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Chapter 12: Finding her
After Cixi fell into the ocean, the port fell into a strange, unnatural silence. The waves still moved. The cranes still stood. Every heart still throbbed except for one body lying on the cold concrete in a pool of blood. The air around seemed to wait for someone to breathe louder to shatter this bizarre silence that wasn’t quite silence at all.
A bald man finally moved. He stuck his gun under his jacket, then pulled out his phone and dialled a number. The call connected quickly. "Boss," he looked tense and slightly fearful of whoever he was speaking to. "We lost Markus. And the girl... We had no choice but to shoot her," he squeezed his eyes shut, forcing himself to continue, "she fell into the... water."
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