Chapter 1 Night

Night fell.

Two men sat on a park bench behind the police station.

On one side, a man.

On the other side, also a man.

Zhang Yanfeng took out a cigarette from his pocket, offered one to Zhou Ze, and then put one in his own mouth.

They had been sitting like this for a long time.

Not far away, stood Lao Dao and Tang Shi.

"So slow."

Tang Shi was obviously dissatisfied with Zhou Ze's procrastinating style. According to her habit, she would have just knocked the policeman unconscious and been done with it.

"Lao Zhang, trust me this time. The safest way to handle this is for me to go down and take a look first. Even if those experts come tomorrow, I'll be more effective."

Zhang Yanfeng remained silent, just blowing smoke rings.

"I don't need to lie to you, really."

"The place below is a former Japanese bacterial research lab. Can you guarantee that going down there without authorization won't cause a leak of harmful gases?" Zhang Yanfeng said in a deep voice, "Do you know how many people live around here?"

"I can tell you definitively that if the situation below is the worst-case scenario, things will deteriorate and cause even more damage than a gas leak."

Thinking of that broken body, he couldn't even control himself in the end. If he were to wake up again, the consequences would be truly terrifying.

"You can knock me unconscious."

Zhang Yanfeng threw the cigarette butt on the ground and stomped on it.

"What?" Zhou Ze was taken aback.

"I've been waiting for you to knock me unconscious. Of course, I'll resist because it's my duty, but I believe someone like you… has the ability to knock me unconscious even with my resistance. When that happens, I won't be able to stop you from doing what you want to do."

"Why are you so stubborn?" Zhou Ze said helplessly.

"The stubborn one isn't me, it's you."

Zhang Yanfeng pointed to Tang Shi and Lao Dao, who were still waiting under the streetlight in front, and said:

"That girl, she's killed people, hasn't she."

Zhou Ze didn't answer.

"I knew it the first time I saw her. Heh, I used to be a soldier, then a criminal police officer. I've been in this line of work for many years and have seen plenty of vicious people.

I could tell from that girl's eyes that she had killed people, and she was the kind who didn't value human life at all.

If I didn't believe you, I could have called people in at the police station to surround her and investigate her identity."

Zhou Ze smiled, "You wouldn't be able to find anything."

Zhang Yanfeng glanced at Zhou Ze in surprise.

"There are many things in this world that can't be investigated. Really, when you arrested me, you didn't find anything on me, did you?

But I can tell you definitively that in the past year, I've sent countless people to hell."

"Then why are you still willing to sit here with me for so long?" Zhang Yanfeng asked curiously.

The relationship between the two had been constantly changing. At first, Zhou Ze was a suspect and Zhang Yanfeng was a police officer. Then, they were both "cellmates." Now, they were more like friends from two different worlds who had a little appreciation for each other.

"First, it's not late yet, the night is still young.

Second, I think you're a good cop, and I'm willing to waste a little time on you."

"Should I feel honored?"

Zhou Ze stood up, and Zhang Yanfeng was forced to stand up as well.

"I believe that there are still more good people in this world. I've met a few good cops before, the kind who truly adhere to principles. I respect them, so I respect you now too.

So, I hope you won't be inflexible this time. You can come down with me. You have chains on your feet too. If nothing else, maybe one of your ancestors died down there."

"I've investigated. I had a great-uncle who reportedly joined the army during the war, but then he disappeared, and his family couldn't find any information about him."

"Come down with me."

Zhou Ze invited.

Zhang Yanfeng took out his gun,

pointing it at Zhou Ze's back.

"I don't know your identity clearly. To be honest, I'm afraid to find out. You might think my behavior is inflexible and stubborn, but I'm sorry. My life experiences and work experience have taught me that sometimes, you really have to be stubborn and persevere, and you can't back down even a step."

"Yeah, I respect your…"

"Bang!"

It wasn't a gunshot,

but a stone hitting Zhang Yanfeng's neck.

Zhang Yanfeng fainted on the bench.

Tang Shi walked over, her face showing obvious impatience.

"He told you to knock him unconscious, so what are you still talking about?

Should I get you some tea and a DV camera to record your positive energy dialogue so it can continue to spread?"

Zhou Ze stretched out his fingernails and easily snapped the handcuffs. He sighed and said, "I can't reason with you. What else can you fit in your head besides White Rabbit candy?"

Tang Shi's eyes narrowed, as if she was about to explode, but she restrained herself in the end, turned around, and walked directly towards the construction site.

Lao Dao chuckled to himself, thinking that ever since his boss learned how to open his Wushuang (invincibility), he had been standing up straighter when he saw Tang Shi, including how he treated the little loli.

Indeed, men don't change when they have money, sows climb trees and become monsters.

The three of them arrived at the construction site. The area had been sealed off, but that obviously couldn't stop them.

"Which location?" Tang Shi said coldly.

"Right here. Just dig down, but be careful not to make too much noise." Zhou Ze pointed to his feet.

Soon,

the stones and wood under their feet began to float up on their own, quietly stacking to the side. Because of the excavation done during the day, it was actually quite convenient. Moreover, Tang Shi's "work efficiency" was really no slower than that of heavy machinery.

Boss Zhou had thought before that if he were to start a construction company, the profits should be considerable. With the infinitely strong Bai Yingying as a laborer, plus Tang Shi acting as the construction machinery, one didn't need to eat, and the other didn't need electricity, basically no cost, just pure profit.

After a while, a passage for one person to go down was cleared. Zhou Ze went down first, Tang Shi was second, and Lao Dao was third.

There was no poisonous gas smell below, just a musty odor of dust.

Going down the steps,

taking out his phone as a flashlight,

the view ahead was relatively clear.

Lao Dao walked at the back, only feeling that his soles were a little sticky. He muttered, "What is this stuff on the ground?"

"Bloodstains," Tang Shi replied.

"Hiss…"

Lao Dao didn't dare to say anything more and followed closely behind the two big shots in front.

Pushing open a rusted iron door that looked beyond repair, what came into view was a familiar prison corridor, with cells on both sides.

Zhou Ze still remembered the scene in his dream of walking through here with shackles on his feet, with people in the nearby cells looking at him with envy.

Passing through here again, he shined the flashlight inside. In the cells within sight, there were dried corpses.

After the Japanese blew up the entrance, they probably didn't plan to reopen it. Later, probably because of the war situation or other reasons, until Japan was defeated, this place was forgotten.

The people originally imprisoned in the cells were trapped and died here.

"They didn't starve to death."

Tang Shi at this time directly used telekinesis to break two bars, even squatting down to examine a corpse, and said:

"There should have been a lot of dust when the passage was blown up. These people all died of suffocation, not because you didn't save them back then."

"Thank you."

Zhou Ze took a deep breath.

"I take back what I said about you only having White Rabbit candy in your head."

"What about you, where are you?" Tang Shi asked, "The body you were talking about."

Zhou Ze pointed ahead.

"Don't delay, we'll pay respects tomorrow."

Saying that, Tang Shi took the initiative to walk forward.

Passing through a passage, the front immediately opened up, because they had entered the laboratory area.

Tang Shi stopped, Lao Dao followed and stopped with her, then Lao Dao covered his mouth and bent over, his body twitching non-stop, obviously trying to suppress his gagging.

Zhou Ze was the last to walk over. The scene in front of him didn't surprise him much, after all, in his dream, he had personally experienced the most vivid real-time scenes.

And now,

in the laboratory area, various people died tragically, various inhumane methods of death, various exaggerated scenes with artistic, explosive energy, had also been stained with the dust of time because eighty years had passed, no longer as fresh and shocking as they were at the beginning.

Of course,

for people who hadn't seen the original version,

this scene,

was enough to be called a living hell.

"The people who died here were basically Japanese soldiers and researchers. They deserved to die." Zhou Ze explained.

"That's true, but Boss, this scene is too R-rated, I really can't take it."

Lao Dao wiped the corner of his mouth, his face pale.

"Clean up your own vomit on the ground, don't let the experts take your samples back for research tomorrow," Zhou Ze reminded.

After speaking, Zhou Ze looked at Tang Shi beside him and asked:

"Are you okay?"

Tang Shi shook her head.

Zhou Ze was a little puzzled. Logically speaking, her psychological endurance was higher than Lao Dao's.

When Zhou Ze took two more steps forward and saw Tang Shi's face, he found that she was actually smiling, and her face showed excitement and admiration.

"Uh…"

Tang Shi looked at Zhou Ze and said:

"It's hard to imagine that you used to have such high taste and style. The scenes here, the corpses, the ways they died, including the patterns made of blood,

really,

are very beautiful."

"…" Lao Dao.

"…" Zhou Ze.

"Crack…"

A clear, crisp sound suddenly came from the depths of the laboratory.

Zhou Ze's gaze suddenly turned to that location,

that laboratory,

if he remembered correctly,

was the area where the safe was located!

Tang Shi licked her lips. She seemed a little nervous, but also couldn't hide her excitement, and slowly said:

"You see,

he agrees with me too."