In Half a Thought

"All cages were once shelters. All ruins are waiting to be reconstructed." In 2026, structural engineer Liu Nian took over the old city reconstruction project "Guixifang" and tried to rebuild order with reinforced concrete on the ruins of his childhood place. However, he personally dug into the abyss of his own memories that had been frozen for twenty years. When he was four years old, he was sample 003-7 of the "Red Star Welfare Institute Special Observation Project". Cages, scissors, yellow cylinder toys... The host codenamed "Cartographer" used cold "scientific" brushstrokes to implant symbols of fear in his consciousness, recording every bit of his collapse and distortion. The project came to an abrupt end, and the sin sank into the ground. Only he, with the "cage" in his mind, became an island in the crowd, a sophisticated "structure" on the verge of disintegration. Now, warning letters, bloody graffiti, and ghostly surveillance follow one after another. The "cartographer" of those days is never far away. Like appreciating the most outstanding works, he watched Liu Nian's every tremor and every attempt to "reconstruct" in the dark, and even participated with interest in this death game with the human heart as the chessboard. The indifferent psychiatrist Shen Mu is Liu Nian's last anchor. He uses a rational scalpel to cut open the wound, but finds that he has become a pawn in the game. Su Xiaoman, a hacker girl, followed the ghost's footsteps in the data abyss, but what she unearthed was the tip of the iceberg of transnational human experiments during the Cold War. Lin Xiaoxi, the neighbor in a wheelchair, used the clumsiest kindness to become a thin line between Liu Nian and the world of "normal people" that could be broken at any time. This is not a simple pursuit of a murderer. This is a time of transition