I Exorcise Vengeful Spirits at People's Square

While history student Lu Chen is livestreaming, a shadow silently creeps out of an ancient tree in the plaza and into the camera frame. One comment, “There’s a headless shadow behind the streamer,” turns his life upside down in an instant. When a fragment of a bronze mirror cuts his palm, a flood of “memories” pours into him: a late Qing martial artist, a Republic-era architect, an army doctor from the War of Resistance Against Japan, and other heroic spirits. With each spirit’s power lasting just 30 seconds, he grows from a rookie chased and bitten by an “earthbound spirit” into the commander of the Demon-Suppression Bureau, able to summon a hundred souls.

When the “Abyss-Eater Cult” returns to the world, city landmarks become demon dens. Black blood runs from the plaza fountain, weeping statues trigger mass self-immolation, and the last subway train roams with vengeful spirits aboard. Lu Chen discovers, to his horror, that the leyline key inside him has become the target of malevolent spirits. To resist the “Demon Fiends,” he forms the “Bedrock” squad, then gradually establishes the “Night Watchers.”

“Your Corruption has reached 99%. Prepare to face divine punishment.” As Yang Jin’s mechanical arm tears open a rift in space, the “Cthulhu Starpath” beyond a colossal bronze gate comes into view in Lu Chen’s eyes. All of this is being quietly recorded by the surveillance cameras of “Cangnan Hospital.” Then one day, a young man named “Lin Qiye” slowly pushes open the door to Room 13…

What exactly is the mysterious shadow? Can Lu Chen escape divine punishment? And what kind of turning point will Lin Qiye bring? The answers await you.