The words are bold and straightforward, leaving no room for maneuver.

Lian Gui was silent for several seconds. He seemed to feel the warmth and stickiness of the red and black mixture on his hands after touching the charred corpse. The stinging pain made his eyes hot. He blinked several times before he could barely suppress the moisture in his eyes. "I'm not sure, but from what I saw when I went there, I'm afraid it's hard for them to be alive."

Shi Yu: “Can you tell me?”

"Can."

The office door was closed again.

When Xiao Wang, a police officer from the Yunyin District Police Station who was asked to temporarily stay at the Municipal Bureau to do odd jobs, heard the news and rushed over, he saw this scene.

The two groups had not yet completed the process of "rebuilding the mental defense line". Xiao Wang did not dare to run out and attract everyone's attention. He grabbed his companion and asked, "They just went in like this?"

Li Yuanbao: "What's wrong?"

Xiao Wang put force on his hands: "Have you forgotten what identity he came to our city bureau with last time? A suspect! Even if he took the initiative to report the case this time and was sent here by us, he is still a suspect whose suspicion has not been cleared! If it weren't for the leader of the investigation team who spoke up last time, he would never have been released after only three hours!"

Li Yuanbao: “Ah?”

Xiao Wang: "Even if he has nothing to do with this case, he is just an ordinary citizen. Have you ever seen a police officer tell an unrelated citizen all the causes and consequences of the case? Not to mention that this time it is related to the supernatural. If we were not involved at that time, Captain Jing would not have directly revealed the supernatural things to us. But now the head of the investigation team is going to tell this to an ordinary person? Isn't it clearly stated in the confidentiality agreement that it cannot be done?"

Li Yuanbao: “Ah.”

Xiao Wang spoke faster and faster: "But the team leader really said it, and he wasn't even talking to an innocent person, but to a suspect who hadn't been cleared of suspicion!"

Li Yuanbao: “Ah——”

He was halfway through saying "Ah" when he realized, "Why hasn't Shi Yu been cleared of suspicion yet?"

Xiao Wang: “Have you forgotten…”

"Have you forgotten that when the police sent out this time got into trouble, Shi Yu had been at the Municipal Bureau the whole time?" Li Yuanbao said, "There was no way he could have done it."

Xiao Wang said: "Maybe they are using some anti-Newtonian mechanics method to attack people from a distance, just like they did to the victims of Tianshui Lanwan before."

Li Yuanbao said, "Have you forgotten that those victims had face-to-face contact with him during these three days? But there are about 10 to 20 people sent out to carry out the mission this time. I'm afraid many of them have never seen him, right?"

Xiao Wang said: "It might be a long-range group attack. There is a hole in the air above a piece of land in Tianshui Lanwan. But he told us that it was actually to lure the police over, because if you stand there, something bad will happen."

Li Yuanbao said: "Have you forgotten that the victims of the previous incidents were all at different times and locations, and there was only one person? If he could attack so many people at once, why didn't he do it before?"

Xiao Wang said: "Perhaps it was because he had been in the community several times before and had met those victims, so he could only target those people who had contact with him."

Li Yuanbao said, "Have you forgotten that when the police sent this time got into trouble, Shi Yu was always at the Municipal Bureau and never left?"

“…”

"There are about 10 to 20 people sent out on this mission. I'm afraid many of them have never seen him, right?"

“…”

"So the suspicion on him is still unclear?"

“…”

※

Lian Gui sat down at the table.

Shi Yu took a disposable paper cup from the water dispenser and filled it with hot water. Then he returned to the bench, with white mist filling the cup.

It's very magical. Obviously he is the suspect, and Team Leader Lian Guilian is the person in charge of the case, but now when the two sit face to face, he looks more like the owner of this office.

Lian Gui has good oral communication skills. He spent a few minutes explaining everything he had seen and done after arriving at Tianshui Lanwan. He even described the faces of the police officers in great detail: "... like they had been burned by fire."

Shi Yu drank the hot water gulp by gulp and put down the paper cup: "How many people did you go with for this operation?"

"The municipal bureau and the investigation team together... there are nineteen in total," Lian Gui said, "but the endings are all the same."

Shi Yu: "So that's why you told the police officers who came later not to get close to the scene?"

Lian Gui said frankly: “Yes.”

He wiped his face and said, "Nineteen people went there together, even if they were all squeezed together shoulder to shoulder, the area they occupied would not be that small. If the diameter of the hole in the skylight is less than one meter, even if they were all squeezed under the skylight, it is impossible for them all to be directly hit, but they were all hit. I thought about it for a long time, and I can only think of one possibility."

Shi Yu listened quietly, and when he stopped, he said, "The skylight is expanding."

Lian Gui felt an inexplicable sourness in his throat, and after a long while, his voice lowered: "Its power was too strong, and they couldn't resist it at all. Even we couldn't resist it either, so I could only ask them to borrow tools to transport all the bodies out, so that at least there would be something in their final urn."

"As for the power outside of the Skylight, I haven't found a way to counter it yet. However, since it can expand once now, whether it can expand a second time in the future... I don't know either."

Shi Yu saw him lowering his head and reminded him, "It also has destructive power. At first, it only made people who looked up at it faint, but now just standing under it can kill people."

This shows that its destructive power is also increasing.

Lian Gui raised his head and looked at him for a while, then grabbed a handful of hair and said, "You don't have to be so direct."

Now, it is only a small area outside Tianshui Lanwan, but it can still kill more than a dozen public security personnel who are professionally trained and armed and have better physical fitness than ordinary people. What if it really expands indefinitely in the future, covering an area from that tree-lined path to the entire community, to Nanhang City, to the whole world; and the destructive power increases tenfold, a hundredfold, a thousandfold, what will happen then?

...Then it's probably the end of the world.

Lian Gui didn't even dare to think about it, nor could he imagine it.

Shi Yu said calmly, "I am speaking the truth."

Lian Gui didn't want to argue with him about this issue. He had been busy on this case all day, and finally had no rest at night and had to work overtime. As a result, he had to witness such bad news with his own eyes. Now, leaning back in the soft leather swivel chair, he felt exhausted both physically and mentally.

Just at this moment, there was a knock on the office door.

The team member who followed him to the scene and doubted his life after witnessing the tragic situation of his companions stood at the door, with tears not even wiped away, his face was smeared all over, and when he shrunk his head, he looked like a happy dog on the street: "Boss."

Lian Gui raised his eyelids and glanced at him.

The team member hesitated for a moment and lowered his head: "I'm sorry."

Lian Gui: "What are you sorry for?"

"I shouldn't have spoken to you like that before." The team member didn't dare look him in the eye, "Boss, please punish me."

Lian Gui looked at the other person for a while and sighed: "Is it a penalty?"

He pouted: "Fuck the punishment."

The trembling team member: "?"

Lian Gui said: "Instead of taking this time to reflect, why not go back and pack up and wait..."

He originally wanted to say "wait until the world is destroyed", but unfortunately the words rolled around in his throat and he never came out.

No one knew what misconception his silence gave to the team member, but the team member immediately knelt down in front of him: "Boss——"

Lian Gui was startled.

The team members howled: "Don't chase me away--!!"

Lian Gui tried his best to explain to the man that his words did not mean that he wanted the man to pack up and go home. Then he heard the man ask, "Then, Boss, why did you ask me to go back?"

He suddenly fell silent.

After a long time without any response, the team member finally noticed that there was a third person in the office and cautiously cast a questioning look at the other person.

Shi Yu sat nearby and watched the two men's fight. After receiving their gazes, he said, "Your boss may be considering expanding the 'skylight'."

As he said this, he turned his gaze to Lian Gui.

The team members subconsciously looked over and asked, "Boss?"

Lian Gui hesitated for a while, but finally told the whole story of "Skylight" and was ready to comfort the other party when he collapsed mentally again.

But he didn't expect the other party to listen, but just asked: "That's it?"

Lian Gui was stunned.

The team member said, "Since there is a broken 'skylight' above Tianshui Lanwan, why don't we find a way to fill it up again?"

Lian Gui just thought he was ridiculous: "How is this possible?"

The team members thought he was even more ridiculous. "Why not? When the National Security Bureau set up the Supernatural Investigation and Processing Team, they recruited us to work there, sent so many masters of metaphysics and Taoism to teach us, and asked the experts from the research institute to make tools based on our experience in handling cases. Wasn't it because they wanted us to help solve these problems? The 'skylight' is expanding, and then what? So what? Fill it up with something, block it with obstacles, or simply make those destructive forces outside the window disappear. You can choose any method, try them one by one, and there will always be one that will succeed, right?"

Lian Gui stared at him for a full ten seconds, and the dejected mood he had just felt disappeared bit by bit. He stood up and said, "Feng Qu."

The team member responded subconsciously: "Here."

Lian Gui: "Report the situation here directly to the headquarters and request support."

"yes."

The team members ran out to work.

Lian Gui turned around to look at Shi Yu who was sitting next to him, opened his mouth as if he wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing and followed him out the door.

※

The pointer on the wall turned an angle and the hour hand passed the twelve o'clock mark.

"Can you find a way to temporarily close the North Gate of Tianshui Lanwan?"

At 0:30, the errand boy was woken up by the distinctive alert tone of his mobile phone while sitting in his big bed.

He didn't even have time to lift the quilt. He jumped up and grabbed the phone from the bedside. He opened it and saw the message from his boss.

The errand boy first responded reflexively with "No problem", but then his mind cleared up and he had time to think about the specific meaning: "Boss, why do you want to suddenly close the North Gate? Wouldn't the residents who originally lived in the north of the community have to take a long detour every day to go in and out? I remember that you also live near the north gate of the community. Isn't it too inconvenient?"

Half a minute later, his boss replied with a period.

Run errands and continue waiting.

One minute.

Two minutes.

Ten minutes.

…

Half an hour later, the errand boy had already conveyed the boss's edict to the person in charge of Tianshui Lanwan, but still received no reply.

He silently put down his phone, lay down with a head full of questions, and continued to sleep.