Introduction to the work
Shen Lian was a border soldier who changed his career during the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty. He later worked as a local headhunter. After his death, he entered the Underworld Soul Control Department and worked there for six hundred years.
The ninth-grade sword-wielding compass has six hundred years of service. He holds a soul-binding compass with a screen that is broken into a spider web and a pointer that needs to be adjusted manually. It is said to be a "super-reduced version" of Master Bai Wuchang's magic weapon. His catchphrase is: "In our Yongle period, there would be no such a bad job."
My partner, Ma Mianqi, has 300 years of service. He is foul-mouthed, timid, and loves to take advantage, but will not run away at critical moments. His immediate boss, Bai Wuchang, Xie Bian, appears serious, but in fact protects his shortcomings. When funds are tight, he always asks his subordinates to "get over it."
This time, the job Shen Lian received was to go to Bangkok, Thailand, to arrest Zhao Dayong, a fruit merchant who had expired but could not find him. This person is suspected of using Southeast Asian magic to block the soul-binding compass, and behind it is a six-hundred-year-old evil cultivator genealogy, a fragrant wood forest that was tortured to death by the "pulse pushing" experiment, and an unsolved case that Shen Lian failed to solve when he was the head catcher - the lives of seven children, in exchange for a crazy plot about the tide of Yin veins.
From the corpse-raising ashram in the mulberry forest in Chiang Mai, to the spiritual conflicts outside the three passes in southern Xinjiang, to the layers of official documents being pushed around in Fengdu City, Shen Lian was wallowing in the grassroots life while being pushed by an old case, getting closer and closer to the truth.
It's just that this time, I don't know if the case will be taken away halfway through the investigation like six hundred years ago.
The miserable daily life of grassroots civil servants in the underworld, the two sides of bureaucracy in the Yin and Yang worlds, a six-hundred-year-old case, and the souls of eight people.
