After the Earthquake, We Saw Clearly What the Earth Looked Like

In a person's life, he will always encounter strange things, such as legendary dragons, ghosts in urban weirdness, elves in fantasy, etc... Are these magical things fabricated by people? Or did it originally exist and was it passed down? Our protagonist is very interested in this kind of thing, but he also knows that it is fabricated, but an earthquake changed his view of the world... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.