Urban Rift

"Urban Cracks" Author: Yichen Moxiang Under the bustling Bincheng, the bright city is full of dark corners. A continuous cold autumn rain and a strange and sealed murder case of falling from a building severely tore apart the tranquility on the surface of the city. Su Wanqing, a 28-year-old female designer living alone, mysteriously fell to her death from the 18th floor of the old Sunshine Garden Community late at night. All the doors and windows of the residence where the crime occurred were locked from inside, forming an undecrypted room. The scene was carefully disguised by the murderer. It looked like an ordinary accidental fall, but there were many blunt force injuries on the body of the deceased, and every flaw pointed to deliberate murder. Experienced criminal investigation captain Lu Chen led the team to intervene at the critical moment. Faced with the multiple difficulties of aging and failure of community monitoring, heavy rains destroying the scene, and extreme lack of clues, relying on extremely meticulous observation and solid and rigorous criminal investigation thinking, starting from a handful of unfamiliar red soil, a wisp of fine fabric fibers, and a mutilated fingerprint, he peeled off the cocoons layer by layer to solve the mystery of the secret room. As the investigation gradually deepens, a single murder case continues to ferment, implicating the shadow of a serial crime that has been hiding in the darkness of the city for many years. The plight of ex-convicts, the potential safety hazards of groups living alone in cities, the security loopholes in old cities, and the greed, despair and distortion deep in the underlying human nature have been exposed one after another. Lu Chen leads the criminal investigation team to walk at the intersection of light and darkness, using evidence as a blade and justice as a shield to fight against cunning and cruel criminals, uncovering the cold and complex human nature behind crimes, clearing away the fog of the city, and repairing the shocking urban cracks deep in the bustling city.