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During an anticipated football match featuring Longyu’s team on the day of A Hua’s execution date, both A Hua and Du Mingqiang are in the stadium, while Longyu Group security guards are hidden everywhere, thinking that Eumenides will strike during the match.
In a hotel near the stadium, Luo Fei, Yin Jian and Mu Jianyun are in a room, while Liu Song is disguised as Eumenides (using the foam in his clothes) alone in another room. Han Hao is watching Liu Song through CCTV from the hotel basement. When fans create turmoil in the stadium, he goes to Liu Song’s room and shoots him before hiding in another room. Liu Song had a bulletproof vest, so he didn’t die, but Han Hao managed to escape and is met by two of A Hua’s men.
Luo Fei had explained everything to the team beforehand:
A Hua and Meng Fangliang were accomplices to kill Lin Henggan, the whole thing had nothing to do with Eumenides. Motive for Meng Fangliang was succession stuff, but for A Hua, it was also a way to attract Eumenides. Meng Fangliang is the one dressed up as Eumenides who waved at the camera, the clothes and foam were hidden in the drawer. He killed Lin Henggan. When entering the room, A Hua and his man killed Meng Fangliang. He placed a fake death notice in the drawer so that the police don’t find it strange to find it empty. A Hua then let Du Mingqiang write his article to provoke Eumenides, in the hope he would appear at the stadium.
Luo Fei also rightly guessed that Han Hao and A Hua were accomplices, with the same goal of killing Eumenides, which would also explain why Han Hao was hiding so well from Yin Jian’s efforts to find him.
Luo Fei’s plan was for Liu Song to disguise as Eumenides to attract either the real Eumenides who would want to see who was impersonating him, and/or the A Hua/Han Hao gang who would genuinely think he was Eumenides.

Du Mingqiang has written his article, it shows how Meng Fangliang had shown remorse for his crimes and came out a new man after serving his prison sentence, putting Eumenides actions in a bad light.
Luo Fei cracked the mystery of the white plastic foam: it was used to make the man’s stature look bigger than it really was.
During the investigation, A Hua had mentioned A Sheng’s accident and said he thought he was killed by Eumenides. Luo Fei retraces A Hua’s investigation: A Sheng’s lighter brings him to the 绿阳春餐厅, he sees the three men on CCTV, but also spots Chengyu and immediately suspects him. The profile Mu Jianyun had done of Eumenides also matches: it’s possible he was drawn to the music and the violinist. Luo Fei interrogates her and she reveals that her father was Zheng Haoming, the detective in charge of the explosion case 18 years ago, who also suspected Eumenides to be active again. (He is the policeman who investigates by taking pictures of internet cafe users at the beginning of volume 1). He is also the first new victim of Eumenides. Zheng Jia thinks the case is closed with Yuan Zhibang’s death. Luo Fei asks her about the customer who sent her flowers, but she says she does not know him.

Mu Jianyun and Zeng Rihua join the team on the crime scene, they go over possibilities without success until the discovery of clothes and a rope indicating that Eumenides went through the window. Liu Song just arrived (bringing Du Mingqiang with him) and doesn’t think someone could be able to reach the room from outside.
They also find white plastic foam with blood on it, and Luo Fei remembers seeing similar foam on the street.
A Hua wants to use Du Mingqiang to change public opinion on Eumenides, Du Mingqiang says that Lin Henggan and Meng Fangliang‘s death notice gave “association with gang” as reason, but Meng Fangliang already served a prison sentence for that, so he was legally punished, and Eumenides should not have a valide reason to target him.
Luo Fei accepts under the condition that he can reads Du Mingqiang’s article before it gets published.
There’s a drawer in Deng Hua’s desk that was closed, no one, including A Hua and Long Ge, has ever seen what was inside. Police opens it, it contains A Hua’s death notice to take effect in a few days. Reason is also association with gangs.
Chengyu visits Zheng Jiao for her birthday, he thinks that taking care of her is his responsibility.