Everything around is hazy. Song Wen is in front of a dark corridor. At the end of the corridor, there is a door open, and the slightest cold air comes out from the door, like the entrance to hell. The light in the door was on, it was a kind of scary light, he walked forward step by step, as if he already knew what was going to happen next, but he couldn't stop his steps, and he couldn't stop himself hand.

It was raining outside, and he heard the sound of rain and thunder. The sound came from far and near, like a drumstick hitting the ground hard, and the sky and the earth burst apart because of the thunder. Song Wen almost suspected that there was a lightning strike not far away.

In his memory, in the depths of his sanity, Song Wen felt that this incident had happened, and everything was like a nightmare that had been repeated countless times before... The door opened, and there were several rotting corpses in front of him. It was a strong smell of blood, which was disgusting. Those corpses looked at him with their eyes open, as if they would sit up at any moment...

It's that dream again.

Song Wen abruptly opened his eyes, the curtains were not tightened, and a ray of sunlight came in through the gap. It would be an ordinary morning without this nightmare. Song Wen turned over and his heartbeat gradually returned to normal. He sat up from the bed, rubbed his eyes, and gradually woke up.

Song Wen never knew if his life would have been different if he hadn't opened that door back then. This incident has had some impact on him to this day. He doesn't like small, dark rooms, whether in elevators or basements. As long as he walks in, his body will instinctively reject it, his heart rate will increase, and his breathing will not be smooth. It was a sense of loss of control that he hated.

That incident happened when he was seven years old, when his whole family lived in Nancheng. The Nancheng of ten years ago is completely different from now. People wear simple clothes, the Internet has not yet developed so much, and iPhones have just begun to become popular. Only a small part of the city is prosperous. The roads are messy and complicated, the subway has not been built, the old The old drainage system was in disrepair, and every time it rained, it flooded half the city.

Seven-year-old Song Wen, just like his nickname, is an age that pigs and dogs dislike, and he has incredible skin. He defeated the invincible player in the big class and dominated the entire kindergarten. When he would come back, Song Cheng would beat his palm with a ruler, and he would never stop until it became swollen.

But Song Wen also has the same stubborn temper as his father, and he specifically opposes Song Cheng. The mistakes can be admitted, and the faults will not be corrected. There are even more bad faults of running away from home. Song Cheng is so angry that he drives a police car for private use. Looking for my son all over the street. In the police station, Song Cheng was also a well-respected detachment leader. He managed dozens of monkey cubs, but he was beaten by his own son every time.

Under such circumstances, Li Luanfang and Song Cheng had signed up Song Wen to go to the primary school early, and only waited for him to be thrown to the school as soon as September arrived, so as to escape the misery of watching the bear children.

It was a weekend in May. A critically ill patient who suffered a car accident suddenly came to Li Luanfang's hospital. Several interns were afraid to perform surgery. She answered the phone at 4:30 in the afternoon and went out.

No one was cooking dinner, and the father and son stared at each other. At six o'clock, Song Cheng took Song Wen out for a tooth sacrifice.

Song Wen still remembers that he ate meat buns with tomato and egg soup that night. The Xiaolong Baozi had a lot of meat, but it was very salty, which made Song Wen drink two more bowls of soup, but Song Cheng liked it very much. After they were done, they packed some breakfast for tomorrow, and just as the two were driving home, Song Cheng suddenly received a call from the police station.

Song Wen didn't hear what the call was talking about. He only remembered that Song Cheng's expression was very solemn at that time, and he explained to him: "Wait for Dad to take you somewhere, don't run around." After that He turned the car around and drove in the opposite direction of home.

The rain outside the car was getting heavier and heavier. The tires swept across the road, making a rustling sound, and the water in several places had covered the tires. The car was driving in the thick water like a boat. Divide through.

Song Wen didn't know what happened, but he could see that his father's expression was very serious. The car drove all the way to the outskirts of the city, and finally stopped in front of a dilapidated building. In the sound of the rain, Song Cheng reassured him a few words, put him in the car, and ran in in the rain.

Song Cheng walked for two minutes, and Song Wen regretted it. In this rainy night with black lights and blinding fire, it was pitch black outside the car window, and the sound of the rain seemed to be able to hear the screams of wild animals. For a seven-year-old boy, it was terrifying to be alone in a car, with lightning flashes in the sky and then the muffled thunder.

"Dad...Where are you?" The young Song Wen became more and more frightened. He opened the car door and braved the rain to run into the small building. The floor of the living room of the small building was full of dust and dark red. There are traces, various lines are drawn on the ground, and there are people in police uniforms who are talking about things with serious expressions, and no one pays attention to him.

Song Wen couldn't find Song Cheng's figure anywhere. He kept walking inside and followed a staircase to the ground. It was an old basement with rough walls, seeping water, and dust and cobwebs everywhere. know how many years there is no one to take care of it, there is a room inside with a light on, the voltage is unstable, the filament sometimes becomes dim suddenly, and sometimes it is extraordinarily bright. Song Wen was frightened again, and approached curiously...

It was raining in the sky, thunder was constantly pounding outside, there was flash in the air, and the mottled tree shadows reflected on the walls, like ghost paintings in Liaozhai. The door was hidden and not closed. Song Wen pushed the door open and saw the scene in his dream...

Song Wen was frightened that day. In addition to the rain, he was sent to the hospital. Later, he had a high fever for a long time. After the fever subsided, he was discharged and returned home. The memory in the future is vague. only remember that during that time, Li Luanfang quarreled with Song Cheng every day because of this. Song Wen could hear them arguing in the living room every time he woke up.

"How did you become a father? How can you take a child to a crime scene? If you didn't take him, it wouldn't have happened!"

"Cry, cry, cry, you know how to cry. If you cry, you can turn it back. In such a big case, the entire police station has passed. Can I get there as soon as possible? And I told him not to run around, I How do you know it's so coincidental?"

"Your responsibility is still on the child. He is only seven years old. What did you know when he was seven years old? Seeing the scene of the murder is a shadow for a lifetime, and you also drag him in! Why do you want to..."

Li Luanfang's harsh voice was mixed with Song Cheng's roar. After many rounds of arguing, there was no winner or loser. The mother blamed her father for taking Song Wen to the crime scene, and it was the scene of a vicious case, and the father blamed her mother for knowing him He was busy with work and left the children to him, and he didn't go home every day.

It is said that the human brain selectively forgets those things that it does not want to remember, perhaps because of the continuous high fever. During that time, Song Wen had forgotten all the other things that Song Wen experienced, and even thinking about it would give him a headache. The appearance of a corpse has been lingering in the midnight dream.

In order to keep Song Wen's psychology from being affected, Song Cheng also took him to see a psychiatrist several times, and what is the so-called hypnotherapy, Song Wen just answered some questions and then fell asleep. Song Cheng would also show him a bunch of pictures and ask him various questions, but the more he asked, the more impatient Song Wen became, his mind was empty and he couldn't remember anything.

That case seemed to involve a lot. After that period of time, there were always strange people at home and nearby. Later, Song Cheng and Li Luanfang played a big game, and they divorced...

This news was like a sudden meteorite, smashing Song Wen, who was only seven years old. Moreover, Song Cheng also went to revise the household registration and files, applied for special protection for Song Wen's files, modified and sealed them up. In all the information that could be found, Song Wen's father was his uncle Song Tao. When Song Wen saw Song Cheng, he could only call him uncle. Later, Song Wen was sent to her grandmother's house for custody until she graduated from junior high school.

When he was young, Song Wen didn't know why. He was angry, complained, disappointed, cried, and made trouble. When he grew up, he could finally face it all calmly.

Later, Song Wen learned that Song Cheng was dealing with an extremely dangerous case, the 519 case. He was afraid of affecting his family, so he made such an arrangement. There was a cabinet in my grandma's house, which contained his and his mother's certificates. There was also a suicide note written by Song Cheng in his own hand, ready to come in handy at any time.

The 519 task force was established for a year, and then disbanded for some reasons. The staff at that time were dispatched to various places. Song Cheng was transferred to the provincial bureau. After so many years, he has been promoted to the director of the provincial bureau. But from Song Wen's point of view, he believes that Song Cheng has not fulfilled his father's responsibilities and obligations. He hates Song Cheng from the bottom of his heart, and he still doesn't call his father very much. He can count the days when he sees him every year with one hand. .

After Song Wen high school, Song Cheng and Li Luanfang remarried again, but Song Wen's household registration file was not restored for him, and it was still under the name of his distant uncle's house.

After Song Wen grew up, he deliberately fought against Song Cheng and took the same path as his father. Until he graduated from the police academy, Song Wen chose to leave his father's wings without hesitation and returned to his hometown in Nancheng. Song Wen came to Nancheng Bureau to report. At that time, when Bureau Gu was interviewing him, Bureau Gu looked at his file and asked, "Oh, your surname is Song, and the director of the provincial bureau is also named Song. Do you know Bureau Song?"

Song Wen shook his head: "I don't know. It is written in the household registration book that my father's name is Song Tao, and if my family knew the provincial director, they wouldn't have started from the grassroots criminal police." Song Cheng changed it by himself, and the secret level is higher than Gu Ju, and he couldn't find it out.

Gu Ju thought about it, and he no longer doubted it. Let Director Song's son work under him for three years. The entire police station has no knowledge of it, and until now, this secret is still unknown to many people.

After becoming a criminal policeman, Song Wen was still haunted by that nightmare. He also wanted to know what happened that night and who were those people? Why did he die in that old building? He learned from the old detective's account that the 519 case was the most serious kidnapping and murder case in Nancheng in the past 20 years. , took out 3.28 million in cash and jewelry, but the vicious robbers were not satisfied, they tied the hostages to the old building and tortured them constantly, wanting them to reveal more about the property.

No one knows what happened during that time, but just six days after the Ji and his wife disappeared, someone anonymously called the police to report that a gangster had been found in the woods on the outskirts. But strangely, after the police arrived, they found that the robber and the two victims had died together in the old house. Judging from the degree of decay of the corpses, the robber and the hostage had both died three days ago. wing and fly. This case has never been solved, and even the city bureau has kept a close eye on this matter, and everything has become a fog, submerged in the long river of time.

Song Wen was extremely rebellious and bold in his youth. He often felt that he had even seen such a terrifying hell on earth, and there was nothing to fear in this world. Later Song Wen found out that he was wrong. The real scary thing is not the dead, but the living. There are no ghosts and ghosts in the world. The dead can no longer jump up and stab people, and the living... can do everything.

He is no longer afraid of corpses, but the dark basement remains in his subconscious, and he rejects the elevator and the closed dark environment, which is still insurmountable to this day.

Song Wen retracted his thoughts, he suddenly remembered something, took out his mobile phone and looked at the date, it turned out that seventeen years had passed since that day. In seventeen years, he has grown from an ignorant child to a criminal policeman. Now, he is no longer afraid of those corpses, but in this mysterious case, the murderer may never be found.

After finishing the previous case, the team led by Song Wen finally became idle. Since that night, Nancheng has never seen the sun again.

Song Wen had just put on his clothes when the phone rang, he picked it up and heard Zhou Yining's voice coming over: "Song team, it's been over a month since that newcomer has been with you? How's the situation recently? ?"

Song Wen didn't know why Zhou Yining suddenly called to ask about Lu Siyu, and it was the morning before work, he put on his shoes and said, "It's good, obedient, smart, and easy to use." He Having said that, he paused and remembered some details of the two cases, "But... I do think that he... is not the same as normal people, so it's a little weird."

"I recently asked someone to check his file." Zhou Yining continued, "Then, I found something."

"What?" Song Wen frowned and asked.

"Generally speaking, a person's file reflects all the circumstances of a person. It is very difficult to falsify the file, but sometimes there are some special situations." Zhou Yining paused, "That's the file that the police modified. In order to protect witnesses, victims, relevant personnel, informants, undercover agents, etc. in the accident, the police will modify the files. This modification has no trace, and only high-level authority can query the modification records. When I checked, I found that his file may have been modified."

Song Wen frowned slightly when he heard this.

Zhou Yining continued: "The last time I found such traces was you, Team Song."

Song Wen of course knew why his file had modification records. And this means that the authority of the person Zhou Yining is looking for is even higher than Gu Ju: "So, what do you mean..."

Zhou Yining asked Song Wen directly, "Are you considering transferring him?"

Song Wen held the phone and thought for a moment: "It's not necessary for the time being, I'll check it out."