Introduction to "After Chime"
At midnight on a rainy night, the bell tower in the old city suddenly cracked open, and the rusty iron and copper chirped to death. It also opened the prelude to a "faceless" serial murder. Under the guidance of the blood ladder and the recording, detective Lin Yan and forensic doctor Shen Guan discovered that the informant Xue Lin, whose facial features had been stripped alive, held the list of underground organ passages in the "Zero O'clock Bell", but was sacrificed by the "Twelve Pointed Star" before handing over the evidence.
As the hands return to zero again and again, more faceless corpses appear on the commanding heights of the city, and every bell sounds like a live broadcast of death. The more Lin Yan investigated, the more he discovered that Shen Guan's scalpel was suspicious of the past; and Shen Guan also read that his own name had been erased in Lin Yan's file.
As the truth approaches, they must answer:
——Have those who peel off other people's faces also lost their own faces in the darkness?
——If the bell is a countdown, for whom does the last one ring?
After the midnight bell, dawn will not come. Only the ever-extinguishing red light in the rain will continue to count the bodies of the city.
Purpose: Use the bloody bell to interrogate the dark side of human nature: when justice and sin share the same face, every step of tracking the truth peels off the disguise of oneself; if the darkness cannot be eradicated, only by facing the midnight bell in the heart can one decide whether the dawn is worth coming.