Special Case Investigation: The Death Game

No CP. Pure detective fiction: straight to the scene of the crime, dissecting the twists of human nature and exploring a dark world.

One summer night twenty years ago, in the western district of Chun'an, twin sisters were murdered and dismembered in a neighborhood park. Their body parts were placed beside an intact corpse, its hands folded over its chest. In its palm was a note that read: “The killer has been executed.”

Twenty years later, in July, in the eastern district of Chun'an, a mottled reading sculpture was hoisted up for reconstruction when its base came loose. A corpse fell from the sky… The body held a note that read: “The perpetrator is dead.”

As the Special Cases Unit painstakingly untangles the clues, they uncover an online experience center called Death Game. Not a single person who enters ever comes back…