tentacles protruded from the sphere to wrap around the Devourer, pulling it into the "door"....

All is calm.

Yun Chenming fainted on the rocky beach.

"Look closely!" Tang Tiantian was a little excited, and pointed to the screen and said.

Where she fingered, bubbles gradually floated on the surface of the lake, and more and more bubbles gathered together and moved towards the shore. A black "ball" rises from the water, followed by shoulders and arms, and a figure emerges from the lake onto the shore.

Du Yongning recognized this "shadow".

"Shura!" Du Yongning clenched his fists tightly and glared at the screen, at this moment he really wanted to jump into the screen.

The footage continued to play at its speed, and Liu Wenshi staggered to his feet, as if he was shouting something out of his mouth.

"Run!" Du Yongning shouted in his heart, but he was powerless about what had happened.

Shura picked up the pistol on the shore, which originally belonged to him, and the pistol was pointed at Liu Wenshi.

The video was silent, but a huge gunshot rang out in Du Yongning's heart.

Shura walked to Yun Chenming's side, intending to carry him, but he looked into the distance again, and there were small dots speeding on the road in the distance, which should be the arrival of support.

He hesitated for a moment but chose to pick up the jade pendant on the ground and ran towards the lake, and after a few seconds he disappeared into the cold beard, and rescue arrived a few minutes later.

"The level of people who can delete this video is very high." Tang Tiantian said.

"Why are you risking this?" Du Yongning asked.

Tang Tiantian has always only done his part.

Tang Tiantian lowered her head, hid her face and wept.

Only then did Du Yongning discover that she had hidden feelings for Liu Wenshi in her heart.

The trail reappeared, but the cost of tracking it down was enormous.