Our family has been fishing for corpses for generations, and it has never been the dead.
It's "debt".
They are the debts of civilization, debts of bad fate, and debts of karma that sink under the rivers, lakes and seas and are unwilling to be forgotten.
My name is Chen Du, an ordinary person who makes a living by catching corpses through live broadcasts.
Until I fished up a strange circular formation composed of nine female corpses in red from the bottom of the Tuojiang River, my world collapsed.
The amulet I have worn for twenty-three years is their ribs.
My twenty-three years of life were stolen goods.
And the grandfather I admired was the creator of all this - a life-stealer who stole the bones and blood of the dead and changed the fate of his grandson against heaven.
I was forcibly recruited into the Kowloon General Administration, which controls all supernatural water affairs in China.
Here, I learned about another side of the world:
The Yangtze River, the Yellow River, the Pearl River... In the depths of each great river, there lies a door leading to the "abyss".
Human history is built on the ruins of a submerged civilization.
As for those who recover corpses, our real duty is to be "civilized scavengers" to ensure that those remains and memories under deep water never surface.
My first task: investigate myself.
My final mission is: when the seven water gates open at the same time and the two civilizations usher in the ultimate collision——
Make a choice.
Should we guard the lights on the shore, or embrace the truth in the abyss?
I will fish this answer from the deepest bottom with my own hands.
