After ten o'clock at night, the riverside is the liveliest place in the city.

Young men and women gather here... Under the influence of heavy metal music and alcohol, hormones grow wild. Here, you can release all the pressure of the day, follow the instincts of your soul, and regain the wildness and desire in your blood.

Continuing to stroll along the riverside, the noise that seems to shatter the long night gradually dissipates. The only sound lingering in the ears is the sound of the night wind and the white noise of the waves hitting the river. The whole world fades from the extremely restless noise and turns into a peaceful and dark picture.

The metropolitan area and the Yinghai district face each other across the river.

It is silent on the other side of the river.

This side of the river is the city that never sleeps.

"How much longer do we have to walk?"

Following the winding water, they walked along the riverside for a long time.

Gu Shen looked back. The flickering lights had disappeared in the darkness, and he couldn't see clearly. It was pitch black in front and behind.

"We're almost there."

With her hands behind her back, Qu Shui was in a good mood, bouncing ahead. Suddenly, she jumped and stood still. "Hmm... It seems to be here."

Several large bridges have been built along the riverside, and corresponding protective measures have been taken on both sides. However, the pedestrian passage under the bridge's anti-slip embankment is drilled at a distance and marked with white paint... "1," "2," "3"...

"Number 97."

Qu Shui stared at the cave under the bridge seriously. "I met him here."

Gu Shen frowned.

It was said to be on the riverside... but this place was already considered a remote and uninhabited area. Moreover, who would pay any attention to this kind of cave? Perhaps only homeless people and stray cats and dogs would spend the night here.

However, judging from the style of the Foundation's followers... it was not impossible for him to live here.

He had been evading Deep Sea's pursuit for so long, there must be a special hiding place.

"Wait for me here."

After instructing her, Gu Shen entered the cave alone.

The cave was very damp. As soon as he took a step inside, a strong stench hit him. It was too dark to see the surroundings, but there should be a lot of garbage piled up here, as well as the smell of feces... It seemed that someone or some animal had indeed lived here.

There was no sound outside the cave.

It seemed that Qu Shui was obediently waiting outside.

Gu Shen silently ignited the flame on his forehead. He looked around the cave and whispered in his heart, "Side Writing... Activate!"

At the moment the flame ignited, the world in Gu Shen's eyes was no longer pitch black. A bright light was lit in his heart, and he looked around, seeing the environment in the darkness clearly. This cave number 97, which was built in a remote area of the riverside, was very narrow with a circular arch. The ground was covered with loose and dirty soil. Homeless people had indeed lived here, and the food garbage casually thrown on the ground had already started to smell and was half-buried.

But as Gu Shen looked up.

A creepy feeling immediately spread from his back.

The fresh smell of decay mixed with the damp and stimulating air rushed into his nostrils.

This smell continuously emanated from the stone wall of the cave three meters away... On the narrow and muddy stone wall, several large iron nails were nailed, hanging a dried-up skeleton. The skin had rotted, but the bones were intact.

In the world of Side Writing, it was peaceful.

The darkness was driven away by the flame, and the dirty environment of the cave was as bright as day. Mental power pushed time to flow slowly, and the flesh of the skeleton on the wall gradually became plump from being dry, and the head was no longer drooping. Gu Shen saw a glimpse of a reflection.

At that time, "he" had not yet died, and he was roaring in despair, venting.

Time flowed back like this--

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Until a familiar, petite figure appeared in his sight.

In the world of Side Writing, she was only a black shadow, without facial features or sound.

She slowly turned her head and looked towards Gu Shen's position across the reversed time and space.

At this moment, Gu Shen's brain was almost blank.

Reason drove his thoughts, and a brilliant spark burst out in an instant.

His thoughts flashed back.

In the frozen time, Gu Shen felt that the Side Writing of the cave was fading. His consciousness seemed to have entered a grand hall that stored memories. Above the hall hung an inverted sword burning with a bright flame. Under the tip of the sword, memories of the past were sorted and classified, like precious scrolls in a collection. As long as he opened it, scenes of memories would replay like a movie.

In the first volume of the picture, when they met at the bar, Hu Danian said with a serious expression:

["This week, in the remote corners of Lipu Street and the riverside, several victims have appeared. They are all adult males who died from clean and sharp throat cuts."]

["At the wound... traces of Transcendent aura were found."]

In the second volume, there was a scene of a direct confrontation with a long-time Foundation follower:

["To hell with the new era!"]

["Long live the Longevity Foundation!"]

At the end of this picture, accompanied by an angry shout, the Foundation follower, who came with a solemn stone statue, was blown to pieces...

To ensure the assassination, this follower used high-explosive explosives and mental sealing objects, but he never used his own Transcendent abilities... because he was not a Transcendent at all.Due to the coincidence of the timing of the riverbank murder case and the insomnia incident, Hu Danian was misled... He focused his investigation on tracking down the out-of-control individual with a Transcendent aura, but the truth was, the assassin carrying the solemn stone sculpture was just an ordinary person.

It was a coincidence.

No wonder... when he linked the riverbank murder case with the solemn stone sculpture insomnia incident, he always felt something was off.

The portraits of these two murderers overlapped, but they didn't match.

The final flashback scene in the memory palace.

It was when he first opened the partition door of the clinic and delivered hot tea.

The blazing fire sensed a disturbing Transcendent aura... He happened to see the pocket watch on Zhou Yexin's body.

Looking back now, he understood the real reason for the unease... It was not because of the pocket watch.

According to Zhou Yexin's dream, the pocket watch was a seal of good order, and the last faint aura was just adhering to the belief of "burning everything to protect the master".

The real unease of the blazing fire came from... the second person in the room at that time.

Qu Shui.

In the side-written world as bright as day, time reversed back to the origin, and the flow rate finally returned to normal.

The fast rewind button was cut off and switched to normal playback.

A thin girl, dragging a tall man, came into the cave... The man struggled weakly, but could only sit against the stone wall.

The two "snuggled" together and talked a lot.

Gu Shen's current mental power was limited, and in the side-written world, besides seeing the general silhouette symbolizing the body shape... he could not get more information. However, from the stiff body movements of the silhouette, it was not difficult to guess that the girl was talking all the time, and the man was forced to listen.

In the end...

Like a couple in love, the girl leaned very close and finished her last words of love.

She took out a pair of scissors from her bosom.

Cleanly aimed at the throat.

One cut.

The side-writing ended, and the cave world returned to darkness.

Gu Shen silently looked at the hanging skeleton, the wound completely matched the victims of the riverbank murder case, sharp weapon injury, cut off the neck, clean and neat.

Because it was too remote, it had not been discovered yet.

Suddenly, a voice rang in his ear.

"Doctor Little Gu..."

Gu Shen's back hair stood on end, not knowing when, there was one more person in the cave.

The voice was only twenty centimeters away from him, a petite figure almost standing against his back.

The voice was both gentle and mournful, like an abandoned kitten, "There's something... I wanted to tell you last time..."

"I like you... The first time I saw you... I liked you so much..."

The voice murmured like sleep talking.

"Would you... be my boyfriend?"