The Seventh Night of Cicada Sloughing

On a rainy night in Bingang City, forensic doctor Jiang Linxia cut out a living cicada slough from the chest of a drowned man. The autopsy report showed that the deceased died of frostbite seven days ago. When she received an anonymous death notice from "The Seventh Night of Cicadas", six strange corpses appeared one after another in Tongzi Tower - new cicada wing patterns under the skin of the corpses. The time of death was exactly seven hours apart, but the surveillance video always showed a space-time rift at 03:07. Jiang Linxia discovered that all the deceased were infected with a parasitic anti-entropic fungus, and their DNA was exactly the same as that of the deceased who died from mass freezing twenty years ago. . What's even more fatal is that the "7" birthmark on her palm is seeping into the blood vessels as the countdown continues, and the autopsy mirror frequently flashes her corpse in a police uniform from the 1990s. She finally realized that in this bloody reincarnation spanning twenty-seven years, she was the last sacrifice. Tens of thousands of cicada pupae spew out from the rusted tube building water pipes, and the funeral parlor's freezer is etched with murder notices across time and space. The forensic scalpel will reveal the most horrifying truth - when the cicadas chirp on the seventh night, can the observers cut off the immortality curse parasitic on human civilization before the time loop is completed? This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.