Overworked wage slave Jiang Cheng suddenly drops dead at his desk after endless 996 shifts. When he wakes up, he finds himself in a cybernetic underworld managed by a super AI called King Yama. Here, Meng Po Soup comes in custom-flavored soda, Ox-Head and Horse-Face are mechanically enhanced enforcers armed with electromagnetic battle-axes, and the Eighteen Levels of Hell are VR experiences available by paid subscription.
Forced to sign a contract to pay off his resurrection loan, Jiang Cheng becomes an intern beat cop in the Underworld's Special Affairs Division for the Living World, handling all kinds of “technical” supernatural cases on Earth.
There's Zero, a seemingly cold and ruthless mechanical Taoist priestess with a mysterious past; a chatterbox ghost officer partner who carries a full set of ghost-hunting livestream gear; and an “Electronic Ghost King” lurking in the city's data streams, plotting to overthrow the worlds of the living and the dead...
Confronted with an endless parade of cybernetic evil spirits and the bizarre sights of a futuristic metropolis, Jiang Cheng wields an upgradeable “cyber mourning staff.” Step by step, he grows from a wisecracking rookie into the Underworld's “gold-medal beat cop,” a name that strikes fear throughout the Three Realms.
“Don't get me wrong, I'm no hero.” Jiang Cheng lit an e-cigarette and grinned roguishly through the swirling vapor. “I'm just a wage slave who wants to get off work early.”
Listening and listening, my body worked hard.
There is a play in the book, and there is a book in the play.
From beginning to end, there is no leakage.
It sounds refreshing and more effective than drinking strong tea.
The sound is energetic and effortless to listen to.
As I listened, my hair stood on end.