Eighteen years ago.

At that time, Nancheng was full of expansion construction sites. Next to the Wushan Nursing Home, there were some old houses.

The sky is pale yellow, and the morning air is mixed with a faint sulfuric acid smell, which is a bit choking.

It was a seemingly ordinary dusk, with the sultry heat of autumn and summer in the air. Many old people didn't know what had happened recently, but found that more people came in and out, and there were often strange noises outside.

Finally, when it was time to close the net, several police cars were parked outside the front and back doors of the nursing home.Indignant citizens just assaulted the concierge of the nursing home. Many windows were broken and the floor was covered with glass residue.

Criminal police captain Song Cheng took a group of people through the yard and hurriedly walked in. Just last night, they had the decisive evidence that Xia Weiwei killed the old people. The police began to investigate, but they were suspected. Ren Xia unknown has been missing.

Song Cheng couldn't help raising his voice and asked, "Where is Xia unknown? Did you find it? Did anyone see her?" Now, Wu Qing is still lying in the hospital undecided about his life or death. He is anxious for this victory to boost his morale.

"Dr. Xia, it was the night shift yesterday." A young nurse said timidly. Although there have been several inquiries in advance, people also know what might have happened in this nursing home and Xia didn't know what might have been done, but they still It is customary to call Xia Weiwei as Doctor Xia.

"I seemed to see Dr. Xia downstairs last night..." an old man said.

Song Cheng's brows twitched, suddenly a little ominous foreboding.

Yesterday, although they had not started the formal arrest, they put a secret guard at the door to make sure that everyone did not enter or leave this nursing home, but now, why is this happening?

"Intensify the search!" Song Cheng sternly ordered his subordinates, "I want to see people alive and a dead body. Who is there? Who saw her in the end?"

A teenager in the crowd stood up. It was just a teenage boy with short hair, dark skin and a scar on the corner of his eyebrows. He walked in front of the policeman, seemingly plucked up courage, and looked up. He opened his mouth and said: "I saw a man pulling Dr. Xia downstairs, and they went over the wall from the back together..."

The police in charge subconsciously denied: "Impossible, a fly could not fly out here last night!"

The high wall behind the nursing home is more than three meters high, with glass slag and barbed wire on it. How can two people help each other to turn it over?Even if they were able to get out of the wall, the policeman on duty at the back could not have been completely unaware of it.

The whole nursing home was searched up and down. They checked every room and every corner, thinking they had nothing to lose.Who would have thought that last night was the last time Xia Weiqi appeared in people's vision.

The police, who had been searching for no results, could only trust the witness's testimony. They painted the portrait of the man according to the witness's description.

However, in the descriptions of several children, the man's appearance was not consistent, and the old people also said that they had not seen that person.

Xia Weiqi seemed to have evaporated from the world, and he had never appeared before anyone, and the man was also missing.

After the Wushan Nursing Home case was made public in the media, it caused a sensation. Some people went to the door of the Municipal Bureau to pull up banners, asking them to severely punish the murderer and bring the murderer to justice.Song Cheng was so devastated by this incident, the telephone poles in the streets and alleys were covered with photos of Xia Weiqi.

At that time, they didn’t know it. Just when they were looking for Xia Weifeng, the woman was dead. Her body was lying quietly in the sewer of Wushan Nursing Home, disintegrating and decayed bit by bit, until it changed. Bone...

Eighteen years later.

It is more than eight o'clock in the evening, the sun has already set, and the cemetery is about to close, so there are not many people in the cemetery.

As night fell, the street lamps in the cemetery lit up one by one, stretching forward, like stars in the sky.And those who died?Has it also reached the sky?

Before the cemetery was closed, a middle-aged man in his forties walked up to a tombstone and put down a bunch of white lilies. This tombstone has been around for a few years and has some mottled moss growing on it.No name is written on the tombstone, and no photos are posted.

It turned out that it had been eighteen years, and when the Mid-Autumn Festival was approaching, he remembered that the woman's sacrifice day was approaching.

The man looked down at the tombstone. The tomb was empty. The tombstone was standing here. The woman is his soulmate, his lover, his enemy...

The man stood in front of the tombstone for a while, then he turned around, maybe he had been standing for a long time, his knee was sore and he almost fell when he was about to leave.

A man suddenly supported him.

It was a thin girl with small eyes and nose, and her hands were small and warm.

The man said, "Thank you."

"It doesn't matter, it should be..." Those who came to the cemetery at this time were undoubtedly mourning their relatives and friends, and she naturally gave sympathy to the middle-aged man, who was not deeply involved in the world.

His expression is a bit painful, he should be a dead wife, right?

The girl thought, pulling her hair with her hand, "I couldn't see it before, and I was helped by many people. So now, it's okay to help others."

After the girl had finished speaking, she walked to a newly erected tombstone and placed a bunch of pink flowers under the tombstone.At the beginning of this cemetery, tombstones were sparsely erected. Later, as more and more people died, they were repaired and added some places, so the two old and new tombs were connected together.

The middle-aged man looked at the tombstone. The photo above was a young man with his name-Chen Yanqiu engraved beside it.

The man asked: "This is yours..."

"It's my brother." The girl bowed respectfully at the tombstone.

She just took back her brother’s relics and quit her job. She chose to go to an educational institution and became a piano teacher. It turned out that, as the policeman said, the days are not so terrible. You can face it day by day. Up.

The middle-aged man nodded and said, "Sorrow."

The girl said: "So are you."

On this ordinary night, two strangers met in the cemetery.

Sometimes the city looks very big, sometimes it is very small.

The man stood firm, got up and walked outside the cemetery.After passing by the girl, his steps gradually became firmer.

"I saw a beast coming from the sea, with ten horns and seven heads, with ten crowns on the ten horns, and a blasphemous name on the seven heads."

The man walked away gradually, and now, the giant beast sank to the bottom of the sea, and it was no longer difficult to find its trace on the sea.

In the dimness, Lu Siyu felt like he was walking forward, with every road changing every moment, without end.He walked very tired and tired, but his legs didn't seem to be his own and he couldn't stop at all.

There were many people around, with different expressions, and he didn't know who it was.But he can distinguish those eyes, indifferent, hesitant, disgusted, scared, and horrified.As if he was really a lunatic, perverted, crazy.

Then he heard Wu Qing's voice: "You are not in the legal medical profession. Forensic medicine is a profession that touches corpses. You are paralyzing yourself with those corpses. You are very smart, and your thinking can be different from ordinary people. I think you should Learn to communicate with living people. You can try to be a detective."

Lu Siyu said, "But I applied for forensic medicine."

"Are you considering a graduate student in investigation? I haven't taken a graduate student in person for a long time. I have read your results and there should be no problem in applying for my major. From forensic work, you cannot get more clues, nor can you Find the culprit behind the murder of your parents."

Then Wu Qing raised his head and said to him: "Ji Siyu, I remember you." He sat in a wheelchair with his eyes calm, "You are the child found at the murder scene that year, and the only survivor of the 519 case..."

In an instant, Wu Qing's face changed to Song Wen's.

Lu Siyu suddenly opened his eyes wide, and felt a strong sense of weightlessness. Suddenly, his body pained as if he was torn apart.

After a few seconds of dizziness, Lu Siyu realized that it was a dream, there were truths and falsehoods in the dream, and everything was filled with strange light and shadow.

Lu Siyu touched his forehead. There was sweat on his cheeks, and his head was a little bit painful. It was still dark outside. Due to Li Luanfang’s visit before, Song Wen moved the quilt pillow out and did not sleep here today. Rooms.

Lu Siyu got up from the bed and checked the time. It was five o'clock. He poured himself a glass of warm water. When passing by the bathroom, he glanced at the mirror inside. The person in the mirror was not as peaceful as before. Indifference in his eyes made him strange, it was a murderer's face.

Then he heard his cell phone ring.Who will send a message at five in the morning?

The other party's name is Beitianji.

North celestial pole, the point where the earth's axis and celestial sphere intersect in the north, which is the virtual center point of the northern hemisphere's rotation.

For thousands of years, people on Earth rely on its starlight to navigate.

Lu Siyu clicked to pass, and the status of the other party was online.He quickly clicked on the positioning software, and could see that the other party was also in Nancheng, but the exact location was undetectable.

As if he knew what Lu Siyu was doing, a line of words appeared on the screen: "You can't find me."

Lu Siyu narrowed his eyes, thought for a moment, typed three words and asked: "Who are you?"

The other party quickly replied: "I'm Teacher Wu's informant, I still want to say hello to you, and everyone will meet in the future."

Afterwards, the other party's avatar was shown offline and turned into a gray.The information sent just now disappeared quickly, and the dialog box became blank, as if everything was just an extension of that dream.

At this time, Song Wen's room suddenly turned on the light, the light shone from the crack in the door, and the sound of him answering the phone came from the door.Lu Siyu walked to Song Wen's door with a glass of water, passed the half-open door, and watched Song Wen sitting cross-legged on the bed and talking on the phone.

It is five o'clock in the morning, darkness is covering the earth, the whole city is very quiet, most people are still asleep.

"Did something happen?" Lu Siyu waited for Song Wen to put down his phone and asked softly.

Song Wen hummed, "Did I wake you up?" Then he said again, "A female body was found in the east of Nancheng, and the police needs to be dispatched."