For most people, this was a year filled with special significance. The chimes of the new millennium still seemed to echo in their ears, stirring boundless dreams of the future. But for Dalu, a fourth-year student majoring in criminal investigation at Jincheng Public Security College in a southern metropolis, the days ahead were clouded by his graduation thesis, internship placement, and a sudden, inexplicable fog.
A vast conspiracy seemed to be quietly spreading an invisible web around him. With the courage of a young man and an instinctive sharpness, he was stepping ever closer to its center. He had no idea how this seemingly ordinary death would completely change the course of his life and draw him into an undercurrent sweeping across an entire era.
