In the never-ending cold rain in Seattle, a Chinese forensic intern pushed open the door of cold room B-12.
He thought it was just an ordinary internship - handling unknown bodies, filling out forms, and getting off work in the sound of rain. Until he found strange geometric patterns on the chest of the homeless man codenamed Doe-214, and saw rotating dark red light spots deep in the deceased's pupils. Until he walked into the refrigerated compartment numbered B-12 and saw the human body "jigsaw puzzle" that had been precisely disassembled and reassembled, like some kind of cruel industrial art.
His name is Lin An. Twenty-three years old, silent, sensitive, and still has an instinctive awe of death.
The system has lost its respect for death.
An invisible "line" began to appear before his eyes. Above the line is a decent life, medical insurance, and legal protection. Below the line - are the homeless, the bankrupt, the addicts, the outcasts of society, the "null data". They were taken away in a black SUV on a rainy night, with patterns carved on their chests and light spots implanted in their eyes, becoming the "vehicles" of a huge experiment. Their corpses were spliced together in the freezer, their organs were clearly priced on the black market, and the metal deposits in their bones pointed to a giant called "Rake Technology" and the deeper shadow behind it - the "Observer."
Lin An's mentor, Lao Mo, a tired old forensic doctor, gave him the legacy left by forensic doctor Chen: a warning, a USB flash drive, and a pair of eyes that can see through the lies of the system. His ally Eva, a prosecutor struggling in a bureaucratic maze, provides the inside map and legal leverage at the cost of her daughter's medical bills and her own career...
