Lin Zhao, 27 years old, is the deputy captain of the Municipal Bureau's Criminal Investigation Detachment, with a crime detection rate of 97%.
Everyone thought he relied on talent and intuition.
The truth is that he can see the last seven seconds of the deceased's memory. Touching the corpse will flood the mind with images of death - everything the deceased saw before death is repeated exactly.
He kept this secret for twelve years and never mentioned it to anyone.
Until a serial murder case was placed on his desk. Seven dead people had Roman numerals carved on their right palms, from I to VII. The murderer is marking the order, or rather, counting down.
When Lin Zhao touched the seventh corpse, he saw a detail - there was a snake tattooed on the murderer's mouth with its head and tail connected.
It was exactly the same as the one his father had.
His father, Lin Jianguo, was the former captain of the criminal investigation detachment of the city bureau. He disappeared while pursuing a murder case twelve years ago. The files were sealed and he was determined to have died in the line of duty. The remains were never found.
And now, that snake tattoo is back.
Lin Zhao began to receive anonymous couriers - fragments of old case files, fragments of his father's notebook, and a red string copper coin that he had hand-woven when he was a child. Each one points in the same direction: the abandoned chemical plant where my father was last seen before his disappearance.
There are seven rooms hidden underground in the chemical plant, arranged in a ring. In each room is a skeleton with Roman numerals carved into its palm.
Seven deaths from twelve years ago. Seven dead today. The same identity, the same way of death, like a "restart" across time and space.
In the seventh room, Lin Zhao found an unfinished notebook
