A luxury apartment locked from the inside. A financial executive has his throat cut.
Security footage clearly shows the suspect entering the scene, but he had already been dead for twelve hours.
How can a dead man kill someone?
Provincial Criminal Investigation expert Lu Chenzhou takes the case, only to discover traces of an unidentified powder in the “dead man’s” mouth, while the wound on the victim’s neck is as clean as a surgical incision.
This is not the first “impossible crime.”
An arson case at a wealthy merchant’s villa twenty years ago, a pyramid scheme involving 9.4 billion yuan, a series of murders spanning twenty-eight years… Thirty crimes inspired by real cases unfold before Lu Chenzhou like pieces of a puzzle. Every piece points to the same answer: the killer is not one person, but a “silent network” covering the entire city.
When AI fabricates evidence, power alters the timeline, and the dead become suspects…
What can you still believe?
Open this book and enter a mystery maze woven from real cases. There are no superpowers here, only human nature, more terrifying than any superpower.
“The dead don’t lie, but the living do.”
