Fang Xiu thinks he’s been scammed. After graduating from college, he can’t find a job. Then, for no apparent reason, everyone in his subway car falls asleep at once. A woman in a black trench coat slaughters hundreds of monsters in a flash, then tells him, “There’s a room inside your body, and there’s wind in the room.” The next day, in a daze, he signs an employment contract and becomes an intern at “Penglai General Services.” Only later does he learn that this company, tucked away at the entrance to an alley in an old residential neighborhood, above a pork shop and a steamed bun shop, handles everything from finding cats for elderly women and fixing college students’ Wi-Fi to sealing ancient ferocious beasts and, yes, sending gods to hell.
The team consists of a demigod-level boss with only a tenth of his spiritual power left, who spends all day slouching on a recliner and scrolling through his phone; a swordswoman who seems icy but is tender-hearted, can summon a fire dragon with her blade, yet at hot pot gatherings tells everyone one by one to take care before walking out into the rain; a tech geek who can hack into the Yang Alliance’s firewall with code, while his own AI assistant complains that his code comments are even sparser than his social skills; a popular young actress who is actually a spiritual cultivator of the mind-speaking school and the glue that holds the team together; a media company owner whose true form is a dragon, whose day job is running a paparazzi outfit, and who specializes in covering up and cleaning up after the team’s “big operations”; a genius spirit-array master who looks only twelve, is actually over three hundred years old, and carries lollipops and dark gold powder wherever he goes; and an AI in the form of a blue halo, with the voice of a mature woman, responsible for assigning missions, making sharp-tongued remarks, and, at critical moments, putting the words “Don’t die” on everyone’s communicator screen.
Their clients range from six-year-old girls to retired senior law enforcers who have been ousted from power. They…
