In 2147, the metaverse's “Reincarnation Mirror” launched its deadly cycle. Shen Hengwu opened her eyes to find herself trapped in a sealed freezer with 99 strangers. A frozen corpse hung in the middle. Blood-red words flashed overhead: “72-hour countdown. Identify the killer and the method, or your consciousness will be trapped forever.”
Worse still, a live-streaming chip from the “Court of Evidence” had been implanted in her wrist, putting her every move on trial before tens of millions of viewers. The comments flooded in: “Another sacrifice?” “Just wait to die.” But then an unfamiliar whisper suddenly rang in her mind: “Sweetheart, the murder weapon is under your feet.”
It was Shen Yuan, her late father, a genius whose remnant soul had survived by hiding in the backstage chat. Guided by his vague, muttered hints, Shen Hengwu solved three cases in a row. The livestream audience went from mocking her to begging for answers. But every time the remnant soul helped, it grew weaker, while the System Tianyan drew closer and closer.
On the forty-seventh day, the sealed room turned out to be Shen Yuan's old laboratory. The victim had been stabbed thirteen times, and every clue pointed to suicide. Everyone gave up. The comments said, “She's finished.”
But Shen Hengwu crouched down and fished an old, rusted key out of a pile of junk. It was her seventh-birthday present, engraved with the two characters of her name by her father's own hand.
“Dad, you designed this room. Where's the keyhole?”
The next second, the wall split open, revealing the thirty-first corpse. The viewers went wild, the killer broke down in tears, and Tianyan's red light had already locked onto the back of her neck.
