Murder in a Parallel Universe

Parallel-Timeline Murder: The Search for a Killer Who Doesn't Exist

At the explosion site of a quantum laboratory, physicist Gu Yan dies from "consciousness extraction." Golden particles left at the scene contain the DNA of criminal investigator Lu Shen, even though he had never set foot there three days earlier. Stranger still, after touching the particles, Lu Shen's left eye repeatedly flashes with visions of a future in which he shoots Gu Yan, while a scar matching the "killer's profile" appears out of nowhere on his palm.

As a biologist and a painter die in succession from the same "consciousness extraction," clues from across timelines gradually intertwine: Lu Shen's counterpart in the beta timeline leads a hunting squad, a consciousness devourer in the gamma timeline conceals a plot for immortality, and the quantum crystal heart beating inside him is actually the "Core of Consciousness Protection" that maintains three timelines.

When Lu Shen tears open a rift in the truth inside the maze of consciousness, he discovers that the source of all the murders is neither a hunter from a parallel timeline nor his own future self gone bad, but the obsession with "changing fate" itself. In this murder spanning three realms, the one they have always sought is a "killer who doesn't exist," and the self-redemption hidden in the folds of time.