Chen Guan, a newcomer at the Geological Survey Bureau, is abruptly dumped into the agency's most peripheral department: the "Anomaly Office."
Here, experts use compasses to survey ore veins and write reports with talismans, while the entire industry laughs them off as charlatans.
That is, until a major city subway project breaks through something, inhuman wailing starts echoing through the tunnel, and workers begin losing their minds one after another.
The geological radar shows nothing. Only the ancestral compass in Chen Guan's hand spins wildly.
He stares at the report and writes in the conclusion field:
[Recommendation: Halt construction immediately. What lies beneath is not a cavern, but the pain-sensing nerve of a living dragon vein beneath the city.]
The experts across the city are in an uproar, calling him crazy.
That night, the project's chief engineer kneels at the door to his office, his face ashen.
"Engineer Chen, it... it's really moving."
And I never expected that this was only the beginning. The dragon's roar beneath the reservoir, the mountain god in the mine, and the Map of the Nine Provinces' Dragon Veins pointing to the nation's fate... My team and I are about to perform an unprecedented "surgical operation" on this land, using science.
