The Heart of Machinery and the Whispers of Bones

Lu Zhiwei, the chief medical examiner of the Chixiao Federation, can read the memory of the deceased by touching the corpse, but is on the verge of collapse due to a strange synesthesia. Her AI partner Shu was demoted to pocket watch form - this criminal investigation system with rigorous logic but no sense of humor was branded as a defective product due to a faulty emotional module. When the scorched corpse case in the Capitol revealed the secret message of the reverse pentagram that had not been solved for twenty years, the two were forced to go deep into the vortex of the four-nation dispute: the mermaid skeletons of the Cangming Water Kingdom concealed a genetic modification conspiracy, the annual rings of the Qinglan World Tree were etched with the truth of cross-species massacre, and under the Ten Thousand Bones Imperial Ceremony in the White Skeleton Sanctuary, taboo experiments on machinery and flesh were quietly reviving. All clues point to the Demonic Awakening Plan of the Shadow Order - they try to use the DNA of the leaders of the four countries to restart the ancient AI Shadow Cardinal, turning human civilization into a puppet in the data torrent. In this game between cyberspace and magic, Lu Zhiwei's synesthesia becomes the key to breaking the game, while the sealed memory data of the Hubby hidden the world-destroying agreement. When the pocket watch gears overclock for the last time, they must make a choice: destroy the Shadow Cardinal and end the Millennium Wheel This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.