In the Era of the Eerie, the authorities burn the remains of the strange as garbage. Gu Ye is a D-rank contract containment officer, a former reconnaissance soldier, and thirty thousand yuan in debt.
No one knows he can “scavenge” things from the remains, refining their eerie essence into anomaly cards. The waste the authorities burn is money and combat power in his hands.
He takes the C-rank emergency jobs no one else dares touch. He enters buildings abandoned by containment teams.
He salvages, opens cards, and pulls a lightning card. He contains threats above his rank and gets a B-rank Core of Regeneration, awakening a name absent from the authorities' official sequence: “Paradox Side.”
But the S-rank card he keeps hidden has stirred.
A lucky find always comes at a price.
