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BODY FOUND! HELP!

Hello.

He's asleep. What's up?

Keep a close eye on him.

Call me if he leaves the house.

What happened?

Has Sundess arrived in Hong Kong?

Do as I say and keep in touch.

They are too close.

They'll be easily noticed.

Officer Liu.

Tell the guys to spread out. Don't follow so closely.

Understood.

Cars one and two, spread out.

I'll follow them.

Please hand over your phone.

Ms. Zhuang.

You rarely bring friends here.

How should I address you?

Zhang Tianming.

I was lucky I had him.

Otherwise, I would've been doomed.

Welcome, Officer Zhang.

Boss.

- Boss. - Boss.

Let me introduce

Zhang Tianming.

Senior Inspector of WestK DCS.

Heavily relied upon

and in charge of many cases.

Hello, boss.

I have some connections.

I hope I can be of help to you.

Officer Zhang,

do you have another friend outside?

Why not invite him in for a chat?

What is it?

Your friend would like you to come in.

Who is this, Officer Zhang? Perhaps you could introduce us.

Will Officer Liu be in danger?

Give him some time.

He will surely sort it out.

He's my superior.

Not sure why he followed me.

Let me say a few words myself.

After the last auction,

we police have seized all the evidence,

cracked the computer.

But for some reason,

it didn't display properly,

and Ms. Zhuang walked free.

And then I began to suspect this guy.

So I started to follow him.

But I really didn't expect

that today I would come here.

Before retiring, I am able to meet so many important figures.

Do you know how excited I am?

In terms of rank,

I am the Chief Inspector. What is he?

Experience and connections,

do you have them?

How can he take Officer Ye's place?

He's a minor character and can't do anything.

Won't you consider me?

Turns out you're selling yourself.

Officer, how should I address you?

Liu Weitao.

Officer Liu,

how about this?

Let's have a drink.

NO SIGNAL

Where's the signal?

Is it our problem?

Let me check.

I checked. It's not our problem.

I'll go take a look. You keep watch.

Okay.

Check again.

Attention everyone.

Dr. Chen's car on Route Two.

Dr. Zhou fainted in the back seat.

- Dr. Chen is missing. - Understood.

- Please keep an eye on it. - Okay.

Shenju, let's go.

For many years, I've had a hidden ailment.

That is, I can't choose.

What I fear most is making choices.

Both of you are elites,

but I can only choose one.

How shall I choose?

- Dr. Zhou. - Hui, what happened?

Dr. Zhou has a needle mark on her neck.

- Mom, Mom. - Why is Dr. Zhou here?

Where's Dr. Chen?

I think we've been tricked.

How about this?

The two of you help me decide.

Let's see who can impress me.

Where did the fire come from?

FIRE IN VISTA TOWER

Help.

Help.

After so many years,

I still have nightmares.

Surrounded by fire.

Such heavy smoke.

The 1990 Vista Tower fire

claimed countless lives and homes.

PURE ACCIDENT

- It's on fire. - Where can we go?

- Hurry. - Stay away.

- Go, go. - Move quickly.

Go, go.

- What should we do? - What should we do?

- Be careful. - What should we do?

- Careful, boss. - Hurry up.

- Go, go. - Help.

Move.

Help.

- Is there anyone outside? - Be careful.

Stop. It's dangerous.

- Help. - Don't go there.

- Dangerous. - Get inside and hide, quick.

- This way. - Take cover.

Quickly.

- Open the door. - Boss.

- Boss, open the door. - Boss.

Why do you close the door?

This room is a Feng Shui room.

You can't just let anyone in.

Let us in.

Boss.

Quick, think of something.

Use some force.

They'll die if we don't open the door.

Pretend you saw nothing.

Follow me from now on,

you can have endless wealth and enjoyment.

WET FLOOR

Officer Liu.

I've got the hard drive.

Evidence of Sundess's guilt.

Well done.

Officer Liu.

Jiajie, where are you?

It's Officer Liu.

- Doctor, how is it? - I'm sorry.

Jiajie,

even if you beat him to death,

Officer Liu won't come back.

Sundess is not dead.

He was going to be in jail for life.

Your arson condemned my brother.

It was you who killed him.

Take him out.

- Leave. - Go.

Is he trying to lock up the mother and daughter?

Work and don't talk nonsense.

Mom.

Where is Jiao?

She's in Officer Liu's office.

My mom watched the news.

Knowing about incident,

she wants me to quit.

You're your mother's only son.

It's understandable.

Indeed.

Nothing is more important than family.

What do you plan to do?

Officer Liu said

we are the DCS.

Persevere is important.

Never give up.

Now, Officer Liu is off duty.

We need to hold the fort.

I can't leave.

Thank you.

Anything else I can do?

He knows Sundess isn't dead

and refuses to say anything.

Let me try.

- Mom. - It's okay, don't worry.

Let's go.

Someone wants to see you.

Sorry.

I'm not here as a police consultant today.

I came as your wife.

We've been married for so long.

Turns out you have kept so many secrets from me.

Such a big thing has happened

and I can't help you.

I feel like I'm responsible.

Darling,

can you promise me

from now on,

you won't keep secrets anymore?

Be honest with me, okay?

Let's face it together.

I want to know,

is he Mai Zhihong's tutor?

How did they meet?

Why did they conspire to kill?

Are you Mai Zhihong's tutor?

How did you meet?

Why did you kill people?

The fate between people is truly mysterious.

The day I met Mai Zhihong,

he wanted to commit suicide.

BUT IF I'M DEAD…

I was passing by the park.

I found him writing a suicide note

So I said to him,

"If you dare to kill yourself,

it's better to do something more meaningful."

I not only saved his life

but also found out he was bullied at school every day.

Because he had cognitive impairments,

he was underachieving.

He felt despair at life.

So I tutored him for free.

This question

is asking you about AC.

Given that ABN is greater than DIA.

I also took him to visit my university.

In his eyes,

I am the only person

who cares about him.

Can I really study here?

He was so nice to Mai.

What was his purpose?

Did he intend to use him?

I sincerely wanted to help him.

Perhaps because his experiences are very similar to mine.

We were both forgotten by the world.

From the moment he was born,

his mom blamed him for his father's death.

As for me, when I was born,

my dad just abandoned our whole family,

leaving me alone to bear it.

I even had to rob someone

to pay my mom's medical bill.

Since you hate your dad so much,

what you did certainly wasn't to avenge him.

Why did you kill so many people?

You poured all the ashes into the toilet.

You hate your dad.

For so many years, I kept reminding myself

that nothing is more important than family.

Today, you betray me.

You are the same as He Zhaoyong.

That year I went to Vista Tower,

begging my dad to see my mom for the last time,

only to be driven away by him and that woman.

At that moment I really wished he were dead.

I beg you.

Mom is dying.

Can you spare a little time?

- Go see her for the last time. - You are so annoying.

Stop bothering me.

I'm begging you.

Please, I'm begging you.

- Go see her for the last time. - Alright, alright.

I'll go, I'll go.

- I'll go. - When are you going?

I'll go.

Go to hell.

I'm sorry.

It's okay.

I'm sorry.

It's alright.

Turns out my mom had an affair.

And she even provoked my dad.

She said I was not his biological child.

In a fit of anger,

he left home,

then gambled and fooled around with women.

Before my mom passed away,

he finally forgave her.

He also apologized to me

for misunderstanding

that I was not his child.

My dad finally made peace with me.

Who knew, that night he'd go back to Vista Tower,

only to die in a fire for no reason.

My mom couldn't take the shock

and passed away not long after.

That night,

I thought I finally had a family.

The same night, that big fire

destroyed many families.

When did you start planning to kill?

Why would Mai Zhihong help you?

- Get some rest. - You too.

After visiting my mom at the hospital that night,

I took my dad back to Vista Tower.

When I was leaving,

I saw a few men

sneaking around with kerosene drums.

Tian,

tell the guys to move faster.

That man exchanged glances with the security guard,

and the guard opened the door to let him go upstairs.

I didn't give much thought to

what would happen.

Never expected it to cause a fire.

Thirty-nine lives were lost in the fire,

including my father.

LIST OF VICTIMS

Who knew the fire investigation report…

PURE ACCIDENT

…would claim it was just an accident

free of human intervention.

I found it very suspicious.

So, I wrote an anonymous letter

informing the DCS of what I witnessed.

I suggested to them

that it might have been arson.

I urged them to dig deeper.

Who would have thought

that the police would not take any action,

and the case was simply left unresolved.

I couldn't let these murderers get away with it.

Since the law didn't apply to them,

I decided to take matters into my own hands.

We did not receive an anonymous letter.

Officer Ye must have intercepted it.

Later, I found out that Grim Ace was involved that night.

I wanted to know who else was involved.

So I followed him.

- Come on. - Cheers.

If those deadbeats had agreed to sell,

we wouldn't have had to take action.

Never expected such a huge fire.

They were just unlucky.

Fire makes the land flourish.

Thanks, boss.

Thanks, Fa.

I never thought that behind this case,

there would be such an enormous group involved.

All of these people deserve to die.

Come on, eat.

I wanted to use different methods

to kill this scums

But it's hard to do it alone.

Since Mai Zhihong admired me so much,

he would never betray me.

He was my best assistant.

Who is there?

Who are you?

I thought of using my medical knowledge.

First knock them out with an anesthetic needle.

Then stage different types of death

to mislead the police.

Actually, Mai Zhihong was a rather pitiful person.

He was persecuted and bullied by society.

He had nowhere to vent,

which was why he helped.

He didn't just help me.

He also helped himself

and killed the person he wanted to kill.

Who was it?

You grab him.

Find his neck.

At this position.

Inject this much. That'll be enough.

The throat, be quick.

Don't hesitate.

Do you know the best method

to deal with those who bully you.

Strike first to gain the upper hand.

And Zhang Qiang?

The night Zhang was killed,

Mai Zhihong had an alibi.

Who killed him?

My original plan

was just to kill those who conspired in arson.

But on the news that night,

Zhang Qiang claimed he'd saved over a dozen people

in the cargo ship fire.

The government even awarded him a medal.

I remember that at the committee's

press conference,

he kept saying

that the fire was an accident.

As a senior fireman,

he'd know the truth best.

But he lied.

So I was very angry.

I followed him.

Wait here.

- Dad, I want-- - Okay.

Mom wants sesame rice balls.

Mango pudding for you. Back in a minute.

I saw him enter the back alley alone.

Even God gave me a chance.

I didn't have time to notify Mai Zhihong, I had to take action myself.

My dad was innocent.

He was forced. You killed him.

- Officer Zhang. - You killed my dad.

He indeed told lies with his eyes wide open.

In short, those involved in causing this tragedy

must pay the price.

Officer Zhang,

Get out.

Come out. Let me ask.

- Let go of me, bastard. - Get out.

In 1993,

you stopped after killing a few people.

After a few years,

you killed Deng Hongfa.

And then you waited over 20 years

before killing Ma Furong and Shi Dazhi.

Why?

Because of you.

Back then,

I had arranged with Mai Zhihong to go to the sewer

to discuss how to kill Deng Hongfa.

But then you suddenly showed up.

Police.

What about Mai Zhihong's

scar on the right side of his waist?

He said the police always suspected him as the real culprit.

If they found no scar

on his waist,

they'd realize it was someone else.

So he stabbed himself to cover for me.

The police are watching so closely.

If they knew you don't have a wound,

our efforts would be wasted.

Unfortunately,

Mai Zhihong later wanted to kill his sister

and was locked in Siu Lam.

I lost my assistant.

And Deng Hongfa also upped his defenses.

He had bodyguards with him 24 hours a day.

Since I couldn't kill him, I was as well to lie low.

I went to Canada to study.

Afterwards, I thought about letting go of the past

to live a simple life.

But some things are meant to be.

If I hadn't returned to Hong Kong in 1996,

maybe things would have been different.

Darling,

we have tried every method.

Perhaps God

doesn't want us to have offspring.

Then we can adopt.

It doesn't matter.

DENG HONGFA DONATES TO CHARITY

I originally thought I could let go.

But seeing this scumbag doing all sorts of evil deeds,

yet living so gloriously,

with everyone praising him as a great philanthropist,

I could not let him go.

Deng Hongfa knew he had done too many bad things

and feared karma.

He wanted to set up a grave to pursue luck and avoid disaster.

Mr. Deng, you're here.

I've prepared everything you need.

Is it time for the offering right now?

Mr. Deng, the clothes parcel you requested is here.

ANCESTOR DENG JIAN

I didn't expect

not being the only one who wanted to kill Deng Hongfa.

There was also Ye Cheng,

but he couldn't go through with it.

And I couldn't miss the opportunity.

Mai Zhihong once told me

about a sick person where he lived,

who had been an owner at Vista Tower.

Because of a lack of trust in Ma Furong and Yan Hua,

he didn't sell the property.

He suffered retaliation

and was beaten unconscious.

These scumbags harmed far more people

than just those who perished in the fire.

Later,

Mai Zhihong took the opportunity of going out to worship his mother

and successfully escaped.

He continued to help me.

Then you reverted to the method used 25 years ago

and used a sedative needle to knock out Ma Furong.

Then staged the scene

to look like

an accidental electrocution by phone.

You forged evidence on the autopsy report

and moved forward Ma Furong's time of death,

creating an alibi

for Mai Zhihong

and misleading our investigation.

I found out that Ma Furong,

had hotpot with friends from six to eight

that night,

I want to ask

if this means that Mai Zhihong's alibi

is invalid?

According to this deduction,

plus the proof from his autopsy report,

his time of death

was not between 7:30 and 9:30

as previously stated,

but rather after twelve o'clock.

At that time, you didn't fully suspect me.

So I let Mai Zhihong keep in contact with you

to find clues.

Finally, I found a key person.

It was Shi Dazhi.

A needle mark was found on the deceased's neck.

So I'm not ruling out

someone having used a syringe on her neck

to anesthetize her.

Needle mark?

It's Mai Zhihong again.

You messed up the underground bank,

you could be the next one to die at any time.

I'm going to get changed.

Your boss wants to silence you,

and you still cover for him.

Tell me who he really is.

Sun…

Sundess.

Why did you force Mai Zhihong to kill himself?

I didn't force him.

He willingly gave his life back to me.

My life belongs to my teacher.

I will do whatever you ask me to do.

If you think my life is of any use,

you can take it too.

As long as Mai Zhihong saw that pen,

he would understand what I meant.

Zhihong's sacrifice was not in vain.

With his death,

your superiors formally closed the case.

The people of Sundess immediately let down their guard,

allowing me to make a move.

I found out

his wife's painting would be exhibited at the art show.

But it was uncertain if Sundess would return to Hong Kong.

So I started with Zhuang Xiaohua.

I kidnapped her,

forcing her to lure Sundess back to HK

and then to reveal their hideout.

No. No.

No, please no.

Run quickly.

I wanted to burn that scum.

I wanted them to experience

the pain of the deceased in the Vista Tower fire case.

Do you think that killing those people represents justice?

My sole purpose

was revenge.

Whether or not it was just,

I'll leave that for the world to judge.

You even burned innocent people to death.

Does that represent justice?

What's the difference between you and that scum?

The difference is this.

Innocent people die.

I didn't want it this way.

But sometimes, to achieve a goal,

sacrifices are needed.

So you can keep killing.

You even used Kaiqing.

Do you regard her as your daughter?

Let me tell you.

When Kaiqing was born,

I promised myself I'd solve the case at any cost.

I just didn't want my daughter

to grow up in a gloomy, unhealthy world.

I am just like you.

I also want to make the world a better place.

Subtitle translation by: Zhong Wenlong