How can you work without going crazy? After two years on the job, Su Xu finally snapped.
While squeezing onto the subway, she imagined that the person beside her was an ugly eight-legged octopus making faces at her.
When she walked into the office, she saw a polite, mild-mannered new coworker wearing designer shoes, but mud dripped from his feet as he walked, nearly flooding the company.
The handsome young boss had white bone thorns growing from his back, more luxuriant by the day.
Hallucinations were everywhere, seriously affecting her quality of life. She couldn't take it anymore, and finally took action.
She beat the octopus to a pulp, threw a sack over her boss's head and trimmed his unruly thorns. She was preparing to chop off her coworker's feet when the Anomaly Control Bureau came looking for her.
The Anomaly Control Bureau explained that there was a condition in this world called soul dislocation syndrome. When a person's outward appearance and soul were severely mismatched, the dislocation became extreme. The soul would gradually detach from the body and mutate in a way ordinary people couldn't see, causing disasters for those nearby.
There had been an anomaly on Subway Line 3 for half a month, and young women had gone missing every day. It had suddenly returned to normal. The culprit was a well-dressed college student who had abruptly broken down in tears and confessed to his crimes.
An entire wealthy family had grown inexplicably weaker by the day, but had suddenly recovered. Their live-in son-in-law confessed of his own accord: he'd wanted to harm his wife's family and inherit their wealth.
Anomaly Control Bureau: The college student's soul had mutated into an octopus, and the wealthy family's live-in son-in-law had grown blood-sucking thorns. But by the time they confessed, the mutations had disappeared.
Su Xu: .
Oh.
Her first thought was that she hadn't gone crazy after all. Just as she was feeling relieved, she noticed that the people from the Anomaly Control Bureau were looking at her strangely.
Anomaly Control Bureau: Ms. Su, you...
In the eyes of the Anomaly Control Bureau, an abyss followed behind Su Xu, empty and hollow, with no bottom in sight.
Su Xu: ?
Why were they looking at her?
She was just an ordinary, honest office worker, the same inside and out. It was only that work hadn't been going smoothly, so now and then she experienced a little rational hunger.
So she wanted to eat something strange.
She hadn't even chopped off the new coworker's feet yet. She wanted to eat them.
Reader's guide: A lighthearted power fantasy.
Screenshots taken as proof.
Theme: Be a good person.