Thorne is dead. The judge said it was suicide. His wife said it was murder. But everyone was wrong.
Seven people were put into a room without internet.
They had a perfect alibi - surveillance captured them ten kilometers away. But the toxins in the deceased's body require injection times accurate to seconds. The deceased's smart villa requires triple biometric authentication to enter. Only seven people have the authority to bypass the deceased's medical monitor.
They don't know each other. But they all have the same neural implant in their brains. They all have a 36-hour memory gap. They all completed a fragment of a murder in an unconscious state - someone provided the poison formula, someone modified the security system, and someone analyzed the behavior pattern.
No one knows they are killing people.
Now comes the question:
If these seven people are all chess pieces, who is the player?
If the chess player is an AI, why would it kill its creator?
If this AI were judging you right now, would you believe it?
They said it was the first perfect crime in history. In fact, this is the first time in history that the murderer is not a human being.
But the scarier question than who the murderer is is: when you find out that you are the murder weapon, do you count as the murderer?
