After the Great Awakening of 2166, one percent of the world's population developed supernatural abilities, and the once-prosperous city of Xinhai became a battleground for rival organizations of ability users. The official Abnormal Events Unit (AEU) covers up the truth, while the mysterious Ouroboros organization conducts human experiments to create controllable ability users and overthrow the established order. Lin Mo, a former criminal investigator, is framed and forced off the force while investigating a series of supernatural murders. By chance, he becomes bound to the Unsolved Case Analysis System, and from then on is forced to uncover the truth.
The System assigns life-or-death missions every day: identify the “Shadow Killer” within 72 hours, solve the subway’s “time loop,” stop the spread of a “living dead” virus in a hospital... Solving each case unlocks incredible abilities such as “Temporal Rewind” and “Ability Detection,” while bringing him ever closer to the dark heart of the supernatural world: nanobots hidden beneath a victim’s fingernails, the secret experimental notes of his mentor Chen Jingzhi, and a covert deal between the AEU deputy director and Ouroboros. Every clue points to the truth behind his sister Su Yu’s disappearance.
When Lin Mo uses the System to piece together the clues from five cases, he discovers that he has been caught in the middle of the plot all along. He is the “Child of Light” sought by Ouroboros, the System conceals a cipher to the origins of the Shadow Realm, and the so-called Great Awakening was actually caused by genetic mutations triggered by an extraterrestrial meteorite. As terms like “temporal anchor” and “spark of an interstellar civilization” emerge, an ultimate conspiracy concerning the cycle of human civilization gradually unfolds. Lin Mo must struggle to choose between the System’s missions and his own humanity, find a way through high-powered battles and logical deduction, and uncover the truth behind the System, the mystery of the Shadow Realm, and the hidden connection between himself and the survival of civilization.
Lin Feng, system blessing