Story background: Cangnan City, a fictional coastal prefecture-level city in the south, governs four core areas: the old city, Binhai New Area, Xiling Mountain area, and the abandoned military industrial port. The city hides four hidden histories of the third-line construction after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the smuggling craze in the 1990s, the real estate crash in 2000, and the fraud in the new energy industry in 2025.
The main suspense: Taking the serial "symbol murder cases" as the starting point, we gradually uncover a shocking conspiracy that spans 30 years, involves the three circles of politics, business and police, and involves the fate of three generations. All cases ultimately point to an underground building forgotten by the city - the Sea Eye Project.
Protagonist group:
- Criminal Investigation Detachment Captain Lu Chen: Carrying the burden of an old case ten years ago, he is calm and paranoid, and his sense of smell and observation of details are different from ordinary people.
- Criminal psychology consultant Su Wan: a genius psychologist who personally experienced a massacre in a secret room in his childhood and suffers from emotional hypersensitivity.
- Veteran detective Wang Jianjun: The living map of Cangnan, mastering all the dusty secrets of the city, hiding secrets that cannot be told
- Technical Police Lin Xiaoya: Hacker-level technical master, responsible for cracking electronic traces and symbolic passwords
Core puzzle:
1. Why are the bodies of the serial victims all engraved with the same set of sea-marked symbols?
2. Why did all the members of the "Sea Eye Project" who disappeared ten years ago reappear?
3. How many corpses and truths are buried underground in the city?
4. Among the protagonists, who is the undercover agent? Who are the Avengers? Who were the survivors?
