Urban Strange News: I Was Banned in Wushizhai Town

Shen Yan runs a junk shop called "Wu Shi Zhai" in the south of the city, specializing in dealing with abnormal relics left by the deceased. Others only thought that he knew some folk taboos, was a charlatan with high fees and a lazy temperament, but no one knew that he was the top guard who "died" in the White Tower incident three years ago. Fourteen days after the death of an old man living alone, seven pairs of brand new cloth shoes suddenly appeared in his home. Six pairs of them belonged to those who died in the river accident, but the last pair was stained with mud that had not yet dried. The client requested that all the shoes be burned before dark, but Shen Yan put on the seventh pair in front of everyone. "Shoes are not for the dead, they are for picking out a corpse for a living person." From that day on, extra tenants appeared in the mirror, paper wedding banquets only held on rainy nights, subway stations that did not exist, and red ropes that could borrow the life of relatives appeared one after another. All seemingly independent urban rumors point to a "Hundred Forbidden Records" that can restrain taboos in the world. Some people are using live broadcasts, subways and city networks to spread ancient taboos into city-wide killing rules. The key to the last door is hidden in Shen Yan's gradually disappearing memory. Others enter into ghost stories just to abide by the rules and survive; but Shen Yan specializes in looking for loopholes in the rules. Because what he is really good at is never exorcising ghosts, but making ghosts obey the rules.