Cold Case Trail: A Deadly Conspiracy

[A Murder Scene on a Rainy Night: Blood-Red Symbols Uncover a Twenty-Year Mystery of Bones] When the forensic examiner’s scalpel pries a numbered bone fragment from the victim’s throat, crime-fighting duo Zhang Jingyu and Lin Xiuyuan stare in shock: the evidence number exactly matches one from the 1998 family massacre case. Criminal psychology PhD Su Hanxi deciphers a death warning from the reflection in the victim’s eyes, predicting another murder within three hours. The brilliant forensic examiner Ye Yunyun, meanwhile, finds traces of two preservatives used twenty years apart in the corpse’s lividity. A sinister symbol of a grinning face, left in the bloodstains, ignites a bloody mystery buried for twenty years. The four experts are forced into a deadly game, a murder sandbox meticulously designed by the puppeteer. Each code they crack triggers an even more dangerous sacrificial ritual. When surveillance footage captures the supposedly dead killer reappearing on a rooftop, they finally see the truth: the so-called new and old cases are merely steps made of bones, laid by the mastermind on the path to the pinnacle of power. “Countdown: 23:59:59. The next body will appear in your filing cabinets.” A fax machine suddenly spits out a bloodstained note from twenty years ago. Behind the truth, who is controlling this game of life and death?