Story summary
Title: "Echoes of the Abyss"
Subtitle: When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you
Theme: Social suspense + psychological reasoning + epic destiny
Core Settings
In the late autumn of 2015, an unknown male corpse was found in the drainage ditch of an abandoned chemical factory on the outskirts of Jiangcheng City, which was corroded beyond recognition by strong acid. The police extracted a mutilated fingerprint at the scene, and after comparison, it exactly matched the missing person in an unsolved case fifteen years ago (2000) - Gu Yuanzhou, a 28-year-old middle school teacher at the time.
The question is: Gu Yuanzhou was in his prime fifteen years ago. If he had been killed in 2000, then——
Who is the person who has been living as "Gu Yuanzhou" for the past fifteen years?
What's even more bizarre is that Gu Yuanzhou's wife Cheng Hui insisted that her husband had spoken to her on the phone three days ago; his son Gu Ming had just been admitted to a key university, and his father had personally handed over the tuition fees to him; neighbors, colleagues, and even old friends who did morning exercises together every day all swore that Gu Yuanzhou was "living well."
A corpse, a living person, the same fingerprint.
Who killed "Gu Yuanzhou"? And who lived for him for fifteen years?
When Interpol Jiang An conducted an in-depth investigation with these questions, he discovered that this was not a person's secret, but a wound of an era - the pain of the wave of layoffs, the haze of the mining disaster, the buried truth, the innocent people who were sacrificed... Everything pointed to the "no casualty" water leakage accident in Jiangbei Coal Mine in 1998.
