Blood-red snow suddenly fell over Canglong Ridge in the Qinling Mountains. More than a thousand illegally built villas carpeted the valley like white tombs. This was no ordinary ecological disaster: the bulldozers were leaking human blood instead of engine oil, and the foundations concealed the finger bones and hair of living people.
I am Zhang Tianyi, an investigator with Bureau 749. Nine years ago, my master cut my left palm with a copper coin and gave me the ability to see “the other world.” Now I have been ordered to investigate the mountains, only to discover that the 72 central villas form a sinister Earthly Fiend Dragon-Pinning Array. A foreign occult power intends to sacrifice the living and pin down China’s dragon vein.
An old villager is being strangled by his own shadow. The developer, Chen Mo, has living snake bones bulging from his spine. And Han Jiuyue, the man who reported me, has had his right eye devoured by a venomous snake, while his left eye reflects the face of my master as he lay dying.
On the second day of the second lunar month, the dragon raises its head. Either we break the pins, or we are buried with them.
