The Last Mr. Dongguo

A red truck drove past Fei Li. A revolver emerged from the window, its muzzle pointed directly at the couple who had just come out of the supermarket.

"Get down, get down now!"

Fei Li shouted, but it did nothing to stop the bullets from escaping. After two shots, the couple fell to the ground, and the red truck swerved and sped away.

"Quickly, call an ambulance!"

Fei Li quickly arrived in front of the injured man, took off her shirt, and covered the man's wound. However, it was completely useless. Bright red blood continued to gush from the wound, instantly staining Fei Li's shirt red.

"Call them now!"

Fei Li turned and shouted at the people in the supermarket, but received no response. Everyone continued doing their own thing, as if nothing had happened in their eyes.

"Ugh... Ah..."

The man reached out his right hand and gripped Fei Li's arm tightly, making muffled and faint sounds.

"Don't speak yet, the ambulance will be here soon, hang in there."

"you……"

A spurt of blood gushed from the man's mouth. His chest trembled slightly, and his clenched right hand suddenly lost its strength, crashing heavily to the ground.

"Feili, run!"

Fei Li was still pondering what was happening before her when Li Mengying appeared behind her without her noticing. She quickly pulled Fei Li away and hurriedly left the crime scene.

What are you doing?

"The police are on their way. Do you think we're still special consultants? Staying at the crime scene will only get us taken to the station as suspects, which will hinder our operation."

Li Mengying pulled Fei Li along, quickly weaving through the alleyways as if they were intimately familiar with the place. Soon, they arrived at a dilapidated door. Li Mengying knocked lightly five times, and the door opened a crack. The two looked around and slipped inside.

"Cheng Luan? What are you doing here?"

The room was simply furnished with only a table and a chair. Cheng Luan was leaning against the table, looking at what appeared to be an old newspaper. When he saw Fei Li enter, he shoved the newspaper into Fei Li's hands.

"Mengying and I don't know why we got here, and we've been given a mysterious mission. Only by solving this case can we leave here safely."

Fei Li knew that these were the rules of the game set by that mysterious figure.

"When I arrived here, I found it very strange. Although the architecture here is in the style of North America from the 1970s, the people here are all Chinese. And..."

"Moreover, there's actually a network signal here." Li Mengying took out her phone. "When I discovered there was a network signal, I immediately pulled up the city map and located you based on the location, which is the crime scene you saw. But the signal here is just a network signal; there's no voice call function. I think the mysterious person did this on purpose."

As Fei Li processed the information provided by the two men, he glanced at the newspaper, and a date caught his eye.

1977 12 Month 28 Day.

"The information the mysterious man gave me was also to help me solve this case. He also gave me a clue that this case was the famous Richard Chase, the 'Bloodthirsty Demon' of Sacramento, North America in the 1970s."

"Richard Chase?"

"That's right, the Richard Chase case caused a sensation in the United States back then. He brutally murdered seven people and processed their flesh and blood using a homemade blender, claiming that eating the meat and drinking the blood was to 'prevent his own blood from turning into powder.' He suffered from severe mental illness, experiencing inexplicable fear every time night fell, always feeling that someone had poisoned him, and only drinking blood could counteract this. Initially, he targeted stray cats and dogs, but gradually, animal blood could no longer satisfy him, and he began to point his gun at living people. From then on, Richard Chase began to hunt at night. He said, 'I like the feeling of killing at night, it's exciting and challenging, I like doing it!' Indeed, he later developed a habit of killing at night, while during the day, Richard Chase, who was very considerate in his interactions with others, was always willing to help others, and his neighbors called him the 'Sunshine Angel.' According to the date of this newspaper, today should be his first crime."

Fei Li quickly organized his memories, flashing through the details of the Richard Chase case in his mind.

"That's easy. Now that we know the whole story, we can just stake out his next crime scene and wait for him to strike. That way, we can catch him red-handed when he does it again, and the case will be solved."

Cheng Luan proposed a method that seemed very simple.

"The three of us, can't we catch him?"

"That's true, but I feel it's not that simple. Nothing here can be calculated using common sense."

Fei Li recalled the mysterious man's words: "This place is fraught with danger at every turn; a single misstep could mean certain death. To die here is to die in reality."

"Feili, no matter what, this is the only thing we can do now. We can't just go to the police station and tell them the killer's next target, can we? We'd be treated as suspects and like we're crazy. Anyway, now that we know the killer's next target, let's wait and see, and adapt to the situation." Li Mengying agreed with Cheng Luan's idea and quickly searched for the next crime scene on the map. "This is it. According to the case file, this is his second crime scene—a simple rented house in the suburbs. The victim was a 22-year-old pregnant woman, and the date was January 23, 1978."

Bai Xin sat anxiously next to Dongfang Lin, his eyes bloodshot as he stared intently at the computer screen. Liu Zheng's inexplicable virus infection left Han Zhen and Dongfang Lin hesitant to ask Bai Xin any further questions. Following Bai Xin's orders, the two relentlessly attacked the other side's firewall.

"How's it going? Captain Bai, have you found the answer?" That familiar yet terrifying voice came through the receiver again.

"You and Liu Zheng are not from the same organization."

"Hmm? And then?"

"You were also a victim back then, but for some reason, you couldn't fulfill your wishes or give a straight account to the police. So, you chose to target Liu Zheng first. You deliberately leaked Liu Zheng's whereabouts to me, indirectly revealing the conspiracy behind him, and then easily pointed the finger at the case from fifteen years ago. You also used my connection with Liu Zheng ten years ago to successfully trap Fei Li, Cheng Luan, Li Mengying, and me in your net. Now that Fei Li and the others are in your hands, you're probably slowly leading them step by step into your trap according to your plan. This way, you make us distracted, allowing you to carry out your plan to the fullest."

"Haha, I never expected Captain Bai to have such a sharp mind. Your analysis is quite accurate. However, just as you said, Fei Li and the others are in my hands. There's nothing you can do right now; you can only follow my orders."

"What do you want me to do?"

"Let's watch the show. Do you think the three of them will end up as enemies or friends?"

"No, you're playing with fire."

"No one can help them now; they have to untangle the knot in their hearts themselves."