The Returner's Log: I Livestream Collecting Spirits

Su Yang had just received his twelfth rejection letter. All he wanted was to make a living through travel livestreaming.

But on the eve of a torrential storm, he found an old travel journal in his grandfather’s attic. A fragment of a sentence appeared on its pages.

The old pendant around his neck also grew hotter and hotter in the sound of the rain.

The livestream viewers thought it was scripted, until the floodwater in the old city flowed uphill, hollow sounds came from the underground channels, and a roof-tile cat opened its eyes in the rain.

Some urged him to climb onto the roof and get a clear shot. Some cursed him for putting on a ghost act. Others warned him: people really do die in that alley.

Only then did Su Yang realize that what his grandfather had left him was no travelogue, but an unfinished journey home.

And every time he went live, he might be racing against time to stop an even greater disaster.