Maoshan Strange Case Squad: Underworld Crime Files

On the surface, these are criminal investigation case files. In truth, they’re supernatural mysteries from the underworld.

My name is Lu Li. Born with Yin-Yang Eyes, I was forced to join a secret department called the Paranormal Cases Division. The cases we handle defy scientific explanation: an office worker who sleepwalks to his death at midnight, bus passengers who vanish into thin air only to reappear years older, a writer whose words can kill… Behind every case lies a secret shared by the worlds of the living and the dead.

My colleagues are anything but ordinary: Shen Qingge, a brilliant criminal investigation PhD who initially insists that “everything can be explained by science”; Zhong Xiaokui, a forensic pathologist with a medium’s constitution and little time left to live; and our boss, Bai Wuchang, who wears a suit and tie every day but actually comes from the underworld.

We investigate century-old vengeful spirits, venture into the cracks between Yin and Yang, battle Maoshan traitors, and fight for our lives against thousand-year-old corpse demons. Gradually, though, we discover that every case points to a terrifying organization that has lain dormant for a century, the Netherworld Society, and a shocking conspiracy involving underworld traitors, the Maoshan Patriarch, and even an ancient seal.

The Judge’s Eye, the Reincarnation Brush, and the Three Lives Stone: the three sacred artifacts said to open the Gate to the Netherworld are appearing one after another. And my eyes are one of the keys.

When a rift in space and time splits open the skies above Jiangcheng, and the Gate to the Netherworld begins to reveal itself at the ancient observatory, we have seven days to stop this cataclysm from overturning the balance between Yin and Yang and destroying the world.

But the truth is often this: the most terrifying thing has never been ghosts or monsters, but the human heart.

(About 150,000 words in total. Each self-contained case advances the main plot, blending modern criminal investigation, Maoshan Taoist arts, underworld office politics, and ancient mysteries. Step into a world of strange tales where science and the supernatural coexist, and horror intertwines with warmth.)