Chapter 1:
Night falls, and the city lights come on. Detective Lin Tao stands at the crime scene, brow furrowed as he surveys the ransacked room. It looks like an ordinary home invasion and robbery, but the deeper Lin Tao investigates, the more he senses that a series of closely guarded secrets lie beneath the surface.
Blood spatters the walls. A laptop and a phone lie scattered on the floor. Lin Tao carefully picks up the phone and turns on the screen, only to find it shattered. He tries to extract fingerprints, but is disappointed to discover that the phone is too badly damaged to recover anything.
“The victim was Li Xiang, the owner of this tech company.” Officer Zhang walks over and hands Lin Tao a file. “According to his colleagues, he was withdrawn and not much of a people person, but exceptionally capable at work. The company's performance kept climbing.”
Lin Tao flips through the file, lost in thought. “Why would the killer choose this particular target?”
“The victim once claimed he had developed a technology with the potential to change everything,” Zhang says quietly. “But that's only a rumor. The details are not known
