Ashen City: Blood Moon over Gray Alley

The City of Darkness hides countless crimes, but it is also home to many heroes who fight to save it! Night never falls gradually in Jincheng. It's as if someone has pressed a rag soaked in kerosene against the skyline and set it ablaze. At 5:30 p.m., the last ray of sunlight still struggles on the surface of the Jin River, reflecting greasy orange-red patches of light. By 5:35, darkness has crawled up from the riverbed, spreading along the steel frames and smokestacks of the docks and on toward the glass curtain walls and granite facades of the upper city. This isn't ordinary night. It's a tangible darkness, almost solid enough to touch, mingling the river's stench, the sulfurous smell of the steelworks, car exhaust, and fermenting food scraps from thousands upon thousands of garbage cans to form a suffocating cocoon unique to Jincheng. This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental. Please do not imitate.