Desperate people, accept the seed of my soul!

Noon, in the seventh district of Chenxi City, outside the Xingguang Abandoned Chemical Industrial Park.

Li Rui lay dormant in the deepest shadows.

He had been lying there for six hours straight, but he hadn't moved an inch.

The patience of criminal police officers during stakeouts is ingrained in their very being.

Below, the area marked "Starlight Waste Chemical Industrial Park" was completely deserted.

Rusty storage tanks, collapsed factory buildings, and rampant weeds—

Everything looked exactly as described in the official files: a long-abandoned, neglected area awaiting demolition.

However, from Li Rui's perspective of perceiving the karmic fire, the scene presents a different picture.

That mass of black sin was emanating a chilling aura, a stark contrast to the blazing sun overhead.

This is the hidden heart of Glow Pharmaceuticals, and also the dirtiest cancer in the city.

The long period of hibernation caused his body to protest with fatigue, but Li Rui paid no attention.

He slowly took his phone out of his inner pocket and pressed the power button.

The moment the screen lit up, countless backlogged messages flooded in.

Missed calls: Liao Zhengfeng (12), Li Ming (5), Zheng Guofeng (1).

My inbox was overflowing with text messages.

Liao's text message was filled with urgent anxiety: "Li Rui! We all believe in you, don't do anything foolish!"

Li Ke's text message was even more direct: "No matter how much pressure is put on you from the outside, the bureau's attitude is to protect you. You should stay out of the way for now and don't let anyone find any fault with you."

Li Rui's finger hovered over the screen, and his heart, which had been cold, was stirred slightly by these words.

They are still looking for him.

They are still trying to protect him with that shaky set of rules.

Even though he was already a wild beast out of control, even though his hands were stained with blood, his old comrades still chose to believe in him and stand behind him.

"Beep".

A new text message popped up from the Inspectorate:

[Li Rui, following a formal complaint regarding the Zhou Shouzheng case, and after deliberation at a bureau meeting, it has been decided to suspend you from your duties effective immediately. Please ensure your communication channels remain open and report to the Inspection Department within one day to explain the situation and cooperate with the investigation.]

Li Rui stared blankly at the text message.

Suspended from duty.

Expected.

Suddenly, a small red dot appeared on the email icon.

It was a special private email account that he registered during his time at the police academy, and very few people knew about it.

Sender: Anonymous.

Li Rui opened the email, which contained only a few words:

[Zhou Mingyuan has filed a formal complaint against you, and you have been suspended from your duties. Someone is pulling the strings behind the scenes. Be careful.]

Li Rui stared at the words and felt a warmth in his heart.

"Wang Shiwei..."

Li Rui murmured the name.

Only she knew both her own email address and the inside story of her suspension within the bureau.

It was against the rules, but she did it anyway.

Li Rui closed his eyes, and the clues in his mind instantly connected.

Zhang Zhaoqing, Huiguang Pharmaceutical, psychiatric evaluation, Zhou Shouzheng's retrial, pressure from the court...

This is a tightly sealed net.

They not only want to shut him up, but also remove him from the police force, turning him into an ordinary person without any protection.

Once he takes off this police uniform, he's a lamb to the slaughter, someone who can be crushed at will, or... become a new "sample" in that laboratory.

Is this your method?

If it were an ordinary police officer, he would be feeling uneasy right now.

Unfortunately, they miscalculated one thing—

Li Rui opened his eyes, and the two dark red dots under his eyes twitched slightly.

They thought that by stripping him of his police uniform, they had stripped him of all his weapons.

What they didn't know was that the real fire never lay in the police's identity.

He glanced again at Liao Zhengfeng's text message, "Don't do anything stupid."

Guilt surged into my heart like a tide, but was washed away by an even more resolute determination in the next second.

Director Zheng, Section Chief Li, Team Leader Liao, thank you.

You want to protect "good cop Li Rui".

But Li Rui, who followed the rules and believed in the law, had already died on the day of the hearing.

Right now, I am just fire.

Li Rui's fingers flew across the screen as he sent Liao Zhengfeng a text message:

[Team Leader Liao, text message received. I won't let you down.]

Sent successfully.

Then, without hesitation, he pressed and held the power button.

"Shutting down..."

As the screen went completely black, Li Rui removed the SIM card from the phone, broke it in half, and casually tossed it into the dusty corner of the unfinished building.

……

At six o'clock in the afternoon, the sun was setting in the west.

An inconspicuous car drove out of the side gate of the abandoned park.

Li Rui's gaze sharpened instantly.

He monitored the area for an entire day, and very few people came and went.

The laboratory has an extremely high level of security, and everyone who enters or leaves undergoes strict verification—this car was the only one to leave today.

He recognized the middle-aged man with glasses sitting in the driver's seat.

This person appeared multiple times in Zhou Xie's fragmented memories of sin—

Meng Xiang is one of the core researchers in the laboratory.

They were responsible for receiving the "experimental subjects" captured by Zhou Xie and for leading the development and application of the tranquilizing drugs used to capture the three people.

In Zhou Xie's memory, those three people were already lying on the experimental table, becoming live test subjects for the "Tranquilizing Series" drugs.

Li Rui followed Meng Xiang away like a ghost.

Ten minutes later.

A remote gas station located five kilometers away from the park.

Meng Xianggang came out of the bathroom and was shaking the water droplets off his hands in front of the sink.

Suddenly, a figure appeared in the mirror.

Before he could even utter a cry of surprise, a burning hot hand was already pressed against the back of his neck.

"Ugh—!"

The sound was stuck in his throat.

Dark red karmic fire instantly poured in from the point of contact, like countless tiny tentacles, brutally drilling into his brain.

Meng Xiang's eyes rolled back instantly, and his body convulsed violently, as if he were being slowly sliced ​​to death.

Li Rui remained expressionless, his eyes flashing red, as he frantically plundered information amidst the screams of the other's soul.

He saw it—

The secret laboratory is a three-story underground structure, with the core laboratory located at the deepest level.

The second basement level is the security garrison area, equipped with firearms, and staffed with eight people on duty in shifts.

Zhang Zhaoqing has been coming every night recently, entering around 6:30 pm and staying at least one night.

And... "Tranquilizer Type IV".

It turns out that the so-called "psychiatric evaluation" was not faked at all, but rather a genuine symptom of mental illness—induced by medication.

With a specific dietary plan, anyone can exhibit abnormal conditions that meet diagnostic criteria in a short period of time.

This is how Zhang Ziqian repeatedly escaped punishment.

"Ning Shen V-type" is a powerful stimulant developed based on Zhang Ziqian's neurological characteristics.

After injection, it can boost the body's functions to their limit within six hours, reduce pain sensation, and greatly increase strength.