Recaps

Lin Feng brought the drunk Monkey to a mental health center and showed him Qin Ming, the doctor who had nearly killed Monkey’s younger sister. The chapter ended with Lin Feng asking whether Monkey wanted to go inside and beat Qin Ming.

• Lin Feng took Monkey in a sedan toward the outskirts, refusing to explain their destination.
• Monkey discovered they had arrived at a municipal mental health center, where staff silently let Lin Feng pass without question.
• Lin Feng led Monkey through the facility to the Intensive Care and Behavioral Correction Ward, where staff continued to avoid interfering with them.
• Monkey looked through a room’s observation window and recognized Qin Ming, restrained and confined inside.
• Lin Feng smiled at Monkey and asked if he wanted to go in and beat Qin Ming.

Monkey confronted Qin Ming about nearly killing his sister Xiaoya, but Qin Ming was too traumatized to answer until Lin Feng brought Chen Meijiao into the room. Terrified of Chen Meijiao, Qin Ming broke down and revealed that Wei Guangyuan had ordered him to act.

• Monkey saw Qin Ming's injuries and demanded to know why he had harmed Xiaoya.
• Qin Ming muttered incoherently and ignored Monkey's questions.
• Lin Feng called Chen Meijiao into the room, and Qin Ming reacted with intense terror.
• Lin Feng demanded that Qin Ming tell him everything, and Qin Ming confessed that Wei Guangyuan had ordered the attack.

Qin Ming confessed that Ankang Hospital used its medical operations to target vulnerable people for illegal organ harvesting, disguising murders as medical deaths. Lin Feng suspected Xiaoya had been singled out for a specific match, but Qin Ming collapsed before revealing why.

• Qin Ming confessed to price hikes during surgery, overtreatment, false advertising, and financial crimes at Ankang Hospital.
• Qin Ming described how the hospital screened vulnerable people, matched them with VIP transplant clients, manipulated their treatment, and obtained misleading consent forms.
• Qin Ming explained that the hospital removed organs from living or dying patients, concealed the deaths, and paid families to discourage questions.
• Monkey feared that Xiaoya would have become a donor if Lin Feng had not intervened.
• Lin Feng asked whether Xiaoya had matched an important person's blood type or organ, but Qin Ming failed to answer and sank into silence.

Lin Feng forced Qin Ming to explain why Hou Xiaoya had been diagnosed with cancer, and Qin Ming revealed that a wealthy collector planned to have her turned into a human specimen. Monkey was left stunned by the revelation as Lin Feng silently watched him and Qin Ming.

• Lin Feng threatened to bring Chen Meijiao into the ward, causing Qin Ming to panic and agree to talk.
• Qin Ming explained that organ donors were not usually diagnosed with cancer because treatment damaged their organs.
• Qin Ming revealed that an anonymous super-rich man in Southeast Asia wanted Hou Xiaoya as a specimen because she fit his ideal of a sickly beauty.
• Qin Ming said the hospital had diagnosed Hou Xiaoya with lymphoma and given her high-dose chemotherapy to make her frail enough for the collector.
• Qin Ming explained that the hospital planned to fake her death, replace her body with another corpse, and secretly send Hou Xiaoya to the collector.
• Monkey stood frozen in shock while Lin Feng watched him and Qin Ming in silence.

After Qin Ming confessed that he had planned to preserve Monkey’s sister Xiaoya as a specimen, Monkey beat him nearly unconscious. Lin Feng then helped the exhausted, sobbing Monkey leave the hospital room and sit in the corridor.

• Qin Ming confessed that he had intended to turn Xiaoya into a preserved specimen for a collector.
• Monkey erupted in rage and repeatedly punched Qin Ming as Lin Feng watched without intervening.
• Monkey stopped when he was exhausted, leaving Qin Ming bloodied and barely conscious.
• Monkey collapsed against the wall and sobbed from rage, regret, and fear for his sister.
• Lin Feng pulled Monkey to his feet, led him out of the room, and settled him on a corridor bench.

After witnessing Qin Ming’s revelations and torture, Monkey wanted to call the police, but Lin Feng warned that Qin Ming’s status as a mental patient made his claims unusable as evidence. Lin Feng told Monkey to leave the matter to him and vowed to protect Xiaoya.

• Monkey accepted a cigarette from Lin Feng and calmed enough to ask to call the police.
• Lin Feng asked whether Monkey had evidence, and Monkey pointed to Qin Ming’s confession about organ trafficking and making his sister a specimen.
• Lin Feng argued that Qin Ming’s words could be dismissed because he was now legally regarded as insane.
• Lin Feng told Monkey to leave everything to him and promised that Xiaoya would not be wronged.
• Monkey nodded, relying on Lin Feng’s resolve.

After leaving Qin Ming in the mental hospital under Chen Meijiao’s care, Lin Feng sent his deathsworn to secretly surveil Wei Guangyuan and Deputy Director Qian. Their operations spread a hidden surveillance net across the city, preparing for the next move.

• Monkey asked Lin Feng whether they were leaving Qin Ming at the hospital, and Lin Feng said Chen Meijiao would take care of him.
• Lin Feng’s deathsworn began tracking Wei Guangyuan and Deputy Director Qian using information from Qin Ming’s confession.
• A deathsworn planted a location sensor and listening device around the Wei family villa.
• Another deathsworn secretly tapped the wiring connected to Deputy Director Qian’s apartment.
• With help from Du Mingyuan, a deathsworn planted listening devices in Qian’s office at Ankang Hospital.
• A deathsworn placed hidden listening devices in the private club rooms Wei often used, completing the surveillance net.

Deputy Director Qian reported that Qin Ming had been declared mentally ill and taken into compulsory treatment, but Wei Guangyuan feared he might expose their crimes. Wei ordered Qian to arrange Qin Ming’s death as a supposed suicide, and Qian reluctantly submitted.

• Deputy Director Qian told Wei Guangyuan that Qin Ming had taken the blame, been sent for compulsory treatment, and was unlikely to reignite public scrutiny.
• Wei Guangyuan questioned whether Qin Ming could be trusted to remain silent and worried he might exploit his knowledge of their crimes.
• Deputy Director Qian said he had arranged monthly payments for Qin Ming’s family to keep him compliant.
• Wei Guangyuan dismissed the plan and suggested that Qin Ming’s apparent mental illness could make suicide seem plausible.
• Deputy Director Qian hesitated under Wei Guangyuan’s pressure, then said he understood.

Mr. Wei ordered Deputy Director Qian to erase evidence of Ankang Hospital’s crimes and silence the people involved. He then demanded that Qian abduct Hou Xiaoya from the provincial hospital, alive or dead, for a Southeast Asian partner.

• Mr. Wei instructed Deputy Director Qian to make Doctor Liu leave and destroy financial, hospital purchasing, and organ-trade records linking them to crimes.
• Mr. Wei ordered Qian to pay off and sideline the nurses and caregivers involved in illegal surgeries and their cover-ups.
• Mr. Wei told Deputy Director Qian to bring Hou Xiaoya back despite her transfer to a provincial hospital and the security risks.
• Deputy Director Qian warned that retrieving Hou Xiaoya would be difficult, but Mr. Wei insisted that he wanted her alive or her corpse for his partner.

A gang of thugs stormed the hospital looking for Hou Xiaoya and terrorized patients and staff until a nurse revealed ward 721. When they kicked the door open, they found the ward empty and a formation of suited men waiting for them.

• The shaved-headed man led seven or eight thugs through the hospital corridor, frightening patients and threatening staff.
• A thug shoved an elderly man and another grabbed an intern doctor by the collar when he tried to stop them.
• The shaved-headed man seized a nurse by her hair and forced her to reveal that Hou Xiaoya was in ward 721.
• The thugs kicked open the door to ward 721, only to find the ward empty and a row of muscular men in black suits waiting inside.
• The suited men gave the intruders identical sinister grins, leaving the shaved-headed man and his gang frozen in shock and fear.

Li Jun and his trained men subdued the gang that stormed Ward 721, then were taken to the police station for questioning. In the interrogation room, Captain Li demanded that Li Jun explain what had happened.

• The buzz-cut man and his gang tried to flee Ward 721, but Li Jun’s men blocked the exits and beat them down.
• Li Jun sat on the tower of a man who had kicked in the ward door and smoked while waiting for the police.
• Captain Li arrived and ordered everyone taken away, with the injured men sent for examination before giving statements.
• At the municipal police department, Li Jun called himself a law-abiding taxpayer and urged Captain Li to skip the routine questions.
• Captain Li stopped his young officer from arguing and demanded that Li Jun tell him exactly what had happened.

In the interrogation room, Li Jun defended his visit to Hou Jun’s sister and his men’s actions at the hospital as lawful and well-intentioned. Captain Li challenged his account by asking why the men carried hammers and wrenches, but Li Jun claimed they were mechanics from his auto repair shop.

• Li Jun asked for a cigarette and said he had visited Hou Jun’s sister because Hou Jun owed him money and she was seriously ill.
• A young officer accused Li Jun of bringing dozens of men to the hospital to cause trouble, while Captain Li asked about Li Jun’s earlier role in taking Hou Jun’s sister from Ankang Hospital.
• Li Jun admitted taking her from the hospital and argued that he had prevented harm and uncovered wrongdoing there.
• Captain Li asked Li Jun what his relationship with Hou Jun was, and Li Jun insisted they were only creditor and debtor.
• Li Jun claimed his men had intervened to stop a violent disturbance at the provincial hospital and deserved praise for their actions.
• Captain Li questioned why Li Jun’s men carried hammers and wrenches, and Li Jun said they were mechanics from his auto repair shop.

Captain Li shifted the investigation from Li Jun to the tattooed men who had tried to seize Hou Xiaoya, but their leader refused to talk. He ordered questioning paused and arranged for the close-cropped boss to share a temporary holding cell with Li Jun and his group.

• Captain Li ended his questioning of Li Jun and focused on discovering why the tattooed men had gone to the hospital for Hou Xiaoya.
• The tattooed men claimed their boss had ordered them to take a sick girl but had told them nothing about her identity or destination.
• After nearly two hours, a young hoodlum confirmed that the men had followed orders without knowing the reason behind them.
• The close-cropped boss remained silent during questioning and repeatedly demanded a lawyer.
• Captain Li stopped the interrogation, sent the officers to eat and rest, and ordered the boss placed in the same temporary holding cell as Li Jun and his group.

Li Jun and his men terrified the buzz-cut leader into agreeing to confess. The man revealed that an anonymous dark web client had hired his crew to abduct Hou Xiaoya, but Captain Li was left with no clear lead on who had ordered the attack.

• Officers placed the buzz-cut leader in cell No. 7 with Li Jun and his men, who surrounded him and pressured him to talk.
• After more than two hours, the buzz-cut leader asked to confess and begged to be moved to another cell.
• In interrogation room No. 2, the buzz-cut leader confessed that an anonymous dark web client had ordered Hou Xiaoya's abduction from room 721 of the Provincial Third People's Hospital.
• He said the client had promised payment in bitcoin and arranged for Hou Xiaoya to be taken to an abandoned parking lot, but he knew nothing about the client's identity.
• Captain Li considered the anonymous communications and bitcoin payment, realizing the case led into a deeper, difficult-to-trace darkness.

Recordings exposing Ankang Hospital’s organ trafficking and plans to sell Hou Xiaoya as a specimen ignited a nationwide public outcry. Captain Li ordered the task force to trace the recordings and prepare to arrest the people involved.

• Qin Ming’s recording exposed Ankang Hospital’s false diagnoses, financial exploitation, organ trafficking, and plan to sell Hou Xiaoya to a Southeast Asian collector.
• A second recording captured Wei Guangyuan ordering Deputy Director Qian to suppress the scandal, arrange an accident for Qin Ming, and bring Hou Xiaoya back.
• Netizens and news outlets spread the recordings, demanded action, and targeted Ankang Hospital and people who had promoted it.
• Captain Li received an urgent summons, then ordered the task force to cancel leave, trace the recordings, prepare the field team, and apply for arrest warrants.

Captain Li’s large-scale raid failed to catch Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming, who had fled before police arrived. At the Municipal Mental Health Center, Captain Zhao found Qin Ming murdered and his body split vertically in half, making clear the killing had been staged as a message.

• Captain Li dispatched teams to arrest Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming, secure Ankang Hospital, and check on Qin Ming at the Municipal Mental Health Center.
• Captain Li’s team found Wei Guangyuan’s villa empty, while Deputy Captain Wang reported that Qian Zhiming had fled his home with a suitcase.
• The North City Branch secured Ankang Hospital and took its staff in for questioning.
• The Western Suburbs Branch reported that officers had found Qin Ming’s corpse, split vertically in half, in his isolation ward.
• Captain Zhao examined the scene and angrily rejected the idea that Qin Ming had died by suicide.

After learning that recordings of his conversations with Deputy Director Qian had been leaked, Wei Guangyuan fled toward a smuggling boat with his aide A Cheng. Their escape stalled when a seemingly broken-down car blocked their remote route, leaving Wei Guangyuan waiting alone as A Cheng went to investigate.

• Wei Guangyuan received an anonymous warning that recordings of his conversations with Deputy Director Qian had been posted online, and he confirmed the exposure on social media and news sites.
• Wei Guangyuan ordered A Cheng to meet him in the underground garage and decided to escape by a back road to an abandoned dock, where a smuggling boat awaited.
• A Cheng drove Wei Guangyuan along a route that avoided checkpoints and cameras, reporting that they were making good time toward the dock.
• The sedan stopped less than half an hour from the dock when a car appeared to be blocking the road, and Wei Guangyuan suspected the obstruction was no coincidence.
• Wei Guangyuan ordered A Cheng to check the vehicle, and A Cheng left him alone in the sedan as he approached it in the darkness.

A Cheng tried to clear the road for Wei Guangyuan’s sedan, but the two stranded motorists ambushed him. A second attacker stunned Wei Guangyuan as he attempted to escape, leaving both men unconscious beside the running car.

• A Cheng approached the broken-down SUV and offered the two men money to move it.
• The chubby man persuaded A Cheng to help push the SUV, and A Cheng joined him and Skinny Monkey.
• Skinny Monkey circled behind A Cheng and knocked him unconscious with a stun device.
• Wei Guangyuan saw the ambush and tried to get out of the sedan, but a tall figure blocked him.
• The tall figure used a stun baton on Wei Guangyuan, leaving him unconscious in the doorway.

Qian Zhiming tried to flee with his hidden cash after receiving a call claiming Wei Guangyuan had arranged his escape. He avoided the waiting sedan but was knocked unconscious by a boy with a stun baton near the community’s back gate.

• A caller claiming to work for Wei Guangyuan told Qian Zhiming to meet a black sedan outside the community.
• Qian Zhiming packed millions of yuan in cash and suspected Wei Guangyuan planned to silence him rather than rescue him.
• Qian Zhiming escaped through a concealed route and headed for the community’s back gate.
• A boy used a colorful ball to distract Qian Zhiming, then stunned him with a baton.
• Qian Zhiming collapsed unconscious as the boy stood beside him holding the baton.

After Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming were confirmed to have fled, Captain Li Xiangyang ordered a citywide lockdown and an exhaustive search. With no leads after several days, he recommended escalating the manhunt to a nationwide wanted notice.

• Investigators found signs that Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming had packed valuables and left voluntarily, while surveillance footage failed to show where either man went.
• Captain Li Xiangyang ordered checkpoints across Jiangcheng, screening of departing passengers and vessels, and searches of lodging establishments.
• Police searched the city for several days, but found no trace of the two suspects or their vehicles.
• Captain Li concluded that the suspects had probably escaped Jiangcheng before the search began and recommended listing them as Class B wanted fugitives with a nationwide reward notice.

At an abandoned dock, K delivered the missing Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming to two organ traffickers and asked to watch them be tortured while conscious. The traffickers accepted the deal and loaded the unconscious men into a van.

• K arrived at the dock in a black SUV and opened its trunk to reveal the bound, unconscious Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming.
• Two organ traffickers complained that the captives were old and their organs might be worth little.
• K said the men were his enemies and that he wanted them tortured and dismembered while still conscious.
• The traffickers agreed and said they would use little anesthetic so the victims could feel the process.
• The traffickers and their accomplices transferred Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming into a van.

K demanded to watch the captives be killed to prove he was not a police officer. After severing Wei Guangyuan’s little finger, he convinced the traffickers to consult their boss about letting him observe.

• K insisted that he watch Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming be killed, despite the traffickers’ objections.
• Skinny suspected K might be a police officer setting a trap, and the accomplices surrounded him.
• K cut off Wei Guangyuan’s little finger and tossed it to High Cheekbones and Skinny as proof of his ruthlessness.
• Skinny accepted that K did not look like a cop but said he and High Cheekbones needed their boss’s permission before allowing him to observe.
• K wiped his dagger on Wei Guangyuan’s clothes and waited by the SUV while the traffickers prepared to report to their boss.

K submitted to the workshop’s security procedures and was transported blindfolded to its hidden location. After the blindfold was removed, he found himself in a spotless observation room facing a fully equipped operating room, where Skinny proudly asked if he was satisfied.

• Skinny told K the boss had agreed to meet him but required him to surrender his phone and undergo a search.
• K handed over his phone, and the scar-faced man removed its SIM card and drove away with it.
• The high-cheekboned man searched K with a metal detector; K surrendered his dagger, and Skinny gave him an opaque blindfold.
• Skinny and the high-cheekboned man led blindfolded K through a bumpy van ride and several secured doors to a room.
• They removed K’s blindfold, revealing a pristine observation room overlooking a sterile operating room, and Skinny asked if he was satisfied.

K learned that the organization ran a sophisticated custom organ-harvesting operation and that its boss was a doctor with a disturbing fixation on conscious patients. As Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming became paralyzed but remained conscious, the doctor prepared to begin the operation.

• Skinny and the high-cheekboned man explained that the organization fulfilled custom organ requests through a sterile operating facility.
• K watched the boss sniff Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming and learned that the strange doctor led the organization.
• Skinny and the high-cheekboned man told K that the doctor kept patients conscious so he could talk with them during operations.
• The doctor injected Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming, then signaled to K through the glass as the drugs took effect.
• The doctor picked up a scalpel while Wei Guangyuan and Qian Zhiming lay unable to move.

Wei Guangyuan regained consciousness immobilized beneath surgical lights and realized he had been captured and tortured until he revealed his hidden accounts and access information. As he heard Deputy Director Qian being tormented nearby, the captor noticed Wei was awake and told him he would be next.

• Wei Guangyuan slowly woke beneath glaring surgical lights, unable to move or focus his eyes.
• Wei Guangyuan recognized Deputy Director Qian Zhiming pleading to be killed nearby.
• Wei Guangyuan recalled being captured after his car broke down and tortured until he disclosed his accounts, passwords, keys, and contacts.
• A steady-voiced captor taunted Qian Zhiming and announced that he would have to bite himself next.
• The captor leaned close to Wei Guangyuan and said he was awake and would have his turn soon.