Original subtitles

I think it's my fault.

I think it's my fault.

You did your best.

I could have saved him,

but I didn't do well.

I didn't manage to save him,

so I feel like

I

just

can't do this job anymore.

Do you want to get better?

Do you want to get better?

Yes.

But I don't know what for.

How

can I get better?

[The Limbo]

[Episode 12: Motive]

[The 21st Day of the Collapse Incident]

Team Two, how's it going over there?

We're making good progress.

Who are you?

I'm Zhengtai.

I'm eight years old.

Everyone, put in more effort, pick up the pace!

We're almost through.

Uncle, it's talking.

Xiaoguang!

Zhengtai!

Zhengtai! Let go of Zhengtai.

Don't hurt Zhengtai.

Don't do anything rash.

-It has nothing to do with him. -Don't hurt Zhengtai.

Let go of Zhengtai!

Tao Ye, are you alright?

Give me the card.

Give me the card; it's okay.

Let them go first.

Mom.

You give me the card first.

Let them go first.

I'll give you the card.

Xiaoguang, don't force me.

Let them go and I'll give it to you.

Let them go.

Let them go; I said let them go!

Mom!

Head to the fifth floor quickly!

Head to the fifth floor!

It's broken.

You mean

the card has been broken for a long time.

But he never told you.

He didn't want me to worry.

But the situation

turned out to be worse than he expected.

Command Center, command center.

The passage will be cleared

in about half an hour.

Good.

Great!

Comrades, thanks for your hard work.

Please be sure to stay safe.

Hurry up.

Watch your head, Zhengtai.

Go.

Be careful.

Hurry up.

What about you?

You go.

What about you?

Aren't you coming with me?

I have a plan.

Trust me.

Be careful.

Sister.

I might not be able to make it, Zhengtai.

Keep crawling forward,

and you'll get out.

-Zhengtai! -Zhengtai!

Zhengtai!

Zheng...

Go find the child, hurry up!

Don't come any closer!

Stay back! You can't go over there.

Our target is Xiaoguang.

Don't be foolish;

it's not worth risking your life.

Stay back!

It's not worth it.

Don't force me!

Don't force me!

Yang Bing!

Zhengtai.

Zhengtai!

Mom!

Zhengtai.

Later, I passed out.

When I woke up,

I was already in the hospital.

It was also Ding Zi

who told me that Xiaoguang had an accident.

Did Ding Zi see what happened?

She said she didn't see anything.

She said she was in the atrium at that time,

but I don't know

if what she said is true.

Officer Ye,

although I don't know

what Xiaoguang intended to do

at Luobai initially,

and he even left a suicide note.

I believe that he didn't choose to commit suicide in the end.

Because during those 21 days of being trapped,

although Xiaoguang witnessed the darkest

and most terrifying aspects of humanity,

I believe that he also saw

the meaning of survival.

Because I saw a glimmer of light

in his eyes.

Don't worry.

We will definitely get to the bottom of this.

[Deeply mourn the passing of Comrade He Xiaoguang]

[Deeply mourn the passing of Comrade He Xiaoguang]

[Deeply mourn the passing of Comrade He Xiaoguang]

♫Look up♫

[Haizhou Funeral Parlour]

♫There will be light♫

♫No sound♫

Officer Ye,

♫Lighting up the night♫

[Haizhou Funeral Parlour]

I'm still going to have the baby.

♫Don't be afraid♫

[Deeply mourn the passing of Comrade He Xiaoguang]

♫There's always light♫

♫Can hold♫

♫The weight of the heart♫

♫Light♫

♫If it's the truth♫

♫If you long for things♫

♫To be the way they were at the beginning♫

♫Let the wind♫

♫Fly free♫

♫To chase the light♫

Captain,

what should we do now?

Hai Mei's testimony only shows that

they collectively beat Xiaoguang

[Haizhou Funeral Parlour]

and had a motive for murder

and extreme behavior.

However, it isn't enough

to prove that they murdered Xiaoguang.

It now seems that the survivors' belief

that Xiaoguang committed suicide

is a logically plausible interpretation.

You see,

the suicide note found at his home

and the poison he carried

indicate suicide

rather than homicide.

Captain,

how can you not tell right from wrong?

They obviously colluded to align their testimonies.

Don't let emotions cloud your judgment.

We need to focus on evidence.

Without solid evidence,

it's difficult to convict them.

So we just

watch them get away with it?

What about the child?

He has been discharged and sent home.

The doctor said he was excessively frightened

and can't articulate what happened.

Moreover, his testimony

could easily be dismissed in court.

What about Yang Bing?

Besides admitting to gathering for illegal gambling,

he refuses to say anything else.

Plus, someone has hired him

the best criminal defense attorney in the city,

from the same firm as Luo Haoran's lawyer.

as Luo Haoran's lawyer.

It's all arranged by Yuan Mei.

It seems they

are prepared to fight us to the bitter end.

Captain,

why don't we first charge them all

with intentional injury and bring them back to the station?

We can invite the best interrogation experts in the department

to break them down one by one.

I don't believe we won't be able to get confessions out of them.

If we're going to interrogate, we need to get it all in one go.

You continue to keep an eye on the survivors

around the clock without any breaks.

We'll go back to the scene

to see if there's any new evidence.

Xiaoying, drive my car.

What's the situation with Chang Xiangning now?

The hospital has issued a critical condition notice.

I'm afraid that

she may never wake up again.

[Haisu Express Xinhua Road Branch]

Tao.

Bro.

The client from Building 33,

Room 1814, complained that

you didn't deliver the goods to his door

and is demanding that

you deliver them upstairs right now.

Wait, bro, it's not that I didn't want to deliver them upstairs.

You know, he's on the 18th floor,

and the property management didn't swipe the access card for me.

So I couldn't go up.

You didn't go up just because he didn't swipe the access card?

Couldn't you make a phone call

to explain to the customer?

If that didn't work,

you can climb up to the 18th floor.

Hurry up.

[Haisu Express Xinhua Road Branch]

Hello, well,

this is Haisu Express.

I'm sorry.

Well...

Yes.

It's like this:

I didn't mean not to deliver your package.

It's just that

the property management won't swipe the access card,

so I couldn't go up and use the elevator.

[Professional, Fast, Safe, Affordable]

I will trouble you

to help me take care of Zhengtai during this time.

You can actually go back to your hometown

for a while.

Don't worry.

You...

Take care of yourself too.

Mom,

where are you going?

Mom needs to go on a long trip.

It might take a long time before I can come home.

Mom,

I know everything.

Mom did something wrong

and needs to make amends.

During this time, you must be good and listen to your dad.

Mom,

you did it to protect me.

Uncle Xiaoguang will forgive you.

Go ahead.

Zhengtai.

Byebye.

[The obituary]

I was wrong.

You can punish me however you want.

The supplies belong to everyone,

including you.

You need these supplies to survive too.

From now on, I'm out.

I don't want anything;

I'll do whatever you say, okay?

Just keep the supplies.

Let everyone go, please.

Please.

[Luobai Shopping Mall]

[Public Security]

Summon Lin Yuyang.

Hello, Xiaoying.

Wang Long, Lin Yuyang came to the station herself.

She's downstairs right now.

It's me who killed Shi Kai.

He tried to molest me.

I knocked him out while resisting.

I never meant to harm him.

But when Luobai collapsed,

he was trapped underneath.

His femoral artery was pierced.

He lost a lot of blood,

and I couldn't save him.

Why didn't you tell us this before?

Because I was afraid.

Afraid of what?

I was afraid of going to jail.

I was afraid of losing Zhengtai.

But I was even more afraid that Luo Haoran,

Yang Bing, Zhou,

Guo Haoyu, and Yuan Mei

would hurt my child.

Uncle Xiaoguang!

Don't look anymore.

He's dead.

We all know how Xiaoguang die.

We are all in the same boat now;

everyone

must agree that

Xiaoguang couldn't hold on anymore

and committed suicide by jumping off.

If you don't want to go to jail, just say it like that.

Remember what Dad told you.

If you don't know

or have forgotten,

you won't have to bear legal responsibility.

If anyone

asks about you stabbing Xiaoguang,

just say you don't know.

You just say you don't know.

You were so hungry

that you didn't remember anything.

It's all in the past;

let everything

be buried underground.

It's all in the past.

Luo Haoran then asked Ding Zi to persuade Hai Mei

to help us lie.

Luo Haoran also told us

how to respond to the police's questioning.

Zhou,

Yang Bing,

and Guo Haoyu all agreed,

but Tao Ye and I

had no choice.

We didn't want to go to jail,

and I still have a child to think about.

[Public Security]

Yuyang!

Stop him! Quickly!

Yuyang!

Yuyang!

Yuyang!

Yuyang!

Yuyang!

It was me. I killed Shi Kai.

It was me, not her.

I beg you to let her go.

It was me.

I'm sorry.

Let's wrap it up.

Yes.

[Public Security]

[Police]

[Public Security]

Thank you.

Zhou.

Zhou.

Honey,

when we got married,

I couldn't afford to buy you a ring.

Now, I'm making up for that.

I love you,

I love our child,

and I love this family.

I wish I could hide behind this love

and pretend nothing has happened.

I want to continue living my life.

But I know

I can't use my love for you

as an excuse to escape my mistakes;

that would only weigh on my conscience.

I'm sorry.

I can't be with you anymore.

Take care of yourself,

and take care of our child.

I love you.

Is this a post you made online

[Murder Case in the Abyss]

[Follow] [Recommend]

[Night]

using the name of Sanhua?

Aunt Chang asked me to post it for her.

For

Xiaoguang.

[To all of us]

She privately interrogated Luo Haoran.

Luo Haoran told me

that as long as I could convince Hai Mei,

everything would be fine.

I acted impulsively,

and by doing this, I not only hurt Xiaoguang

but also my best friend.

I stole a ring from below.

I don't know what happened to me.

After staying down there for a long time,

I really lost my mind.

I'm not the kind of person who likes to take advantage.

You were involved in the entire process of murdering Xiaoguang.

[Personal Information Registration Form]

I was part of

the initial setup when we lured him in through the walkie-talkie.

But when Xiaoguang

fell from the fifth floor,

I was fighting with Tao Ye in the atrium.

As for

who actually pushed him,

I really don't know.

I didn't see it happen.

Luo Haoran strangled Wu Hanlei

and buried the body under

the ruins of the office on the fifth floor.

I saw it, and Xiaoguang saw it too.

That's why

he had to kill Xiaoguang.

Yang Bing killed Xiaoguang.

I was there at the scene.

At the time, I admit

I was trying to protect myself,

and I bear an inescapable responsibility for Xiaoguang's death.

Zhou is talking nonsense.

He's the one who pushed Xiaoguang down.

He's the real murderer.

I didn't do anything.

I didn't even touch Xiaoguang.

Don't wrongly accuse an innocent person.

I truly regret it.

I truly regret it.

I hope the government

can give me a chance to turn over a new leaf.

Zhou

and Lin Yuyang

have already confessed.

I'm too familiar with your interrogation tactics.

Don't you have anything new?

We don't have any tactics.

What we're telling you is the truth.

Now Yuan Mei and Luo Haoran

are already under our control.

I don't care what they promised you,

but I can tell you for sure

it was all empty words.

The two of them

are already at each other's throats,

and you're just an outsider.

This isn't your first time here, right?

You should know better than them

the difference between confessing voluntarily

and being implicated by others.

If we both walk out of here now,

you'll never have another chance to confess voluntarily.

So, are you still staying silent?

Okay.

Then we'll

interrogate Luo Haoran first,

and then Yuan Mei.

Wait, wait! I'll speak.

I pushed Xiaoguang down.

But I did it under Luo Haoran's instructions.

He promised me one million

if I killed Xiaoguang.

It's too late now.

I'll do it.

You give me one million yuan.

You believed in verbal promise?

I'm not afraid he won't pay me

because I have other evidence against him.

I was at the scene when Wu Jianjun died,

and I clearly know

what Luo Haoran and Wu Hanlei did.

I provided such important clues.

Does that count as meritorious performance?

Do you have evidence?

The video is in my cloud storage.

[Log in]

[Yang Bing 888]

[Basement 2]

Play it again.

Wait a moment.

Captain,

that audio from Yuan Mei

was extracted from a video

and has been edited.

She tampered with the evidence.

Tampering with and fabricating evidence is a serious crime.

[Evidence Name: USB Drive]

[Case Name: Wu Jianjun Suicide Case]

Yuan Mei,

you spent so much money on a lawyer.

You should know

how many years you'll be sentenced for your actions.

Yuan Mei,

Wu Jianjun recorded a confession video

before his suicide

and placed it on this USB drive.

He wanted to use this method

to draw our police's attention

and investigate the issues surrounding Luobai.

But unfortunately,

this USB drive

was ultimately taken by Luo Haoran

and hid it

behind the painting of Luobai.

After the Collapse Incident,

you went to Luo Haoran's place

and took the USB drive from behind that painting.

You extracted the audio

from the video

and edited it to create evidence of Wu Jianjun's guilt-driven suicide.

You're very clever.

You thought you had done it flawlessly,

but unfortunately...

Where is the original video from the USB drive?

Tell the truth.

It's stored on my phone.

[Investigation Area]

[Surveillance Room]

[Investigation Area]

[Inquiry Room]

Captain.

[Investigation Area]

I admit it.

I admit that I already knew

there was a sinkhole beneath Luobai.

I invested all my energy and time

into Luobai.

I am the most heartbroken one

by this incident.

It's all fate.

People can't fight against fate.

How do you explain that

you instigated everyone to murder Xiaoguang?

Did I say anything that they would actually do?

That scoundrel Yang Bing

knows best how Xiaoguang died.

Zhou,

Lin Yuyang and the others

are all clear about it too.

According to Yang Bing's statement,

you bribed him

and instructed him

to kill Xiaoguang.

Let me say a few more words about Yang Bing.

When I first met him,

I felt something was off.

I wanted the security department to investigate him thoroughly.

Later,

whenever he saw me, he would share

some internal affairs of the Luobai Shopping Mall,

like how someone from the finance department

was kissing in the parking lot,

or how the head of the vehicle management department

was using cars without authorization.

As a manager of Luobai,

these information was important to me.

But then,

I found out this guy was full of nonsense;

not a word he said was true.

He only told me what he thought I wanted to hear.

Officer Ye,

don't let someone like him confuse

your investigation.

Luo Haoran,

with so many people pointing fingers at you,

yet you're still beating around the bush.

I know they would accuse me.

Let me put it this way,

Xiaoguang's death

can't be said to have nothing to do with me.

It's all because of that video I recorded.

They wanted to cover up those

shady things they did,

like collectively beating Xiaoguang

and they harmed Xiaoguang under Yang Bing's lead.

Why did I record the video?

I wanted to stay alive.

The building collapsed,

and they thought it's my fault.

I was afraid that they might team up one day

to kill me and my daughter.

In fact, your daughter also participated in the group beating.

She acted solely to protect me.

She stabbed Xiaoguang in a moment of desperation,

which was self-defense.

Besides, she didn't participate

in the collective effort to harm Xiaoguang later on.

What about Wu Hanlei?

I hit him.

Because he's a beast.

He kept deceiving me, over and over.

He asked me repeatedly to donate money for rituals,

donate money for rituals.

Despairingly,

I actually believed him.

The building collapsed.

I lost control of my emotions

and hit him,

but he didn't die.

That's not what I'm asking about.

I'm asking how he died.

He died?

Is that why I didn't see him later?

How did he die?

Luo Haoran,

stop pretending.

Your daughter has already confessed.

You strangled Wu Hanlei

and then buried him in the ruins.

You've been trying to brainwash your daughter.

but unfortunately,

it didn't work.

Now, the only person she hates is you.

In her mind, you're

nothing but a heinous

murderer.

Officer Ye,

you

just want me to admit that I am the murderer, right?

Show me the evidence.

Whether it's what my daughter said

or anyone else,

I won't acknowledge any of it.

Running Luobai for this long,

plenty of people have tried to bring me down.

Focus on the facts, not confessions.

You should know that better than I do.

Fine,

then we'll wait and see.

Captain,

even if we can't charge him with murder,

Luo Haoran can't escape the liability for the Collapse Incident at Luobai.

That's right.

Luo Haoran

will be sentenced to at least a decade or so.

The suspect has been arrested, but the case isn't solved yet.

We can't let the truth remain buried forever.

Keep comparing the details,

see if anything has been overlooked.

Yes.

Look at this.

What's wrong with the photo?

An ATM.

Zhou said

they used a diesel generator to fix the power issue.

The ATM is located right in the atrium,

so as long as the collapse didn't cut off

the ATM's power

it might have recorded everything down below.

Come here and give me a hand.

Great, Captain! The power's still on.

Contact the bank immediately

and see if they can retrieve the surveillance footage.

Officer Ye.

[Luobai Shopping Mall DLM5 Cash Withdrawal Outlet]

[Luobai Shopping Mall DLM5 Cash Withdrawal Outlet]

Who recorded this?

Who recorded this?

Get up!

[The defendant, Luo Haoran,]

[was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to death, with deprivation of political rights for life.]

[For endangering public safety by dangerous means, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprived of political rights for life.]

[For provoking trouble, he was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.]

[For bribery of non-state officials, he was sentenced to three years in prison and fined 100,000 RMB.]

[For a major responsibility accident, he was sentenced to three years in prison.]

[The death penalty was imposed with deprivation of political rights for life and a fine of 100,000 RMB.]

[The defendant, Yang Bing,]

was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to death with a two-year reprieve, and deprived of political rights for life.]

[For theft, he was sentenced to seven years in prison and fined 20,000 RMB.]

[For extortion, he was sentenced to ten years in prison and fined 100,000 RMB.]

[For rape, he was sentenced to three years and six months in prison.]

[For perjury, he was sentenced to eight months in prison.]

[The death penalty was imposed with a two-year reprieve, and he was deprived of political rights for life, and fined 120,000 RMB.]

[The defendant, Zhou Yi, was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to life imprisonment, with deprivation of political rights for life.]

[For harboring a criminal, he was sentenced to one year in prison.]

[For theft, he was sentenced to seven months in prison and fined 3,000 RMB.]

[The life sentence was imposed, with deprivation of political rights for life and a fine of 3,000 RMB.]

[The defendant, Ding Zi, was convicted of intentional injury and sentenced to five years in prison.]

[For obstructing testimony, she was sentenced to six months in prison.]

[The total sentence is five years and two months in prison.]

[The defendant, Yuan Mei, was convicted of intentional homicide and sentenced to twelve years in prison, with deprivation of political rights for five years.]

[For fraud, she was sentenced to twelve years in prison and fined 600,000 RMB.]

[The total sentence is twenty years in prison, with deprivation of political rights for five years.]

[and a fine of 600,000 RMB.]

[The defendant, Guo Haoyu, was convicted of attempted intentional homicide and sentenced to three years and six months in prison.]

[For obstructing testimony, he was sentenced to ten months in prison.]

[The total sentence is three years and eight months in prison.]

[The criminal suspect, Chang Xiangning, has died and will no longer be pursued for criminal responsibility.]

[The defendant, Lin Yuyang, based on the facts of the case, was found by the court to have acted in self-defense]

[and did not exceed the necessary limits, thus she is not criminally liable and is declared not guilty.]

[The Haizhou City Prosecutor's Office has made a decision not to prosecute the criminal suspects, Hai Mei and Tao Ye,]

[who voluntarily confessed to the facts and whose criminal circumstances are minor.]

[The Haizhou City Emergency Management Bureau has imposed an administrative penalty of 5 million RMB]

[on Luobai Shopping Mall and Sancheng Construction Group for their illegal activities,]

[in accordance with Article 16 of the Regulations on Fines for Production Safety Accidents.]

Thank you for your hard work.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Captain,

it's New Year today,

and we've wrapped up the Luobai case.

How about we take a break tonight

and have dinner together?

Yes, we should take a break;

you have worked hard.

Go home and enjoy the holiday

with your families.

Captain,

come have dinner with us.

I'm not going;

I have some things to take care of.

Alright,

we'll finish up when we get back.

Okay, okay.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Happy New Year.

Let's go, Ying.

Let's go.

Thank you.

Thank you.

[All calls]

[Call Details]

What did you talk about with Xiaoguang

[Call Details]

on the phone that day?

Well,

that might not be convenient to disclose.

Here's the thing.

Xiaoguang's case has been closed.

I'm here today as a friend

to understand some details.

Because I have a few questions in mind,

I hope you can help me out.

Had Xiaoguang

been undergoing psychological treatment?

Yes,

Xiaoguang is my patient.

[Yang Yulu, the Psychologist]

Three years ago,

he witnessed

his younger brother die in a fire,

which caused him severe psychological trauma.

Since then,

whenever he got close to a rescue scene,

he relived that fire,

feeling the burning,

sweating, and choking sensations,

and the horrific details of his brother Xiaoliang's death

kept flashing before his eyes.

When I first met him,

he hadn't slept for over a month

and clearly was no longer fit for

the firefighting job.

He hadn't resigned at that time?

Yes.

He loved his job very much.

He came to me

seeking help to

overcome his post-traumatic stress disorder.

However,

his condition was indeed severe.

In order not to delay the fire brigade's work

or become a burden to them,

he chose to resign.

So, were you the one

treating him for the entire three years?

He had ups and downs.

When he called me

that day,

I was quite surprised

because he hadn't contacted me for over a month

before that.

He talked a lot about Xiaoliang,

and I thought he was nearly better.

Patients with post-traumatic stress disorder

tend to instinctively avoid memories related to their trauma.

And he was able to face it at that time.

Did he go to Luobai Shopping Mall that day

intending to commit suicide?

Do you think

he hadn't recovered from his illness?

How could he possibly rush in to save people?

Can you show me his medical records?

I could have saved him,

but I didn't do well.

I didn't manage to save him.

All these years,

Xiaoguang has been undergoing treatment for his

post-traumatic stress disorder.

I don't know how effective it has been.

You mentioned that you saw light in his eyes that day,

and I believe that light was real.

Do you want to get better?

Do you want to get better?

Yes.

Thank you.

Thank you, Officer Ye.

♫Look up♫

♫There will be light♫

♫No sound♫

♫Lighting up the night♫

♫Don't be afraid♫

♫There's always light♫

♫Can hold♫

♫The weight of the heart♫

♫Light♫

♫If it's the truth♫

♫If you long for things♫

♫To be the way they were at the beginning♫

♫Let the wind♫

♫Fly free♫

♫Go far away♫

♫To chase the light♫

♫Direction♫

♫Light♫

[The end]

♫To chase the light♫