Nightbridge City, located on the border between humans and the Fallen, is a city with long-term chaos, poor public security, and rampant shadows.
The moment Su Yue stepped into this area, she felt a long-lost "sense of familiarity".
That was her memory before she was ten years old. Before the blood clan took her away from here, she lived here with her uncle.
At that time, her name was "Su Ning".
"The wind in Nightbridge smells of rust." Ethan stood beside her, looking at the walls of the street blackened by graffiti and fire, and said lightly.
"Rust?" Su Yue looked up.
"It's the smell of guns, which are tools used by humans to resist the night world." He smiled, "Very primitive, very direct."
Their mission this time is to arrest a defected Fallen in Nightbridge City: Lin Ji, who is Su Yue's uncle.
According to the statement given by the parliament, this person stole the secrets of the Fallen Camp in his early years and escaped into the human world. He has now contacted an anti-night world organization and has the potential to expose Su Yue's true identity.
But Su Yue knew that Lin Ji became a traitor only because he refused to hand over "Su Ning".
Back then, he was forcibly marked as a "clearance target", but he broke through three layers of defense from the Fallen Camp by himself and fled with her for three years.
In the end, she was still taken away.
"You want to catch him yourself?" Ethan looked at her, "This is not the style of the parliament."
"The parliament won't let me kill him." Su Yue sneered, "They just want to see if I will refuse."
"Then will you?"
"I don't know." She answered in a low voice.
Abandoned factory in the East District of Night Bridge City.
In her memory, this was where she played in her childhood. Now, it has become the "traitor hiding place" indicated by the parliament's intelligence.
When she stood in front of the rusty iron door, her heart suddenly beat twice as fast as usual.
She pushed the door open and entered.
The inside of the dim factory was as quiet as a grave. Only the broken glass windows reflected the faint moonlight.
Suddenly, a black shadow fell from the sky, sweeping across with a long knife!
Su Yue instinctively turned sideways and slapped the wall with one palm, and the whole piece of iron sheet was shaken away.
"It's you..." A low and hoarse male voice sounded in the darkness.
She looked closely and saw that the man with the knife was her uncle, Lin Ji.
He had thick stubble, sharp eyes, an old sniper rifle on his back, and old blood on his body.
"Su Ning?" His voice trembled, "Is it you?"
"I... am Su Yue now." She answered softly.
Lin Ji took a step back and stared at the Fallen Camp uniform on her body.
"They turned you into this..."
"Why did you betray them?" Su Yue asked back.
"I didn't betray anyone." Lin Ji roared, "I betrayed the false 'order' they mentioned!"
He took out a broken blood crystal, pointed at it and said, "This is your mother's heart core! She was dissected as an experimental subject by them! Just because she has the 'possibility of being mixed-blood'!"
Su Yue's face froze.
Lin Ji continued, "They want you to come back now, just to verify whether the blood seal in your body belongs to the 'moon origin', whether it can open that... old world sealed door!"
Su Yue was cold all over. What Lin Ji said echoed with what Ethan said about the "older existence".
"I only ask you one question," Lin Ji took a step closer and whispered, "Do you want to believe me or them?"
Gunshots suddenly sounded outside.
Ethan appeared and said coldly: "It's time."
He kicked the iron door open, and a silver light shattered the bomb device buried above.
"The parliament has locked this place. If you don't leave, you will die."
Lin Ji's eyes were stern: "Is it him? The Silver Eyed Killer?"
"Shut up." Ethan's eyes were murderous.
"You are still with them--"
"I'm not with them." Ethan interrupted coldly, "I'm just with her."
This sentence made Lin Ji silent.
Su Yue stood between the two of them, like a pendulum standing in a crack.
Finally, she threw a black card to Lin Ji.
"Take the 'Drifting Shadow Passage' and go to 'Lightless Bay'."
"Can I still trust you?"
"You can only trust me."
Lin Ji was silent for a long time, and finally took the card and disappeared into the darkness.
Yeqiao City South District, rooftop
Su Yue sat in the cold wind, saying nothing.
"You let him go." Ethan walked up to her.
"I gave the parliament a receipt." She said lightly, "The information he said is true, and his value is greater than death."
"You are starting to learn to lie." Ethan commented.
Su Yue did not deny it.
"Are you disappointed?" she suddenly asked.
"No." Ethan sat down, "I'm just... glad that you still have humanity."
"Humanity will kill me."
"But because of this, you are not a tool."
In the night wind, the two were silent.
That night, they were no longer the master and the servant, or the task and the object, but two people struggling for the same "abnormality".
The next morning, the parliament issued a "review passed" judgment.
But at the same time, a secret order was quietly issued:
"The lurking in Yeqiao City failed, and the target Su Yue showed a tendency towards self-consciousness. The next stage must be deployed immediately - catalyzing the awakening of the blood seal."
And the way to catalyze this is a "hunting incident" disguised as a human attacker.
They want Su Yue to completely awaken the dormant blood seal between life and death -
even if the price is to massacre the city.