Introduction:
Bizarre murders occurred one after another in Binhai City: a financial tycoon was "scared to death" by his own fear in a secret room, and his pupils were filled with the extreme terror of dying; a genius programmer suddenly mutilated himself during a live broadcast, repeatedly mumbling a string of garbled codes that no one could decipher; the psychiatrist's clinic changed into a maze, the patient was trapped in it, and eventually suffered a mental breakdown - no trace of forced invasion could be found at the scene. The only thing in common was that a rare neurotransmitter abnormality remained in the brains of the deceased or victims, as if someone had used an invisible scalpel to tamper with cognition.
Shen Yan, the criminal police captain in charge of the case, found that all the clues pointed to a mysterious man codenamed "The Web Weaver". The opponent never takes action personally, but can accurately control people's thinking and weave the target's weaknesses into fatal traps. What's even more frightening is that the "web weaver" seems to know Shen Yan well, and even began to send him "psychological test questions" through anonymous emails, setting up a puzzle using Shen Yan's traumatic memories from his childhood.
As the investigation deepened, Shen Yan discovered that the victims had participated in a secret experiment called "Cognitive Boundary" ten years ago. The leader of the experiment, neurological authority Lu Mingyuan, had already "committed suicide", but the encrypted notes he left behind contained a chilling truth: the experiment accidentally spawned an algorithm that can "parasitize" human consciousness, and the "Web Weaver" is the "host" of this algorithm.
When Shen Yan tried to decipher the algorithm, the people around him began to become suspicious: his seemingly reliable partner always made mistakes at key points, the informant who provided clues suddenly lost his memory, and even he himself frequently experienced hallucinations.
