High Martial: I Patrol the Mountains and Seas at Night in the City

After transmigrating, Gu Changye always thought he was living in an ordinary city.

Until midnight on his birthday, when the last subway train he was riding suddenly stopped at a station that didn't exist. Outside the carriage, a monstrous bird with nine heads crawled toward them along the tunnel, while the announcement kept repeating:

"Passengers, please do not look at Jiuying."

The passengers were overcome with despair, when a System panel appeared before Gu Changye's eyes.

[Jiuying has been detected with only a sliver of health remaining.]

[Temporary mask available: Wear it to gain the ability to control water and fire for three minutes.]

He took a mask from the face of a dead Night Watcher, burned his way through the train, and led every passenger out of the Night Zone. The next day, the news reported the incident as an ordinary subway malfunction.

That was how Gu Changye joined the weakest group in the Night Patrol Division, Team Thirteen: a female doctor afraid of blood, a veteran who had lost his right arm, a genius abandoned by his family, and a blind girl who could only warn others of danger but couldn't fight.

While others fought using a single mask, they kept changing masks and combining abilities, all while teetering on the brink of having their personalities devoured by monstrous beasts.

The Night of Jiuying, the Hundred Ghosts Bridge, the werewolves of Fog City, the Feathered Serpent altar in New York... When Night Zones descended across the globe all at once, humanity learned for the first time that every peaceful dawn came at the cost of lives lost before sunrise.

Gu Changye put on the Taotie mask that no one dared touch.

"We don't live in a world without monsters."

"The monsters just don't make it to dawn."