He's a Cop and a Madman!

A drizzle fell relentlessly over Z City in May. On a solemn morning, the municipal public security bureau received reports from four locations at once:

A deaf-mute girl in a remote village, a glamorous internet celebrity streamer, a supermarket cashier, and an airplane captain.

Four people from utterly different walks of life had died mysteriously at the same time.

What was even stranger was that during the autopsies, the livor mortis bloomed into brilliant mandala flowers...

A killer who used livor mortis to paint had declared war on the city's police!

Two Boeing planes took off an hour apart, yet someone could kill across the distance between them.

Fruit had appeared on an ancient, gnarled locust tree, and the branches were laden with densely packed heads...

The ants outside the Red Thread Temple were four times the size of ordinary ants. Every nightfall, they began to... transport corpses.

The whole city was a chessboard, and taxis rigged with bombs were the pieces in a game of apocalyptic auto chess!

Behind these heart-pounding cases lay the strangest darkness, hidden in the deepest reaches of the world.

The world needed a quick-witted, upright police officer.

At the same time,

it also needed a madman...

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any similarities are purely coincidental. Do not imitate.