In the suddenly widened pupils of the salted fish, Li Xiao closed the car door unneatly, and immediately stepped on the accelerator, leaving only a burst of "S"-shaped exhaust.

"Fooled..."Salty Fish sighed as he looked at the police car that quickly disappeared from view: "He must have found the real answer." ”

"Do you want to keep up with him?" The young detective on the side asked the salted fish tentatively.

After pondering for a few seconds, Salty Fish slowly shook his head: "Since he has decided, then I am willing to have confidence in him." After all, this is a tryout that belongs to them, and it would be ungraceful to rush to help others, isn't it? ”

As he spoke, he took the detective to open the door of another police car: "We will investigate the problem of signal shielding, and it will be helpful for them if communication can be restored as soon as possible." ”

“...”

April 18, 2018 at 1:00, the eastern suburbs of Dia City.

Li Xiaonan tried to contact Feng Beifu again, but what he got was still a busy sound of "doodoo".

Looking at the buildings that seemed to sink into darkness not far away, Li Xiaonan turned off the red and blue colors that had been flashing all the way, and then stepped on the accelerator fiercely.

On the other side, Feng Beifu was driving alone in the path between the buildings, his speed was very slow, as if he was looking for something along the road.

Li Xiaonan's reasoning is correct, Feng Beifu has indeed seen clues about "crosses and ears of wheat" somewhere.

As soon as the wind was waiting for the burial to speak in code, a scene immediately appeared in his mind - it was the first day that he and White Candle Aoi came to the eastern suburbs to search for clues to the gambling game, and somewhere in this neighborhood that encompassed almost the entire eastern suburbs, due to the angle and sunlight, the shadow of a cross appeared on an empty ground.

"That must not be a coincidence." The wind waited for the burial to mutter, "The eastern suburbs full of mist, and the cross..."

“...”

After driving into the eastern suburbs, Li Xiaonan tried to dial the phone of Xianyu, but as expected, it was not successfully connected due to signal blocking.

"Whew..."

Li Xiao exhaled heavily, and then turned off the headlights.

The moment the light faded, he managed to merge with the darkness.

The night of this day was very windy, as if there was a trend of mountain rain coming and the wind was full of buildings, and the wind blew the leaves on both sides of the road rustling, Li Xiaonan freed up a hand to roll down the car window, took out a cigarette from his pocket, and put it in his mouth.

"I've never been to the eastern suburbs..."Li Xiaonan subconsciously muttered to himself, as if he was in this darkness, and only he was left to answer his own words at this time, "So if 'she' was by my side from the beginning, and this invitation was indeed a war letter left for me, then the real location would definitely not be chosen inside the building with intricate roads." ”

"It's just a gamble – the only place to enter the game is that beach near the sea."

"The wind is buried..."

"I told you not to look down on people."

"I'm not going to lose."

With the sparks of cigarette butts popping out of the car window, Li Xiaonan stepped on the accelerator again and headed towards the destination located in the southern part of the eastern suburbs.

“...”

2:30 p.m., eastern suburbs of Dia city.

After Li Xiaonan turned off the car, he quietly hid inside the car, and in front of him was a not very wide beach, because it had not been artificially developed, so the beach was full of large and small gravels.

The waves crashed against the beach late at night, leaving flakes of foam.

The sea breeze crawled into Li Xiaonan's nose along the gap in the car window with the salty smell, and wisps of smoke overflowed along the gap and disappeared in the whistling wind outside the car.

At this time, Li Xiaonan took the cigarette away from his mouth, and his originally closed eyes opened at the same time, and in his pupils full of shock, a bright lamp like the sun suddenly lit up on the sea in the distance, as if a cyclops rose from the deep sea, she cut through the dark sea water, and slowly drove in the direction where she was.

"She," Li smiled as he stared at the dark ship, muttering a hint from the three deceased detectives, "We were wrong... It turns out that 'She' doesn't represent the gender of the person behind the scenes..."

"It's the place where the bodies of these eight cases were dismembered..."

"It's a ship."

“...”

At the same time, Feng Beifu, who was also waiting for the fire to be buried between the buildings, also opened his eyes, and in his southeast direction, a bright light shining like day, seemed to illuminate the entire eastern suburbs.

Reaching out to open the car door, the wind blowing between the buildings ruffled his short delicately groomed black hair.

And in the open space about 200 meters to his side, as he had speculated, a shadow in the shape of a cross appeared...

“...”

After waiting for more than ten minutes, Li Xiaonan opened the car door and stepped on the beach covered with sand and gravel, and with the light getting closer and closer, he noticed that in the shallow sea in front of him, there was a golden ear of wheat, and the rolling waves swept it into the sea again and again, and the wheat ear broke free from the sea again and again, dancing with the rhythm of the wind.

“...”

3:00 p.m., northern suburbs of Dia city.

The jet-black steamer docked at an abandoned harbor on the north side of the beach, and Li Xiaonan vividly remembers that the dossier and documents show that the port had been out of use since before the first serial case began.

In the howling of the wind, a slightly shorter-looking figure appeared in Li Xiaonan's gaze, he was wearing a pitch-black raincoat, and the hood on his head was lifted off in the wind, revealing a man's face full of beards.

“Welcome...”

A hoarse voice came from the man's mouth, and he raised his hands at his sides, his fingers empty.

The pitch-black raincoat was "rustling" by the sea breeze, and the man continued: "The gamble has begun..."

"Sword of the Last Light."

Li Xiaonan cautiously stared at the man's pace, guarding against the man's sudden attack.

Unexpectedly, the man stood still fifty meters in front of him, and then Li Xiaonan realized that the direction of the pitch-black steamer like a cyclops was not the beach where he was... Rather, Salted Fish is responsible for exploring the direction of the real estate.

"So what's the stake to get in." Li Xiao asked in a deep voice.

At this time, the two of them stood still, but the sound of footsteps could be heard on the empty beach.

Li Xiao smelled badly and famous, but found nothing.

At this time, the man replied, "It is the most important thing for each of us." ”

"I... It doesn't matter if the name is named, I used to be a fugitive who killed my wife and children because of my emotional excess..."

Li Xiaonan recalled all the murder cases in Dia City, but none of the murderers in any of them could match the short and sturdy man in front of him.

"I'm from the city of Wees, and you've heard of it, right, it's a place where the children of the sea are bred, so I went to sea very often at that time—" The man continued, "But how dare she commit adultery with other men when I go to sea..."

"So I killed her...", the man took out a pitch-black pistol from his arms, opened the safety cleanly, and after loading the pistol, the muzzle of the black hole pointed directly at Li Xiaonan's eyes: "This is the pistol used..."

Then the man withdrew the magazine with one hand under Li Xiaonan's gaze, and several yellow bullets were unloaded on the beach with the movement of his other hand.

Li Xiaonan narrowed his eyes and silently counted the number of bullets - he only left one bullet that had entered the chamber of the gun.

The man's words continued, the corners of his mouth were slightly upturned, as professional as a variety show host introducing the rules of the game: "I thought that after killing someone, I would be like ordinary people who couldn't accept the consequences of their own brewing, and as the emotions faded and the effect of adrenaline disappeared, I would fall into a dazed fear and worry." ”

"But I didn't..."

"After I killed them, I went into a... With unprecedented calm, I disposed of the corpses, bled them on the ship, and dismembered them. Only the skull that was pierced by the bullet remained..."

"In memory of them."

"It was nine years ago, Mr. Detective... But today, at this moment, I can still recall the wonderful feeling of that time..."

"I'm addicted." The man's tone became agitated, like some fanatical believer: "So every year I find a handsome man and invite them to join me in my game, promising whatever they expect." You guessed it, and the chips at the table... It's their most important thing..."

"Obviously, I won for eight years... Oh no..."The man seemed to remember something, and subconsciously stretched out his left index finger, which was not holding a gun, and tapped it in the void, "It's nine years." ”

"I took what was most important to them, and what they wanted... Woman, fame, status or... Money..."

"To this day, it's still in my hands."

At this moment, Li Xiaonan's face was already gloomy, and he stared at the muzzle of the gun in the man's hand, and the emotion called anger was creeping up his neck little by little.

"So my most important thing is, of course, life." There was a little smile in the man's voice: "I still want to win the tenth time... The eleventh... Huh..."

"Of course I know your most important thing!"

The man interrupted Li Xiaonan, who was about to speak, and his voice was extremely fast: "Your most important thing is..."

"Your justice..."

As the words fell, the depths of the sea behind the man lit up with lightning that snaked like a swarm of snakes, and then the rolling thunder was carried by the sea breeze and resounded in the ears of the two.

"Is it a gamble to put justice and life on the table?" Li Xiaonan repeated the man's words, his eyes wide and asked, "You see this as a game?" ”

"Because of your miserable experience, do you want to murder other innocent people!"

"Use mistakes to fill regrets, and mistakes to make up for mistakes."

"Who gave you the right?"

"Who do you think you are, huh? Poor worm! ”

With Li Xiaonan's roar, bean-sized raindrops fell from the dark sky and hit the two of them, and the torrential rain hit them off guard.

The man did not answer Li Xiaonan's words, but sneered and took off the raincoat on his body, and then under Li Xiaonan's gaze, he stuffed the pistol that he was originally holding in his right hand into the raincoat that was clumped together, and then he put the "black package" in his hand on the beach at his feet.

Immediately after that, he raised his hands and slowly retreated thirty meters in the direction of the seaside step by step.

The man's voice came into Li Xiaonan's ears again: "Judge me." Sword of the Endlight! ”

"Use your justice!"

"Judge me, this cruel, incomprehensible, mad, vicious... The murderer of the serial case! ”

"That's the rules of this gamble!"

"Detective."