Burning Hive

Former detective Ling Ran was burdened with the stigma of "manslaughter of his partner" and was licking his wounds in a dilapidated office. Until trainee reporter Su Xiaoxiao came to the door with her father's "suicide" case - the editor-in-chief of Jingzhou Evening News died in a locked study room. The "Moonlight Sonata" he hated the most was played at the scene. Next to the suicide note curled up was a moth with black spots on its wings, which was exactly the same as the one at the scene of the murder of his partner Lin Feng three years ago. When the sense of disobedience at the "suicide" scene pierced his mind like a needle, Ling Ran's strange disease, which was diagnosed as "post-traumatic amplification disorder," suddenly broke out: when he was angry, he could see the cracks in the memory that had been tampered with, and when he was afraid, he could grasp the flaws left by the murderer. He finally understood that those extreme emotions that were regarded as "flaws" were actually the only weapon against the "Hive" organization - this monster hidden in the shadows of politics and business was using "memory anchors" to tamper with the truth, allowing witnesses to mistake deer for horses, and making victims forget the murderer. From perjury in celebrity secret rooms to lies about the judge's car accident, from bullying caused by collective amnesia on campus to stand-ins for congressmen, Ling Ran led Su Xiaoxiao, retired forensic doctor Lao Qin, and the criminal police captain Zhao Ye, who was both an enemy and a friend, to navigate step by step in the maze of memory. They discovered that the "Memory Anchor" technology of "The Hive" originated from the sanatorium experiment thirty years ago, and Ling Ran was the only "perfect experimental subject" to escape. His emotional amplification disorder was a natural antibody against manipulation. When the "Queen Bee" - the man who wore gold-rimmed glasses and was the former police chief - launched the city's memory screening in an attempt to erase the existence of all resisters, Ling Ran clutched the rusty police badge left by his partner. The police badge hides the truth of the experiment, the clues that Lin Feng paid for with his life, and even his tampered childhood. "They can change their memories, but they can't change the fire in their hearts." Ling Ran's anger burned through the "Queen Bee"'s ultimate anchor point. Su Xiaoxiao's camera recorded all the evidence, and Zhao Ye's police badge pierced the darkness in the sun. In this war of emotions against technology, it is never the flames that moths fly toward, but the truth hidden behind the flames that will eventually be illuminated. Purpose: With "emotions versus technological alienation" as the core, it tells the story of how, in a world where memory can be tampered with, the most primitive anger, obsession, and passion in human nature become the ultimate force to pierce falsehoods and defend the truth, exposing the manipulation conspiracy under the collusion of power and technology, and ultimately proving that "memory can be changed, and the fire in the heart of the human heart is immortal."