Baihe Oilfield, deep in the hinterland of Mount Damang.
The exploration data had been altered so flawlessly that no one could find a flaw, but Wei Chenyuan knew there was far more than oil buried beneath the wasteland.
Twenty years ago, an exploration team entered the mountains and never came back. Three years ago, a fire burned away the last traces of them.
Recently, sounds had begun coming from abandoned Well No. 3, like someone chanting underground, or someone crying.
Wei Chenyuan had spent three years at this oilfield, working his way up from a veteran nobody paid attention to until he became Engineer Wei, someone everyone trusted.
This was the day he had been waiting for.
Wei Chenyuan had an almost instinctive ability to see the true emotions people hid beneath their outward appearances.
But when he looked back at the people around him, his coworkers, his superiors, the familiar faces he saw every day in the cafeteria, their reactions seemed too flawless to be real.
He suddenly realized that what he had spent three years waiting for wasn’t the truth.
Someone wanted him drawn into the game.
