Jiang Che, a materialist, is pulled into a global horror livestream. The first instance, The Mountain Village Wedding Feast, is steeped in bone-chilling strangeness: the villagers are warm and welcoming, yet every detail conceals a taboo. While the other players desperately search for clues to escape, Jiang Che draws his long sword and uses the principles of physics to dismantle ghostly labyrinths, then draws on his knowledge of folk customs to counter the source of the evil energy. He can see the scientific laws and folk logic behind every supernatural phenomenon, using absolute rationality to crush his foes with superior insight. But as he delves deeper into the instances, he discovers that these horrors are no coincidence. They point to a buried break in civilization, and to ancient gods beginning to awaken. The livestream audience goes from mocking him to being stunned, then finally hailing him as their only hope: when the gods descend, only science can fight back.
