Tree of Life: Collecting Scrap and Scaring Bandits to Tears

Cheng Shi is just a money-grubbing mechanic at the bottom of the ladder. Then a mysterious bone ring drinks his blood. Bandits come to wreck his shop? Their tires burst and they plunge off a cliff on the way out. A mining boss tries to monopolize the industry? A string of mining disasters teaches him a lesson. Cheng Shi only wants to keep his head down in Mazhi County and save up for a wife, but somehow he becomes the most terrifying urban legend in the uninhabited zone. The cool, aloof policewoman Bai Ju slams her gun onto his desk. “Confess. Were those accidents your doing?” Cheng Shi rubs his hands together, trembling. “Officer, I really am just a mechanic. But your Jeep’s undercarriage is leaking oil. It’ll cost extra to fix…”