In 1945, the smoke cleared and the mountains and rivers were initially settled.
Japan declared its surrender and the war of aggression ceased, but the darkness hidden under the texture of the earth never left.
The intelligence chief of the Kwantung Army, "Chess Player," laid out a cherry blossom dormant plan that spanned several years and spanned north and south. The Japanese special forces hid in the market, stealing strategic mineral deposits, plundering Chinese cultural relics, and sealing up evidence of the 731 biochemical crime. They continued their undying militaristic ambitions with a silent secret war.
Lin Yuanzhou, the reconnaissance captain who had suffered the trauma of the battlefield, was ordered to form a six-person secret operations team to hunt shadows.
The codebreaker who is alone and obsessed with the radio waves, the iron-blooded warrior who bears the pain of massacre of the village, the criminal doctor who is trapped in the sea of blood in Nanjing, the scholar who has studied in Japan and understands the Japanese people's heart, the antique craftsman who has a thorough understanding of the world...
Six people whose past was torn apart by the war, from being estranged by strangers to being entrusted with their backs, walked in the snowfields of Northeast China, the streets of North China, the ruins of Jiangnan and the dense forests of the Southwest.
The human heart is the chessboard, the mask is the chess piece, the evidence is the blade, and the context is the shield.
They deal with spies, war criminals, gray businessmen and war orphans, cracking through layers of disguises, dismantling psychological games, tracing the heinous crimes of 731, pursuing national treasures that have been lost for centuries, and tearing apart the complete dark network of latent forces after the war.
Hatred is an endless river of darkness, and the long night is a trauma that no one can express.
Some people are trapped in the past, some have become pawns, some are struggling between civilization and barbarism, and some are holding on to the last inch of humanity in the darkness.
When the chess game finally comes to an end, dawn breaks.
After the smoke clears,
They not only want to uncover the enemy in the dark,
It is even more important to reconcile with the scars and confront the past,
