Lin Jianbai was admitted to the top university "Haiyuan University" in the bustling city. He thought he would be greeted by knowledge, youth and ordinary life. Until the roommate disappeared mysteriously on a rainy night, leaving only a notebook filled with twisted symbols that made me dizzy after reading it for a long time. Campus ghost stories began to spread, the strange echoes in the corridors at midnight, the non-existent thirteenth row of bookshelves deep in the library... Lin Jianbai was horrified to find that he seemed to be the only one who could detect these anomalies and stay awake.
He was recruited by the secretly established "Abnormal Phenomenon Investigation Section (API)" and stepped into the shadowy battlefield. Here, he met teammates with very different personalities: Chu Yao, a violent senior girl from the archeology department who can cut open cracks in space at will; Su Xiao, a mathematical genius and hacker girl who uses mathematical formulas to accurately predict the next move of the evil god; Shen Zhaozhao, the cold-faced chief of the medical school who tamed the cells of ancient gods in a petri dish and made them into biological weapons.
When the phantom of Jörmungandr, the earthly python that surrounds the world in Nordic mythology, appeared over the campus, and when the deep diver fleet under Cthulhu emerged from the turbid waves of the Huangpu River, the bloodline of the Eastern Candle Dragon in Lin Jianbai's body suddenly awakened at the critical moment of life and death - he was actually the descendant of the dragon of creation, the one who controls time and the power of light. However, a bigger shadow has fallen. That literature girl Yunli who always read quietly in the corner of the library with a harmless smile, the signature on the title page of the ancient book in her hand was the God of Thousand Faces who made all living beings tremble - Nyarlathotep. The collapse of the world has just begun. Can the ancient bloodline create a glimmer of hope for mankind in the game of the Old Ones?
