Chapter 54 Chapter One

April 13.black friday.Afternoon, 16:19. What am I afraid of?Ye Xiao secretly asked himself. Wearing a brand-new police uniform, he came to the site of the ruins of the Future Dream Building, stepped into the elevator alone, and took a last look at the rare clear blue sky. In a blink of an eye, black covered his eyes, and he traveled through a depth of more than a hundred meters underground until the eternal night. More than a year ago, carrying a heavy travel bag, with messy hair and beard, like a street bum, he came to the gate of the Public Security Bureau and was immediately stopped by the guards.Of course no one believed the police officer he claimed to be working there.Just as the guard at the gate took out his handcuffs and was about to arrest him, the police officer Lao Wang happened to pass by and was dragged by Ye Xiao.Lao Wang was surprised to recognize it for a few minutes before confirming that he was Ye Xiao himself - several years had passed since the last time he saw him.

Everyone, including Ye Xiao's police colleagues, thought that as written in that book, he was trapped in a distant place and either disappeared permanently or died in a huge explosion.Not long ago, he was declared dead as a missing person and his account was canceled. Ye Xiao's return shocked the whole world, and people had countless questions, but he couldn't explain what happened during the years of his disappearance, which mysterious place he was in, and how he escaped. He had a strong desire to become a police officer again, a request rejected by the chief.However, people kept coming to plead for him, including his colleagues who had been partners for many years, the media who paid close attention to this matter, and even high-level police officers.

In the end, thinking that Ye Xiao had made countless contributions, the director decided to keep him on probation for half a year.A few months later, he cracked a serial murder case that shocked the whole country, and won the first-class meritorious service of the Ministry of Public Security before he could resume his original post. An hour ago, Ye Xiao had just participated in the honor commendation meeting of the public security system, and was once again awarded first-class merit for being the first to go deep underground to rescue survivors.Throughout the award ceremony, he kept a serious face until Old Wang sent a thick stack of materials—the latest underground cleanup report.

At this moment, the elevator stops 142 meters below sea level, at the cinema on the ninth floor of the Future Dream Building. After five days, Ye Xiao returned to the scene of the landslide disaster for the first time.Most of the floors have been cleaned up, and some wallets, cash, bank cards, jewelry, certificates... More than 100 mobile phones were found, one-third of which were iPhones, and one-third were counterfeit phones.In addition, the cash registers and goods of each store have been sent to the ground, and then the stores will send personnel to check and calculate. This alone has mobilized hundreds of armed police for three consecutive nights.All that remains underground are damaged merchandise, shelves that cannot be moved, kitchen equipment, tables, chairs and tableware, and window models of little value.

He stared coldly at a female window model, "she" had a fiery figure, wearing a revealing underwear, only harder than a blow-up 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 those dummy people, whether they would really move, kill people or do something else. Ye Xiao walked down the stairs quickly, walked from the ninth floor to the atrium on the ground floor, looked up at the huge dome that was empty, like being in a tomb that was dug up by tomb robbers. A large number of cats and dogs were found in the atrium on the ground floor, and there were traces of slaughtered cooking animals, as well as human bones and remains. According to the forensic analysis of the bone fragments, at least one elderly man died here. The cause of death cannot be determined. The wreckage was found within twenty-four hours.

The body was eaten by animals - how to explain to the family of the deceased?Hello, sorry, did your family feed the dog after death? Bullets were found in the bodies of several cats and dogs, which were found to be military bullets.On the second floor was the body of a particularly large Caucasian dog, shot dead at point-blank range.It is conceivable that in the last two days, the survivors began to hunt animals on a large scale, and it is also very likely that hungry animals attacked humans. A military pistol was found on the eighth floor—a 5.8mm×21mm Type 92 semi-automatic pistol with a magazine capacity of 20 rounds and only the last five rounds of ammunition left.In the Haagen-Dazs store on the ground floor, several bullets were fired into the seats and walls, and there were more than a dozen shell casings on the ground.These bullets, together with those found in the dead cats and dogs, were positively fired from this gun.Obvious fingerprints were extracted from the pistol, and after comparison with the six survivors, the result was completely consistent with Tao Ye.However, among the dead found underground, none of them were killed by bullets, which can rule out the possibility that Tao Ye used a gun to kill people.

The police were all sweating about the appearance of this kind of military weapon underground. Their police pistols could not compare with the military Type 92 pistols in terms of ammunition capacity or lethality. The police shootout could result in heavy casualties. On the day of cleaning and searching, it was discovered 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 extracted fingerprints from Luo Haoran's body, but they did not expect to have to enter a set of complicated passwords.Apart from Luo Haoran himself, only the deceased security director of the building knew this password.The police lock-picking experts were also unable to open the door lock, and had to use destructive tools to pry open the monitoring room.As a result, when the door was broken into, the monitoring server and hard disk all exploded automatically!

It turned out that Luo Haoran had set up a special program, as long as the door of the monitoring room was opened abnormally, the server would be detonated and all monitoring data would be destroyed—even sending the hard drive to be repaired would be useless. Why is the monitoring of a shopping mall so top secret?During further cleaning, it was found that the building has two sets of monitoring systems. The first set can be seen with the naked eye, and it is also the common camera in many shopping malls. The disadvantage is that there are dead spots in the monitoring.The second set is hidden in a secret place, covering basically every corner of the building, even including bathrooms and changing rooms-a night vision system with its own backup power supply.

Obviously, only Luo Haoran can see the second system - among all the survivors underground, he can see the most ulterior privacy and secrets, as well as all the brutal killing scenes. Ye Xiao glanced around calmly, and continued to walk to the underground supermarket.There is nothing left in the huge space, only rows of disorganized shelves.He walked into a secret room on the second basement floor—the most inconspicuous corner, hiding a small solid metal door, which was forcibly pried open by the rescuers.There are a lot of survival materials piled up here, most of which have not been touched.There is obviously a shortage of food upstairs, especially in the last two days, cats and dogs have also started to compete with humans, why don't they eat the food in this secret room?

Just like coming here for the first time, he walked into the underground three-storey garage alone.All vehicles were left in place, never to return to the surface, to their owners or their estates.The insurance company will send a commissioner to come down to evaluate, and God knows which type of insurance will be compensated according to.The wrecked Lexus GX460 parked in place belonged to Guo Xiaojun, the second-generation rich man.Traffic accident appraisal experts have been to the scene and confirmed that the accident caused the death of the driver on the spot, and the body of the deceased has been found downstairs.The door on the co-pilot's side was disassembled and opened from the outside after being twisted and deformed in the car accident.Judging from this, there was still someone in the passenger seat at the time of the collision.The police took blood samples from two people in the car, one was the man who died in the driver's seat, and the other was the woman who escaped in the passenger seat.

Before entering the fourth basement, he put on a mask.Although the corpse has been cleaned up, the fresh air from the ground is continuously sent to the ground, but it cannot eliminate the smell of the corpse—perhaps it has been buried deep in the walls and floors along with the ghost of the deceased. He saw hell.There is no corpse, but as long as you close your eyes, the pile of rotting corpses will emerge clearly and vividly, as if you can reach out and touch the hair of the dead, just like watching a 3D movie with 3D glasses-if anyone has ever filmed such a scene A horror movie. Ye Xiao, who was wearing a mask, stepped back half a step, almost fell to his knees and wanted to vomit, but luckily his stomach was empty. On the ground where more than 80 corpses were once piled up, there was a large pool of strange dark color, which was definitely not the color of blood, but the secretion from the process of human body decay, which could not be removed even after several washings—could it be a ghost s color? The identities of most of the deceased have been confirmed. Except for Luo Haoran and Professor Wu Hanlei, the most important person on the missing list is undoubtedly Guo Xiaojun, the son of the rich and powerful. To the police's great headache, this boy was stabbed to death by random knives.The director personally accompanied Guo Xiaojun's father to examine the body. The big man with a deep background couldn't help crying bitterly when he saw his rotting son who was still wearing a Dior suit until his death.Last night, the big shot made the news and privately offered a reward of five million yuan to get the head of the murderer. The man who died in a Lexus GX460 on the third basement floor was Yang Bing, a security guard at Future Dream Mall. He was 25 years old and came from the western countryside. There was also a female corpse, who had been stabbed through the heart from the front and died, which was another unmistakable murder case.The deceased was the hair-washing girl of the "Paris Image Commune" on the eighth floor, Hao Xiang, everyone called her A Xiang.She was petite and the forensic doctor found that she had been raped.On her finger was a diamond ring worth 200,000 yuan—it was impossible to confirm the source of this diamond ring, and it was probably taken from the hands of other deceased persons. The body of Yu Pingxiang, a female cleaner in the shopping mall, who belonged to the work permit on Ding Zi's body was also found, and was stabbed to death from the front with a sharp knife, but Ye Xiao did not believe that it was Ding Zigan's work. As for Ding Zi's high school classmate, Hai Mei, who was also on the missing list, was found on the edge of the pile of corpses. The time of death was about the same as that of Yu Pingxiang, five to six days after the disaster.Her temples were smashed, and many pieces of broken glass remained in her brain.Her father, an official of the district government, fainted on the spot when he saw his daughter's body.Afterwards, he found the director through his relationship and demanded that the murderer must be caught.When he heard that Ding Zi had survived, he strongly demanded to meet her, wondering what happened to his daughter in the underground for a few days.Ye Xiao gave an order to the guarding policeman, never let Haimei's father see Ding Zi. Also on the edge of the pile of corpses, a young male body was found. The deceased was no more than 18 years old. He looked like a handsome high school student. Someone stabbed his heart from behind. The time of death is estimated to be in the early morning of April 8th——Ye Xiao Already know who he is. Another unidentified corpse was a man in his thirties, skinny, with holes all over his back, most of his limbs and torso bones were crushed or broken, and there was feces and muck on his body. A rope was tied to his leg. He had been severely tortured and was confirmed to have died on April 8. In the pile of corpses, there were four dead who were obviously wounded. They had been simply bandaged before they were alive. One of them was covered with bandages all over his body, which must have been a broken bone caused by a stampede accident.The four wounded were killed with sharp weapons, some had their throats cut, and some had their hearts pierced. The killing methods were extremely cruel. They died on the third or fourth day, and the identities of two people have been confirmed. As for the other 70 or so corpses, all of them have undergone preliminary inspections, and the possibility of homicide is basically ruled out. In addition, there are still some missing persons who have not been found so far, such as Xu Pengfei mentioned by Mo Xinger - this person is on the list of missing persons, he is 29 years old this year, a native of the city, and an American-funded company in the office building of Future Dream Building Work, suspected of being overtime when the disaster struck.Reminiscent of the large number of human bone fragments found on the ground floor, some missing persons should have no bones left, and can 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 overwhelmed by the smell of rotting corpses. He hurried upstairs, but he heard someone calling him: "Officer Ye!" Unexpectedly, there are still living people on the fourth basement floor. Two cleaning team members are in the corner, and a light illuminates an inconspicuous door.This door has been discovered long ago, but it cannot be opened with a fingerprint lock.They had just broken the lock by force and found an underground passage. Is there more hell under hell? A cloud of white smoke rose from the ground, and the two cleaning team members did not dare to go down.Only Ye Xiao had the audacity to walk into the passage alone, stepping down the steps to another world. Finally, under the light of the large flashlight, he saw a splendor of hell. Pulling out tongues, scissors, iron trees, evil mirrors, steamers, copper pillars, mountains of knives, icebergs, pans of oil, pits of cattle, stone presses, mortars, pools of blood, death in vain, punishments with hammers, volcanoes, stone mills, saws and knives... It was shocking !This is the underground of the future dream building, and then fell into a deep hell together, which seems to have a history of thousands of years. Where is the nineteenth floor?When Ye Xiao fixed the light beam on a screen, he felt a sharp pain in an instant, the pain of putting his hand on the flame.He saw the bullock cart in the sea of ​​flames, and the beautiful woman being burned by the flames—he knew this face! Hell changes. A few minutes later, Ye Xiao ran out of the tunnel in a panic. With the support of two cleaning personnel, he notified the ground command through the walkie-talkie, and quickly invited cultural relic experts to the underground site, saying that there was a major archaeological discovery. An hour passed, and Ye Xiao never left the ground, guarding the small doorway until the experts arrived wearing helmets and masks. The expert only took a few glances at the mural, then dug out a small piece of paint with tools, then shook his head and said, "I'm sorry, this is not a national treasure, but it was painted in recent years." "What? A copycat?" "Yes, you see that the color is so bright, and the pigment is also a modern product. How could it be a cultural relic? It's just that the painting style and technique imitated the Buddhist murals of the Song Dynasty. The content is the common 'hell in disguise', also known as 'hell transformation', at best Arts and crafts." After the experts finished speaking, they left in a hurry, fearing that they would be stained with the ghosts of hell in a second. Although they often went in and out of ancient tombs and piles of bones, they still felt completely different when facing the dead thousands of years ago and the massacre that just happened. different. Ye Xiao stayed in front of the mural in a daze, looking up, looking at the innocent woman in the bullock cart, that indescribably beautiful face, but about to be burned to ashes by the fire - she must be in pain, pain... …Yes, he knew her, and he was in pain too…