He was stopped by a train car parked on the platform, and the impact was so hard that it nearly broke the bone of his arm.

The entire waiting hall was blown up, and in the haze he could only hear the sirens blaring in the distance, and a large number of firefighters and armed policemen rushed into the ruins of the waiting hall.

When I came back to my senses, I couldn't remember how much time had passed, and my parents sat by the bedside looking anxious. He was taken to the central hospital in the 6th district.

Due to his special status, the police did not interrogate him too much, but only asked a few detailed questions to let him recuperate with peace of mind.

A few days later, Nan Qiyun, who recovered from his injury, received a letter of appointment from the government.

When the helicopter that came to pick up people landed on the tarmac on the roof of the Central Hospital, it was already two hours later than expected, and Nan Qiyun was depressed. The commander who got off the plane was a middle-aged man in his thirties, with the rank of lieutenant colonel. Nan Qiyun saluted him, and the lieutenant colonel officer nodded slightly to him.

"Go to the 'elevator'." The lieutenant colonel officer said to the driver.

Nan Qiyun was a little surprised, the "elevator" is the most technologically advanced lifting system in the building, running through the A-F floor, with a lifting height of more than 5,000 meters, and more importantly, this is the only lifting system that directly leads to the core of the coalition government agency, with a high degree of confidentiality, and only officials who hold a special pass of the coalition government are eligible to take the "elevator" directly. I'm just a junior officer who has just graduated, what are you going to do in that kind of core secret gathering place at this time?

It was almost five o'clock in the afternoon when I arrived at the interior of the United Government Building on the A floor, and the staff inside the building came and went in a compact and orderly manner, without showing any panic. The government building is the center of the highest power on the earth, and the security level requirements are naturally the highest, the building is divided into 36 floors, except for the first floor, each floor has only one room for the management of officials of the corresponding level, and the level increases with the increase of the floor, and the staff in the government building are all human elites carefully selected through each floor and district. It was hard for Nan Qiyun to imagine that he would be able to be brought to this place one day.

He was taken to the 9th floor. With only a desk and a medium-sized sofa in the corner, the room was extremely empty. The lieutenant colonel officer walked over to the desk, pulled out a chair, and sat down.

He is the prefect of this floor.

Nan Qiyun felt incredible, a person with such a high rank was actually only a lieutenant colonel, and what was even more unbelievable was that he actually came to greet him in person.

"My name is Qi Yue." The lieutenant colonel officer was the first to speak.

Nan Qiyun was confused.

Look at his stunned expression. Qi Yue spoke slowly again. "Your letter of appointment only confers on you the rank of captain, and no specific position has been arranged."

Indeed, this is also a point that Nan Qiyun was puzzled about before, except for the order of recall and awarding titles, there is no written expression in the specific position on the appointment letter, which is not logical.

"Because the content of the position you want to hold is highly confidential, you can only be appointed by your immediate superior," Qi Yue took out an appointment document stamped with the seal of the joint government organ from a drawer, "This is the government's secrecy regulations." ”

He put the appointment paperwork on the table and pushed it in front of Nan Qiyun.

"Nan Qiyun, you are hereby appointed as the head of the Special Operations Team of the Ministry of Security of the Coalition Government, with full responsibility for investigating the casualties in each district of the F floor."

"Districts?" Nan Qiyun heard this.

Qi Yue took out a stack of materials and handed them to him.

At nine o'clock in the evening of March 12, a female deceased appeared near the Oriental Pearl Tower in District 6, and the cause of death was unknown.

March 12 at 9 p.m., District 13 、、、、、、

March 12 at 9 p.m., District 9 、、、、、、

It is difficult to say that it is a coincidence that there were multiple homicides at the same time on the same day and at the same time, and the cause of death of the deceased was almost the same. Nan Qiyun's mood can no longer be simply described as shock.

"The nature of the 312 incident is no longer enough to carry out the next investigation with the ability of the public security, and it requires the intervention of our military, if the truth cannot be found, at least to prevent the recurrence of such incidents," Qi Yue paused, and added, "It may be related to the 313 bombing." ”

He picked up the communicator on the table. "Take him to them."

"Meet your members." He said to Nan Qiyun.

Nan Qiyun was taken to a secret room at the end of the passage on the first floor.

The room is small but well equipped. There were three people sitting on the couch.

Nan Qiyun noticed the girl in a short white dress on the sofa.

"Female?" He frowned. He didn't think a woman could do the job.

Another man with heavy glasses stood up from the couch, he was wearing a military uniform, apparently in the same profession as Nan Qiyun. He stretched out his hand to Nan Qiyun. "My name is Chu Han."

Nan Qiyun held his hand, and he noticed the rank of captain on Chu Han's shoulder. Probably a young officer who just graduated like him.

"Han Xian," the other person on the sofa said very succinctly, he was wearing a sportswear, sitting on the sofa in a relaxed posture, if he wasn't sitting here and now, others would probably think he was the son of a big family, he pointed to the girl next to him, "She refused to say her name, she said that the government gave her the code name '1'." ”

Nan Qiyun looked at the girl again, the girl sat on the sofa without saying a word, and her fair face did not show any expression. He was inevitably a little uncomfortable in his heart, as a member of the group, mutual trust was the key factor in carrying out the task, but he was reluctant to reveal his name, which showed that she had a big estrangement from the other three people in the room.

In that case, why did Qi Yue send her here?

Chu Han gently knocked on the wall, interrupting Nan Qiyun's doubts. He walked over to the stereoscopic projector in the center of the room and turned it on. "This is a video playback of the whole day in District 6 on March 12, and after autopsy identification, the deceased died at the earliest time under the Oriental Pearl Tower in District 6, between 8:30 and 8:45, and the deceased in the rest of the districts where the crime occurred was about 5 minutes after the death of the deceased in District 6," he pushed his glasses, "I speculate that there are multiple perpetrators." ”

It was not difficult for Qi Yue to send Nan Qiyun and Chu Han to participate in this matter, after the beginning of the building era, due to the establishment of the coalition government, large-scale wars were extinct from the face of the earth, and with the passage of time, the function of the army of the coalition government gradually changed to the aspect of maintaining social stability and law and order, which was more obvious in the Central Military Academy. Nan Qiyun received a one-year professional police training when he was a cadet, and all the cadets who came out of the Central Military Academy did not have the ability to investigate cases.

Nan Qiyun did think of what Chu Han said.

Chu Han pulled the progress bar of the video. "I watched the replay of the 6th area repeatedly, and finally I focused on the time period from 8 o'clock to 8:30 o'clock."

"Because there's only video playback here, something went wrong."

The video playback was adjusted to 8 o'clock. At this time, the streets under the Oriental Pearl Tower were still crowded with people, and the scene of bright lights made it difficult to think that a murder would happen thirty minutes later. Little by little, time passed.

Nan Qiyun and Han Xian's eyes widened suddenly. At 8:18, everything was normal under the Oriental Pearl Tower, and at 8:19, everything was still normal under the Oriental Pearl Tower. But the time only jumped for a minute, and at the moment from 8:19:59 to 8:20, the mighty crowd under the Oriental South Pearl suddenly disappeared in this strange second. For the next five minutes, the empty image remained unchanged. At 8:25:01, a trembling old man walked in the footage of the video replay. Then the video playback suddenly showed a black screen. After exactly 20 minutes, when the recording time showed 8:45, the footage suddenly returned to normal. It was like a painting that suddenly appeared out of thin air, showing the deceased woman lying on the ground, covered in blood.

Chu Han turned off the video. "The 20-minute video playback between 8:25 and 8:45 a.m. disappeared, and I couldn't get it back even after trying everything."

"Did someone cut out the video?" Han first took out the cigarette case from his coat pocket, took out a cigarette and lit it.

Chu Han shook his head. "No way, if someone did, it would have left a trace, there was no break in the video from 8:25 to 8:45, the video was very fluid, as if," he hesitated for a long time before continuing, "as if the 20 minutes didn't exist." Apparently he himself could not believe this speculation.

Nan Qiyun adjusted the video playback back to 8:25. He pointed to the old man who suddenly appeared in the picture. "I've seen this old man, in the 313 explosion case, he was the one who carried a bomb and blew up the entire waiting hall."

"Maybe he's the murderer." Han interjected first.

"That evening, when I was walking from the outskirts of District 6 to the city, I met the deceased woman from District 6 on the way, who was walking in the direction of the suburbs. It was almost three hours before the crime," Nan Qiyun added, "and at that time she was dressed basically the same as what she was wearing when she died, a red and white dress, gloves and glasses of the same color, and I can be sure that it is the deceased herself." In addition, I smelled a faint smell of blood from her. ”

"The smell of blood? Are you sure? Chu Han's gaze suddenly turned to Nan Qiyun.

Nan Qiyun shook his head. "I'm not sure, the moment it passed by too quickly, the smell of blood was coming from her side by a gust of wind, and I can't be sure of the breath she carried herself."

"The clothes of the deceased are pure white, and the red color at the time of death is stained red by a large amount of blood," "No. 1", who had not said a word, suddenly spoke, "dresses, gloves, glasses, boots, all white." ”

"I can be sure that the woman I met was definitely the same person as the deceased, and if she was dressed differently, unless, she changed her clothes at some later point." Nan Qiyun's first reaction was impossible.

"Not necessarily, the red and white clothes, or possibly, are stained with a little blood on the white clothes." Number 1 went on to speak.

The atmosphere in the room suddenly became eerie. The words spoken by No. 1 made the hearts of all those present feel extremely terrifying. Nan Qiyun's opinion is not unreasonable, but if it is really as No. 1 said, then who is the woman Nan Qiyun met that night?

The original judgment suddenly became extremely confused, and everyone lowered their heads in thought and stopped talking.

Chu Han thought for a long time, and he was the first to break the silence.

"Team leader, I have an idea," he said, holding his chin in his hand, "but if my guess is true, then it will be difficult for me to understand the motive of the murderer, and, in terms of time, it will be difficult to establish." ”

"Could it be, at that point in time three hours ago, the woman was killed, and the murderer disguised herself after the crime was over, and met you on the way to escape the scene, which is the 'she' you met at that point in time."

"Since the location of the crime is not only in District 6, if I follow this speculation, it is very likely that several other cases of the same nature also used the same modus operandi."

"It's possible, the murderer wants to take the identity of the deceased," Chu Han thought for a while and shook his head, "No, then there is no need to publicize the death of the victim so obviously that it will alarm the military." ”

Thinking is at an impasse. Nan Qiyun suddenly found that the difficulty of this accident was far beyond what he had imagined before he came.

"You are a direct witness to the 313 incident, since that old man is related to the 312 incident, then, can you link the 313 bombing case with the 312 incident?" Number 1 fiddled with the white bracelet in his hand as he spoke.

Nan Qiyun nodded. "The strange old man did rush towards me at the time of the bombing, and there were only two of us in the car hall at the time."

"Is there such a possibility, the 313 bombing case is aimed at you at all," Han Xian took over his thoughts, "Maybe it's because you know something you shouldn't know." ”

"Because of that 'she'?!" Chu Han suddenly realized. If it was because the person Nan Qiyun met in the suburbs on the night of 312 was the perpetrator, then it was very likely that the perpetrator would kill people in order not to leave any trouble. In this way, except for the discrepancy in time and the unclear motive of the murderer, the previous inference can basically be established.

Chu Han displayed the old man's identity information on the projector. "The police provided information on the perpetrators of the 313 bombings."

Qiu Cheng, male, 65 years old, no professional homeless in District 6.

"The old man gave up the free education provided by the government when he was young, so he did not have a high degree of education, and with his level of knowledge, it is impossible for him to know how to make a bomb, and it is obvious that there is someone else behind it."

"I have here a copy of the information about the bomb fragments found at the site of the explosion." Han first transferred a document to the projector.

Based on the small number of bomb fragments found at the scene afterwards, the police restored the prototype of the bomb that was used to commit the crime at that time. The raw material of the bomb is T-NT explosive, which has long been abandoned by mankind, and because of the relatively large number of bombs, it is extremely powerful.

Nan Qiyun noticed a string of numbers conspicuously "20-00" on the bomb timer. This was once the largest arms group placed by the coalition government in Sector 20 of the F-Layer, and was responsible for providing all kinds of military weapons and equipment to the F-Layer military. Since there was little fighting after the building was built, the coalition government gradually removed all kinds of arms groups on the B-F floor, and "20-00" was also involved. The group's headquarters has long been abandoned, and all production activities have long since ceased.

However, after instrumental analysis, the time generated by the string of numbers on the timer was 72 hours ago.

"After the dismantling of the '20-00' group, has the government disposed of the facilities left behind in District 20?" Nan Qiyun asked.

"No," Chu Han immediately denied, "This group is located in the Sahara Desert in the former Africa, because there is no longer a need for war, the government gave up the relocation of relevant facilities after removing the relevant personnel, and now so many years have passed, no one knows what the original headquarters of this group has become." ”

He added. "It was a place of death, the environment was extremely harsh, and in the context of global warming in the 21st century, the Sahara Desert was almost crazy in the original Africa, and the '20-00' was established in that place to carry out various large-scale weapons production tests."

"It seems that we need to go to District 20," Nan Qiyun turned on the communicator on the table, "I will report to Chief Qi on this operation, and we will leave tomorrow morning." ”

He looked up at the other three people in the room. "Let's rest first, it's not too early."

The action was quickly approved by Qi Yue. Nan Qiyun put down the communication device and let out a long sigh. The situation became more and more confusing, and in the past twenty-two years of his life, even in the four years of the military academy that he considered the most arduous, he had never felt so powerless as he did now.