The Last Killer

force majeure

At night, Leo, wearing an apron over his white shirt, washes dishes at the kitchen sink.

After eating the dinner cooked by Da Qing himself, the warm feeling of satiety made him feel happy, but it also brought certain sequelae—the office fast food at noon became extremely unpalatable, and he had to spend more self-made food in the future. to endure.

His lover and partner is nestling on the sofa, brewing a pot of fragrant Lapsang Souchong, holding a laptop, looking like browsing the web, laughing occasionally while reading.

"What are you looking at?" Leo took off his apron and came over after washing the dishes.He sat down next to Sha Qing, put his arms around his waist with one hand, and took a sip from the teacup on the low table with the other.

"Do you know what admonishment is?" The other party asked a random question.

Leo memorized the textbook reflexively: "Admonishment is a relatively light coercive measure, which means that the court will criticize and educate those who obstruct civil proceedings with relatively minor circumstances, and order them to correct themselves and not commit the same crime again."

"Wrong, the admonition is that I will whip your ass with a calfskin whip." Sha Qing held back a smile, and moved the computer screen to show him.

Leo quickly scanned the text on the webpage, pinched the ear of the cup with his fingers stiffly, and opened his eyes wide in astonishment: "This is... what the hell!"

"The fantasies written by girls on the Internet, their fantasies are really omnipotent. You see, I made a rough count, [-]% of me go to you, [-]% of you go to me, you and I are mutual [-]% of the above. Oh, the remaining [-]% is the so-called ghost animal, admonishment, sexual abuse, training text-you know I will handcuff you to the dining table with police handcuffs, feed your ass to drink red wine, And stir it up and say 'look how horny that little mouth you have down there'?"

Leo sprayed all the black tea on the carpet with a sip.

He coughed half to death, and shouted out of demeanor: "What the hell is this!"

"I think the idea is quite good, we can try it tonight." Sha Qing said.

Leo slapped the computer screen immediately, and said with a dark face: "Don't watch these messy things on the Internet again! Also, can't the relationship between the two male protagonists in your novel be simpler? Why bother?" Provoke those crazy people..." He remembered the term Rob once popularized, "Slant fans? These young girls are really, if they don't have a good relationship, why are they obsessed all day long!"

"The relationship between the two male protagonists in my novel is very innocent, without even a kiss. And you see, the law can't control such things as sexual obscenity. They just entertain themselves in their own circle without infringing Other people's rights, right?" Sha Qing assumed a tolerant attitude.

Leo was still exasperated: "They violated my rights—why didn't I handcuff you to the dining table?"

Da Qing laughed: "It looks like we're going to have a fight tonight, and the outcome will determine whose ass gets drunk."

One o'clock.

Rob and Agent Bruce are on the night shift in the computer room of the Information Processing Center.The two chatted one after another, yawning while drinking drinks.

"I heard 'Special Agents' went to New York and caught a serial killer in less than 24 hours," Bruce said, gossiping, "I also heard that the mafia over there got mad somehow Detective Lawrence has been taken over."

"It's nothing surprising. Together, these two people are as powerful as an intercontinental missile." Rob replied.

Bruce lowered his voice, with a treacherous expression: "I also heard that these two people had an affair, is it true?"

Rob squinted at him: "Why don't you ask the person involved?"

The other party shrank his neck, "Come on, I can't speak when I look at Detective Lawrence's face - from the hairline to the chin, it says 'I am an elite, iceberg, workaholic, I have business to do, I have nothing to get out'" , I leaned over and asked if this is for a draw?"

Rob was amused by his naughty and cheap tone, and accidentally knocked over the drink on the operating table.

"Oh my god, what a good job you've done!" Another detective exclaimed, jumped up and wiped it with his sleeve furiously, "I told you earlier, it's not allowed to bring drinks in here, you're so careless! "

Rob apologized again and again, and hurriedly cleaned up with him.

At this moment, a new window popped up on the computer screen, and a piercing alarm sounded accompanied by constantly flashing red lights.

"Alarm? What alarm..." Bruce's eyes wandered between the screen and the buttons on the console, and he muttered something. After a moment, he remembered, and shouted: "It's this! The new monitoring and positioning anklet, the current limit is the headquarters building Within a radius of 2 kilometers from the center, the wearer is approaching the edge. Let me see, the ankle ring number is 006, it is... Loyalin! The location is..."

Rob immediately grabbed his phone and dialed the shortcut number: "Leo, your cat is going to run away!"

Leo drove through the streets of the city while dialing Da Qing's mobile phone number.The bright red dot on the screen of the car's intelligent system reminded him that the other party would soon cross the cordon and leave the range limited by the locator.

The night wind blew in through the open car window, blowing away the last trace of alcohol on his body.

Killing this bastard... I knew that the red wine after dinner tonight was not good, but I still followed his way, Leo gritted his teeth in annoyance and aftertaste.

But why did he suddenly leave without saying goodbye, and run all over the street with an alarm?

Leo knew that Sha Qing hated that anklet very much, and tried to remove it many times, but was stopped by himself.

If there is something wrong, you can't say it, and the two of you can solve the problem together.Or is it that he can no longer bear the loss of freedom, so he wants to escape from the shackles regardless of the consequences?

Leo shook his head. He knew exactly what kind of person Sha Qing was: for a person who was accustomed to making plans before acting and calculating in his mind, any hasty or impulsive behavior meant that there was a deeper cunning behind it.

Leaving the unanswered mobile phone, he increased the speed again. At this moment, the red dot on the screen finally stopped moving and was firmly fixed at less than 200 meters from the edge of the restricted area.

Leo slammed on the brakes and got out of the car.In front of him was a nightclub called "Angel of Death" at the end of the street, with neon lights flashing and people flowing in and out, it seemed quite large.Every time the door is opened, there is a mix of DJ music, laughter, and noisy sound waves, which surge out from inside like a dam opening.

The positioning shows that killing is inside.Leo frowned, stuffed a banknote into the janitor's hand, and walked in through the narrow door.The hall inside is full of gays and dolls who are having fun, drinking and smoking, chatting and flirting, and playing disco. The colorful and blurred lights wander between the flickering faces of people, and the carcass of the three-point girl on the high platform is wrapped around the steel pipe. On it, it writhed enchantingly like a snake.

Leo looked around, shuttled through the crowded crowd, apologized a lot, and rejected more invitations, finally saw that familiar figure in the corner of the bar—Zha Qing was wearing a crisp short-sleeved T-shirt and jeans, He looked like a young college student just out of school, with a light smile on his face, clinking glasses with a hot girl with long hair and shawls and a low-cut tight skirt.

Sha Qing saw Leo approaching, and said to the bartender behind the bar, "Give me another glass of whiskey." After the bartender finished pouring the drink, he reached out his hand to signal to pay first, and he raised his chin to the black-haired detective beside him: "He pays the bill." .”

"Your friend?" the dark-skinned hot girl with long hair asked Sha Qing with a coquettish smile, slowly rubbing her fingers painted with silver nail polish on the wine glass, with a subtle hint, "You are so handsome-you are too, but you are Different types."

"It's still too late to change your mind, Eureka, he's still a bachelor." Sha Qing said with a smile.

"No, I'm not the kind of person who looks at what's in the bowl and thinks about what's in the pot." Eureka stretched out his arms to wrap his arms around him, "Go to my room to drink? My private collection is much better than the ones on the bar. gone."

"Wait a minute." Leo said, pulling Sha Qing out of her enthusiastic arm, and pulled him into a corner: "What the hell are you doing? You're about to cross the line, come back with me!"

"Quick, that is not yet." Sha Qing shrugged disapprovingly, "I met Eureka at the station a few days ago, she is cute, isn't she. She is one of the shareholders of this bar, and invited me to have a few drinks , didn’t violate any federal laws?”

Leo lowered his face: "So you've already had a drink, can you go?"

Sha Qing had a half-smile: "Detective, are you really so confused, or are you just pretending to be stupid? Didn't you see that she was interested in me?"

The black-haired detective replied stiffly: "She can be interested in you, but you can't. You already have someone."

Sha Qing laughed out loud.

"Well, I don't want to be caught in bed by a vinegar pot. Don't worry, I don't mean that to her. In fact, this is a long-abandoned contact point, but suddenly there are signals in the past two days."

"What do you mean?"

Sha Qing leaned close to Leo's ear and whispered a name.

Leo frowned: "It's him? He's on the most-wanted list of the Interpol. Rob's friend, the policeman named 'Wei', is still gnashing his teeth because the informant died at his hands."

"So I have to get in touch and see what's inside."

"I'll go too." Leo said immediately.

Sha Qing shook his head: "Then we won't be able to see him. Dear detective, your black suit and small notebook are simply ghosts. How about giving me some private time and solving some personal problems?"

Leo glared at him angrily and helplessly. Seeing his resolute attitude, he had no choice but to take a step back: "I'll give you an hour. I'll be waiting in the car outside the bar. If you need something, call me on my cell phone."

"Yes, Dad. Help me buy a bottle of wine by the way. The stock at home is almost used up tonight." Sha Qing shook his finger at him with a teasing face, returned to Eureka, and walked down the stairs behind the bar together go up.

They walked down the corridor and into a room at the end.

After the door was locked, Youlica grabbed off her long wig, shook her neat cropped hair, and complained in a neutral voice that was indistinguishable between male and female: "It's suffocating! Other guys don't have as much trouble as you, and they even dragged their feet." An annoying tail... Forget it, come with me."

"Others, how many are here?" Sha Qing asked.

The smile on Youlica's face has long since disappeared.The masculine hairstyle and mature and glamorous makeup, combined with the rebellious and deserted look, made her look like a statue of an ancient god with both male and female characteristics at the moment.

"I'm just guiding people, and I'm not obliged to answer questions." She said bluntly, walked to the deepest wall of the room, flipped the mechanism, and a secret elevator appeared.

Unlock and walk in, and among the only two buttons, choose the one that goes down.Before the elevator closed, he raised his eyebrows warningly to Eureka: "Don't mess with that tail, be careful not to be strangled to death."

The elevator descended and stopped shortly thereafter.The moment the elevator door just opened, a cold light shot in from a vertical gap at a high speed, cutting straight to his front.Sha Qing calmly tilted his head to one side, the sharp knife brushed past his ear, and nailed it to the back wall with a "do".

"Hey, it's not a snowfield!" A voice in the dark space cried out regretfully, "But it's not a phalanx—you didn't win either!"

"So what." Said another voice, frantically pulling out something, "Take it! You've never lost nine out of ten bets, but today you're lucky, spit."

The third voice said with a smile: "I would like to accept the bet."

"How did you guess right?" asked the person who spoke first.

A figure emerged from the darkness, trying to hook Da Qing's shoulder in a dawdly way: "It's telepathic."

Sha Qing rushed forward, got rid of the hooking up of the other party, and raised his trouser leg to show him to look at the metal ring on his ankle.

Ji Guang whistled: "Oh, puppy collar, I have already prepared it." Using magic tricks, he pulled out a two-finger-wide external chip from his palm and stuck it on the metal ring , and then turn on the laptop, and enter a series of complex instructions in the standby window.The two green lights on the metal anklet flickered alternately for a few times regularly, and suddenly turned into a steady light. "I forged a fake electromagnetic signal, which can temporarily shield the outside world, without worrying about being monitored, and there will be no coordinate movement."

"But?" Sha Qing asked in anticipation.

Aurora scratched his lip ring in embarrassment: "It is only valid for one to two hours, because they use a mobile encryption method, which automatically generates a new password every once in a while, and I need time to crack it."

"That is to say, you can't handle it." Sha Qing summed up bluntly.

"I can do it! It just takes time, two days... no, one day!" Ji Guang shouted.

"I only have one hour." Sha Qing said, walked to the other two people, and said hello with high five, "Quick, Worf."

The other party held his palm and patted him on the back: "Hi, Luo Yi."

"I've seen you on TV and newspapers a lot these days, and you can really make a fuss," Quick said.

"Although you are serving your sentence outside prison, one day the FBI may cross the river and demolish the bridge, and throw you back to prison. Be careful," Wolf said.

Sha Qing nodded: "I know."

Aurora pounced on him from behind and got his wish and put his shoulders on his shoulders: "I have to say, the technique is really cool, serial killer killer."

Sha Qing smiled lightly, but did not respond.

The four of them walked deeper into the basement along the passage, and arrived at a round hall where many stacked wooden boxes took up most of the space.Eight other people arrived earlier than them, or stood or sat, waiting contentedly.Seeing them coming in, there was another commotion among the crowd, and the entire hall was filled with rude and wanton greetings, many of which were in violent ways that ordinary people could hardly accept.

"You said, how many people will respond to the gathering order suddenly issued by the phalanx?" Quick Ke said, playing with the throwing knife in his hand, "After all, since the captain two years ago... nine team members were killed and seven left, The 'Arctic Fox' basically exists in name only, and the remaining half of the team cannot become a big climate."

Wolf sighed silently, and glanced at Sha Qing: "To be honest, I'm quite surprised that you will respond. After all, you are the earliest and most determined one among the seven breakaways."

Sha Qing looked at the large wooden box at his feet, with deep eyes, without saying a word.

Ji Guang stretched out his hand and rubbed his hair vigorously: "Little brat! It's so easy to keep it pleasing to the eye, but once the captain leaves, he becomes this deadly character again!"

While speaking, Xue Yuan walked into the hall alone, looked around coldly, then walked to the corner and stood still.

"As the convener, Fangzheng hasn't come yet?" Ji Guang muttered dissatisfied.

The thirteen people in the arena waited for another half an hour and began to commotion impatiently, but the phalanx still did not appear.

Just when the crowd was full of enthusiasm, a loud voice suddenly came from the door: "The phalanx is temporarily unable to come."

The voice that has been gone for a long time sounds very familiar, but also very shocking, it makes people feel like being struck by thunder.

Everyone turned their heads immediately and looked at the source of the sound with astonishment——

team leader!

It turned out to be the captain!

"So I came for him," said the captain, striding in.

Sha Qing raised his head in astonishment, and looked at him in disbelief—a tall and thin figure, short flaxen hair, ordinary but resolute features, no matter from which angle you looked at it, he was indeed the captain who had been with him for ten years.

The captain saw him at a glance, stopped in front of him, smiled gently, and there were wrinkles at the corners of his eyes that could not be concealed.Sha Qing felt a sore nose, a constricted throat, and a dark fire burning in his chest, which made it difficult for him to breathe, "...I thought you were dead." He said dryly.

"Everyone thought I was dead, even myself." The captain replied, "It took me five months to accept the fact that I was alive but my legs were paralyzed, and it took another nineteen months to recover. Finally won a miracle."

The team members recovered from the shock and gathered around one after another. Some of them asked excitedly, while others watched silently with a complicated mood similar to that of being close to home.

Only Xue Yuan still stood still, watching with cold eyes, and took the opportunity to throw out a sentence in the midst of pleasantries: "I was there at the time, and I don't believe that anyone can survive such an explosion and look unscathed-you really Is it the captain?" His voice was cold, like pouring a basin of ice water into boiling oil, which caused a sharp sound and choking smoke.

The captain smiled disapprovingly, "Do you want to prove that I am me? I don't think any organization can issue a certificate." He thought for a while, and then said, "Maybe these can prove it."

Then he began to unbutton his shirt one by one, revealing a thin yet vigorous body, with numerous old and new scars interlaced on it, giving it a damaged and outrageous aesthetic. "This," he pointed to an old uneven bullet hole on his left arm, "you dug out the bullet by yourself. You couldn't find the medicine for a while, so you used gunpowder to sterilize it. Remember, piranha?"

The little player who was called nodded vigorously.

"Here." The captain pointed to a hideous scar on his ribs.Another team member interrupted sullenly: "I did it, I drank too much that day...I'm such a jerk, captain..."

"And this—" the captain put his hand behind his back, but was grabbed by the closest to him.Sha Qing glanced at Xue Yuan, and hugged the captain tightly in the breathless silence.

The crowd cheered and rushed forward, hugging the captain like a tree trunk covered with huge jackfruits.

Kuai Ke whispered to Xue Yuan: "Even Luo Yi thinks it's okay, I said buddy, are you being too cautious?"

Xue Yuan looked away expressionlessly.

"Yes, guys, I'm back!" The captain stretched out his arms and hugged as many of his team members as he could, with uncontrollable excitement hidden in his usual steady tone, "—'Arctic Fox' is back! "

Leo raised his wrist and looked at his watch. One hour and five minutes had passed, but the killing still hadn't appeared, and the phone didn't ring.He clicked his tongue, opened the door and got out of the car, and suddenly smelled a vague smell of blood...

The black-haired detective suddenly drew his gun, twisted his body and pointed to the rear of the car: "Who is it! Come out!"

A swarthy figure slowly emerged, half of his face was bloody.Leo stared at the other half of the other person's intact face for a few seconds, making sure he didn't recognize him, and pointed his gun at him relentlessly: "Who are you?"

The big black man didn't seem to care about his disfiguring injuries, and he let out a sneer with bared teeth: "Hello, detective."

Leo frowned, and suddenly felt that the voice seemed familiar.

"Don't look confused, Detective Psycho, have you forgotten our previous deal?"

"Phalanx!" Leo reacted immediately, and retorted, "It seems that your luck has not been very good recently, do you need me to buy you a drink?"

Fang Zhen replied carelessly: "Pain relief and disinfection, I thought you had to buy a bottle."

Leo grabbed the wine bottle on the passenger seat and threw it at him.As soon as Fang Zhen caught it with his hand, he unscrewed the cap and gurgled half of the bottle into his mouth, hiccupping happily.He poured the rest of the wine on the wound on his head and face, biting the pain like a knife, forced a smile and said, "The wine is not bad."

"I thought you were in there. You signaled him, didn't you?" Leo asked.

"The signal is not aimed at him, it's a general assembly order for the team. But something happened inside, and it's inconvenient for me to go in, so I just came to you." Fang Zhen said vaguely, wiping his face.

"What do you want me to do? Ask me about the investigation progress of that incident?"

"Part of it." Fang Zhen replied, "More importantly, I heard that Luo Yi is in your hands."

"He's not in my hands," Leo said coldly, "he's by my side."

Fangzhen shrugged: "Anyway, the meaning is the same. There is something that is very important to him and me... But I was still a step late, and I didn't expect him to respond so quickly."

"If this 'vital thing' violates federal law, even if he comes out, you don't want to see him," the agent said.

"Really?" Fang Zhen pointed, and Sha Qing's figure appeared at the door of the nightclub, walking towards the car they were in, "Why don't you listen to his own opinion."

Leo warned with a sullen face: "You'd better not give me any reason to arrest you."

"Don't worry, I'm under the supervision of Interpol, they chase you more than dogs." Fang Zhen sarcastically said, and then greeted Sha Qing who opened the car door: "Hey, kid, I saw the miracle of resurrection from the dead with my own eyes. How does it feel?"

Seeing his half gourd-like head, Sha Qing didn't show any surprise, and sat down in the passenger seat: "It's like a suspenseful movie full of loopholes, and finally had to use supernatural powers to smooth things over."

Leo didn't understand what he meant, but that didn't stop him from smelling a conspiracy.He waved the muzzle of his gun and signaled Fang Zhen to sit in the back seat of the car, "Let's go, we'll talk about it when we go back to the apartment."