The rain was getting heavier, and perhaps it would stop soon, but for now, Gao Changan both loved and hated this rain.

He loved it because it gave them the opportunity to catch the throat-slashing murderer in the act.

He hated it because even though Yu Xing said they wouldn't be late, he was still worried that if they were, the killer would claim another victim—something that could have been avoided.

Especially when the location marker representing Zhang Yu on the map stopped moving, Gao Changan's heart almost jumped out of his chest. Fortunately, after a few minutes, the marker started moving again.

His emotions were like riding a roller coaster.

Finally, their car arrived outside the old city area, and they were not the only ones there. Several other police officers were driving over as well. Yu Xing checked the time and reminded them, "Be quiet, don't let them discover us."

The rest of the way, they had to go on foot.

Yu Jiaming and Gao Changan were both armed, and under normal circumstances, the criminal wouldn't be able to escape. However, the throat-slashing case had been strange from the beginning, which made them even more cautious.

The path was littered with rubble, steel bars, mud, and garbage, and with the heavy rain obscuring their vision, Gao Changan had cursed several times about how the killer had chosen such a place.

Using an umbrella was inconvenient, so they had opted for half-length raincoats. Only Yu Xing was carrying an umbrella that he had taken from the police station, strolling leisurely behind the two detectives.

They were getting closer...

The distance to Zhang Yu's location was getting closer and closer.

Suddenly, a beam of light, previously hidden by the rain, appeared in front of them. The person holding the flashlight was a tall figure of less than 1.8 meters.

Yu Jiaming checked his phone and exclaimed, "It's Zhang Yu! Stay hidden and follow him!"

They followed behind Zhang Yu, staying close to the cover along the way, while also searching for possible hiding places for the killer.

A smile tugged at the corner of Yu Xing's mouth as he cooperatively followed along. At that moment, his phone, tucked in his pocket, vibrated twice.

He took it out and glanced at it, raising an eyebrow.

"Yu Xing, there's a discount on tickets for the amusement park in the city tomorrow. Can you come with me? My friends have to work on weekdays and can't accompany me."

It was a text from Han Xinyi.

...

8:10 PM.

Han Xinyi's lips curved as she looked down at her phone screen, seeming to be in a good mood.

Around her was dust and cobwebs, and the abandoned building she was in looked precarious.

Unlike where Ranran and the woman were, the place where Han Xinyi was staying was very high, and she had climbed several floors, giving her a very broad view.

Looking around, it was a scene of devastation.

Han Zhiyong stood behind her in a windbreaker, watching her completely engrossed in her phone, and couldn't help but ask, "What are you doing?"

"Editing a text message!" Han Xinyi's dimples showed as she said, "I want to invite that boy named Yu Xing to go to the amusement park with me tomorrow."

"..."

Han Zhiyong's expression was quite subtle, and he asked with some disbelief, "Can't you send it later? Zhang Yu is probably on his way here, you should act now. And... do you really like Yu Xing?"

"Yeah, what's wrong with that?" Han Xinyi smiled, her tone filled with the unique shyness and excitement of a young girl. "He's so good, good-looking, smart, and bold. Most importantly, when I was being chased by Liu Ping, he saved me. I was really touched in that moment."

"But he's an enemy of the organization!" Han Zhiyong frowned.

"Enemy?" Han Xinyi still had a happy expression, but a hint of coldness appeared in her eyes.

Her tone was light and gentle, but it sent shivers down Han Zhiyong's spine. "He was... the first person to help me when I was hurt, Uncle, even you haven't done that."

"It's just killing two reserve members of the organization, it's not a big deal. As long as he's with me, he's no longer an enemy of the organization, right?"

Han Zhiyong looked at the girl's face and closed his mouth.

Han Xinyi didn't know that Liu Ping had been brought in to kill her using his ability to invade dreams. Otherwise, the two of them wouldn't be standing here talking so calmly.

Liu Ping had failed completely, so it was best not to mention this topic.

He remained silent, with only the sound of the pouring rain hitting the tiles in his ears. Taking a few steps forward, Han Zhiyong looked down.

The old city area was desolate, and the ruins were even more so, more dilapidated than the landfill and the suburbs they had visited before.

Tonight's events were quite strange.

Their initial plan was for Han Xinyi to go to the bookstore, using the natural advantage of a beautiful woman to attract Zhang Yu, and when the time was right, to use Han Xinyi's usual tricks—emotional manipulation, mental instability—to lure Zhang Yu here and kill him, just like the previous four.

Han Zhiyong had been playing the role of an accomplice all along.

However, because he wanted to unilaterally terminate this master-slave relationship, and after noticing that Liu Ping had a tendency to mimic the crimes, he had invaded Liu Ping's dream and released a malevolent ghost to force Liu Ping to target Han Xinyi.

On the day Han Xinyi had planned to make contact with Zhang Yu for the first time, Liu Ping had also made a move, and things had started to go in an uncontrollable direction. Of course, Han Xinyi had the ability to kill Liu Ping, and Han Zhiyong's original intention was just to let Han Xinyi leave behind evidence and traces, giving him more control in the police's investigation.

But then, Yu Xing had appeared.

And Han Xinyi had fallen for him.

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It wasn't exactly accurate to say she had fallen for him. At first, Han Xinyi had treated Yu Xing as an ordinary passerby, and in order to avoid exposing herself in front of him, she had pretended to be a weak and cute girl.

But after leaving the hospital, Han Xinyi had found out about Yu Xing's identity.

He was the new Deductionist mentioned by Ling Heng when he came to ask for her help with the organization's reserve members some time ago.

So... Yu Xing was likely investigating the throat-slashing case, and saving Han Xinyi was just a side effect.

What's more, he stood on the opposite side of the Prism Organization, and from a long-term perspective, he was a threat to both Han Zhiyong and Han Xinyi.

Not to mention that the original perpetrator of the throat-slashing case was Han Xinyi herself.Han Zhiyong still remembers the expression on Han Xinyi's face when she found out about Yu Xing's true identity.

Excitement, regret, relief, possessiveness, and finally a sweet smile of a yandere.

As Han Xinyi's uncle, Han Zhiyong was not spared from all of Han Xinyi's investigations, so he had a lot of information.

He also knew what Han Xinyi was planning - knowing that Yu Xing was an enemy, she wanted to win his heart, pull him to her side, and even get him to join the organization.

In simple terms, she wanted to turn Yu Xing.

But Han Zhiyong felt that instead of going through all that trouble, it would be better to just kill Yu Xing to avoid any complications. This was one of the points of contention between him and Han Xinyi. Unfortunately, Han Xinyi's position in the organization was higher than his, so as her uncle, he had to obey her in everything.

After Han Xinyi fell for Yu Xing, she stopped flirting with Zhang Yu and changed her approach to induce Zhang Yu, focusing on the people Zhang Yu cared about.

Zhang Yu liked a colleague named Ranran. They decided to kidnap Ranran and use Han Zhiyong's nightmare ability to coerce Zhang Yu into coming.

Han Zhiyong handled these two tasks for Han Xinyi, but his nightmare ability could only be used once for a period of time, and he had already used it on Liu Ping. He didn't dare to tell Han Xinyi.

When they planned to kidnap Ranran, they found that Ranran had disappeared, as if someone had done what they wanted to do ahead of them.

So tonight, it was quite unexpected for Zhang Yu to show up, which was beyond Han Zhiyong's expectations.

Because Han Xinyi thought that Zhang Yu had been suffering from nightmares recently, only Han Zhiyong knew that Zhang Yu hadn't encountered anything recently. But the little ghost he had placed in Zhang Yu's residential area had just told him that Zhang Yu had gone to the old city.

The strange thing was that he had sent a threatening text to Zhang Yu fifteen minutes ago, with the content being something like, "I have Ranran in my hands."

After all, Ranran had disappeared, and Zhang Yu was anxious. Zhang Yu didn't know who did it, so Han Zhiyong used this reason to deceive Zhang Yu, along with the emotional influence exerted by Han Xinyi, the success rate was very high.

But Zhang Yu had already left before he sent the text.

This made Han Zhiyong extremely puzzled. He knew that someone must have played a trick in the middle, but... for some psychological reason, he didn't tell Han Xinyi about any of this.

If Han Xinyi could die in a car accident here, it would be a good thing for him. He was really starting to dislike this perverted niece of his.

Both he and Han Xinyi were fallen deductionists, and fallen people never trusted anyone, not even those close to them.

"Uncle, look, Zhang Yu is here."

After reviewing the events of the past few days in his mind, Han Zhiyong suddenly heard Han Xinyi's voice in his ear.

He followed Han Xinyi's finger and saw a figure with a flashlight walking towards them from a distance.

Behind him, there were several hidden figures.

The physical fitness and senses of deductionists were superior to those of ordinary people, and Han Zhiyong could see the hidden figures at a glance: "There are people following Zhang Yu."

"I know, it's probably Uncle Gao and his good captain~" Han Xinyi smiled and called the members of the Criminal Investigation Detachment very affectionately. She looked for a while and then said, "Sure enough, it's them, and there's another person, it must be Yu Xing!"

Han Xinyi asked happily, "Is Yu Xing really good... Does he already know that I'm the murderer?"

Listening to her praise Yu Xing at this time, Han Zhiyong sneered inwardly, but on the surface, he only looked worried: "If he knows, what are you going to do?"

"Of course..." Han Xinyi looked down, Zhang Yu had already approached, and the police and Yu Xing were still some distance away from Zhang Yu.

"Of course, I'll kill Zhang Yu in front of him!" Her tone rose, clearly full of anticipation for what was about to happen, "Let him see the real me, he should love the most real me!"

After saying this, Han Xinyi turned her back to the broken place, opened her arms, and actually fell backward.

She was on the eighth floor, falling freely as if in free fall from the eighth floor.

Yu Xing, is it because you suspected me that you had contact with me?

You want to see a fallen deductionist, a crazy murderer, so as someone who likes you, I will definitely fulfill your wish.

Layers of ghostly aura swirled around her, and Han Xinyi fell into a kind of illusion, and with this jump, Zhang Yu nearby, as well as Yu Jiaming, Gao Changan, and Yu Xing in the distance, all clearly saw her figure.

"Someone jumped off the building!?" Gao Changan was shocked.

"No, that's the murderer," Yu Xing said softly.

Gao Changan widened his eyes, "Why would the murderer jump off the building!?"

"It's not jumping off... look!" Yu Jiaming watched as the figure fell in the rain and exploded into a blood mist just before hitting the ground. In the blood mist, a completely unharmed girl walked out.

At that moment, a flash of lightning streaked across the gloomy sky, illuminating the girl's whole body in a ghostly white light.

He recognized that face, although he hadn't seen it with his own eyes, but as someone involved in the throat-slitting case, he had observed the "victim" photos several times while investigating Liu Ping.

She was Han Xinyi, the victim of the Liu Ping case!

She... she exploded and then pieced herself back together?

Yu Jiaming was momentarily unable to understand this phenomenon that surpassed his cognition, but when he saw the girl holding a knife and walking towards Zhang Yu, a sense of justice broke through the confusion and unease, making him shout, "Zhang Yu! Run towards us!"

At the same time, he patted Gao Changan, "Let's go, subdue the suspect!"

The two of them ran towards Han Xinyi, holding their guns.

"Han Xinyi, stop, or we'll have to shoot!" Gao Changan raised his gun as he moved, but Han Xinyi didn't even look at him.

"If you're confident that you won't accidentally hurt anyone from this distance plus the resistance of the wind and rain, then go ahead and shoot, Uncle Gao~" She was moving at a rapid speed and was already close to Zhang Yu, and she wasn't surprised at all by Zhang Yu's silent state.

Is it a sequelae of mental illness?Her emotions and her uncle's dreams of malevolent ghosts were always a perfectly matched set of abilities. When applied properly, their prey would more easily enter a state of mental disarray, soulless and only following an obsession as they wandered in a daze.

She twirled the knife in her hand, drawing the blade towards Zhang Yu's neck.

"Yu Xing~ did you see that?"

The girl's knife stopped just before Zhang Yu's neck, and she suddenly let out a laugh.

Yu Xing, holding an umbrella, was walking unhurriedly in her direction. Hearing her, he nodded: "I saw it."

Han Xinyi's eyes sparkled with a pure and beautiful light, like stars. Her sweet voice softened, as if cooquettishly speaking to a lover: "Look, Yu Xing, you wanted to know who the throat-slitting killer was, and here I am before you. You wanted me to expose myself to the police, so I pretended not to know your identity, fulfilling your wish. Have I been good to you?"

Yu Xing smiled as well, speaking gently: "Good."

Yu Jiaming and Gao Changan felt the situation was utterly absurd.

What the hell kind of conversation is this between lunatics?!

Yu Xing was one thing; he always seemed a bit off. But damn it, once they caught Han Xinyi, she wouldn't get off on insanity, would she?

"You'll never find someone who treats you better than I do, not even your girlfriend. I heard she's having a spat with you, wanting to sleep in separate rooms at the hotel. What kind of girlfriend does that? I wouldn't."

Han Xinyi pushed Zhang Yu in front of her, blocking the angle from which Yu Jiaming and Gao Changan could shoot. She spoke earnestly: "I won't find another boy I like as much as you, Yu Xing. After I kill Zhang Yu, after I kill these two dumb detectives, let's be together, okay?"