[Cthulhu × Unidentified Life Forms × Mystery × Supernatural × Cross-World]
The uncanny is the labyrinth of all realms; kindness is a flame along the dark road.
My name is Jiang Li. I'm a forensic pathologist who spends every day among corpses, and I've never believed in the supernatural, until I encountered that inexplicable string of attacks by “wild animals.” My understanding of the world as a human being began to crack!
The wounds had been inflicted in ways that defied the laws of physics. The mysterious images that appeared on surveillance footage were distorted, as if something had “corrupted” them. Witnesses stammered, “That thing didn't have any proper shape. It ‘seeped’ out of the shadows! It wasn't some beast from the mountains!”
At every crime scene, I came across corpses missing their parietal lobes. The moment my fingertips touched them, the slick texture set every instinct I'd developed as a forensic pathologist screaming that something was wrong.
My colleagues twisted the truth, and public opinion quickly dismissed it as a wild animal attack. I tore through the false fog of a “routine murder case” and stubbornly pursued the truth, only to step into another world at the far end of the western shore of Tianchi Lake!
Beneath the seemingly peaceful everyday world lurked unidentified life forms found only in urban legends. A sense of rupture, at odds with the normal world, was quietly spreading!
It turned out every world held secrets still waiting to be uncovered. Only by getting to the truth could I get closer to finding my way home
But would those “things” lurking in the dark, staring fixedly at me, really let me live long enough to reach the end?!
