Shadow Hunt Along the Heavenly Ladder

In 2050, the Eastern Republic’s Cloudrail Group is close to a breakthrough on its epoch-making project, the Skyward Plan, a space elevator. The project has become a thorn in the side of the foreign military conglomerate known as the Deep Blue Alliance. Its spy chief, “Albatross” Zan Tianyu, launches Operation Severed Link and sends elite operatives to infiltrate the company and steal its secrets. Cloudrail security ace Li Feng is called in at a critical moment. With exceptional powers of observation and an iron hand, he sees through their disguises. With the help of group researcher Qi Wei, he enters a sixty-day race for survival against the spies. The enemy is hidden while they are exposed, and traps are everywhere: fabricated evidence, deadly frame-ups, psychological manipulation, and even a high-level mole known as “Bodhi Seed,” who finally comes to light. Li Feng uses his intellect as a blade, untangling the truth through one perilous reversal after another, while showing no mercy in close-quarters combat. As the spy network is torn apart, the Deep Blue Alliance reveals its plan to wreak catastrophic destruction on the Skyward Plan. Li Feng and Qi Wei stand together through life and death, killing “Albatross” on the summit of a remote island at the final moment. Before the base’s shocking countdown reaches zero, he uses his unparalleled insight into human nature to crack the destruction code. The celestial elevator is complete, but the undercurrents have not subsided. Its guardians still stand at the boundary between light and shadow.