The Ashen Bone Gambit

Three years undercover in a den of poison, and the moment the net was about to close, the ledger still hadn't been recovered. The countdown to the expendable pawn order had already begun. The person issuing commands was hiding inside the System, and he didn't want Shen Nianzu to make it out of that final night alive.

File 05 points to the Northern Border. Zhong Yanping's old gun is still in locker 404. Ayi has been undercover in the pharmacy for seven years, waiting for someone to come to her with the ledger.

Shen Nianzu pinned his police badge back to his chest and set out from the gravel beach. The winds of Tieling had already reached his doorstep. The protective umbrella hadn't been brought down yet. He had to find the mole who signed KP-009 first. He never expected to uncover an invisible web of collusion, layer upon layer, lurking behind it all.