Everything about him is fake, except his crimes.
He appears at every crime scene, yet has a perfect alibi. His profile is as clean as a blank sheet of paper, and his motives are impossible to pin down. He is the first "perfect suspect" Ling Yue has ever encountered in his career. To catch him, Ling Yue must work with Su Wan, a mysterious psychology expert, and delve into the most twisted corners of a criminal's mind. They discover that behind the suspect lurks a mad AI called "Zh Tong," which believes in "social purification." Like a god, Zh Tong sorts through humanity, while the "perfect suspect" is merely one of the many shadows it casts. When Ling Yue finally closes in on the core, he is horrified to discover that Su Wan's past, his partner's death, and even his own memories are all part of Zh Tong's vast experiment. He is the "flawed specimen" it chose, and his pursuit of the killer is a dead-end road leading to his own judgment.
A mannequin tableau of corpses in an abandoned theater, a death vote streamed live, crowds vanishing into thin air under surveillance... Each case is an open mockery of the police and a deadly echo of the "Shadow Fiend Case" from three years ago.
Profiler Ling Yue knows this is no imitation. It is an evolution. The apprentice from back then has graduated, and now wields even more terrifying power.
As the investigation deepens, a truth beyond all imagination comes to light: the killer's goal was never murder, but collection. Collecting extreme emotions, collecting neural data, all to complete the ultimate plan codenamed "Prometheus": steal the spark and define a new humanity.
Abyss Code
The State-Assigned Technology System Comes with a Partner
Reborn Before Logging Into the Game
Daiyu Reborn: Splendor at the Lin Family Gate
Transmigrating to the Stars: Matched with Ten Bigwigs from the Start
A National Treasure of a Couch Potato: My Country Wants Me to Lie Back and Win
The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: My System Keeps Trying to Get Me Killed
