Ling Xiao, a high school student who struggled at the bottom of the school and was bullied, accidentally bound the [Fear Purification System] in despair. From then on, the fear of others became his strongest source of food and strength. Ling Xiao soon discovered that the world was far from simple as it appeared. The ancient "emotion absorbers", the mysterious official "Abnormality Containment Administration", and the "Strong Group", a private organization that also has supernatural powers and preys on the weak and the strong, have emerged one after another. He realizes that he has just wandered into a supernatural dark forest hidden beneath modern civilization.