Light of the Abyss

In the near future, the neurotechnology company "Mind Dome" has invented the epoch-making "emotion encoding" technology, which can extract and visualize human beings' deepest emotional memories and use them as the ultimate evidence in court. Lin Xu, once the leading criminal profiler in the country, is now the chief decoder of the "Mind Dome". He can dive into the abyss of other people's emotions, interpret memory fragments that even he himself has forgotten, and specializes in overturning the verdict of death row criminals. There is no error or omission in the cases that he has examined. Until he encountered Case No. 73 - A wealthy second-rate man named Xie Zhixing who was accused of killing his girlfriend in extremely cruel ways. When Lin Xu accessed Xie Zhixing's emotional code, what he saw was not the violence and cruelty he expected, but endless regret, love, and... A completely unfamiliar third party figure that did not exist in the official report. What made his hair stand on end was that in this third party's emotionally encoded afterimage, he captured a sealed childhood memory that was entirely his own. At that moment, Lin Xu understood that this was not just a murder case. This is a trap set against him. And the truth was darker than any emotion he could decode. When emotions can be read, reality can be faked. Do you want to trust the evidence of logic or the memory of feelings?