This is a social mystery novel that combines hard-core criminal investigation and biological thriller.
The story begins with a serial murder that imitates the ecology of a spider. As the investigation deepened, criminal profiler Shen Mo and criminal police captain Chen Bi discovered that a genetic pharmaceutical giant named "Regeneration" was hidden behind the case. The murderer, who calls himself the "Gardener", attempts to restore a long-lost regeneration gene by removing the victim's organs.
The novel uses "spider" and "gecko" as the core metaphors to construct a very tense two-hero narrative:
Silence (Spider): Reasonable, tolerant, weaving a large web with strict logic, but trapped in the height-vertigo syndrome caused by childhood trauma, unable to escape the shadow of his mother jumping off the building.
Chen Bi (Gecko): Wild, decisive, and good at "cutting off his tail to survive" in the rules of street survival, but his deepest hidden secret is that he is also a victim of the failed experiment.
From the dank underground casino to the cold storage at minus 40 degrees Celsius, the two were forced to join forces. This is not only a cat-and-mouse game, but also a philosophical torture about sacrifice and rebirth. When flesh and blood becomes the prey, when the genetic lock is completely opened, we will eventually face the ultimate proposition:
On the road of evolution, is human nature also a skin that needs to be shed?
