Two Guns

Out of the corner of her eye, Zhang Wenwen suddenly caught sight of someone staggering. “Must be tough, trying to catch a train after drinking that much.” The figure was neither very far away nor very close. If she focused, she could make it out well enough. The swaying figure had become the “protagonist” in Zhang Wenwen's eyes. She glanced from the train to the person, silently working out the distance between them. “They should make it, right?” Thinking of the power struggles at her company, she found herself rooting for the drunk despite herself. “Oh no!” Zhang Wenwen squeezed her eyes shut in fright and covered her ears. But the shrill screech of emergency brakes, a heart-rending scream, and the sound of a giant mass crushing bones pierced her mind and echoed through the night sky. “What? A woman's body was found in the City Impression residential complex? All right, I understand. I'll send a few colleagues over first.” The three crossed the cordon and approached the victim. One of them asked, “Have you confirmed the victim's identity?” “Zhang Wenwen, thirty-five, female. She lived in apartment 1506, Unit 1, Building 7. That's the one.” Xie Jingzhong is the deputy captain of Mingcheng's Criminal Investigation Brigade. Tan Ming'an is the brigade's forensic examiner. One is a fighter, the other a scholar, and together they are known as the “Twin Guns of Mingcheng.” The story begins with a witness to a train-disintegration case falling to her death, and goes on to include the Ghost-Hair Murder, where a female ghost's hair takes lives; a shameless blackmail case; a locked-room murder committed for revenge; and more. Amid the cold steel-and-concrete jungle, there is also the warmth of humanity.