Linhai City

Biodata

Geography and Districts

• East District — Includes Changchun Road, where police track Kannazuki heading west toward the municipal bureau 12.
• South District — Contains the Happy Home residential complex and the Red Star site used by Shrimp 43 46.
• West District — Contains Old Ma’s food stall and the Golden Sand Building’s underground casino 11.
• North District — Contains the unfinished commercial tower where Kannazuki reveals his new identity and the upscale studio apartment he subsequently occupies 46 49.
• High-Tech Zone — Appears in Kannazuki’s delivery routes and among the locations where Construction Group enforcers die 16 24.
• Northern outskirts — Include an abandoned chemical plant and the City Detention Center 7 20.
• Western suburbs — Include a logistics park visited during Kannazuki’s effort to obscure his travel patterns 10.

Yunzhou City, where fugitive Liu Qiang is hiding, is stated to be 2,400 kilometers from Linhai City 6.

Notable Locations

Government and Security

Residential and Educational Sites

Commercial and Industrial Sites

Infrastructure and Public Life

Surveillance and Data Systems

The Linhai City Skynet Project provides surveillance feeds that both the police and Kannazuki exploit 7.

• High-definition traffic cameras include facial recognition, though Kannazuki identifies routes that avoid them 7 13.
• Police combine camera footage, cell-tower movements, forum readership, and delivery-platform records to narrow their suspect pool 6 10 12.
• The municipal government cloud center supplies computing capacity for citywide movement analysis 10.
• Medical and household-registration databases allow Kannazuki to search for a physically suitable decoy for his staged death 43.
• L later uses district-level electricity consumption and active network nodes to identify seven possible Kira locations 45.

Delivery Network

• The city has 32,000 delivery riders, according to Chen Lei, and three major food-delivery platforms 10 19.
• Hospitals, hotels, upscale residential complexes, and office towers are delivery hotspots—Kannazuki’s explanation for repeatedly appearing near crime scenes 19.
• Kannazuki crosses five administrative districts and travels nearly 130 kilometers in one afternoon to obscure suspicious route overlaps 10.
• Attacks on yellow-jacketed riders disrupt orders across the city; Kannazuki subsequently compromises a regional dispatch server and gains control over routes and assignments 24 25.

News and Public Opinion

• Cape Community is Linhai City’s largest local public forum. Its exposés help Kannazuki select targets and give Chen Lei a way to connect the deaths 6.
• Early killings provoke public discussion of karma, divine punishment, and a local god of death 3 6.
• Local news portals publish arrest information and photographs, including the report Kannazuki uses to target Li Jianguo 16.
• Shrimp’s claim of responsibility for twelve local deaths spreads internationally, provoking panic and attracting people who ask Kira to kill their enemies 42.

Authorities and Criminal Organizations

History and Major Events

Early Death Note Killings

Zhao Gang and Wang Hu’s heart-attack deaths become citywide conversation, with residents interpreting them as supernatural punishment. Chen Lei investigates the apparent connection, but his initial request to treat the deaths as linked murders is rejected because there is no evidence of a conventional killing method 3 5.

Zhang Wei’s hospital confession and Sun Ming’s fatal confession at the Grand Hyatt strengthen the pattern. Chen Lei receives command of a major task force and uses citywide data analysis to identify Kannazuki as a suspect 10 12.

Corruption Scandal and Underworld Collapse

Li Jianguo dies at the detention center after naming Zhao Lidong, Secretary Wang, and Sun Jianguo in a corruption statement. Because Kannazuki is being interrogated at the municipal bureau at the same time, the synchronized footage supplies an alibi and forces his release 20.

Kannazuki then targets the Construction Group’s leadership and thirteen core enforcers. Their deaths leave competing gangs preparing to seize territory, and Chen Lei diverts the task force away from Kannazuki to prevent wider disorder 23 24.

The Delivery-Rider Bounty

Wang Mingyuan offers a US$100 million bounty for Sun Jianguo’s missing ledger. A yellow delivery jacket seen near a death leads bounty hunters to attack riders throughout Linhai City, checking their phones and order histories 24 26 27.

Kannazuki infiltrates Dongding Tower under a delivery pretext. Lin Yaodong exposes his organization’s crimes before dying, giving police extensive evidence while leaving Dongding Capital leaderless. The resulting power vacuum intensifies gang conflict rather than immediately stabilizing the city 26 27 28 32.

Shrimp and L’s Investigation

Kannazuki supplies Shrimp with a notebook to redirect police attention. Twelve simultaneous deaths across the city’s four major districts, followed by Shrimp’s public threats, draw provincial and international attention 40 41 42.

L identifies Linhai City as Kira’s likely base. A broadcast restricted to the South and West districts establishes that the killer is within one of those areas; electricity and network analysis then guide police toward Shrimp’s location 43 44 45.

Kannazuki’s Staged Death and New Identity

An explosion at Happy Home provides cover for Kannazuki’s disappearance. Police identify the recovered remains as his and close his case as unrelated to Kira, while Shrimp is arrested at the Red Star site 45 46.

Kannazuki survives using Zhao Qiang as a decoy and assumes the identity Light Yagami, a Linhai University law graduate student living in the North District. L establishes a restricted military base on the outskirts and includes Light among three people under observation 46 49 50.