born criminal

Hundreds of surveillance videos were densely lined up on the screen, and Yangzhou's eyes were sore from staring at it.He swiped down slowly with his fingertips, paused for a moment on the video titled "No. 0112, Toy Store on the East Side of the Square, 2.1-2.5", and then clicked play.

It was getting late, everything in the room was blurry, the gray background light of the screen hit Yangzhou's face, and countless pedestrians passed between his eyebrows and eyes.

Yangzhou rubbed his temples wearily, and doubled the playback speed.

After a while, the door of the monitoring room opened, and a chill came in with the wind.

"Why don't you turn on the light?" Chen Jian's footsteps came from far to near, and he handed a paper bag to Yang Zhou, "Eat something."

Yangzhou didn't eat any water or rice that day, but he didn't feel hungry, so he shook his head and said, "I don't need it."

"Eat." Chen Jian didn't talk nonsense with him, tore open the wrapping paper rudely, and handed the burger to his lips.

The hot air hit his face, which aroused Yang Zhou's appetite. He looked at Chen Jian helplessly, and took a bite.

"Did you find anything?" Chen Jian put his hands behind his back and stared at the surveillance video. "The computer and manual screening have been done, and there should be nothing missing. Lily only appeared on the surveillance next to the candy store for seven minutes and 20 seconds."

Yangzhou turned over surveillance is nothing more than luck.He shook his head in frustration, and asked again, "What about outside?"

"No." Chen Jian said: "The old building has become a rat's nest, and people run around in shock as soon as they enter. There is everything in it, and a bone that has been dead for an unknown number of years is found, but there is no living person." Mark of."

Yang Zhou glanced out the window.The ink color has infected the earth, and a few stars are scattered on the sky.The passage of time is too merciless, how long has Lily been missing?He didn't dare to ask again.

Chen Jian was about to leave after delivering the meal, so he went to turn on the light.

Light makes despair invisible, and darkness relieves anxiety. "Don't drive." Yang Zhou hurriedly stopped: "It's too bright to see clearly."

Chen Jian felt baffled: "What can't you see clearly?"

Yang Zhou glanced at the screen and prevaricated: "Shadow."

As soon as he finished speaking, he froze, and in an instant he felt a chill down his back, and shivered involuntarily.

shadow!shadow!

Yang Zhou exited the current video in a hurry and rummaged through a bunch of surveillance cameras.Chen Jian, who was about to leave, turned back and asked, "What's wrong?"

"Where's the monitoring at the intersection on the north side of the candy store!" Yang Zhou spoke quickly, his fingertips kept sliding, the more anxious he was, the more he couldn't find it.

Chen Jian pushed his fingers away and quickly found the target: "This."

Yangzhou opened the video, dragged the progress bar to [-]:[-], and clicked play.At that time, the sun was still hanging on the western sky, and pedestrians coming and going were bathed in the white and crisp sunlight, casting light gray shadows on the ground.

Chen Jian quickly understood.Like Yang Zhou, he stared at the monitor with bated breath, chasing the dim shapes under everyone's feet with his eyes.

At ten past six, a shadow suddenly appeared in the upper right corner of the video.The man was probably squatting at first, outside the camera, but because he stood up suddenly, the shadow of his skyrocketing height fell into the monitoring range.

Shadow's legs were very slender, but his upper body was bloated, as if he was holding something.

Chen Jian pressed the pause button abruptly.The room was silent for a second, and then there was the sound of two people exhaling softly.

Yang Zhou selected the area in the upper right corner and zoomed in on the monitoring area.The image at the edge of the camera is naturally distorted, but it can be distinguished at a glance. The shadow is not a person, but a child in his arms.

"Is it Lily?" Yang Zhou's voice was as soft as a gust of wind.

"It should be." Chen Jian enlarged and shrunk the shadow, pointed to one place and said, "Look here, it looks like a frilly skirt, and here, it's her hand. This circle should be..."

"Lollipop." Yangzhou clicked on the screen to let the monitoring continue to play.The shadow got farther and farther away, and disappeared completely in the video after a few seconds.

"Going south, take the F road." Yangzhou called up the map of the No. [-] base on his mobile phone, and Chen Jian found out all the surveillance cameras around the F road.

Kyle Green thought hard, but in the end he kept everything secret.His shadow flashed in several surveillance cameras, allowing Chen Jian and Yang Zhou to capture his traveling route.

"It's gone now." Chen Jian looked back at several surveillance cameras, "It should be nearby."

Yangzhou zoomed in on the map and found an old building one kilometer away from Kyle Green's shadow.

"Caiyun District!"

The two stood up at the same time, Chen Jian grabbed Yang Zhou's overcoat and threw it to him.

The lights in the corridor were very bright, Yang Zhou closed his eyes uncomfortably, and heard someone ask: "Chen, Yang, where are you going, can I follow?"

Chen Jian glared at Ted Smith with obvious displeasure, and was about to lose his temper. Yang Zhou persuaded him, "Take it with you, reporter...you will need it in the future."

The three got into the car, and Yang Zhou moved aside to make room for the chubby Smith. "Should the full force be assembled?" he asked.

"No need, that would make people suspicious," Chen Jian said, "Fang Xing is there, I'll ask him to take someone there first."

There are forty buildings in the Caiyun community, which stand eerie in the night, and the thick fallen leaves and garbage on the ground are swirled by the cold wind.When they arrived, Fang Xing had arranged for dozens of police officers and volunteers to investigate, and white flashlight beams flashed in front of them from time to time.

Yangju walked towards the nearest building.As soon as the rusty door of the unit was pushed open, a stale and corrupt atmosphere rushed towards him.He bent down and got in, followed by Smith, who took a few photos with Yangzhou's flashlight.

There was a rustling sound in the corridor, and then something fluffy quickly brushed past his ankle, Yang Zhou dodged to the left in disgust, avoiding a group of panicked mice.

Breathing the stale air, he pushed open the door of Room 101.

An hour later, Yangzhou and Smith completed the search of thirty houses, but found nothing except for the spider web stuck to their shoulders.

Yang Zhou looked up at the cloudy sky, and heard Smith murmuring anxiously in his ear: "It's 12:30."

Another day, and Lily, whose life and death are uncertain.

"Continue to search?" Smith asked.

At this time, there was a sound of chaotic footsteps outside the gate of the community, as if a lot of people came suddenly. "What's going on?" Chen Jian got out from the second unit, ordered two policemen, and told them to go over to investigate the situation.

After a while, the two policemen brought back more than [-] residents, who they said were from the Jinzhan Community in the west, and were sent by Douglas to support them.

Chen Jian nodded and asked a policeman named John to assign tasks to them.

After the assignment, the volunteers did not go to perform the task, but surrounded the police and kept asking about the progress of the investigation. They were quite worried in their words. Some even shouted pessimistically that "the base is about to usher in an era of chaos again."

Chen Jian became angry, and fired a "bang" shot towards the sky, and there was a sudden silence around him, even the wind stopped blowing.

"Love to do it, don't do it, don't get in the way of your mother!"

Half a minute later, there were a few murmurs of dissatisfaction in the crowd, but no one resisted in the end, and silently obeyed the original arrangement.

There were two men walking towards Yangzhou, talking in worried whispers.

"Where is this pedophile hiding? My niece's family is afraid to go out."

"Yeah." The other person's Chinese was very blunt, and he said stammeringly: "The police's blanket search is too inefficient."

"After Chen Jian became the governor, he only cared about his own enjoyment and no longer cared about the suffering of the people. Otherwise, how could such a thing happen?"

"Yes."

Yang Zhou and Smith stood next to an apricot tree, turned off the flashlight, and almost merged with the darkness.When he was about to walk in front of them, the person who spoke first accidentally tripped over a stone and fell to the ground with a cry of surprise.

Yangzhou and the person who spoke later went to help him. The person didn't see Yangzhou before, but suddenly found that there were extra hands, and he was so frightened that he broke his voice: "Who!"

Smith hurriedly turned on the flashlight and said, "This is Officer Yang."

The person who fell down rubbed his knees and got up. He might feel a little embarrassed by his behavior just now, so he grinned and said, "Thank you, officer, I'm really sorry."

The person who helped him also bowed down very respectfully, and called the police officer flatteringly.This person has a very faint strange smell, which is unpleasant.His hair was long and tangled, his face was sallow, his cheeks were thin, and he looked sad.

Yangzhou nodded, without saying anything, the two walked towards the four buildings next to them.Yangzhou watched their backs thoughtfully, and suddenly his expression changed: "Wait!"

The two turned their heads and looked at him blankly: "What's the matter, officer?"

Yang Zhou fixed his eyes on the tall, thin man with a sad face.In the silence, something kept gathering like dewdrops on the tip of the grass, and finally fell overwhelmed.

"Chase!" Yang Zhou shouted.

He and the thin man moved at the same time.The man changed from his clumsiness just now, and quickly and calmly ran towards the depths of the buildings.The change happened so suddenly, most of the people, including the one who fell just now, were still standing there in a daze, only Chen Jian jumped out lightly while supporting the bushes.

Yangzhou chased desperately, did not dare to relax at all, and had no time to distract himself and shout, "He is Kyle Green."

That man was very cunning and he was familiar with the terrain here, if Yang Zhou hadn't pursued him closely, he would have almost escaped.Seeing that there were still three steps away, and Chen Jian was about to catch up, Kyle Green suddenly pulled out a pistol and pulled the trigger on him.

It's too close, Yangzhou can't avoid it, and he doesn't plan to avoid it.His running speed didn't slow down, but suddenly a force came from the right rear, pushing him to stagger.

Yangzhou heard a "chi", he stood still, and a cluster of bright yellow flames rose in his vision.What happened next was only in an instant, but after a long time, he still clearly remembered all the details.

He saw Chen Jian pause for a moment because of the severe pain from the instant carbonization of his skin, but he gritted his teeth and held back, and even increased his running speed.When Kyle Green fired the second shot, Chen Jian slammed the burning coat on his head, and took advantage of the few seconds when the other party was flustered, he quickly threw him to the ground.

The police from the base rushed over from all directions, Yang Zhou was hit on the left shoulder, and then his right shoulder was also hit.He was inconvenient to block the way, so he stepped aside.

The sudden gathering of flashlights illuminated the overgrown green belt like daytime.The police circled round and round, but Chen Jian was completely blocked.After a while, something spread from the innermost layer to the outside, this time Yangzhou saw it clearly, it was a human skin mask.

It seemed that he got it right, and he breathed a sigh of relief.

"Chen Jian!" Fang Xing ran over in a panic, calling Chen Jian's name all the way, "Are you okay?" He was so emotional that he seemed to cry, and the people present were at a loss for a while, and the crowd was tight The policeman automatically made way for him.

As for what.As Yang Zhou thought about it, he saw an extremely worried face when he crossed the zigzag narrow gaps between many arms.

He suddenly seemed to understand something.

Chen Jian's weak voice came from behind the human wall, and it sounded like a buzz. "You can't die," he said. "Go to Lily."

Kyle Green was already handcuffed, Fang Xing kicked him and asked, "Where's Lily?"

"I don't know what you're talking about." The other party had his hands cut behind his back. Although he was embarrassed, he was very calm.

Chen Jian was carefully supported to stand up, and the two scorched black marks the size of pigeon eggs on his left arm caused him to break out in a cold sweat.He said to Fang Xing: "Take him back to the bureau first. Lily should be transferred to the Jinzhan community, you and Yangzhou go find it."

Yangzhou vaguely heard his name, and involuntarily walked a few steps towards the encirclement.

Chen Jian leaned against a tree trunk, closed his eyes in pain, and gasped slightly.I don't know if it's because of the lighting, but the bronze-colored skin suddenly turned blue-gray.

He was traumatized, and as he himself said, he couldn't die.But because the mind is clear, the pain is more vivid.

Seeing his appearance, Fang Xing hurriedly asked his subordinates to send him to the hospital.The rest of the people were divided into two groups, one to escort Kyle Green, and the other to find Lily in the Jinzhan community.

He treated Yangzhou like air, but Yangzhou ignored him and left with Smith first.

This search lasted all night, until the morning star rose in the sky, and Fujii Sakura's scream broke the calm.

Crowds gathered around the dusty basement entrance, but no one dared to step in.The female policeman covered her mouth and sobbed, and the men also shook their heads and sighed with embarrassment.Yangzhou's chest was so painful that he had to open his lips slightly to avoid suffocation.

Smell it again, that smell... on Kyle Green, in this room... the smell of blood mixed with the aroma of candy, it's disgusting.

Yang Zhou stepped into the small and dark basement.Lily was lying on a blood-stained dirty blanket in the middle, her tender face and slender neck were criss-crossed with bloodstains by a sharp knife, and her original appearance was no longer visible.Her left arm was in an odd position and was clearly broken.

Yang Zhou knelt down, probed her breath with his cold fingers, and unexpectedly felt a trace of warmth.He quickly took off his coat, covered the girl's thin body, and hugged her up.

Ten-year-old Lily, petite, like a feather in her hands, pure and light, was about to fly to heaven, but at the last moment, she was dragged back to this dirty world.