In 1943, fog blankets the mountain city of Chongqing. Lu Zheng, an interrogation analyst for national security, unexpectedly transmigrates into the body of a major general inspector in the Military Statistics Bureau's confidential affairs office, trapped in a deadly predicament from the start. All 317 soldiers at Huangzong Ridge have been wiped out. A forged, fatal order, his handwritten approval, and a complete array of witnesses and physical evidence place all the blame on him. He has just five days to prove his innocence.
After awakening the Lie Detection and Archive Decoding System, Lu Zheng picks apart the flaws in layers of fabricated evidence. Following a telegram draft with scrape marks, black-market medicine funds, and a hidden dead drop, he exposes a low-level mole and cuts off the surface-level surveillance network run by Gao Zhikai. But the code word "star position" left in a damaged telegram by an assassin, along with an unknown radio station that keeps appearing inside the city, proves that the mastermind is still hiding among the Military Statistics Bureau's upper ranks.
He delves into the confidential affairs office's procedures, retraces the leaked secret telegrams, and identifies Huang Suxin, a telegraph translator who has been lying low for eight years under a flawless disguise. He uncovers her secret channels for passing intelligence through churches, pharmacies, and Bibles. In the chaotic wartime bureau, loyalties are treacherous, and false cooperation and deadly traps lurk everywhere. Drawing on his expertise in interrogation, Lu Zheng sees through lies to find the truth, tears open the web of moles in the mountain city, and methodically unravels a treasonous plot amid the fog and danger, defending the intelligence front of the war against Japan.
It's pretty good. It's brain-burning and beautiful.
What the hell!