The Strange Machine Mission Log

An urban supernatural suspense novel for male readers, driven by System missions, featuring a long-running mystery about an organization and an expansive plot.

On his way home from work, Chen Du finds an old phone that he can’t turn off.

It stores no numbers and connects to no network. At midnight, it only issues brutal missions:

Complete them and live. Refuse, and die.

After a series of life-or-death missions, he unlocks a power no ordinary person can access: the ability to “see.”

At abandoned newspaper kiosks, old phone booths, and notice boards tucked away in the city’s dead ends,

he glimpses the city’s deliberately buried past.

It turns out this eerie phone has already screened countless candidates.

The survivors hide in the shadows, while the failures leave only a cold trace on a list.

As records of encounters, mission data, and sealed lists from the past gradually come to light,

Chen Du finally understands:

He didn’t find the phone by chance.

After years of screening, it has chosen him again.