My name is Chen Yan. I’m an agent in the Seventh Division of the Binhai City Emergency Response Center, a permanent employee with Grade Seven benefits.
My job is simple: catch the eerie.
The eerie are things that must obey rules. It cannot look back, and neither can you. If it says not to answer the door after ten, then don’t answer. The first thing my senior taught me was: don’t trust it, but don’t provoke it either.
Cases in Binhai City that cannot be handled by conventional methods are eventually transferred to our division. My job is to follow the rules and deal with them one by one.
Then I discovered that the old incident recorder in my pocket could turn the rules they wrote into clauses that bind them instead. One at a time, I’ll take this step by step.
It was only later that I learned the pen used to write those rules should have been burned twenty years ago. And the first name it wrote was mine.
