At night, it rained heavily. A qiē in the near distance is as black as in the ink. And the sky in the distance was white. It's quirky. The buildings in the city are almost unlit, and in the dark night, the white sky reflects only black outlines, like the reflection in the water at night.

The rain began to fall heavier and heavier. Xin Dong'er could only stop and say to Zhang Chen in the end, "I can't find the taste...... after all, I have been running in the whole city for so long. "If you can't find it, forget it." Miao Xianxian comforted. In the middle of the night, the clothes on my body were already soaked. At first, Xiaoyu didn't think there was anything. Now that it's raining heavily, it's really uncomfortable.

Zhang Chen has always trusted Xin Dong'er very much, no matter how strange the situation is, he still believes in her, "Let's talk about it when the rain stops." Thank you very much. He then took three umbrellas out of the space. The three of them held up separately. Walking back slowly at night, it was already a rich area at this time, and with the current location, Zhang Chen planned to go back to Ruishan No. 9 or go to the Jade Dragon Hotel first. In general, find a place to stay.

When three people walked through a three-way intersection. There is actually a Lanzhou ramen restaurant that is open all night on that road. The lights at the entrance of the noodle shop can be seen from a long distance, and the time of two or three o'clock in the middle of the night is nothing more appealing. Miao Xianxian was already hungry after running for most of the night, and she said, "Why don't we go eat something hot?" ”

This was originally what Zhang Chen wanted to say, "Okay." Anyway, at this time, there is no one. ”

In general, there are taxis parked at the entrance of the restaurant that is open 24 hours a day, and they are mainly in the business of night shift drivers at night. It's just that it's a rainy day, so the door is empty.

The three men closed their umbrellas and went in. Zhang Chen was wearing a peaked cap and glasses on his head at this time, and the two girls next to him, Xin Dong'er, were wearing masks. And Miao Xianxian wears a hood. It looks a little different than usual.

The impermeable steel barrel at the doorway was emitting white smoke. Two men in little white hats were sitting on the side looking up at the DVD. These three people get together, if it is someone with a heart. It can still be seen that they are the three "heroes" who shocked the city recently. Only the two little white hats were clearly not interested in it.

"Boss, I want three bowls of beef ramen."

The two little white hats were watching a movie, and they were watching hard, so they were a little reluctant, and after the two shirked each other, one of them got up and went below a little reluctantly.

There were no other diners in the house. Zhang Chen: They chose a more remote position to sit by the window.

Ten minutes later, when the ramen was served. A taxi stopped outside the door. For this kind of shop, this should be the daily routine. Zhang Chen didn't want to meddle in things, so he didn't look up. But the person who came in walked past Zhang Chen. Zhang Chen still recognized it, Xu Zhongguang.

This person obviously didn't expect to see Zhang Chen here at this time. Of course, seeing Zhang Chen unexpectedly should be a very happy thing for him. At this time, it is the time of the city full of storms. His sister, who is the head of the armed police detachment, should also want to find Zhang Chen.

But what made Zhang Chen strange was that Xu Zhongguang was stunned. Then, after turning pale, he took a step back. It was a strange reaction. And Zhang Chen's position at this time happened to be relatively dark. So the two seem quite abnormal.

Zhang Chen was silent.

That Xu Zhongguang looked at Zhang Chen, and his face seemed to be a little uncertain. After about two minutes, he said, "Boss." You're here. He was standing about two meters away from Zhang Chen. Outside the door behind the door, in the city at five o'clock in the morning, it was stormy. There were raindrops drifting in.

In general, physical distance between people often represents psychological distance as well.

Zhang Chen looked up at him and nodded noncommittally. The small eyes on Xu Zhongguang's fat face turned slightly between the three people who sat down. He is usually extremely respectful to Zhang Chen. The same is true for Miao Xian Mian here. But at this time, it seemed to confirm something, and then suddenly said, "Something is wrong." Boss, do you want to listen to ......"

Zhang Chen said something big had happened. And not much interest. For him, now I'm afraid that the strange things around him are what he cares about. As for what's going on in the city. He really didn't want to care.

"I'm busy." He said so. That's a rejection. But after Xu Zhongguang heard this, he seemed to be more relaxed all of a sudden. He laughed as usual, and took a few steps forward. Approached Zhang Chen's side, attached to Zhang Chen's ear and said, "It's really a big deal." ...... that is relevant to you"

Zhang Chen looked up at him, the winter night was a little cold. Xu Zhongguang wiped his sweat a little helplessly, "Boss, this is really related to you." You might as well listen to what it is. Zhang Chen nodded.

If he really wanted to listen, naturally he couldn't let Xu Zhongguang say it in the store, even if it was whispered, it was not appropriate. He got up, opened his umbrella, and walked out of the store. Miao Xianxian asked, "Why don't you eat it?" ”

"You eat first, I'll be at the door, and I'll be back soon."

"Okay." Miao Xianxian sat down and began to eat.

The rain outside was heavy, the raindrops were extremely cold, and around four o'clock in the night, it was the time of the day when the sun temperature was consumed to a minimum. Also known as Polar Yin. The cold wind blowing from the other end of the street wrapped in the rain, like a ghost, ran around the city.

"I really didn't expect to meet you here......" Xu Zhongguang said as he looked at Zhang Chen in the dark. He holds a gray-blue lattice automatic umbrella in his hand. Zhang Chen was silent, he hoped that the other party would finish speaking.

"My sister has just come across a very important and strange case. It's about the 'Coalition for Human Survival'. He shrunk back at this, and then said, "We were looking for you......

"The president of the Human Survival Alliance has been killed...... he said in a low voice, "the other ......" he hesitated, "I can't say." Otherwise, my sister will be punished. If possible, you'd better meet with my sister. She's sure she'll be able to get things straight. ”

Zhang Chen thought to himself, does this have anything to do with me? Originally, he didn't want to deal with the people of the Human Survival Alliance. But he suddenly became a little interested in the so-called strange case. Should I take a look......

"When will I meet her?" Zhang Chen said. Xu Zhongguang didn't expect Zhang Chen to be so refreshing, he immediately lowered his head and flipped through the pocket of the fat shirt, but he didn't find anything, "I'll send you there now, okay?" He asked, glancing into the ramen shop. Xin Dong'er hasn't eaten noodles all the time, and her beautiful black eyes have been looking at this side.

"Now?" Zhang Chen didn't quite understand. Normally, this kind of thing should be said at least after dawn the next day.

Xu Zhongguang sighed. "It's a big deal. If you can be early, sooner. Boss, is it convenient for you now? ”

Zhang Chen nodded, "Convenient." I'll go with you now. After he finished speaking, he turned around and went into the ramen restaurant to greet Miao Xianxian, this girl was eating noodles. Hearing Zhang Chen say that she was leaving, she quickly took a few more bites of noodles with some reluctance. Xin Dong'er didn't say a word. She hadn't eaten noodles since just now, and seemed to have been paying attention to Zhang Chen.

Xu Zhongguang took a taxi when he came, and the driver was also ordering a bowl of noodles in the store at this time, and was about to eat it. To go extremely reluctantly. Xu Zhongguang immediately doubled the money, and he was impressed.

……

Zhang Chen consciously hugged the whole city and chased a dead corpse for most of the night, which was a very good thing. Xu Zhongying seems to be two better than him. It was already past four o'clock in the morning. The woman hadn't slept yet, but she was only stunned when the light was on.

When Zhang Chen entered, Xu Zhongguang had already reported it inside. So Xu Zhongying knew that he was coming. But when she saw Zhang Chen, she still looked at Zhang Chen very carefully from top to bottom. It's like you've never seen it before.

Zhang Chen didn't mind her eyes, and was actually lamenting the busyness of these policemen in his heart. "I thought I was the only one who didn't sleep in the middle of the night, but it's rare that you didn't sleep either."

Xu Zhongying frowned, "I really didn't expect that I would really find you." I thought I couldn't find you......"

Xu Zhongguang smiled on the side and said, "Alas, it's just a coincidence." On the way back at night, I was hungry, so I asked the taxi to help me find a place to eat, and I met it. After saying that, he walked out, "You talk." I went out first. Xin Dong'er and Miao Xianxian beside Zhang Chen were wet.

Xu Zhongying turned around and found a dry towel and handed it to them. Zhang Chen asked, "The two of them won't get in the way here, right?" ”

Xu Zhongying shook his head sternly and said, "Let's avoid it." ”

Zhang Chen didn't mean anything about it, and Xu Zhongying took him to another computer room. Xin Dong'er and Miao Xianxian were waiting on the bench outside.

"The people in the headquarters of the 'Human Survival Alliance' in Shenzhen-Hong Kong City are all dead." Xu Zhongying has been looking for things in the cabinet since he entered the door. She spoke in a voice like knocking on an old porcelain bowl, "including the chairman who likes to wear a white suit and the old man next to him, as well as the boss's little secretary." A total of seventy-three people died in the entire upstairs. She finally looked for it. Only one person survived, but he wasn't part of the Human Survival Alliance......"

As Xu Zhongying spoke, the elm trees outside the window were whirring in the heavy rain wind, like the black claws of some monsters. Anyone who has survived the night knows that around 4 a.m. is generally the coldest time of the day.

Zhang Chen said casually, "It's so clean, there is still one left." ”

Xu Zhongying didn't smile, she straightened up at this time, took a stack of about a dozen photos in her hand and put them on the table. Zhang Chen flipped through five and stopped. All are photos of corpses at the scene of the homicide. Looking at these photos, Zhang Chen can already judge some things. The people in these photos have only been stabbed once. The man who started it was very sophisticated.

Xu Zhongying came over at this time, took a photo, looked at Zhang Chen in his hand, and said, "We judge that it was made by the same person." And everyone was hit only once. There is something that you might be more interested in. Military police officers who recently cleared the field in the North District. The body of the Blood Shadow Sword Emperor was not found. Do you know where he is? "There was only one overhead light in the house. So the black shadow on Xu Zhongying's face is very heavy.

Zhang Chen smiled bitterly, if he knew where he was, would he still need to run around in the middle of the night like this? "I don't know. I'm looking for him too. He was telling the truth. If Xu Zhongying knew that in fact, the body of the Blood Shadow Sword King was missing by Zhang Chen's side, I don't know what kind of surprise method would be.

Xu Zhongying did not express surprise that Zhang Chen would go to find this "well-known dead man" at this time, but asked, "Do you want to know, where is he?" ”

When she asked like this, she looked at Zhang Chen very strictly. Zhang Chen suddenly felt a little cold. It should be said that before this, everyone saw that the Blood Shadow Sword King was killed. No one knew about the fact that his body was missing.

"What do you mean by that?" Much of the events of that night seemed to reveal a kind of strangeness.

Xu Zhongying shook his head. She turned on the computer next to her, and then kept typing the keyboard on the computer. It's extremely fast. This man is about the older generation of people who use computers. That is, before the advent of windwos, one of the old people who used the DOS system. It is said to have tapped the keyboard. Faster than the desktop system that came later.

Xu Zhongying opened an encrypted video. Then he asked Zhang Chen to come over and take a look. She didn't say much. The video that Zhang Chen saw should be a gate, and the video is relatively unclear. It seems to be raining lightly. Zhang Chen paid attention to it, and the time below was yesterday morning.

There was no one at the gate. Zhang Chen felt bored after reading it, and then asked, "Nothing?" ”

When he asked. Xu Zhongyingshuang opened three videos at the same time, "Is there no one from beginning to end?" ”

Zhang Chen asked rhetorically, "Did you see someone on the screen?" ”

Xu Zhongying's pupils seemed to shrink and said, "I didn't see it...... However, the surviving man said that he saw someone walking from here. And all the people in the building are dead......"

Outside, the leaves rustled, like the sound of a scaly animal's skin scraping against the wall.

"These videos are near the scene of the murder. Theoretically, there are no dead ends. But no one was photographed. And the people in the building are indeed dead. ”

Zhang Chen sat on a chair. Put his hands on his lap and say, "Maybe the survivors are lying." Or is it a mistake? ”

Xu Zhongying's brows furrowed, and she hugged her chest with both hands at this time and said, "Even if I remember wrongly." But after all, the people in this building were killed. The survivor said he saw three people swaggering in and walked out again. ”

Zhang Chen's eyes were looking at the screen. He saw several videos from beginning to end. But it's certain that absolutely no one has walked inside.

"The impact of this incident is very heavy, and these guys from the Human Survival Alliance have not succeeded enough to fail. There's a bigger perfect human company behind them. Plus the Global Federation of Corpse Hunters, which is also their financier. At this point, the person died suddenly. The pressure from the superiors is very high. Ask us to solve the case as much as possible. Identifying the cause of death ......"

Zhang Chen heard her say and didn't make a sound. This is a matter for Xu Zhongying and the Shenzhen-Hong Kong municipal government. It's not his business.

Xu Zhongying may have felt too official when she said this, but she breathed a sigh of relief and said, "What I just showed you is just a secondary thing. You can come, actually, just right. Because this murder is actually about you. ”

"Something to do with me?"

"Let you see this. Just let you know about it......" Xu Zhongying smiled bitterly and said, "I'll take you to meet the survivor." As she spoke, she took her coat and draped it over her body.

Two men walked down the dimly lit hallway. Xu Zhongying's voice echoed to the stones that were knocked on the floor, "The survivors." Before the end of the world, he was a student of the painting department of the Central Academy of Arts, and after the end of the world, he fled from other places to Shenzhen-Hong Kong City. I found a temporary job as a plumber here. Yesterday morning. He was called in to inspect the electrical circuits outside the third floor of the Human Survival Alliance Headquarters building. And then...... In the whole building, he was the only one alive. ”

On the edge of the corridor outside, Xin Dong'er and Miao Xianxian sat together on a bench. Miao Xianxian had fallen asleep and was lying in Xin Dong'er's arms. "Wait here for a moment." Zhang Chen whispered.

Xin Dong'er didn't agree, "It doesn't feel good, I'll ...... with you" Zhang Chen thought for a while and nodded. There are so many oddities about this day.

Xu Zhongying took Zhang Chen to the interrogation room. Xin Dong'er and the others were still sitting on the benches outside. Xu Zhongying asked someone to help Xin Dong'er and they poured a cup of hot tea. Zhang Chen sat at the interrogation table in the room. Then Xu Zhongying went to bring out the survivor.

The rain outside has stopped, but the room temperature is colder. It was about five o'clock in the morning.

The man who was brought up, not wearing a handcuff, was very thin, and when he entered the door, he kept his head down. But Zhang Chen could see that this person's face was very pale, and he seemed to be greatly frightened. Theoretically, this person can be regarded as escaping to this Shenzhen-Hong Kong city in the last days, and I don't know what can scare him like this.

"I—I applied to come in and lock it up on my own. Don't kill me......" He sat down as if he were a demon, whispering to himself.

"What do you see?" Xu Zhongying asked in a deep voice. She was already sitting with Zhang Chen at this time. There was a table between them and the little man.

The little man lowered his head and didn't speak.

Xu Zhongying said, "You look up at the person next to me. ”

The little man's head slowly lifted up. It was a very pale face, and there were sickly bloodshot eyes, indicating that the man was suffering from insomnia. "You ......" When he looked at Zhang Chen, he suddenly stood up and shouted, "Don't kill me, don't kill me, I'm just a ...... repairer of water and electricity" He ran out violently. Xu Zhongying's reaction was very fast, she pounced on it with one arrow step, and threw the little man who rushed out frantically to the ground.

"Don't kill me, don't kill me......" the little man exclaimed. Because it was early in the morning, even in the detention center, most of the people slept. He screamed like this, and his voice echoed through the detention center, which was very frightening.

Xu Zhongying got up and picked him up, "Send him back." Two policemen at the door said yes. Come in and put out the little man who keeps saying, "Don't kill me......."

Zhang Chen had been sitting on the chair and had not moved, and after Xu Zhongying came back, he put one hand on the table and asked, "What did that guy mean by what he said just now?" ”

Xu Zhongying sighed and said, "He was frightened...... Zhang Chen's question was not the point, he was sure that Xu Zhongying understood. Xu Zhongying turned around and went out and took a file folder back, took a few blank pieces of paper from it and gave it to Zhang Chen and said, "Take a look." Here are the faces of the three murderers he painted. (To be continued......)