My name is Lin Jiuyuan. I believe that people can overcome anything, and I'm the sort of materialist who can take a tractor apart and put it back together.
Until that rainy night in 1978, when I saw ghost soldiers passing with my own eyes and was cursed with a “Hundred-Day Death Curse.”
Science was dead. To stay alive, I was forced to open my family's forbidden book, dismissed as “feudal dross”: The Complete Guide to Divine Mechanisms.
From that moment on, the world was “decoded” before my eyes. Feng shui wasn't superstition, but a combination of environmental energy studies and psychology. Fortune-telling wasn't destiny, but probability analysis based on big data. Talismans weren't meaningless scribbles, but “keys” that used mental power to influence microscopic matter!
I had no inborn superpowers or divine being possessing me, only a worn-out old book and a brain desperate to survive.
This is a gritty survival story driven by technical know-how. I'll use the most “scientific” methods to walk the most mystical path.
