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Records of Old Dynasties
In the late autumn of the twenty-sixth year of Guangxu's reign, gray rain fell on the ground in the capital, soaking the remaining leaves in the alleys and causing them to swell. Shen Yanzhi, an Imperial Hanlin scholar in the former Qing Dynasty, picked up half a torn copy of "Notes on Wanli's Daily Life" from the waste paper pile of the Hanlin Academy. There was a yellowed note sandwiched between the pages, and the ink was smeared like a ball of blood that could not be opened. The six words on
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Rusty Star Map
In the winter of the third year of Xuantong, Zhou Mingyuan, a student at Shanghai Medical College, returned to Qingshi Town in eastern Zhejiang with a box of glass syringes and scalpels. The old locust tree at the west end of the town began to ooze dark red sap at some point. The people in the town were getting thinner and thinner, and fish-like markings appeared on their skin, but they still believed that the mountain god was appearing. Zhou Mingyuan wanted to use a stethoscope to hear the focu
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Iron Bones and Will-O'-The-Wisp
Shanghai in the 26th year of the Republic of China was like organs soaked in formalin, both fresh and rotten. The tram tracks in the French Concession suddenly oozed light green slime, and everyone who touched it began to dream about the giant bronze eye every night. Zhou Mingxuan, a biologist who returned from studying abroad, clutched the brass gear his father gave him before he died, and discovered something even more horrifying on the dissecting table - the microorganisms in the mucus were a
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