Night's Watch 2: Dark Potential

Chapter 14 Epilogue
There is only one step between love and death.

——(Japan) Watanabe Junichi
Tang Jun sat at the desk, holding a red pen in his hand.Before his eyes were the psychological records of today's interrogation, as well as other seemingly insignificant case files.

Tang Jun frowned, carefully looking at a photo with a list of more than 20 people's names.Suddenly, his eyes lit up, and a familiar name jumped in his mind. He picked up the file beside him and kept flipping through it.Sure enough, this was indeed a name he had seen before, so he circled the name with a red pen.

"Du She, old Dong." Tang Jun read silently.

Countless possibilities emerged in his mind, but he ruled them out one by one by himself.

The room was silent, only the clock was ticking.Tang Jun leaned on the computer chair, took off his glasses, and massaged the bridge of his nose tiredly.After thinking about it, he still had no idea.

Suddenly, as if he remembered something, he pulled out an old photo from the file, then picked up the magnifying glass on the desk, and looked at it carefully.

"Wei Shizhong!" Tang Jun suddenly realized, "How could he..."

At this time, Tang Jun seemed to have an answer in his heart.However, this unexpected answer strongly impacted his heart, and he felt a burst of heart palpitations, followed by a burst of dizziness.

Don't know if it was the effect of adrenaline, but Tang Jun's whole body was shaking.

As a very experienced veteran member of the Night Watch organization, Tang Jun at this time knew that he could not lose his footing, he had to clear his mind.Yes, all the actions of the murderer have been connected in series, the murderer is clearly targeted, and the purpose is obvious.Could it be her?Who would it be if it wasn't her?Moreover, these seemingly ordinary clues are hidden in the files kept by the police. How did the murderer know this information?

Could it be myself...

He forcefully opened the computer's encrypted hard drive calmly, called up four folders, double-clicked the last folder, and a small program popped up, requiring face verification, password and encrypted gestures.Tang Jun did it one by one, and the folder opened.

He checked the files in the folder one by one, and his whole body trembled even more.

Tang Jun took a few deep breaths, and rushed out the door without even putting on his coat.

On the construction site at night, everything is silent.

At the corner of the shed, there were two black figures, a man and a woman.

The woman reached out to straighten the man's collar, but the man sideways avoided it.The man sighed with a complicated expression: "How many things are you hiding from me?"

"Since the day I met you, what else can I hide from you?" The woman replied lightly.

"...So, for so many years, you have never forgotten that matter. So, from the day you met me, you have already thought about it," the man said slowly in silence, pointing to his wrist , "So all this time, you have regarded me as a tool, haven't you?"

The woman also sighed, she gently grabbed the man's wrist, this time, he seemed to have no strength to avoid it.The woman showed a wry smile: "Don't you like the gift I gave you?"

"Come with me." The man turned and held her hand, "I am mainly responsible for this step. I will accompany you to finish it. It is still too late to stop now."

The woman broke away from his hand: "I don't know what you are talking about."

At this time, there seemed to be a click from the shed, and the man became alert. He pulled the woman's skirt and dragged her to the sand pile not far away.It's relatively empty here, and if someone eavesdrops, it's easy to find out.

"Things will always come to light. Even if it's not me today, someone else will always discover the connection." The man spread his hands and said, "I can't just watch you go on like this, and I can't condone crime and work for tigers. If You stop now, you still have a chance to fight for..."

"What are you fighting for?" The woman's stubborn voice sounded immediately, "If you really care about me so much, you should know that I don't care what you want to fight for me—there is only one thing I care about."

"Even if innocent people die in vain, don't you care?" The man's voice also turned cold, "Can't you get rid of the knot in your heart through other methods?"

The woman turned her head away and said nothing.There was an unbridgeable distance between the two of them.

"I won't go with you." The woman raised her head again and stared at the man, "I don't have any reason to go with you. You don't know anything, all your inferences are just coincidences, accidents, a string of random numbers You taught me that the evidence must be conclusive and the chain of evidence must be complete! The essence of realistic reasoning is evidence! Otherwise, all inferences are just conjectures."

The man was silent, and then stretched out his hand to the woman: "We both know in our hearts that this is not speculation."

"you……"

Before the woman finished speaking, without warning, the bucket of the loader beside her fell down with a bang.Unbiased, it just hit the man's body.

The huge weight and the acceleration of the fall knocked the man to the ground without even having time to make a sound.A few drops of hot blood splashed onto the woman's face, even with a scalding temperature.

The woman froze.

She stands there like a statue.After a few seconds, she felt herself trembling all over.

A thin figure emerged from the belly of the loader, walked to the side of the woman, and reached out to help her.

The woman pushed him away in disgust.

Her pupils reflected the body on the ground.The body was surprisingly still, with no chest heaving at all.A wrist stretched out to her was now pointing pale and straight to the sky.

"Boss, let's go... here, we can't stay here for long."

The person who helped her sounded very young, and the woman gave him a hard look.

"Who told you to do this?"

"But...he knows everything..."

"Who told you to do this!"

There were unshed tears in the woman's eyes, and she tried to calm her breathing, but she felt the smell of blood surging in her throat.The young man lowered his head, with confusion and restlessness floating on his face.The woman took a deep breath.

"I know that you are here to protect my safety. But without my order, even if I am in great danger, you cannot reveal your identity. I have trained you to this day, not to let you all go to your own death, Make one mistake, and you need to make up for more mistakes. Isn't the lesson from the two of them enough?"

"I..." A look of shame appeared on the young man's face.

"I don't want any mistakes to occur until I complete the No. [-] mission."

The woman's expression became more and more serious.She didn't look back at the cold corpse, but quietly took something off her wrist and handed it to the young man. "His things are broken, and the broken things can't be left here, they will be discovered; they can't be simply taken away, anything missing from him will arouse suspicion. So, replace it with this."

The young man took a closer look and secretly exclaimed in admiration.

"Go. Be quick with your hands and feet and clean up the scene."

The woman dropped these words and walked towards the side of the road in the distance without looking back.

The sky is still gloomy.

The room was dark, cold and damp, and it was obvious that it was in the basement.

The woman sat in front of the desk without even turning on the light, probably because she didn't want others to see the teardrops on her cheeks.

On the desk, lay a photo frame.The photo in the photo frame is of a man in a suit. In the dark room, the face on the photo cannot be seen clearly.The woman's fingers were swimming in the center of the photo frame, trembling slightly.

The desk was neat, out of place in the cold, shabby room.On the desk, in addition to the computer and telephone, there is also a folder with a red cover that says "research report" and the word "top secret" in the upper right corner.

There are two newspapers next to the folder. The headlines of the newspapers are:
"Infants coma after vaccination, triggering an upsurge of people's attention to vaccine safety"

"Nan'an reproduces the "variation" incident of young children!Is it the fault of the vaccine again? "

Suddenly, a burst of rapid phone ringing woke up the woman in the dark.

She picked up the receiver and listened absently to the voice on the receiver.She didn't say a word, and then hung up the phone.

She was stunned for a while, then got up silently, turned the photo frame backwards, put it in the drawer of the desk, got up and walked out of the room, closing the door behind her back.

Next to the door was a moldy white wall with three large black characters hanging on the wall.

"Watch", "Night" and "Those".

(To be continued)
(End of this chapter)