At three o'clock in the morning, the kidnapper called. They don't want money - they want the retired judge to admit his mistake publicly.
Song Ci entered the industry at the age of twenty and was engaged in the most shady business in the underground world: a negotiator. The kidnapper demanded a price, the family raised money, and the police put pressure. He stood in the middle of the three parties and exchanged the living person with just one mouth. He has never failed in ten years, at the cost of becoming a thorn in each other's side with the entire public security system.
This time it was a nine-year-old boy who was kidnapped. The kidnappers asked him to talk by name.
The ransom is not a number, it is a death penalty case from twenty years ago. A name called Zhou Haisheng, an unclaimed body, and the truth that a retired judge refused to tell. The moment Song Ci opened the case file, he found that every step he took was stepping on the grid preset by others - from the kidnapper's bidding method, to the rhythm of leaking the details of the case, and even the time he took the case, everything was as precise as a chess game.
Someone is using this kidnapping case to play a bigger game than he imagined.
At the same time, Interpol Yu received a text message. The sender of the letter was a man who died ten years ago - Song Ci's master and her spiritual support, Zhong Yue. The number is the old one, and the tone is his own.
She flew from Beijing to Shanghai following the news and discovered that Zhong Yue's death was related to everything that was happening.
And the organization hidden under the water is called Chessboard.
