★ Reject blind followership and embrace independent thinking—start by reading Medical Examiner Dr. Qin Ming! Multiple works in the Medical Examiner Dr. Qin Ming series have been adapted into films, television dramas, and stage plays. The film and television adaptations of the original novels have surpassed 8 billion views, while the audio dramas have reached over 300 million total plays. The novels have been translated into several languages, including Vietnamese and Thai. The author has also participated in Chinese forensic documentary variety shows to popularize forensic knowledge, successfully establishing the independent "Medical Examiner Dr. Qin Ming" IP!

★ The author, Dr. Qin Ming, is a frontline forensic medical examiner in China. His literary and popular science works showcase the history of rapid changes in the forensic industry and have transformed the public's perception of the profession. He has made the once mysterious and niche field of forensic medicine a household name. Over 100 official media outlets have praised him as the "Corpse Whisperer," considering him the "Michael Baden of China."

★ This series is divided into four main sections based on content:
The Myriad Phenomena Series (Wanxiang Juan) consists of classic works following the main storyline, adapted from real cases.
The Mortal Lives Series (Zhongsheng Juan) is also adapted from real cases but focuses on social issues such as women's rights and domestic violence.
The Hummingbird Series(Fengniao Juan) features retro suspense and stories of ordinary events, depicting the lives of the older generation of police officers and forensic doctors—including Qin Ming’s father—during the 1980s and 1990s.
The Night Watch Series (Shouyezhe Juan)consists of fictional, imaginative crime-solving stories.
The Popular Science Series(Kepu Juan) provides accessible forensic knowledge through a documentary-style approach rather than focusing on serial murder cases.

The "Medical Examiner Dr. Qin Ming" series includes:
Myriad Phenomena Series:*The Voice of the Dead (Volumes I & II)*, *Silent Testimony*, *The Eleventh Finger*, *The Scavenger*, *The Survivor*, *The Voyeur*

Mortal Lives Series： *The Scourge of Heaven*, *The Forgotten*, *The Doll*, *The Blank Paper*, *Tower of Ants* (Working title, in progress), *The Bone Bell (Not yet started)

Hummingbird Series:*The Burning Hummingbird*, *The Burning Hummingbird 2: The 1985 Mystery*, *The Burning Hummingbird 3: Manhunt Across Time, 1990* (Grand Finale)

The Night Watch Series:**The Night Watch: Awakening of the Crime Terminator**, *The Night Watch 2: Dark Potential*, *The Night Watch 3: Fatal Blind Spot*, **The Night Watch 4: Heavenly Evolution*, *The Night Watch X* (Working title, in progress)

Popular Science Series：*The Forensic Book*, *The Death-Cause Autopsy Room*, *Serious Homicide Investigations: Urban Volume*, *Serious Homicide Investigations: Mountain & Sea Volume*

Qin Ming's father was once a criminal police officer. After retiring, he compiled the cases he had handled into a memoir. Within this memoir is a group of ordinary people who, during their high-spirited youth, attempted to traverse the most arduous of paths. After reading through his father's stories in a single night, the image of a hummingbird began to emerge in Qin Ming's mind.

The story of the hummingbird takes place in 1976, an era that feels foreign to us. Gu Hongxing, a newly appointed public security officer, stumbles upon a homicide where a female worker was dragged into a machine and crushed to death. The gore of the scene and the mangled remains inflicted a massive psychological shock on the naturally timid young man, plunging him into a cycle of endless nightmares.

At that time, modern investigative techniques were just beginning to sprout. There was no DNA technology, no surveillance footage, and certainly no computer networks.

Gu Hongxing and his colleagues faced insurmountable difficulties in every case: How could they seek justice for a girl raped in the pitch-black night? How could they identify a decomposing corpse in the desolate wilderness? How could they find the hidden culprit among more than 3,000 suspects? As part of the first generation to use trace evidence examination to solve crimes, Gu Hongxing never gave up on seeking the truth of every case despite the extremely primitive conditions.

He was like a hummingbird searching for a spark, burning himself incessantly to bring back the hope of light.

Yet, what he did not anticipate was that the images haunting his nightmares were far from simple...

Qin Ming, Forensic Pathologist

A frontline police forensic pathologist with 25 years of experience and over a thousand autopsies performed, widely known by the nickname "Lao Qin." He is a bestselling suspense novelist in China, a prominent science communicator in the field of forensic medicine, and a highly influential police blogger with over ten million followers. He has been honored as a CCTV Legal Figure, Chinese Original Fiction Author of the Year, and Dangdang's Influential Author of the Year.

His classic works have remained bestsellers for a decade, including the *Myriad Phenomena Series* , the *Mortal Lives Series* ,the *Hummingbird Series *, the *Nightwatcher* series, and a series of popular science books. Film and television adaptations based on his original novels have surpassed 5 billion views, while his audiobooks on Ximalaya have reached over 80 million plays. His novels have been translated and published in countries such as Vietnam and Thailand.

Introduction
Chapter 1 The Green-Skinned Train
Chapter 2 Gunfight
Chapter 3 The Rapist
Chapter 4 Flaying
Chapter 5 Recovering the Corpse
Chapter 6 The Encirclement
Chapter 7 The Unidentified Body
Chapter 8 The Hidden Truth
Chapter 9 The Razor Blade
Chapter 10 The Burning Hummingbird
Epilogue