At the Crime Scene, This Oddball Duo Specializes in the Uncanny

Name: At the Crime Scene, This Oddball Duo Specializes in the Uncanny
Author: Can't Stop Eating

凶案现场，奇葩搭档专治诡异

by Can't Stop Eating (干饭不能停)

Status: Completed
Length: 277k Words
Genre: Mystery
Subgenre: Female-Channel Mystery
Updated: 2mo ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

One strange incident after another is unfolding in Tianjiang's old town:

A paper effigy maker is found dead at home, surrounded by faceless paper figures grinning around his body in a bizarre soul-summoning formation.

A corpse is discovered in a dry well outside the city, with soul-calming copper bells hanging all along its walls. When the wind blows, they ring like mournful sobs.

A renovation uncovers bones in an old house. The roof tiles are covered in curse inscriptions, and a sinister aura has lingered there for years.

Singing is heard from an abandoned opera stage in the middle of the night. The seats are empty, yet costumes dance onstage by themselves.

An unidentified corpse floats before the River God Temple, bound in red threads soaked in cinnabar and arranged like a sacrificial offering.

Rumors run wild: these are supernatural killings, disasters sent by ghosts and gods.

But one man refuses to believe in the paranormal.

Chen Jin kicks open the door to the crime scene and thumps his chest. “I'm a committed materialist. I believe in evidence, not ghosts and gods!”

The folklore consultant, Wen Gu, slowly opens a yellowed old book and coolly adds, “Then explain why there's someone besides you reflected in the mirror behind you.”

One is a hotheaded detective with a sharp tongue and an even harder head. The other is a stone-faced consultant who knows too much and says too little.

One specializes in exposing every trick used to fake the supernatural; the other uncovers the human motives behind folklore and legend.

They trade barbs and jokes, their teamwork flawless as they scour every nook and cranny of the old town.

Paper figures seeking lives, soul-binding curses, harm wrought through talismans, water ghosts taking substitutes, straw effigies used for hexes...

To them, they all come down to four words: people are behind it.

Until they discover that these seemingly unrelated cases all point to the same cold case, buried for ten years...

[Dual Male Leads · No Romance · A Powerful Team] No falling in love, just solving strange cases. They watch each other's backs and stand together through life and death.

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