Outside Shanming City Crematorium, Hou Guisheng sank into a long, deathly silence.
The sky had reached its darkest, gloomiest hour. As he kept watch in the security booth, his head of white hair looked somewhat unreal beneath the yellowed light.
His pitch-black shadow fell across the wall, split in two as though it had been severed at the waist.
The cheap incandescent bulb emitted a "squeak, squeak" of strange noise in the silent room. An ordinary person would likely have been driven to an ear-scratching irritation by it.
But Hou Guisheng merely sat quietly in his chair, his sharp eyes—utterly at odds with his appearance—brimming with undisguised edge as they stared straight at a photograph on the table.
The photograph showed a man in his early thirties, stoutly built and standing at a slight angle. His features were nothing particularly remarkable, but his slightly curly hair lay neatly against his scalp, carefully groomed.
Certain details revealed that the man in the photograph had a relatively meticulous personality.
Yet this man was infamous at Tianhai Hotel for one word: "madness." What made people shudder most was his extreme, pathological plan—the Branch Purge Operation.
Gu Qingyun.
Hou Guisheng's must-kill target. He had been searching for the man for a very, very long time.
The grudge over him disrupting Branch No. 2 had never been settled. This man's selfishness had already surpassed the bounds of humanity; it would be an affront to heaven if he did not die.
Hou Guisheng did not care what Gu Qingyun was thinking. He was determined to kill him because, at Branch No. 2, the man had nearly gotten him killed.
But strangely, during the first half of his search, the Ouija Spirit had already given an absolute clue. Yet after the interruption at the Rose Hotel, the