Beneath the surface of Linjiang City, dark currents swirl. The secretive organization known as the Shadow Alliance is quietly weaving a web of crime: young women are disappearing one after another, and bodies marked with blood-red symbols are turning up. The whole city is under the shadow of death! Xiao Yi, a steely, decisive criminal investigation captain, joins forces with the meticulous policewoman Lin Xiao to face a case with “zero evidence”: surveillance footage erased by hackers, witnesses dying mysterious deaths, and an unknown biochemical toxin detected in the victims’ bodies... The code behind a charred corpse in an abandoned factory, encrypted symbols at a church massacre, organ trafficking hidden behind an international money-laundering network... Every step is a battle of wits against madmen! When an undercover officer’s identity is exposed and a key informant is murdered, Xiao Yi is forced to launch “Project Backlight,” posing as a black-market broker to infiltrate the enemy’s lair. The countdown is on: 72 hours! The true face of the Shadow Alliance’s leader, “Viper,” is about to be revealed, and Xiao Yi’s fiancée is somehow fatally connected to an unsolved case from three years ago... As the truth tears everything apart, a deadly race between provincial forces to encircle and evade one another begins on a stormy night! High-stakes warning: a cast of deranged villains, twists within twists, and hard-hitting forensic investigation details! Click to uncover the most chilling truths about human nature in this battle between good and evil...
