Wang Lei, a homicide detective from a provincial backwater, was abruptly transferred to the Municipal Bureau’s Special Task Force without preamble. Cases piled up: the enigma of the “Brain-Eating Sorceress,” the spectral horror of the “Severed Limbs Phantom,” and the grim complexity of the “Reaper’s Murders.” Each mysterious death, each scene of brutal slaughter, dissected the reality of his life with savage precision. Yet, as he finally edged toward the ultimate solution, he realized fate had already authored his final act. This narrative is dense with suspense, riddled with latent dangers, where terror perpetually lurks, but even that—the darkness—was merely a prelude to something far beyond…