Data deduction prodigy Ling Xi can reconstruct an entire crime from a 0.1-second surveillance clip. But while cracking the “Binary Serial Murder Case,” he discovers that every victim’s computer contains virus code he wrote as a child. As he uses a “chaotic neural network” to analyze the eighth case, he receives an anonymous email. Attached is the programming dictionary his father gave him for his seventh birthday. A chip is hidden behind a hollowed-out title page, and when he reads it, the message says: “Every victim was sacrificed to the ‘justice algorithm’ you wrote. Now it’s your turn to debug the final bug.”
