📱 Scan a QR code and see a ghost; watch a livestream and witness a life claimed: when thousand-year-old folk customs collide with cyber hell
The influencer “Little Sweetie” smiled before a million viewers as she cut off her own tongue. The blood-red talismans writhing on the walls and the whispered words “The first one” were only the opening act of this out-of-control frenzy. My name is Lu Mingfei. I run a folk-customs detective agency on the verge of going under, and I also happen to be the last surviving heir of the nearly extinct Soul Wardens.
This novel follows a detective-story format, with each ten chapters forming a small story arc. The volume divisions on Tomato Novel were often messed up in my previous book, so I’ve decided not to divide this one into volumes. I hope you’ll understand.
I thought I was dealing with nothing more than ordinary vengeful spirits, until I discovered:
💀 A debt ghost has a glowing QR code embedded in its chest.
🏥 A comatose patient automatically writes murder code on a hospital bed.
🌐 Every supernatural crime scene is linked to a dark network called the “Karmafire System.”
The modern city is becoming an experimental ground where the living and the dead coexist:
Food delivery riders sign contracts with the underworld and steal years from people’s lives.
Programmers have their brains sucked dry by KPI Dream Eaters.
A subway train departs late at night on Line 14, bound for digital hell.
As I wield my family’s ancestral blood jade against this System, which turns humanity’s negative emotions into nourishment, a greater conspiracy comes to light: my bloodline is the final key to activating the ultimate purification program.
Traditional talismans versus AI ghosts, flesh and blood versus a data-driven netherworld.
In this war that spans the worlds of the living and the dead, the victor will redefine the boundary between humans and ghosts.
Content warning: Every supernatural event revealed in this book could quietly begin the second you scan a QR code.
This book is more enjoyable to listen to.