Hong Kong Films: The Dark Night System, Becoming the Judge of the Night

After transmigrating into a world where Hong Kong action films have merged, Li Fei becomes an ordinary patrol officer at the West Kowloon Police Station. He is bound to the Dark Night System and gets two skills from the start: a homing arrow that hits its target from a hundred paces, and swift movement like the wind, along with a disguise technique so convincing it can fool anyone. By day, he patrols the streets in uniform, mocked by his colleagues as a dull man who takes the “play it safe” rule to pathological extremes. By night, he puts on a human-skin mask and becomes the Dark Night Judge, a figure who strikes terror into the underworld.

The night Tsim Sha Tsui boss Ni Kun is murdered, a gunshot rings out as a cold arrow pierces Ni Kun’s head with deadly accuracy. The forensic report says, “One arrow, one bullet, two killers,” but Liu Jianming, standing in the stairwell, knows better than anyone: that arrow wasn’t his. The police hunt the archer, the underworld puts a bounty on him, and the whole city searches for someone who shouldn’t exist. Meanwhile, Li Fei has just closed the skill panel for his homing arrow and is considering whether his next target should be Ding Kun or Zhu Tao. Huang Zhicheng is still investigating Ni Kun’s case, unaware that the arrow’s sights are already quietly trained on his brow.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.