After the September 911 terrorist attacks, Nathan Ingnet's company received an order from the government. Their task was to develop a machine that could monitor all information in the United States and sort out premeditated cases.

This machine was designed by his friend Harold, but as Peng Ziqian had previously profiled, Harold was unwilling to stand in front of the stage, so he pushed the credit to Nathan.

The government's original intention was to screen out terrorist attacks for prevention, but this machine recorded everything, and every day he would spit out countless murder-related social security numbers.There are victims and perpetrators.But the government doesn't plan to take care of that, they only care about terrorist attacks.

But that doesn't mean these people are ignored, Nathan knows all this and his conscience tells him he can't just sit idly by, so he programmed a back door for the machine to send those numbers that the government deems irrelevant to He is here.

A large number of social security numbers are sent out every day. Nathan knows that they will be deleted by the machine in the early hours of the morning, but there is nothing he can do. He once argued with Harold about this issue, but there was no result. Until today, he received a social security number.

This social security number belonged to his niece Peng Ziqian.

In a CD inside the box, an unknown person told the rules of the game. He said that only 7 members of the team plus technical support Garcia can participate in this game, and no foreign aid can be sought...

Before they could analyze it, Hedge's wife sent a new courier, which contained a piece of paper full of numbers.

"He said we needed a book..."

"So it's a bookmark?"

"Looks like it is, page number, line number, number of words .

"Which book?"

"Could it be the one in Adele's hand?"

"...It's unlikely... If the rules are so simple, and he has almost put the answer in front of us, what kind of game is it?" Rhett shook his head, "The value of that book has already been completed."

"What about other things?" Peng Ziqian asked, "If the things he sent us are not just to tell us that he knows our hobbies, are the things in other people's hands still worth digging?"

"It's an idea..."

While they were trying to find clues in the butterfly specimens and other evidence, Al, who was physically and mentally exhausted since midnight yesterday, was lying on the sofa drowsy. Hutch obviously also found the spirit of his team members. In this state, he woke up Al ordered her to go back to rest, and glanced at the others again, "Peng, you send Greenaway back."

"Okay." Peng Ziqian, who was named, stood up and helped Al carry his luggage. Al, who had returned from Jamaica, didn't even have a chance to go home and put down those luggage.

Al, who has not closed his eyes for 36 hours, is different from other people who have at least had a good rest for a day. Peng Ziqian drove Al in a drowsy state until they arrived at Al's home.

"Shall I take you in?" Peng Ziqian opened the door and picked up the luggage on the co-pilot.

"No, no, I'll just go in by myself." Al pushed back, and the two walked towards Al's house.

Just as he walked to the door, Peng Ziqian's cell phone rang.Al smiled understandingly at her and took the luggage, "I'll go in by myself... Go back and help Hutch and the others as soon as possible. Call me as soon as you have any news."

"Oh, that's good." Peng Ziqian nodded, then stopped and flipped through his phone while watching Al stand at the door and open the door.

Unexpectedly, the incoming call alert was Uncle Ingnart.I really don't understand why the other party would call at this time, but Peng Ziqian still answered, "Hello, uncle?"

"Adele, where are you now?" Compared with Nathan's previous leisurely tone, this time his voice can be described as extremely urgent.

'What's wrong? "Hearing that the other party's tone was obviously different from usual, she asked in doubt.

"Listen, Adele, no matter where you are now, find a safe place immediately. Find your colleagues and don't go out!"

"Hey, uncle, what's the matter?" Nathan's thoughtless speech made her very incomprehensible.She was just about to ask why, but she heard a gunshot behind her.

She was taken aback for a moment, apparently the person on the phone also heard the voice, and began to call her name more eagerly, but she had no time to respond, because she could tell that the gunshot came from Al's room.

Almost immediately drew out his gun and shouted, "Al?!"

But there was no response, she immediately called back to the headquarters for backup, and then waited for 1 minute but there was no response.It disturbed her, and she never had a record of being out on the field alone.What should she do at this time?

The murderer might be in the house, she shouldn't go in rashly, but at the same time there is no response, no negotiation, no ultimatum... Al may also have been killed...

She didn't want to think about the possible tragedies, so she ignored her uncle's yelling on the phone and hung up.

Almost instantly she decided that she couldn't ignore the danger of her companions... and couldn't wait for help, so she had to go in.With that in mind, she clenched her gun tightly and walked to the door.

The door was ajar, she pushed it open carefully, and then saw the red liquid splashed on the door, and her brain short-circuited instantly.She has participated in many cases and seen many corpses, but she has never been as scared as she is now.

Her senses were infinitely magnified in this tense moment.She seemed to hear the small sound of pulling the trigger, and subconsciously jumped to the side, but the action was still a step late. She felt a tearing pain in her left arm, but the fear of death overcame the pain, and she raised the gun Shot without looking at the target at all.

Then hiding behind the table, she heard footsteps, heard gunshots, and then saw Al lying in a pool of blood next to the sofa, lifeless, the red liquid flowed down Al's hand to her, and her left arm had no feeling , these mixed with her sense of fear.Until she heard footsteps going away.

Finally she poked her head out slowly and saw the back door was wide open, she knew the suspect had fled.At this moment, she didn't know whether she should have the joy of surviving the disaster or the depression of not seeing the suspect at all, or something else. She ran to Al, and she lost so much blood that she didn't even dare to move Al. She could only drag him over the sofa. The blood-stained towel pressed the wound on Al's chest and called Al's name.

Never had time passed so slowly for her like this moment.

Fear made her forget everything until there were many footsteps in the distance, and then someone forcibly pulled her away from Al and helped her into the ambulance.

He Qi felt cold when he received the call from Peng Ziqian, he and Gordon almost rushed to the hospital without thinking.Then they were in the hospital and they saw the emergency room with red lights on.There was nothing they could do but pray, and then they found Adele in the orthopedics department, who was being bandaged.

She looked very bad, with glassy eyes and blood all over her body.

"Is she injured?" Hutch quietly stopped the doctor and asked.

"Abrasion on the left shoulder, luckily no bone," the doctor replied.

At least not both were unlucky.At this moment, this is the only time Hutch can chat with j□j.After thanking the doctor, he walked towards Peng Ziqian who was sitting on the hospital bed.

"Peng, did you see anything? Think about it, it's very important to us." Anything, if she saw anything useful to them...

But the result disappointed them, and the other party came back to his senses and shook his head, "I didn't see him, I just heard him shouting, rules." There was a broken emotion in her voice, "I screwed up, didn't I ?”

"...No, no, no, you did a very good job." Gordon put his hand on her head and comforted her, "everything will be fine, Al will be fine, it's not your fault."

When a person is in an emergency, he always hopes that someone will be around to comfort him. Although this may not be true, they need safety.Gordon understood this, of course, but when he tried he found his language so barren.

Al was seriously injured, and the emergency department did not open the door until night fell. During this period, the other members of the team had a major breakthrough. There was no way, Hutch left Gordon to wait here, and returned to the scene to command.

After he walked for an hour, the light in the emergency room finally turned green. Gordon and Peng Ziqian, who was waiting together with one arm hanging, stood up immediately and faced the doctor who came out.

"She will get better." The doctor had seen such scenes a lot, so he naturally understood their intentions, and said proactively, "The hemostasis at the scene saved her life."

After the doctor finished speaking, Gordon and Peng Ziqian breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, Gordon turned his head and patted her uninjured shoulder, "Now, go back to your ward. Leave the rest to us deal with."

On the second day of staying in the hospital, Uncle Ingnart arrived at the hospital quickly, and looked at his niece sitting on the hospital bed and blamed himself very much.

"I'm sorry, Adele," Nathan said.

"What?" Adele was surprised by his remarks and asked back.

"I mean... I didn't take good care of you, I'm sorry for your parents..."

"Stop, stop." Peng Ziqian didn't want to hear some apology, so she interrupted Nathan's self-talk and asked, "Actually, I really want to ask, why did you call me at that time?"

"..." Nathan didn't answer right away, but remained silent, and then said hesitantly, "I just saw your press conference... Your aunt is very worried about you."

Although the fossil said so, Peng Ziqian saw the problem from his flickering eyes, "What didn't you tell me?"

"..." Nathan froze for a moment and then pretended to be confused, "What are you talking about?"

"You're lying, your tone of voice when you called me was very hasty, JJ only released our profile at the press conference, and didn't say at all that the suspect was targeting us this time...you are avoiding my eyes now... …touching your nose shows you are covering something up.”

"...You promised not to profile me."

"Then at least you pretend to think about it, uncle, I don't know where you got the news from, if you don't want to tell me, I won't ask, but you have to know, as a researcher of criminal psychology People more or less have the habit of spying on other people's bodies, especially now that my arm was punched and my colleague almost died."

"..."

"Uncle, if there are a thousand reasons to lie, there are ten thousand reasons to tell the truth."

"...There is no reason, you just have to believe that I will take good care of you." Nathan finally said nothing. At this time, the door was opened again. Garcia who opened the door looked at the two people in the room and thought The atmosphere was a bit off, and he asked cautiously, "Am I interrupting you?"

"No, I have something to leave first." Nathan turned his head, shook hands with Garcia and the people behind her, and said, "I'll ask you to take care of Adele."

"Are you okay, what happened, Adele?" JJ asked as he watched Nathan leave.

"...It's nothing, I'm fine, it's just that my uncle made a fuss." Peng Ziqian replied immediately.

She was sure that her uncle was hiding something from her, but she didn't want to tell anyone, because instinctively she was willing to believe that her uncle was for her own good.

After all, trust too much and you may be deceived, but doubt all the time and you will suffer.

But what she didn't expect was that this would be the last conversation she would have with a loved one she chose to believe in.

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