Rational Game

Ten years ago, an unsolved murder case in a secret room remained unsolved for many years. An identical murder case was suddenly staged in a suburban villa. Only a series of strange digital codes were left at the scene, handing a logical declaration of war to the retired criminal investigation genius Shen Yubai. The chess player behind the scenes, Lu Yanci, is a glamorous gold medal lawyer in a top law firm. He is proficient in cryptography, psychology, legal provisions and human weaknesses. He uses the entire city as a chessboard to lay out countless perfect crime situations such as triple scapegoats, memory tampering, time and space dislocation, and psychological suggestions throughout the city. He never touches blood with his own hands. He only uses anonymous information, resources, connections, and human greed to induce ordinary people to become pawns. He accurately predicts Shen Yubai's investigation ideas at every step of the deduction, and continues to crush the game across the Internet and reality. Shen Yubai has physical evidence and criminal investigation logic in his hands, but sticks to the goodwill of mortals in his heart. The two engage in a duel around dozens of serial murder cases: multiple-choice questions about human nature with moral dilemmas, a barrier of innocence built by legal loopholes, a desperate dilemma that cuts off all investigative resources, and long-term murders that have been laid for several years. When the giant encrypted trailer in the city announced the opening of the ultimate layout, the pure and cold ultimate logic collided head-on with the glimmer of human beings regardless of pros and cons. Lu Yanci calculated all the variables of people's desires and the rules of the world, but missed the tiny variables of ordinary people spontaneously doing good. In the end, after the chessboard was burned and the dust settled, there was only one question left: Under perfect logic, is human nature always redundant? Intent: Lu Yanci took the initiative to choose Shen Yubai as his only opponent. Every time he completed a crime, he would leave behind an encrypted puzzle and force Shen Yubai to solve it. The two faced off on two fronts throughout the entire process: Offline: serial murders, borrowed knife killings, urban intrigues; Online: password games, psychological deductions, and logic puzzle duels in the air; Conflict at the bottom: Lu Yanci believes that "logic is above all else, and the weak and emotions are loopholes"; Shen Yubai insists that "human nature is the only variable that cannot be calculated in logic."