★ A masterwork by Mo Lv Qingtai, author of "Chain Crimes" — a suspense thriller rivaling Keigo Higashino and Qin Ming's Medical Examiner series!
★Acclaimed by top authors Xiao Qiao Laoshu, Xue Hong, He Changzai, and Nan Wujiashen Lijiao!
★Justice vs. evil: A detective captain's battle against killers, gangs, and terrorists, exposing humanity's dual nature.
★Unraveling motives, connecting clues: Meticulous crime scenes, eerie suicide rituals, mysterious medical theses—what sinister scheme links them?
★Solving cases isn't the end — it's where the truth begins.

Police ace Ling Li and the "Fiery Medical Examiner" Liu Xiaolu — a bickering yet brilliant duo — join forces with forensic savant Shen Yuan, counterterrorism legends "Old Qutou" and Lv Wubing to crack bizarre crimes. As they confront cunning, high-IQ criminals, each specialist's unique skills face the ultimate test: Whose side are they really on?
Favor and vengeance, love and hatred, justice and evil collide in twisted battlegrounds. This is a chess game of wits, a testament to human nature, and the final showdown between light and darkness.

Mo Lv Qingtai (pen name), born Zhu Shuangyi, is a renowned online suspense maestro. Works include "Mystery Files", "Domain of the Uncanny", "Chain Crimes" (3rd Prize, 2018 Guizhou Provincial Literary Awards), "Republic of Strange Cases" (2016 China Writers' Association Key Support Project), "Redeemer", "Silk Road Code", and "Game Changer".

Chapter 1: The Death of Zeng Cheng /001
Chapter 2: Crime Scene Investigation /004
Chapter 3: The Scalpel of Medical School /007
Chapter 4: Special Case Unit 520 /010
Chapter 5: Prison Call for Help /013
Chapter 6: The Legal Affairs Reporter /016
Chapter 7: Identity Suspicions /019
Chapter 8: New Deputy Head of Surgery /022
Chapter 9: Suicide or Murder? /025
Chapter 10: Lip Reading /028
Chapter 11: Shen Yuan's Doubts /031
Chapter 12: Catfight /034
Chapter 13: Academic Thesis /037
Chapter 14: Wujiang Sliced Fish /041
Chapter 15: A Woman's Cries in the Lab Building /044
Chapter 16: The Third Target? /048
Chapter 17: Teacher-Student Relationship /052
Chapter 18: The Beautiful Woman with Mental Issues /055
Chapter 19: "Dark Green" /058
Chapter 20: What Does "Fly" Mean? /061
Chapter 21: The Other Side of Ye Qingcheng /064
Chapter 22: The Eccentric Old Qutou /067
Chapter 23: Ling Li in Danger /071
Chapter 24: Hiding in Plain Sight /075
Chapter 25: The Insurmountable Mountain /079
Chapter 26: How It Happened /083
Chapter 27: What Are They Searching For? /086
Chapter 28: Liu Xiaolu's Distant Cousin /089
Chapter 29: No Basis for Comparison /092
Chapter 30: Ye Qingcheng's Past /095
Chapter 31: Chairman of Qibang Pharmaceuticals /098
Chapter 32: Murder Lurks in the Night /102
Chapter 33: Close Quarters Combat /106
Chapter 34: Double Capture /109
Chapter 35: The Ji Family and Ji Feng'er /113
Chapter 36: What Kind of Notebook Is This? /117
Chapter 37: "I Want to Fight You" /120
Chapter 38: Lü Wubing's Origins /124
Chapter 39: Bloodstained Intelligence /127
Chapter 40: Pacific Rim Investment Consulting Co., Ltd. /130
Chapter 41: Lu Guanzhong's Dinner Party /134
Chapter 42: Refusing to Be a Substitute /138
Chapter 43: The Corpse Whisperer and the Widow /141
Chapter 44: Little Worm's Discovery /145
Chapter 45: Two-Part Agreement /149
Chapter 46: Arranging the "Delivery" /153
Chapter 47: Right to Know /157
Chapter 48: The Woman in Purple /160
Chapter 49: Ye Qingcheng Gives Away Two Notebooks /164
Chapter 50: "Little Eagle's" Rendezvous /167
Chapter 51: Blind Spot /171
Chapter 52: Mismatching Couples /174
Chapter 53: Jin Tao Changes Plans Last Minute /178
Chapter 54: First and Foremost a Soldier /181
Chapter 55: Losing the Target /184
Chapter 56: "Shadow" Is No Myth /188
Chapter 57: Showing Weakness to the Enemy /191
Chapter 58: Meeting Force with Force /194
Chapter 59: There's a Mole /197
Chapter 60: Everything in Moderation /200
Chapter 61: "Little Eagle" Spills Everything /203
Chapter 62: Playing the Long Game /206
Chapter 63: Sun Xiaohong's Version /209
Chapter 64: Old Qutou Stirs Up Trouble /212
Chapter 65: Ji Feng'er Goes Missing /215
Chapter 66: Blue Flame /218
Chapter 67: Toxic "Perfume" /222
Chapter 68: International Cooperation /225
Chapter 69: Suspect Everything /228
Chapter 70: Sending Lv Wubing Undercover /232
Chapter 71: No Discord, No Concord /235
Chapter 72: Suo Amu from the Prayer Group /239
Chapter 73: Recruiting the Veteran /242
Chapter 74: Letter of Commitment /245
Chapter 75: A Battle We Can't Afford to Lose /248
Chapter 76: Gou Sen Is No Simple Man /251
Chapter 77: Hopeless Loser /254
Chapter 78: The Mission /257
Chapter 79: Hero Saves Beauty /260
Chapter 80: Little Worm Receives Orders /263

Chapter 1 The Death of Zeng Cheng
The night had grown very deep.
The experimental building of Leizhou City Medical College was shrouded in darkness. Located in the southeast corner of the campus, the building was a considerable distance from both the teaching buildings and the dormitory areas, taking about half an hour to walk there. Apart from the boiler house over a hundred meters away, the experimental building was the only structure in that corner. In front of it lay a lotus pond, surrounded by towering pine and cypress trees.
During the day, this place was already quiet, and at night it became even more silent. Medical students generally avoided the southeast corner unless they had a reason to be there. Even during the day, they rarely came to this area except for laboratory classes. They claimed that the place was eerie, and for some unknown reason, they felt a sense of gloom and horror whenever they approached the pine forest. If it was like this during the day, no one would come to this haunted place at night.
In addition to the pine forest and the formaldehyde-filled experimental building, the old caretaker of the boiler house, Old Qu, also contributed to the students' fear. Old Qu was a worker in the boiler house, and he spent all year round in that small building, always wearing his blue cotton work clothes. It was said that when he was a child, he had experienced a big fire, which not only disfigured his face but also severely affected his hearing. You had to shout at him when you spoke, and even then, he often gave irrelevant answers. Occasionally, he would say something that sent a chill down your spine, as if he were not speaking to you, even though you were sure there was no one else around.
In short, Old Qu was a strange man. He had no relatives or friends and lived alone in his boiler house. If it were not for the fact that he came to the school's finance office once a month to collect his salary, even the school leaders and colleagues might have forgotten that there was such a person in the school.
In fact, it was not only the students who avoided this place. The school staff also stayed away unless they had a reason to be there. Even the campus security guards would unconsciously skip this area during their patrols.
There were many ghost stories about the southeast corner in the school, but no one had ever actually seen the so-called "ghost." However, the place was shrouded in mystery and gradually became a "no-go area" in the school. Neither teachers nor students would step into the southeast corner unless they had a laboratory class.
However, on this quiet night, the sound of high-heeled shoes tapping the floor echoed through the experimental building. The sound came from afar and grew nearer, heading towards the dissection room.
As the footsteps approached, a dim light appeared in the corridor, just enough to illuminate the woman's path. The woman stopped in front of the door to the dissection room, and the sound of her footsteps ceased.
"Creak..." The door to the dissection room was not locked. The woman gently pushed it open and walked in. The light in the dissection room came on.
The woman was dressed in a white lab coat, black high-heeled shoes, and a mask covered her face. Her long black hair was disheveled over her shoulders. She was holding a small bag in her hand and gazed blankly at the dissection table in the center of the room.
At that moment, a naked man was lying on the dissection table. He lay there quietly, and you could still see his chest rising and falling slightly, as if he were asleep.
The woman put the bag on the table. She turned her head and looked at the neatly arranged instruments beside her, put on surgical gloves, and then picked up a scalpel.
She gently slapped the man's face and said, "It's time to wake up, isn't it?" In a short while, the man really opened his eyes. When he saw the scene in front of him clearly, fear appeared in his eyes. He tried to struggle, but he had no strength at all.
"You once said that a scalpel can save lives and also take lives. You also said that dissection is an art, and every dissected body should be a precious piece of art. You said the only thing you regretted was not being able to dissect a living person bit by bit to the fullest extent. Perhaps after tonight, you will have no regrets, because I will help you fulfill your wish and make you the perfect art in this world."
The woman's eyes were not only blank, but her voice was also devoid of any emotion.
The sound of the scalpel cutting through the skin came from the laboratory. Under the pale light, the woman was helping the man fulfill his long-cherished wish.