In the fourth year of the Tianqi era, programmer Zhu Bin transmigrates to the Fujian Navy in the late Ming dynasty, only to encounter a strange sea fog from the start. A sunken ship emerging from the mist, six sailors vanishing overnight, red-skinned monsters that can melt people: this stretch of ocean conceals a secret two thousand years old.
He finds a copper coin that makes the monsters keep their distance, but soon discovers he's been dragged into an even greater whirlpool. Faceless things are waiting for him, and so is the “visitor from beyond the heavens” sleeping in an underground palace. The people devoured by the red-skinned creatures are waiting on the seabed, too, having waited two thousand years for someone who can take them home.
From the Sea of Japan to Sakhalin Island, from Dongji Island to Tokugawa Castle, Zhu Bin fights battle after battle alongside a group of monsters who want to become human again, and sends one lost wanderer after another home.
Until at last, he finds his own way home.
This is a story about waiting and finding your way home. Except those who are waiting have been waiting for two thousand years.
