Detective in the Age of Magic

Star calendar year 1872, Fog Harbor was shrouded in lead fog, and a bizarre case of dead bodies in a secret room broke the peace of the city. Private detective Zhai Hong became famous for his "backtracking magic" that no one could identify, but no one knew that all his reasoning was just to cover up a shocking secret - he had no magic at all. As the case progresses, a strange crystal of source material, a loyal and cold humanoid weapon Yin Yun, and a mysterious organization "Return to Origin Society" that has been hidden for many years have surfaced one after another. The "Origin Incident" that rewrote the world thirty-two years ago, a truth deliberately buried by the Magic Council, and a father who was stigmatized as a traitor, completely involved him in the whirlpool. The stage phantom at the Royal Opera House, the secret room murder at Wuhan University, the silent murder in the old city... The participants in the experiment died tragically one after another, and each case pointed to the same end point. Zhai Hong must tear apart the curtain of lies amidst the surveillance of the Magic Council, the pursuit of the Origin Society, and the conspiracies in the secret rooms. When the lead mist clears and all the masks peel off, he will finally understand—— The most terrifying thing is never the secret room murder, but the history that has been tampered with by power, and the madness hidden deep in the human heart.