After three months of unemployment, Lu Heng went to the service center to apply for 600 yuan in temporary living assistance. But because he'd earned 8.8 yuan last month by reading twenty lines of dialogue online, Window 4 ruled that he was "continuously employed" and rejected his application on the spot.
The next second, the lights went out and the doors sealed shut. The clerks revealed their true forms as evil ghosts.
[Applicants whose cases remain unresolved or receive a final rejection past the deadline will be eliminated!]
As the deadly red text tightened around his neck, Lu Heng furiously kicked open the side door of the counter. On the verge of death, he switched into his ghost form, wrested the ghost seal from the evil ghost at Window 4, sat behind the counter, approved his own loan, and walked out with 600 yuan in life-saving cash.
He had the money, but a line of text appeared on the ghost seal in his pocket:
[Report to the Linjiang East Operations Station today to collect your regular ration.]
The Ghost Realm's staple food was the ash energy of the dead, extracted from the living.
The first trial for every new ghost employee was to stand in the dining hall before the station chief and a room full of evil ghosts, then eat an entire jar of "human rations." Refuse, and they'd assume you planned to hoard and resell it, or had some other food source outside.
Looking at the ash energy of the dead swirling in his bowl, Lu Heng, still very much alive, picked it up.
He had to pretend to eat this bowl of "human" food in front of every evil ghost at the station. He also had to keep a firm grip on the authority seal in his hand and climb step by step, from a low-level odd-jobber to team leader, station chief, and finally to the peak of the Ghost Realm!
