Eight years ago, my grandfather disappeared on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month, and Zhou Che had just turned eighteen. Grandpa promised to save enough money to send him to college in the provincial capital - that promise was never fulfilled.
Eight years later, a death notice dragged 26-year-old Zhou Che back to his old home in Qingxi Town. While packing up his belongings, he dug out a thread-bound ancient book - "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" - from the secret compartment under his grandfather's bed. It was densely packed with annotations, filled with words such as "It's true," "They're still there," and "Don't believe anyone."
He does not believe in evil.
That night, a rabbit with a triangular head squatted on the windowsill and looked at him with a pair of human eyes.
The Book of Mountains and Seas turns to the next page: A cunning rabbit with three eyes, capable of transformation and cannibalism. Killing method - at three quarters of noon, hit the left eye with a bronze weapon.
The copper ruler left by grandpa is still there. He did so.
From that day on, he knew he could never go back to an ordinary life.
Alien beasts are real. Grandpa is a hunter. And he had just inherited this book that could turn pages by itself.
Qiongqi, Yaozhu, the Four Fierce Seals, Zhou's bloodline - each one is more difficult to deal with than the last. Grandpa's disappearance was not an accident. There was a problem with the seal eight years ago, and chaos trapped him. The secrets hidden in the Classic of Mountains and Seas are more dangerous than the beasts themselves.
And he only has one rule: don't take the initiative to cause trouble, but no one will clean up the mess left by his grandfather.
Protecting those around you is the bottom line. Inheritance is the result, not the purpose.
