In this world, some people don't disappear right away after they die.
Someone dies at three in the morning, yet goes to work as usual the next day.
Someone receives a text from a person who died seven years ago.
Someone enters a building that doesn't exist and never comes out again.
And in some cities, a street that wasn't there before appears on the map every midnight.
Ordinary people call these things hauntings.
But in the Special Investigations Bureau's files, they have just one name:
Anomalous Events.
When Wenren Jin first joined the Special Investigations Bureau, he was just a young man of unknown origins with an incomplete file.
Then, during one mission, every instrument failed at once.
The dead opened their eyes.
And he saw a door that only the dead could see.
Behind the door, someone called his name.
Wenren Jin.
Number 000.
"Wuchang."
From that day on, he and Shang Jibai, who wielded "Zhaoye," were drawn into one inexplicable case after another.
Haunted buildings, borrowed lifespans, corpse banquets, faceless people, a hundred ghosts on the march, vanished villages...
They gradually discovered that
all these seemingly unrelated events pointed to the highest-level secret the Special Investigations Bureau had sealed away for years.
The Wuchang Files.
And the first page of the file contained just one sentence:
"On the day Guixu opens, life and death will cease to exist."
Even more unsettling was this:
the last name in the file
belonged to Wenren Jin's sister, who had been missing for many years.
Wenren Qi.
