The timeline has moved forward to when Shen Fan is seven years old. On the surface, he is a second-grade student at Binhai Experimental Primary School. Behind the scenes, he is still a “special consultant” assisting the city’s criminal investigation squad. After the Zhou Hu crime syndicate was wiped out, Binhai enjoyed a brief period of calm. But Shen Fan’s “crime radar” kept giving off faint alarms late at night: a new kind of crime, more covert and more high-tech, was taking root.
