Crystal Man of Ling Feng is set in Shanghai in 1937. It tells of supernatural mysteries encountered amid the chaos by Ling Feng, a police investigator with an extraordinary memory.
A bizarre murder on Avenue Joffre in the French Concession shatters the city's peaceful facade: the victim's internal organs have vanished, and the only thing left at the scene is a deep blue crystal. A figure described by witnesses as "transparent as crystal" draws Ling Feng into a whirlwind far beyond the ordinary. Thanks to his photographic memory, he detects something amiss in encrypted freight manifests and clues surrounding a modified Jiefang CA141 truck. Bai Ling, a physics teaching assistant recently returned from studying abroad, analyzes the energy fluctuations in the crystal fragments from a scientific perspective, and finds they point to the possibility of "extraterrestrial life."
As pursuit by the Special Higher Police's Hummer and mysterious men in black begins, Ling Feng and his partner Zhang Meng are forced into an even deeper conspiracy. In a standoff at an observatory on the outskirts of the city, they witness the true form of the "Crystal Man": a messenger from a dying home planet, carrying a star map and a warning, yet made the target of competing forces. From Shanghai's shikumen lanes to Peking Union Medical College Hospital in Beiping, the three drive a Beijing 212 through wartime blockades. Between flashes of memory and the codes on the star map, they uncover the truth behind the meteorite crisis and extraterrestrial civilization.
Amid the raging tides of a chaotic age, an investigator with perfect memory, a scholar who believes in science, and a man burdened with a mission
