Episode 1

The story takes place in a county called Zhaoyang, where three teenagers disappeared near Feilong Game Hall. After receiving the report, the police began to search for them.Two of the three missing teenagers are junior high school students Bian Jie and Wang Shuai.Another person they met was Du Yi, a social worker.Wang Shitu, the captain of the criminal investigation detachment, knew Bian Jie's stepfather because Bian Jie was the same age as his son and a classmate. They met when they picked up the children from school.

Bian Jie's stepfather Jin Manfu cooperated with the police investigation. According to Jin Manfu's statement, although the child was not his biological son, they had lived together for ten years and there was no difference between Bian Jie and his biological son.After the police visited and investigated, they found that it was not Jin Manfu's business rivals who acted maliciously.

Wang Shitu got a new clue after visiting the game hall. The human trafficker they had been tracing, Guo Guizhi, had been to the game hall. The boss discovered that she had interacted with the three missing children, so Wang Shitu thought that they should start with Guo Guizhi., but Qin Yong, a police officer who was transferred from the city to assist in the investigation, believed that it was too early to draw a conclusion, and he was more inclined to commit a homicide.

Qin Yong, who had just arrived, and Wang Shitu had different views on the same case. Wang Shitu did not want to waste time, so he proposed separate investigations.Wang Shitu caught Guo Guizhi, but she confessed that she had nothing to do with the three missing teenagers. Qin Yong asked Jin Manfu and Bian Meizhen to find out whether anything abnormal happened the day before the children disappeared, but Bian Meizhen was mentally disturbed and saidI kept thinking about the water ghost.Because Bian Jie couldn't swim when he was ten years old and had drowned. After being rescued, he had a high fever for several days and kept talking nonsense, saying that he had been caught by a water ghost.

Wang Shitu lost control of his emotions during the interrogation of Guo Guizhi. He knew that Guo Guizhi had been abducting children for 20 years. He took out a photo of his child and asked her if she had seen it. Guo Guizhi saw that the child in the photo looked very similar to Wang Shitu. GuessWhen she found out it was his child, she said she seemed to have seen it before.But she was very arrogant and did not want to cooperate with the police.She said that the child fell ill and died on the way to transport. Wang Shitu almost beat her, but luckily he was stopped by his apprentice.Now Qin Yong and Wang Shitu have found nothing after several days of investigation. Wang Shitu knows that the clues are broken.The 417 task force has been temporarily disbanded and will continue the investigation after there are clues.

A few years later, Bian Jie's life took an unexpected turn.One day, he witnessed a thief stealing an aunt's money on the bus.He acted decisively and quietly took back the money from the thief, preparing to quietly put it back into his aunt's schoolbag.However, his behavior was misunderstood by other passengers and he was regarded as a thief and sent to the Public Security Bureau.At this time, a passenger recognized the special mark on Bian Jie's arm and shouted his name in shock.

Faced with the sudden change, Bian Jie was unable to defend himself and could only be temporarily detained.The passenger who recognized him claimed to be Bian Jie's uncle Bian Yutang. He anxiously said that Bian Jie had been missing for three years and his family was very worried.However, Bian Jie has no memory of this so-called uncle.But Bian Yutang was able to accurately say that Bian Jie disappeared on April 17, 1993.

This discovery resurfaced the unsolved 417 case many years ago.Today, Qin Yong has been promoted to captain, while Wang Shitu still serves as deputy captain.As an old friend of Wang Shitu, the director felt sorry for his promotion and hoped that he could pursue progress more actively.With the arrival of Bian Jie's sister, Bian Jie's identity was confirmed. She held her brother and cried bitterly, but Bian Jie seemed relatively indifferent. Three years had made his family concept blurred.

On the way home, Qin Yong tried to talk to Bian Jie to learn the details of the disappearance that year.Bian Jie revealed that when he regained his memory, he was in a den of thieves in Hexi and was forced to steal by a man named Qing Ye.However, when asked about the whereabouts of Wang Shuai and Du Yi, his eyes flickered and his words were vague.The sister felt sorry for her brother and didn't want him to recall that painful experience again, so she asked Qin Yong not to ask too many questions for the time being and let Bian Jie take a good rest first.In fact, Bian Jie had a conflict with Wang Shuai and accidentally stabbed him, after which he and Du Yi fled the scene.