My name is Zhang Zifan, and I am a criminal police officer.
Until I personally handled a "suicide case".
The deceased had a smile on his face, and a nursery rhyme my grandma used to scare me when I was a child was playing on a loop on the phone.
During the investigation, I was held down by a dark shadow at the crime scene, and my eyes were bleeding.
When I opened it again, the world had changed - I could see those "things".
The white shadow floating in the corridor, the bloody words counting down in the elevator mirror, the deceased colleague who always made phone calls late at night...
My boss said I was under too much pressure and suspended me.
But a female folklore scholar named Li Xueer came to my door. She took my grandma's tattered "Folk Law Book", stared into my eyes and said, "Is what you see wearing red clothes and having no face?"
We were forced to join forces.
Only then did we discover that a set of ancient and bloody "folk rules" were running under the city's bright skin:
If you die in vain, you need a substitute; if you are obsessed with the soul, you must fulfill your wish; if you are obsessed with evil things, you are afraid of copper coins.
And this broken book of mine is actually a "survival guide" that countless predecessors sacrificed their lives for.
In order to survive and find out the truth, I roped in Fatty Wang, who ran a funeral parlor (he was responsible for screaming and making money), a sloppy Taoist priest who only drank and was unreliable, and a serious nun who talked about "compassion" to form a half-hearted team - the Investigation Bureau of Folk Mysteries.
Our work is getting more and more sinister:
When I went to an ancient town, I encountered a human sacrifice being made to the river god, and the whole town was an accomplice;
Traveling to the Miao border, we encountered the backlash of love, and the whole village danced a corpse dance around us in the middle of the night;
The most suspenseful thing is the ghost market auction. Someone actually wants to buy my "yin and yang eyes"...
