[Rural Mystery + Hard-Core Detective Work + Folk Horror Tales + No Supernatural Elements]
Dense fog blankets Wolf Creek Town year-round. Three families who refused to relocate are found dead one after another. The only clues at each scene are neat wolf paw prints. Their courtyard gates are locked from within, with no trace of an outsider.
Lin Ye, a former criminal investigation trace evidence expert who retired to his hometown, exposes one seemingly perfect locked-room trick after another using nothing but half a rubber fragment and a fine scratch from a wire.
As the investigation advances, a matching unsolved case from ten years ago and the mystery surrounding his father's fatal fall from a cliff emerge from the fog.
The wolf king's supposed hunt for human lives is only a smokescreen. Beneath the fog-shrouded town lies a far greater secret...
"The fog never lifts, and the deadly game never ends. Watch as every supernatural hoax is exposed through the evidence left behind."
Ye Chen, a cultured and refined tourism magnate, wins the locals' trust by offering to cover funeral expenses, while spreading panic through folk tales in a bid to drive the villagers out cheaply and seize the rare mineral deposits in the mountains behind the town.
As the investigation advances, a matching unsolved case from ten years ago and the mystery surrounding his father's "fatal fall from a cliff" also emerge from the fog.
The fog never lifts, and the deadly game never ends.
In this isolated town, he will tear away the hypocritical mask of capital and bring justice to those wronged ten years ago.
[Hard-Core Realistic Detective Story, No Supernatural Elements]
