When modern forensic doctor Lin Mo cut open the seventh rib cartilage with his scalpel, he never thought that the next second he would be holding a rusty bronze knife and standing in front of the morgue in Yizhuang, Song Dynasty.
In Bianjing City during the third year of Jiayou's reign, the fog was more choking than the formalin in the dissecting room. The female corpse's "evil" state of death, bleeding from all seven orifices, contained precise scars of cracked ribs; the edges of the three-inch deep claw marks in the dry well were hung with threads of flesh that had the same origin as the palace's secret medicine; each piece of corpse floating in the Bian River bore the burn mark of a silver bat tattoo - the symbol of death that the father held in his hand before he died.
"This is not a ghost seeking life." Lin Mo used bamboo pieces to pick up the saltpeter silt between the fingernails of the deceased, and sneered at the shocked Su Shi, "Someone is using poisonous insects to feed water ghosts, and in the name of ghosts and gods, they are committing rebellion."
When science meets magic, when a scalpel confronts a bronze sword, this work with modern forensic knowledge must find a balance between the ancient methods of "The Collection of Abandoned Wrongs" and the logic of DNA identification. What he wants to dissect is not only the corpses, but also the bloody conspiracy of Shadow Pavilion using living people to refine poison under the prosperous appearance of the Song Dynasty. It is the secret buried in time by his father, and it is the ultimate game of "truth" between two eras.
And the truth peeled out of the corpse: the bruises on the knuckles between the ribs, the datura seeds in the stomach, the black and blue claw marks on the back of the neck... Will eventually piece together a key that will open the door connecting the visible world and the hidden world. But Lin Mo didn't know that when he used a bronze knife to cut open Shuizhen's abdominal bag, he saw not only his father's jade pendant, but also his true destiny to travel through time and space.
