“Guys, can you believe this?” Genius programmer Chu Yang stares at the 404 error code flashing on his ancestral compass and completely loses it. On the first day he inherits a shabby demon-hunting shop, a lightning-struck USB drive made from thunderstruck wood fries his mechanical keyboard’s motherboard, and the holographic image of his ancestor demands that he scan a QR code to offer incense.
When a popular livestreamer spontaneously combusts in front of millions of viewers, the police discover that the victim’s phone has an app called “Douyin from the Underworld.” Criminal Investigation Captain Su Jiuli tosses out a pair of silver handcuffs. “Either help me solve the case, or I’ll charge you with spreading electronic evil!”
And so, the tech geek writes ghost-banishing programs in Python while the police beauty uses a peachwood sword to slash through firewalls. They discover that every victim received a mysterious notification, and the code behind it is unmistakably from the anti-addiction System Chu Yang wrote himself...
“Damn it! So my ancestral demon-hunting arts are fake, but your code really can summon ghosts?”
