Strange Tales: Using Technology to Exorcise Demons Makes More Sense

Wang Defu is a senior programmer at a major internet company, skilled at writing code, fixing bugs, and outsmarting product managers.

His biggest dream is to leave work on time and never work overtime on weekends.

Until one night, after working until three in the morning, he encounters the ghost of a colleague who died suddenly at the office.

The ancestral jade pendant everyone thought was a cheap trinket suddenly glows and sends the ghost flying.

His father calls him. "Son, congratulations! You're the fourth-generation heir to the Abnormal Incident Management Office. Your mother and I are traveling the world. The office is yours. You'll have to pay the rent yourself. Bye!"

From then on, a new branch opens up in Wang Defu's life:

By day, he revises requirements. By night, he revises fate.

Computer code and ghost-banishing talismans are essentially both forms of "debugging."

He firmly believes that any supernatural incident can be solved with a programmer's way of thinking.

Ghostly maze? That's an infinite loop. Add a break and you're out.

Wi-Fi mooching ghosts? That's a network resource allocation issue. Just set them up with an underworld server.

The product manager turns into a vengeful ghost? ...There's no saving that one for now.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real persons or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.