The Strange Records of the Midnight Hour

In Haicheng, strange entities run rampant in the shadowy corners of the neon-lit city. Shen Ci, a field agent for the Special Bureau, is the one who cleans up the city's messes. Five years ago, a mission left him "dead" and brought him back to life, with a strange seal appearing on his right hand and an unknown horror sleeping inside him.

In a derelict building on a rainy night, a skin-peeling ghost howls his name. Shen Ci discovers that the geomantic formation at the scene is identical to the seal on his palm, leading to the "God-Feeding Array" and "Vessel Project" from thirty years ago. The mysterious organization Long Night emerges from the shadows. They see Shen Ci as "Vessel Zero" and plan to use him to open a gateway to another dimension.

The cold-faced forensic doctor Su Jiu and the slovenly team captain Old Dog each have secrets of their own. Every time Shen Ci uses the seal, the evil god awakens a little more, and black energy eats away at his reason. Hunted by the Special Bureau and pursued by Long Night, he pieces together fragments of his memories as he flees, only to uncover an even more brutal truth: his missing sister, his dead comrade-in-arms, and Su Jiu's father are all tied to the conspiracy from thirty years ago.

When the gateway to another dimension opens, Haicheng becomes a living hell. Shen Ci must choose: unleash the evil god's power and perish with it, or find a glimmer of redemption before his humanity is consumed?

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.