Opening his eyes, a terrifying face covered in blood and mud appeared in front of him at a distance of almost close to his face. Ning Mingyuan jumped up like a cat stepping on his tail, turning around and running.

"Your watch!"

Ning Mingyuan stopped hesitantly and looked back and found that it was the vicious person who had caught him at first. He had just been attacked by an ugly man and made him fall in the rain and become like this. The man was sitting in the place where Mingyuan fainted just now, trembling constantly. It seemed that he was enduring the huge pain. He did not stand up. It seemed that he could not stand up at all.

When he saw Ning Mingyuan stopping, the man hurriedly said hard: "Your watch, Ning Yue, your father... was given to you by your father Ning Yue." Perhaps because of his speech, the man looked more and more painful and began to breathe hard. "I know your father, I have seen that watch, it must be given to you by him, right..."

Ning Mingyuan was silent for two seconds, looked at him timidly, and slowly turned around and nodded.

"Very good...hehe...you didn't appear here by chance. The wall deep in the alley, the brick with horizontal and vertical coordinates of 10 and 11... Put the watch on it, and after verification of the magnetic field password, a secret passage will be opened..."

Wow, the man vomited blood as he spoke, and his breath became even more intense. Ning Mingyuan shrank his neck timidly.

"You should have seen the green piece that triggered the watch in your hand. It was used to urgently summon eight of us. The convening point was where the secret passage behind the wall led... As a result, I was the only one who came..."

He grinned sadly, "Five people..." He said abruptly

"Five people are alive, including your father... I can't do it anymore, but the lives of five people can still be saved...

...Chimera thought they had won completely, but there was no chance. We still had a chance. As long as we found the "key number", we would have a chance to reverse the situation... Please, Ning Yue's children... save them... I have no one else to ask. Cough! Cough cough!" The man covered his mouth, and the coughing blood overflowed from his fingers.

Ning Mingyuan listened to what the person in front of him, but he didn't want to act according to the other party's wishes, even if it was his dying request. Now Ning Mingyuan's head had nothing to think except to be with Kuaidao's mother.

Mingyuan has had enough of his own to go home and to quickly put himself in his mother's arms.

"Please go, right behind the hidden passage in the alley, there are all the things you need, which will help you find the 'key number'..."

I really want to find my mother, and I really want to hide behind her and let her bother with these problems. Well, just leave it to my mother, and it’s okay to leave it to my mother. Adults are very good, and they can do anything.

Mingyuan didn't listen to the man's words, and just thought in his head - just walk away like that. Anyway, this guy can't catch up with him anymore...

"If it were you... ahem! I've never seen anyone with such power. Your magical power... must be able to save them..."

I wanted to run away several times, but because the person was sitting on the ground, it was really hard to move. When Ning Mingyuan woke up just now, he was running towards the death of the alley in panic. The man looked in great pain, but he was really dying and would die at any time.

The adult who had just opened his teeth and claws now looked at Mingyuan with extremely pitiful begging eyes. Mingyuan unconsciously avoided the other party's sight. He didn't know why, but he felt very uncomfortable.

"Go quickly, don't worry about me, enter that secret passage and you will find your father..."

After a slap, Mingyuan's heart seemed to have some switch turned on. Ning Mingyuan's shoulders couldn't help but tremble. He finally couldn't help it and ran out. However, it was towards the dead end on the inside of the alley.

The embarrassing and filthy man finally smiled and leaned back against the wall. He looked at somewhere in the sky in a daze. After a long time, he took out a short-caliber pistol from his arms, slowly pressed it under his chin, and hooked the trigger.

“10,11…”

Ning Mingyuan lay on the wall again, counting one by one. He found the special brick and put the watch on it. Sure enough, the brick immediately fell into it. The bricks in the same row were also sinking inwards. Then the entire wall moved and opened an entrance about a half meter wide to both sides.

Bang! Gunshots came from behind him. Ning Mingyuan turned his head and stared at the direction he came in a daze, slowly took two steps back, slowly retreating into the rabbit hole with a look of horror and disbelief. As Mingyuan stepped past the entrance, the wall closed automatically and closed as tightly as before. As soon as he entered, there was no light at all. After a brief period of blindness, a dim light appeared on his head.

What you enter is a tunnel with red bricks exposed on all sides of the walls. The tunnel is as narrow as the entrance. A child like Mingyuan can just walk head-on. If you are an adult, you can only have enough space to go sideways.

Walking along the tunnel, turning a few turns and suddenly stops. Several thick pipes that are walking vertically block the road ahead. But when you walk into the writing, you will see that the tunnel has reached its end and the end is facing the pipe. The distance that extends upwards is so high that you can't see the vertex, but you can reach the end less than two meters downwards.

Mingyuan jumped out of the tunnel and immediately saw a half-height small door. He bent down and pushed out and the atmosphere suddenly changed. He entered a small room with exquisite decoration and clean decoration. But it was particularly empty inside. There was only a metal table, a few folding chairs, and a carton in the corner of the room. The metal table seemed to be placed on the display items, and there were seven room cards, several stacks of cash, cards and three small models left-hand volleyballs neatly placed in an orderly manner.

——A lie, there is no one at all.

Ning Mingyuan's desire to be lucky when he saw his father was shattered. Although he guessed that it would not be that simple, he still had some regrets. He had already come, so he flipped up the things on the table.

I picked up the cash, and it was a little over 200,000 yuan. I usually only spent ten to twenty yuan a week. Even Zhang Mingyuan, who is 100 yuan, felt very big. I never saw so much money. I felt scared when I held it in my hand. I just glanced and hurriedly put it back.

Look at the three pistols, but there is no more ammunition. The seven room cards are the same as the room number. There is a note under the room card. I picked it up and read it, which says: "Take the room card and check out at the front desk, and someone will take you out of Xicheng immediately."

Well...

It seems that the things in this room are used for some people to escape urgently. Obviously, this group of people is facing a very high risk, so high that they must be ready to escape at any time.

At this point, there was only the cardboard box left in the room. I squatted down in front of the cardboard box and found that it was different from the rich content on the table. There was only a thick hill of paper documents in the cardboard box. On the top page, there was a copy of the official document, with an animal-shaped icon printed on the title, which looked intuitively like a sphinx-shaped beast, but this one had more heads and three, which were more deformed, more evil and more ferocious.

Chimera.

This is an evil myth that has three heads, sheep, snake, and lion, and will argue with oneself, symbolizing delusion.

Turn to the second page, and the text above begins to introduce the instructions in detail.

‘Chimera is the code name of the largest modern gang organization in the world. It is a violent criminal organization that operates illegal businesses including drug trafficking, blackmail, sex, gambling, smuggling, various fraud and usury, with its tentacles spread all over the world. The core stronghold of the association organization is in the city of ​​the city.

Note that we call it modern gangsters because in the past, traditional gangsters were completely different and were brand new things. If you want, you can call them "Gangster 2.0". Traditional gangsters are both organized crimes, gathered together in groups or family modes, and are not stingy with violent association organizations. Strict discipline and the huge profits brought by dirty transactions once made gangsters very powerful, but as the violent problems it caused became increasingly apparent, they were gradually suppressed by the government and gradually escaped from people's vision. But this world, whether it is money or power, will not easily disappear as time accumulates.

After bloody accumulation, most of the gang companies change with the overall situation, whitewash themselves, and start to run legitimate businesses without risks. Some change their methods, optimize their own models, and reappear in the world with a new look... This is Chimera.

Unlike traditional gangs, modern gangs refuse to admit that there is an organization, and the organization staff does not claim to be a member of the group, but all their actions are under the management of the same leadership team. They also exist in the form of a company, but the division of labor is clear. Those who exercise violent means are completely separated from those who operate on the surface of the business, and each performs their duties, just like two departments of ordinary enterprises. They have frequent secret exchanges, and no matter where they encounter problems, both parties will do their best to help each other. Not only that, in order to avoid attracting the attention of the police, Chimera has also continuously established multiple companies and handed over many businesses that cannot be put on the table. They are often rationed to different companies for management. On the surface, they sometimes compete with each other and sometimes cooperate to conduct large amounts of false transactions. There is no actual transaction content, but they are circulating a lot of high amounts of money and playing a big game of money.

Because of this division of labor model, whenever the state department and the police attack, they can only find the party in charge of the dark side that actually implements illegal business, but cannot shake the level of the core funds. Once something happens, Chimera will immediately cancel the company and establish a new company. One day Chimera will hold money in the hands of the hands, and one day Chimera will not lose power and channels, and will continue to grow.

This has allowed Chimera to quickly penetrate into many industries such as politicians and enterprises. There is evidence that since China became the world's number one economy in 2021, Chimera has the ability and gradually began to secretly control the development direction of Xicheng. If Chimera, who is now the world's number one modern gangster, must find out the evidence that the management has been hiding deep in the dark and has connections with many of Chimera's companies, that is, through undercover operations.'

Mingyuan read it out himself, the document was at the end, and the note on the bottom footnote of the page reads ‘Note: Chimera was replaced by the first time our police launched an operation against him. The criminal organization has not been named yet.’

A long paragraph, textbook-like explanation, made Ning Mingyuan dizzy, and only two or three pages of the document, just a preface. Mingyuan saw that there were hundreds of times the amount of documents below, so he couldn't read it anymore, so he put the documents back in the carton.

Ning Mingyuan finally confirmed that there was nothing in the room and hurriedly pushed the door open and left. As soon as he left the door, the atmosphere of the scene changed again. He suddenly entered a dim and wide storage room full of debris. He almost ignored the object and walked around for nearly ten minutes before he found the exit. After passing this door, he could see the staff wearing hotel uniforms walking, but no one paid attention to Ning Mingyuan. Everyone seemed in a hurry.

Mingyuan was also afraid of being stopped, so he walked quickly like a trot. Through the staff's rest and kitchen, Mingyuan finally arrived at the hotel lobby. He hurried through the bright and gorgeous hall like a palace. He was about to leave, but he was stunned in front of the exit of the hotel building. Mingyuan had never seen such a big scene before. Under the moonlight, the square in front of the hotel was covered with darkness and crowds. Countless people surrounded the hotel door, blocking the place. Police and fire trucks were everywhere, and the police in uniform tried to maintain order, but the crowd had no intention of retreating. Looking up at the sky, he found that the sky was a little dark, filled with unnatural black smoke, which made the night even darker. Mingyuan then noticed that there were still a few thin black smoke that was almost impossible to detect with the naked eye.

Looking at the dense crowd in front of him, Mingyuan calmed down and got into the crowd.

"What happened? I just heard a loud explosion." The people watching the fun whispered to each other.

"I heard that an explosion occurred in the underground parking lot, which destroyed more than ten cars, and there was a sea of ​​fire below."

Explosion? I don’t want to worry or care. I don’t have anything to say this time. I can’t be interested in anything except when I go home.

"Hey!"

Unconsciously, the woman who bumped into the collision called out to Mingyuan's running fast with dissatisfaction. She ran through the crowd and ran into a man in a black windbreaker. However, he locked his eyes at the distance that seemed to be nothing, and did not look at him - it was Kang Dan.

Kang Dan seemed a little confused.

——Today's tracking can only end here, there is no way. Ten minutes ago, after chatting with An Deng for a while, an explosion suddenly sounded in the underground parking lot of the hotel. Kang Dan and An Deng came over and saw Wei Wenda and Meng Di rushing out in a car. Kang Ling jogged out immediately. Kang Dan immediately chased after him, but the people watching the fun immediately rushed up and blocked the way. On the other hand, when An Deng noticed that an explosion occurred, An Deng immediately had an occupational disease and ran to the front line to collect information. Kang Dan was a little worried about her and could not leave her alone here, so he gave up chasing Kang Ling.

Kang Dan lowered his head, and the phone in his hand showed that he had dialed three calls to Kang Ling, but the other party did not answer. No matter what the reason was, Kang Dan was becoming less and less able to calm down.

“I’ve seen the Reporter of the Year award wave to me!”

After a while, An Deng ran out of the ground with excitement and smirk, shouting to Kang Dan, while running all the way to Kang Dan, like a child.

Kang Dan grabbed An Deng's hand, led her around and left, ignoring her words: "It's over, it's time to go home. Let me take you home."

"Eh? Ah? Is there that urgent?"

Kang Dan pulled Andeng forward silently, and Andeng had to trot to keep up. The crowd was bustling, and I don’t know who stepped on his foot and staggered.

"It's rare that such a big thing will happen and you're leaving without going down and checking out?"

"It's time to leave."

Kang Dan took An to the taxi without saying anything and took her home. An Deng didn't say a word along the way, and finally stood at the door of the house with a grievance and stared at the taxi and took Kang Dan away.

After finally no longer seeing An Deng, Kang Dan sighed with strength on his forehead: "Oh..."

The driver smiled gloatingly: "Where are we going, brother?"

Kang Dan glanced out the window and thought for a while: "Police Department."

Within ten minutes, Kang Dan was already standing at the back door and opened the double-opening door.

Before he got down to the underground mortar room, he took out the keys he stolen from Kang Ling in his pocket and called them. He was locked outside for five minutes last time, Kang Dan simply stole Kang Ling's keys. It was probably discovered now. Kang Dan walked in quietly, still so lifeless, and still had an indescribable chill regardless of winter and summer, suppressing the room with a dark green light.

"well……"

Kang Dan sighed again - it was indeed not here, so he could only find other ways to contact her. Thinking of this, Kang Dan walked slowly in the room, hoping to find some clues. Kang Ling's slippers at the entrance were also placed scattered next to the insole and not put in the shoe cabinet. This was not Kang Ling's usual style. She must have left in a hurry the last time she left.

The stationery on the desk is the opposite, and it is neatly placed and the trash can is also very clean, which means she hasn't been in the office for a while. If it were normal, there would be takeaway lunch boxes in the trash can.

The notepad and pen for autopsy were placed next to the corpse cabinet and placed on the mobile rack of the surgical tool. If the autopsy was completed, Kang Ling would have sorted them into files and picked them up and read them roughly. It was an incomplete autopsy notes, and the autopsy was not completed. As expected, Kang Ling left in a hurry. Moreover, she had not come for a while, and she had been here recently and hurriedly left.

"Um……?"

Kang Dan unconsciously made a confused voice.

...This note is very strange...

There are two parts of the autopsy notes, but the two parts are repeated, both of which contain basically the same message. That is to say... for some reason, these people performed two autopsy on the same body.

Why?

This is not normal.

Kang Dan recognizes the font in the second part, which is written by Kang Ling.

The notes scribble said that the deceased was a young woman with normal development and thinness, characterized by a thread of dyeing between the hair into red.

...A strand of red hair...

Kang Dan suddenly stood up to pull the corpse cabinet. It was empty! It was empty! It was still empty! The corpses in the nearby corpse cabinets had long been moved away and were not placed here at all. Kang Danmo was indescribable to his anger and anxiousness.

Just when I was not sure what to do, I suddenly found that there were tiny fragments of paper between the gaps in the notes in my hand, which were so small that it was only millimeters in size that it was very difficult to find. Obviously, someone had paid attention to the treatment of the paper and did not want to be found to have a piece of paper torn off. Kang Dan immediately rushed to the desk, found a pencil, and gently pressed the tip of the pencil on the paper, and quickly covered the page.

The marks left by the torn paper were written in blank form on the blackened page.

"Liu Shuai                                                                                                                             

Unit 501, Building 3, Antai Xinjun, Xicheng

April 30, 2025 3:00pm
Chapter completed!