Xu Qinghuai has been working in the Finance Bureau of the puppet government for half a year, and has been living a stable life, deliberately staying away from all disputes. Recently, strange things have happened one after another in Linjiang City: Japan's top-secret intelligence has been stolen inexplicably, military commanders' assassination operations have failed repeatedly, and underground party strongholds have been almost surrounded and suppressed several times but have mysteriously escaped danger.
Xu Qinghuai began to encounter strange predicaments: he frequently woke up late at night, his clothes were stained with dust, his soles were muddy, and his wrists had strange strangulation marks; strange secret notes and password symbols occasionally appeared on his desk; acquaintances around him had hot and cold attitudes toward him. Some said he went out late at night, while others said he stayed behind closed doors.
Jiang Zhiwan of the military command was the first to target him. He closely monitored and tested him throughout the whole process and deliberately leaked false information to observe his reaction. Zongzheng Rin of the Japanese side put him on the list of key suspects and laid a dragnet, waiting for him to reveal his flaws. Xiao Yanke, the deputy commander of the military command, took the opportunity to frame him and wanted to blame all mistakes on the innocent Xu Qinghuai.
After Xu Qinghuai woke up, he knew nothing. While enduring suspicion, pressure, and temptation from all sides, he relied on fragments of dreams and subconscious intuition to survive with difficulty. He gradually realized that late at night, he was doing some secret things that could lead to death. At the end of the volume, it is confirmed for the first time that he is in the strange state of a sleepwalking agent, and he falls into extreme self-fear.
