April 13th. Black Friday. Afternoon, 16:19.

What am I afraid of? Ye Xiao asked himself secretly.

Dressed in a brand-new police uniform, he came to the site of the ruins of the Future Dream Building, walked into the elevator alone, and took one last look at the rare clear blue sky.

In the blink of an eye, black covered his eyes, and he traveled through the ground more than a hundred meters deep until the eternal night.

More than a year ago, carrying a heavy travel bag, his hair was messy, and his beard was stubble, like a street bum, he came to the door of the Public Security Bureau and was immediately stopped by the guards. He claimed to be a police officer working here, but of course no one believed him. Just when the guard guarding the door took out his handcuffs and wanted to arrest him, it happened that the police officer Lao Wang was passing by and was dragged by Ye Xiao. Lao Wang was surprised to identify him for a few minutes before confirming that he was Ye Xiao himself—it had been several years since he last saw him.

Everyone, including Ye Xiao's police colleagues, thought that as written in that book, he was trapped in a distant place, either permanently missing or dying in a huge explosion. Not long ago, he was declared dead as a missing person and his household registration was cancelled.

Ye Xiao's return caused a shock to the whole situation, and people had countless questions, but he couldn't tell what happened in the years since he disappeared, in which mysterious place, and how he escaped.

He had a strong desire to become a police officer again, and the chief refused the request. However, people continue to intercede with him, including his colleagues who have been partners for many years, the media who have paid close attention to the matter, and even the top of the police community.

In the end, Nian Zai Ye Xiao had made countless meritorious contributions, and the director decided to stay on probation for half a year. A few months later, he cracked a serial murder case that shocked the whole country, and was awarded a first-class meritorious service by the Ministry of Public Security, so that he could be reinstated.

An hour ago, Ye Xiao had just attended the Public Security System Honor Commendation Conference, and was once again awarded a first-class merit for taking the lead in rescuing survivors underground. Throughout the award ceremony, he always had a serious face, until Lao Wang sent a thick pile of information - the latest underground cleanup report.

At this moment, the elevator stops at the cinema on the ninth floor of the Future Dream Building, one hundred and forty-two meters below sea level.

After five days, Ye Xiao returned to the scene of the subsidence disaster for the first time. Most of the floors have been cleared, and several wallets, cash, bank cards, jewelry, and documents have been found...... More than a hundred mobile phones alone were found, one-third of which were iPhones and one-third were copycats. In addition, the cash registers and goods of each store have been sent to the ground, and then each store has sent personnel to count and calculate, and hundreds of armed police have been mobilized for three consecutive nights. All that remains in the ground are damaged goods, unmovable shelves, kitchen equipment, tables, chairs, and tableware, as well as priceless window models.

He stared coldly at a female window model, "she" was a fiery figure, wearing a revealing and sexy underwear, just harder than an inflatable doll, even if it was fake, it would make a man's heart beat slightly. Ye Xiao really wanted to stay in the middle of the night and secretly observe whether those dummies would really move, kill people or do something else.

Ye Xiao walked down the stairs quickly, walked from the ninth floor to the atrium of the ground floor, looking up at the huge dome of the empty building, like being in a tomb that had been dug up by tomb thieves.

A large number of cat and dog carcasses have been found in the atrium on the ground floor, and there are traces of slaughtered cooking animals, as well as human bones and remains, according to the analysis of bone fragments by forensic doctors, at least one elderly man died here, the cause of death cannot be determined, and the time of death is no more than 24 hours after the discovery of the wreckage.

The body was eaten by an animal – how can the family of the deceased be explained? Hello, I'm sorry, your family fed the dogs after they died?

Several cats and dogs were found to have bullets in their carcasses, which were tested to be military bullets. On the second floor, there was the body of a particularly large Caucasian dog, which was shot at close range. It is conceivable that by the last two days, the survivors had begun to hunt animals on a large scale, and it was also likely that hungry animals had attacked humans.

A *-5.8mm×21mm* semi-automatic pistol was found on the eighth floor, with a magazine capacity of twenty rounds, and only the last five rounds remained. In the Häagen-Dazs store on the ground floor, there are several bullets fired into the seats and walls, and there are more than a dozen shells on the ground. These bullets, combined with those found in the carcasses of cats and dogs, can be determined to have been fired from this gun. Obvious fingerprints were extracted from the pistol, and after comparison with the six survivors, the results were completely consistent with the cultivation. However, none of the dead found underground were killed by gunshots, which can rule out the possibility that Tao Ye killed people with guns.

For the appearance of this kind of military weapon underground, the police are sweating, their police pistols, no matter the amount of ammunition or lethality, can not be compared with the military * pistol, if someone really hides underground and the police shootout, it may cause heavy casualties.

On the day of the clean-up search, it was found that the monitoring room on the ground floor was locked, and Luo Haoran's fingerprint password was needed. The camera data in the monitoring room is extremely important evidence. The police took fingerprints from Luo Haoran's body, but they didn't expect to have to enter a complex password. This password is known only to the deceased security supervisor of the building, except for Law Ho-yin himself. Police lockpicking experts were also unable to unlock the door, so they had to pry open the surveillance room with destructive tools. As a result, at the same time as breaking into the door, the monitoring server and hard disk all exploded automatically!

It turned out that Luo Haoran set up a special program, as long as the door of the monitoring room was opened abnormally, the server would be detonated and all the monitoring data would be destroyed - even if the hard disk was sent for repair, it was useless.

Why is the surveillance of a shopping mall so secret? In further cleaning, it was found that the building has two sets of monitoring systems, the first of which can be seen with the naked eye, and it is also the kind of ordinary cameras that are common in many shopping malls, and the disadvantage is that there are monitoring blind spots. The second is hidden in secret places, covering almost every corner of the building, even the bathrooms and changing rooms – and it also has its own night vision system with backup power.

Obviously, the second system can only be seen by Luo Haoran himself - among all the survivors underground, he can see the most unspeakable privacy and secrets, as well as all the murderous scenes.

Ye Xiao calmly glanced around and continued to walk to the underground supermarket. There is nothing left of the huge space, only rows and rows of disorganized shelves. He walked into a secret room on the second basement floor—the most inconspicuous corner, where a small sturdy metal door was hidden, which was forcibly pried open by rescuers. There are a lot of survival materials piled up here, most of which have not been moved. And there is an obvious shortage of food upstairs, especially in the last two days, when cats and dogs have also begun to compete with humans for food, why don't they eat the food in this secret room?

Just like the first time he came here, he walked into the three-story basement garage alone. All vehicles are parked in their place, never to be returned to the ground, to the owners or their heirs. The insurance company will send a commissioner down to evaluate it, and God knows which type of insurance will be compensated according to it. The crashed Lexus GX460 was parked in place, belonging to the rich second-generation Guo Xiaojun. Traffic accident experts visited the scene and confirmed that the driver died on the spot as a result of the crash, and that the body of the deceased had been found downstairs. The door on the passenger side was disassembled and opened from the outside after the accident was twisted and deformed. Judging from this, there were people in the passenger seat at the time of the collision. Police recovered blood samples from the car from two people, one of whom was a man who died in the driver's seat and the other a woman who had escaped in the passenger seat.

Before entering the fourth basement floor, he put on a mask. Although the corpses had been cleaned and the fresh air from the ground was constantly sent to the ground, it could not dispel the smell of the rotting corpses, which may have lurked deep in the walls and floors with the souls of the dead.

He saw hell. There is not a single corpse, but if you close your eyes, the pile of decomposing corpses will emerge clearly and vividly, as if you can reach out and touch the hair of a dead person, like watching a 3D movie with 3D glasses on your eyes - if anyone has ever made such a horror movie.

Ye Xiao, who was wearing a mask, took half a step back, almost fell to his knees and was about to vomit, but fortunately, his stomach was empty.

On the ground, where more than 80 corpses had been piled up, there was a strange dark color, which was not the color of blood, but the secretion of the decaying process of the human body, which could not be removed after several washes and washes—could it be the color of ghosts?

The identities of most of the deceased have been confirmed, except for Luo Haoran and Professor Wu Hanlei, the most important person in the missing list is undoubtedly Guo Xiaojun, the son of the powerful - what makes the police feel a headache is that this kid was really stabbed to death with a knife. The director personally accompanied Guo Xiaojun's father to examine the body, and the big man with a deep background couldn't help but cry bitterly when he saw his son, who was still wearing a Dior suit and had begun to decompose. Last night, the big man released a rumor and privately offered a reward of 5 million yuan to get the murderer's head.

The man who died in the Lexus GX460 on the third basement floor was Yang Bing, a security guard at the Future Dream Mall, a 25-year-old from the western countryside.

There is also a female corpse, who was stabbed in the heart from the front and died, which is another undoubted murder case. The deceased was the shampoo girl of the "Paris Image Commune" on the eighth floor, Hao Xiang, and everyone called her Ah Xiang. She was petite and the medical examiner found that she had been raped. She wore a diamond ring worth $200,000 on her finger — the origin of which could not be confirmed, presumably from the hands of another deceased.

The body of Ding Zi's witness, Yu Pingxiang, a female cleaner in the shopping mall, has also been found and stabbed to death from the front with a sharp blade, but Ye Xiao doesn't believe that it was Ding Zi's doing.

As for Ding Zi's high school classmate, Hae Mei, who was also on the missing list, was found on the edge of the pile of corpses, and the time of death was about the same as Yu Pingxiang's, which was the fifth to sixth day after the disaster. Her temples were smashed and there were many broken glass left in her brain. Her father, a district government official, fainted on the spot when he saw his daughter's body. Afterwards, he found the director through his connections and demanded that the murderer be caught. When he heard that Ding Zi had survived, he insisted on meeting her and wanted to know what had happened to his daughter in the days underground. Ye Xiao gave an order to the police guarding that Haimei's father must not be allowed to see Ding Zi.

Also at the edge of the pile of corpses, the body of a young man, the deceased was no more than eighteen years old, like a handsome high school student, who was stabbed in the heart from behind, and the time of death was estimated to be in the early morning of April 8 - Ye Xiao already knew who he was.

Another unidentified body, a man in his thirties, scrawny, with holes in his back, mostly shattered or broken bones in his limbs and torso, feces and muck on his body, and a rope tied to his leg, was severely abused and confirmed dead on April 8.

Inside the pile were four bodies of the deceased, apparently wounded, who had been briefly bandaged, one of whom was covered in bandages, presumably fractured by a stampede. The four wounded were killed with sharp weapons, some had their throats cut and some had their hearts pierced, and the killing methods were extremely cruel, and the time of death was about the third or fourth day, and two have been identified.

As for the other more than 70 corpses, they have all undergone preliminary examinations, and the possibility of homicide has basically been ruled out.

In addition, there are some missing people who have not been found, such as Xu Pengfei, mentioned by Mo Xing'er - this person on the list of missing persons, 29 years old this year, a native of the city, who works for a U.S.-funded company in the office building of the Future Dream Building, and is suspected to be working overtime at the time of the disaster. Thinking of the large number of human bone fragments found in the bottom floor, some of the missing people should have long been gone, and they could only be found in the stomachs of cats and dogs.

The more Ye Xiao thought about it, the more creepy he felt, and he was about to be swept down by the smell of corpse decay, so he hurriedly ran upstairs, but heard someone calling him: "Officer Ye!" ”

Unexpectedly, there were still living people on the fourth basement floor, two clean-up team members in the corner, and the light illuminated an inconspicuous door. The door had been discovered a long time ago, but there was a fingerprint lock that could not be opened. They had just forcibly broken the door lock and discovered an underground passage.

More hell under hell?

A cloud of white smoke rose from the ground, and neither of the cleanup team members dared to go down. Only Ye Xiao was bold, walked into the passage alone, and stepped down the steps to another world.

Finally, in the light of the large flashlight, he saw a hell of gold.

Tongue pulling, scissors, iron trees, mirrors, steamers, copper pillars, knife mountains, icebergs, oil pots, cattle pits, stone presses, mortars, blood pools, vain death, torture, volcanoes, stone grinding, knife saws......

What a shock! This is the underground of the Future Dream Building, and it will fall into a deep hell with it, which seems to be thousands of years old.

Where is the 19th floor? When Ye Xiao froze the beam of light on a picture, he felt severe pain in an instant, and the pain of putting his hand on the flame. He saw the ox cart in the midst of the fire, the beautiful woman who was being burned by the flames—he knew the face!

Hell changes.

A few minutes later, Ye Xiao ran out of the tunnel in a panic, and with the support of two clean-up personnel, he used the walkie-talkie to notify the ground command, and quickly invited cultural relics experts to come to the underground site, saying that there were major archaeological discoveries.

An hour passed, and Ye Xiao never left the ground, guarding this small doorway until the expert arrived wearing a helmet and a mask.

The expert only looked at the mural a few times, dug up a small piece of paint with his tool, and then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, this is not a national treasure, but it was painted in the last few years." ”

"What? Copycats? ”

"Yes, you see that the color is so bright, and the pigment is also a modern product, how can it be a cultural relic? It's just that the style and technique of painting imitate the Buddhist murals of the Song Dynasty, and the content is the common 'Hell Disguise', also known as 'Hell Change', which is at most a handicraft art. ”

The expert left in a hurry, lest they would be stained with the souls of hell for a second longer, although they often went in and out of ancient tombs and piles of bones, but the feeling of facing the dead thousands of years ago was completely different from the massacre that had just happened.

Ye Xiao stayed in front of the mural stupidly, looking up at "Hell Change", looking at the white and flawless woman in the ox cart, her indescribably beautiful face, but it was about to be burned to ashes by the fire - she must have been in pain, very painful......

That's right, he knows her, and he hurts too......