[Apocalypse] [Rules-Based Horror] [Monster Containment] [Love of Country and Family]
Three years after nuclear wastewater began leaking, strange creatures are crawling through the streets. The scarecrow at the village entrance sucks the blood of the living, hospital beds swallow patients without leaving a bone behind, and a gluttonous maw lurks beneath the city's neon lights.
Huang Ye, a carefree veteran, is pushed by his own brother, Huang Ming, into becoming bait for a human-faced moth. At the moment of his near-death, the Illustrated Compendium of Chinese Monster Containment erupts into life:
"[Evil-Quelling Embroidered Shoes] detected. Containment unlocked: walk through fire without needing a spell."
"[Yellow Weasel Seeking a Title]: Say 'you look like an immortal' to gain a thousand disguises; say 'you look human' and suffer backlash."
"[Abyssal Demon God] weakness: chew nitroglycerin to fight it head-on."
From then on, Huang Ye goes completely wild: he argues with a hanging ghost while wielding a peachwood sword, stuffs vampires into a freezer to freeze them stiff, and leads villagers in using firecrackers to blast a century-old zombie into the sky.
The Western eradication faction wants to flatten China's haunted zones with nuclear bombs? Huang Ye stands atop the Great Wall and displays his compendium. "This is our land. I'll contain the monsters, and I'll set the rules!"
Finally a new weird novel to read