At 7:00 in the evening, Chen Shi followed the police to the address given by the suspects: Phase III of Wangcheng New Housing Community.

Looking at the large array of gray building silhouettes that appeared in front of him, Chen Shi wondered why they chose this place. There were no shops around the back and it wasn’t connected to the village in the front. Once the road was blocked by the SWAT team, they wouldn’t be able to escape.

Surrounded by the police, Zhou Xiao had only two options: to die with the hostages or to surrender.

Unless Zhou Xiao was crazy, there was no reason to turn a cat-and-mouse game with a winning ticket into a life and death struggle with a hostage-taking event.

Or was Xiaodong just a decoy and traps had been set up in those gloomy buildings? Bombs could be planted, machine guns could be set up, and they were just...