Auditor Lin Qingyuan has stumbled upon Guangyun City's taboo: irregularities in major financial flows.
A retired auditor's encrypted notes; a photo of seawater seeping out at a press conference; a trap set in the office that catches its maker instead; an anonymous email's automatic reply; a live surveillance feed that shows his own face;
When he discovers that his birthmark matches the “System Architect” exactly, gunshots ring out from the psychiatric hospital, and the sedative dosage turns out to correspond precisely with the code.
The provincial investigation team's fountain pen bears the same pattern, while the sneer of the deputy director of the Government Affairs Center conceals the breath of a deep-sea leviathan. A fragment of an access card from the server room reflects half his face overlapping with the killer's.
As data surges over his ankles like a rising tide, he finally understands the blood-red words in the notes: “They've raised a man-eating tiger in the system.”
And “LY01” on the countdown display is leading the conspiracy into even deeper territory...
