Silent Tales of Strange Tales

"Ghosts and gods are not to be feared, only the human heart is a source of abyss." Xie Guanlan, the head of the Imperial Medical Office, was unjustly exiled because he insisted on the belief that "human beings are the truth". On the way to Huaiyinli, he encountered villagers who wanted to sacrifice a girl on the grounds that "the river god is asking for his life." Relying on the technique of detecting poisons with silver needles, he exposed on the spot that the so-called "miracle" was actually an elaborate hoax - the "floating corpse wood" on the altar had fresh fractures, and the poisonous powder remaining on the girl's skirt was actually from the same source as the secret medicine in the palace. In order to trace the source of the poison, Xie Guanlan formed an investigation team with Yun Tiantian, who has sensory powers, Xuan Mingzi, who is proficient in occult arts, and Shen Qianshan, an upright policeman. They discovered that from the feng shui intimidation of the "Fox Fairy House" to the manipulation of people's hearts in the "Puppet Village", a mysterious organization called "Netherworld Way" lurked behind a series of strange cases...