In the seventh year of the Chenghua era of the Ming dynasty, a great plague struck the capital. While investigating a corpse-digging case, the Embroidered Guard Lu Zhao traced the trail to an illicit market in flesh fungi, becoming embroiled in a shocking conspiracy that threatened the lives of everyone in the city.
With the dead rising and the capital sealed off, how will Lu Zhao and the others survive and find a way out as the city is besieged by the crazed dead?
