This Is a Cry for Help [Crime Investigation]

1. The novel is complete. Bonus chapters are free to read with a 75% subscription rate. 2. All typos, grammatical errors, and minor plot holes have been carefully revised from beginning to end. The characters and plot logic in the “Skin” volume have undergone major revisions, so the current version differs greatly from pirated copies. My sincere thanks to everyone who supports the official release. *bows* 3. The illustrations are now available. Special thanks to @YuhanEster for generously sponsoring them. The novel is long. A regular subscription may be selected for a prize; this is for entertainment only, and spending money is not encouraged. 4. Please add my next novel, Please Have Some Soup, to your reading list. (An infinite-flow sea-turtle soup mystery with elements of rule-based horror and Werewolf.) “Every wrong turn led me to your side.” Hermann Hesse When Song Yin was 17, he reported a serial killer to the police. The killer's name was Lian Chao. Not long afterward, he watched Lian Chao get shot dead with his own eyes. He also watched the flames consume his body. That fire burned in Song Yin's dreams for eight years. On that day, eight years later, he had become a forensic pathologist when he was told that a new captain had joined the criminal investigation squad. His name was Lian Chao. It was as if Song Yin saw the man who had once been burned to a charred husk crawl out from the depths of the flames. He put on a new skin, donned a police uniform, and walked toward Song Yin, step by step: “Hello. I'm Lian Chao. “Chao, as in the spring tide surging in with the evening rain.” [Reader's guide] 1. Lian Chao (seme) x Song Yin (recipient) Fatherly criminal investigation captain seme x gorgeous, flirtatious forensic pathologist recipient The recipient is beautiful, strong, and tragic, with a flirtatious streak and a slight tendency to attract everyone. Please be warned if that's not your thing. 2. The protagonists commit no crimes. 3. There is a main plot as well as standalone cases. 4. The setting is semi-fictional, with invented details, and does not entirely reflect reality. Corrections are welcome, but please don't overanalyze it. 5. Next novel: Please Have Some Soup (younger seme, infinite-flow mysteries in the style of sea-turtle soup) Criminal investigation captain Xie Feng was escorting a serial killer onto a high-speed train when the train accidentally plunged into a strange white light. All the passengers ended up in a remote town, cut off from the rest of the world. Strange rules were posted everywhere in town. You had to follow the rules to survive. Clearing “Soup” on a regular basis was one way to obtain survival resources. [The town encourages its residents to participate actively in work.] [Xie Feng, you are hereby invited to become the captain of the school's security team.] [You will be issued a firearm.] [Be sure to step up patrols and catch students who break the rules!] [You have the right to execute one student each week!] Late one Saturday night, Xie Feng was patrolling the school grounds. A white figure suddenly appeared on the silent sports field. Xie Feng chased it at gunpoint into a forest. Then he heard the figure whisper in his ear: “Brother. Brother.” Xie Feng turned around and saw the figure's true face. It was a student in a school uniform. It was also Yin Hui, his younger brother in the real world, who had died at the age of 18. “Students are forbidden from entering the sports field during curfew.” “You broke the rules. I will execute you.” Xie Feng raised his gun without hesitation. But Yin Hui stepped forward, pressed his cheek against the cold, hard barrel, and gave Xie Feng a very sweet smile. It was as if the thing against his cheek were not a gun, but his older brother's warm palm. “Brother, you once gave me a seed. “I planted it in my heart. “And nourished it with my own flesh and blood. “Now it has bloomed into a rose. “Would you open my heart with your own hands and take a look?” · Appendix: The rules of the game “Soup” 1. Before entering “Soup,” the System will announce the “soup prompt.” Make sure you understand the prompt carefully. It may help you survive. 2. You may ask key NPCs questions. Key NPCs can only answer “yes” or “no.” 3. Asking more questions will cause the world of “Soup” to take shape. Try your best to clear the game and avoid getting trapped in “Soup.” Theme: Part the fog and find the truth.