In this steel-and-concrete theme park inspired by the Classic of Mountains and Seas, Head Nurse Chongming Bird sweeps the toilets with her tail feathers, Xing Tian practices his ab-rap on the next bed, and the attending physician can write a prescription that plucks three Deception Beasts bald. When Lu Ze’s synesthesia unexpectedly awakens, he discovers that his lithium carbonate pills have been switched for Qitu saliva, and that a monster black market is hidden beneath the hospital, where Feiyi serve as taxis!
Now he clutches a bronze Wi-Fi device in his left hand that can summon the sharp-tongued AI Baize, and carries a delivery box that once held Dang Kang tusks in his right. He races off amid the honking of Bifang traffic cops conducting drunk-driving checks. And it all started because he glanced a little too long at a calendar of the Eight Steeds on team-building day. The Lushu horse, speaking with a Northeastern accent, is calling to him: “Hey, buddy, mind letting me use your health insurance card to buy some gene-modification serum?”
Modern urban high-martial arts meets the monsters of the Classic of Mountains and Seas, as we follow a young man with mental illness using medical records as talismans and lithium carbonate to break monster formations, amid the surreal reality of monsters committing health-insurance fraud, nine-tailed foxes livestreaming plastic surgery, and the Yazi Consortium going public.
When all the illusions fade, this absurd world written in monster blood will finally welcome its clearest dawn in the bottle of lithium carbonate belonging to a young man with mental illness.
