The interviewer asked me a question:
“If there were a door in front of you, and something unknown and terrifying lay behind it, would you open it?”
I said, “That depends. Does opening the door count as work hours?”
The interviewer laughed.
Only later did I learn that the last person who gave that answer was still lying in a psychiatric hospital.
Not because he answered wrong.
Because what he saw after opening that door drove him completely mad.
My name is Shen Ye, and I have a master's degree in folklore.
After graduation, I got a job offer.
The organization is called the Folklore Management Bureau. It handles all kinds of incidents where the rules have been warped.
Put simply, they deal with urban legends like “Don't knock on the door at three in the morning” and “Your reflection will step out of the mirror.”
A government job, full benefits, and household registration taken care of.
The only problem is that my coworkers might not be human.
On my first day, my first assignment was to go to an apartment building occupied by “replicas” and rescue a girl who had been trapped there for three days.
Her name was Su Wan.
We got her out.
But I'm not sure whether the one we rescued was really her,
or “it.”
[Rule-Based Horror + Government Workplace + High-IQ Protagonist]
[These days, even catching ghosts requires passing the civil service exam]
