The rainy season in Qinggang City is soaked in blood, and four corpses emerge one after another in the heavy rain. When criminal investigation captain Zhou Yanchuan led a team to investigate the scene, he discovered that each deceased person had mysterious numbers engraved on his palms. These numbers were like keys, opening up memories that he had blocked for fifteen years: In the 2007 chemical plant explosion, his father was framed as the culprit, but seven key witnesses disappeared one after another on a rainy night.
When the fifth corpse appeared on the rooftop wearing a police uniform, Zhou Yanchuan found that all the evidence pointed to the safe in his office: a blood-stained police badge, skin tissue that matched the DNA of the deceased, and his encrypted medical records for treating dissociative personality disorder. The heavy rain washed away the loopholes in Skynet's surveillance. The car's GPS and mobile phone signals were strangely split into two time and space tracks at the time of the crime - one showed him mourning his colleagues at the memorial service, and the other captured him setting up chemical traps in the basement of a seafood restaurant.
In this death game of racing against memory, Zhou Yanchuan gradually sees the outline of the truth: the hand holding the knife every rainy night is him but not him, and the numbers engraved on the palm of the corpse are not only a code of revenge, but also a countdown to the impending destruction of the protagonist's personality. When the seventh pocket watch struck the time and thunder exploded at the same time, and the countdown to the opening of poison gas valves in the city reached zero, he finally raised the gun on the rooftop and pointed it at his temple - at this moment he was both the policeman who had been chasing the murderer for fifteen years, and the boy who was buried in the ruins of the chemical plant.
Purpose: suspense novel