As the fox tails of Qingqiu become beauty filters and the wings of the Gudiaos turn into tools for capital to fleece the masses, the spirits and monsters of the Classic of Mountains and Seas awaken en masse in modern society. A washed-up streamer clutches a fox comb slick with blood, a programmer cultivates poisonous flowers that feed on anxiety, and a surrogate-pregnancy doctor delivers a snake baby marked with oracle-bone script. Every mortal consumed by desire becomes a testing ground for an ancient mythical beast.
Fifty eerie experiments in human nature take root in the city's shadowy corners: cosmetic surgery clinics mass-produce flawless faces, family restaurants sell turtle soup that trades in memories, and new-energy cars conceal seeds of a city-burning inferno... The technology, traffic, and ethics you think you control are nothing more than appetizers offered to the monsters before their feast.
Written in blood, this book inscribes the anxieties of modern life into the surviving fragments of the Classic of Mountains and Seas. As you smile beneath a nine-tailed fox filter, sign a contract before a snake-patterned weight-loss ad, or revel in the poisonous flames of rumor, can you hear the bones of beasts grinding out their verdict?
