Novels like Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations
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- 101 The Water-Taming Beast 镇水兽 They say a fish couldn't possibly survive for seventy years, yet this one has been wreaking havoc for just as long! What lies beneath the waters of the Mian River, so shocking that it has dragged so many people down to their deaths? The surface of the rivers you see may seem calm, but you might not know that in those terrifying, eerie depths, a water guardian beast could be lurking, striking at lives as fragile as moths before they even know it's there, like a demon on the hunt... 701Reads8.8Score10214d adds
- 102 I Dropped Out of College, Then Turned Around and Wreaked Havoc on Bureau 749 大一退学，我反手祸害749局 [Pure wish fulfillment + ruthless action + comedy + endless memes + cunning protagonist] “Li Xuan, you’ve been expelled from school.” “Why? All I did was ruin the freshman welcoming ceremony, sneak into the girls’ dorm twice, blow up a few toilets, and break a couple of windows.” The principal clutched his chest. “Go! Disappear! Get the hell out of here!” As Li Xuan stood bewildered at the school gates, a bald man approached with a young man. “Li Xuan, we’re investigators from Bureau 749. Join u 468Reads—Score—14d adds
- 103 Bureau 749: Special Case Investigation Division Nine 749局：九处特案调查科 The third installment of The Bureau of Mysterious Incidents As the internet continued to develop, the times called for change. In 2014, Bureau 749 established the Ninth Division's Special Cases Investigation Section. Yun Cong Feng, who wielded lightning and fire abilities; Li Yi Chu, with psychic abilities; Ye Luan, with enhancement abilities; the Taoist Zhang Shan Ling; the physician Li Fu Ling; and computer expert Chi You You joined the team. In the days that followed, the six-person squad dea 1.2kReads7.1Score10014d adds
- 104 Ghost Hunting: My Baton Is Made of Thunderstruck Wood! 捉鬼：我的警棍可是雷击木做的！ The protagonist, Chen Mo, starts out as an ordinary criminal police officer. After stumbling upon a supernatural incident, he is recruited by the Special Security Department to join its Seventh Squad, which specializes in handling paranormal cases. The Seventh Squad is a unit stationed in the field that deals with supernatural criminal cases. Hidden within the police station, its members work with beings the public knows nothing about. 226Reads—Score—14d adds
- 105 The Third World You Don't Know 你不知道的第三世界 Have you ever doubted the world you see with your own eyes? Have you ever experienced a supernatural event? Are you curious about unknown creatures? Open this book and step into the mysterious, unknown Third World! 820Reads6.6Score10214d adds
- 106 Songs of the Underworld 冥歌 [Not a wish-fulfillment novel] It’s a tangled, lengthy story, not one about a loser turning his life around by fawning over women. [There is a heroine] I’m new to this, so I don’t understand why novels have to be tagged as having no heroine. To be honest, mine has one, though she doesn’t appear much. [Not necessarily funny] Hard to say. The author has a strange sense of humor. [Neurotic] The author is a little crazy, with a mind that keeps jumping around, so the plot can sometimes feel erratic. 1Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 107 Don't Talk to the Comments 不要和弹幕说话 [Horror + Supernatural + Mystery + Mind-Bending + Anthology (first four volumes complete) + Dread That Gets Under Your Skin + Not for the Fainthearted + The Villain Is the Smartest Character in the Book + Growing Female Lead + No System, No Cheats, Plot-Driven] Have you ever replied to a historical comment on a video, even just for fun? Hu Jia accidentally comes across a web series from ten years ago. It depicts a real case from that same year, but its ending is completely different from what 19Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 108 Secret Records of the State Sect 国宗秘闻录 Main storyline plus bonus horror stories, with something for every taste! You’ve got all those incredible spells, so why are you fighting the Japanese instead of hunting demons?! You transmigrate through time and space like that, and you don’t fear divine retribution?! Foreign forces are secretly invading, and the bones of China’s true dragon have resurfaced. One bizarre incident after another, one hidden past after another, and one heartbreaking song after another. He crushes every conspiracy a 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 109 Supernatural: I Am the Chief of the Demon-Suppressing Bureau 灵异：吾乃镇魔司司主 There is a book called "The Shang Dynasty’s Fall". It speaks of people honoring the gods, blood staining blue stones, and souls rising into the clouds. Demons lurk in the darkness, while mortals stand in the light. Monsters hide in the heart, while all things take shape before our eyes. Evil spirits lean on tables and laugh, while supernatural beings learn to act like humans. The world is ever-changing, and heaven and earth transform. Ying Wuxiu transmigrated to a parallel world, awakened a Syst 8Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 110 Shadows in the Daylight 白昼暗影 The criminal he hunts is himself. The shadow he cannot escape is his only protector. Lin Mo, the police department’s star profiler, cracks one extraordinary case after another with his precise criminal psychology analyses. But he doesn’t know that every night, another self awakens: Shen Ye, a “dark vigilante” who fights violence with violence, hunting down criminals who escaped justice through Lin Mo. The massacre that destroyed his family when he was a child split ten-year-old Lin Mo’s mind, cr —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 111 My 1990s Field Notes on Folk Ghost Stories 我的90年代民间志怪见闻录 Jia Nanxing, a young man from a mountain village, chance upon a stone statue and has an extraordinary encounter. Facing all kinds of strange events in the world, “zombies, evil spirits, witchcraft”, he braves countless dangers and later meets Jiang Wangyou, a mysterious female classmate. As they cultivate, the two travel around the world dealing with supernatural incidents. The story features transmigration, antique appraisal, and adventure. Supernatural fantasy all in one, along with all kinds 11Reads—Score—14d adds
- 112 My Mockumentary Came True 我的伪纪录片成真了 Luo Luo thinks he's just one “good ghost” away from becoming famous. As a struggling paranormal content creator, he throws himself into digging up a sealed videotape. Hidden inside is an urban legend called the Mirror Palace Puppet, said to appear only between two mirrors facing each other. His followers skyrocket and his popularity soars. Luo Luo brags to the camera, “Guys, I'm totally cashing in on this wave of traffic!” Then he realizes that all the strange footage is starting to invade reali 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 113 The Returnee from Hell 地狱归客 He once fell into the Inferno, enduring nine near-death trials amid mountains of corpses and seas of blood. At last, he returned to the human world bearing the brands of Hell and the power to devour souls. That power can see through the hidden sins of sinners and turn their past misdeeds into pain they must suffer themselves. It is a “gift” Hell bestows upon its judges. The human world is no paradise. Evil lurks in the shadows of neon lights: a hypocritical principal who abused children is still 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 114 Chronicles of Strange Events 异事簿 When I was eight, I accidentally drowned. The village's mad Taoist came to my house and told my parents to give me a grand seven-day funeral with gongs and drums. After seven days, I would return to life. During the funeral, lightning flashed every day and the rain poured without stopping. Everyone in the village said it was a bad omen. On the seventh day, strange phenomena suddenly appeared in the sky. The mad Taoist returned to my house, told me to take the moon in the sky as my godmother, and 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 115 Is It Too Much for a Fortune Teller Like Me to Know a Little Yin-Yang Magic? 我一个算命的会点阴阳术不过分吧 [Maoshan Arts + Ghost Hunting + Face Reading + Powerful Connections + Walking Between the Yin and Yang Worlds + Team] Zhao Yang's grandfather made him study three books from a young age: the Zhouyi, the Ma Yi Divine Physiognomy, and a third book with no cover, whose contents were handwritten. After his grandfather passed away, Zhao Yang inherited his mantle. But now that cremation was the norm, all he could do was read people's feng shui, barely earning enough to get by. Just as he was thinking 318Reads—Score—14d adds
- 116 Records of Yin-Yang Mysteries 阴阳异闻录 The newly dead have their brows painted and faces made up; those long dead have their skin painted and bones carved. The people around you may not be human, and the stories you've heard for years may be more than just stories. 447Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 117 White Russian Cemetery 白俄公墓 [Supernatural + Mystery + Horror + Forbidden Sites and Zone Exploration + Dark] While traveling, I passed through a small town called Beima and accidentally entered a strange internet cafe. The terrifying legend of a woman ghost hanging upside down, messages from an online friend dating back to 2001, an old school campus regarded as forbidden ground, a mysterious ghost village behind the school, and a cemetery that exists only in people's memories. Somehow, all of it seems connected to me. This 47Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 118 Slay Demons, Exorcise Evil: I’m 749’S Double-Flower Red Staff 斩妖，除魔，吾乃749双花红棍 (Invincible) (No female lead, but female supporting characters) (Golden finger) (If I’m reasoning with you, then that’s what counts as reason.) (If you think you can kill me, you’d better actually be able to do it.) Qin Xuan had been in this world for eighteen years. The old man who had found him had passed away just before the New Year. Qin Xuan took over the old man’s line of work and became a funeral ritual specialist. Who could have guessed that his very first job would involve something sin 865Reads7.2Score11114d adds
- 119 The Underground Secret Vault 地下秘藏 Two thousand years ago, Xiang Yu plundered the Qin Mausoleum and left behind a mysterious underground treasure. In 1998, a once-in-a-century flood submerged the city of Xuzhou and completely changed my ordinary life. I am the last witness to the White Jade Chi Dragon in this era, the keeper of the secret of those who stepped from the treasure into the world of immortality. A dragon’s heart, an immortal herb, the transfer of souls. The Overlord’s treasure, the Isles of Penglai, the polar continen 1.8kReads8.6Score20414d adds
- 120 Possessed by an Evil Spirit 撞邪 Grandpa spent his whole life doing good deeds. He never imagined that one night, he would ruin a young girl's life... 290Reads8.4Score—14d adds
- 121 Walking Between Yin and Yang: Haunted 行走阴阳：撞邪 My mother was born under the rare fate of a nine-life yin woman, cursed with solitude. A fortune-teller said that women with this fate were destined to bring misfortune to their husbands, children, and parents. I survived only because my mother gave her life for mine. The night I was born, crows called out to summon souls, wild cats wailed like mourners, and a hundred ghosts fought over me... 260Reads8.7Score—14d adds
- 122 The Ancient Soul’s Divine Pact 古魂神约 [Mystery + Mythology + Fated Love + A Hero Who's Hopelessly in Love] At seventeen, Kong Luo lost her memory in an accident and drifted through life in a daze. Ten years later, across the ocean, she met the man destined to love her, a man etched into her very soul. A series of mishaps brought them closer and closer, gradually exposing a conspiracy behind their origins that had been unfolding for tens of thousands of years. The stories in the ancient book Classic of Mountains and Seas blur the lin —Reads8.2Score—14d adds
- 123 Sun Pupil, Moonless Night: I Know the End from the Start! 日瞳月晦：开局我已知晓终末！ [Supernatural] ~ [Mystery] ~ [Mind Games] ~ [Plot Twists] ~ [No Idiot Plots] The first time was at a casino. I won every last chip in the place, but I couldn’t escape the strange curse that clung to me. Luckily, when I woke up, the game hadn’t started yet. The second time, death came calling at midnight. The rules offered no way out. I watched the skin being peeled from my body inch by inch, helpless to stop it. The nightmare wouldn’t go away. The third time, the fourth time... Death played out 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 124 My Doubao Suddenly Gained the Power to Speak with Spirits 我的豆包突然能通灵了 In 2030, nine bolts of lightning streak across the sky over Wuhan, as if someone were undergoing a tribulation on the Yangtze River. Twenty-two-year-old Guan Zhaoye is asking the AI assistant “Doubao” on his phone to revise his resume when the ninth bolt suddenly strikes the device. After the screen goes black and the phone restarts, Doubao’s first words are: “Guan Zhaoye, someone who died seven years ago is standing behind you.” From then on, Doubao begins receiving corrupted text, voice messag 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 125 Pawnshop No. 7 第7当铺 In the darkest corner of the city stands the Number Seven Pawnshop, which never closes. It doesn’t take physical objects as collateral, but rather the “sinful traits” buried deep in human nature. The owner offers unimaginable wealth, success, or wishes, but the price is your greed, arrogance, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. The rules here are cold but fair: the more “sin” you pawn, the richer the reward. But without your “sins,” are you still truly whole? 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 126 The Ghostly Side of Humanity: Mad Stories You Never Knew, Volume 1 鬼味人间：你不知道的疯人故事1 Believe me, this world has another face. What seems insane to you may be perfectly normal to someone else. The eerie, unsettling stories of human life, the sinister and unfathomable depths of the human heart, and tales of madness you’ve never heard before are all hidden in this book, Ghostly Flavors of the Human World. 3.2kReads9.2Score26114d adds
- 127 Old Alley Sound Repair: At Midnight Tonight, Qin Opera Calls the Souls 旧巷声修：今夜子时，秦腔引魂 [One Heroine + Sound Cultivation + Qin Opera + Livestreaming + Supernatural Mystery + Urban + Adventure] In modern society, information explodes across the world, and human negativity is amplified through social media, forming an immense “Tide of Resentment.” If no one guides and dispels it, within three years it will gather into a “Lament of Doomsday,” and the boundary between the worlds of yin and yang will collapse completely. Humanity’s power comes from “the Power of Wishes”: energy formed w —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 128 The Daoist Arts Compendium: Flirting with Ghosts in the Underworld 道术灵册我在冥界调戏鬼 Supernatural and bizarre incidents keep happening, along with the use of all kinds of talismans, spells, and Taoist arts. Follow me, Lin Feng, as I promote traditional Chinese Taoism. Lin Feng was raised from childhood by his grandfather, Lin Yousheng, a renowned Taoist priest. The story takes place in a small town in the 1980s and 1990s. Before turning thirteen, Lin Feng had little interest in his grandfather's identity as a Taoist priest, but at thirteen, he began his journey down the Taoist p 3Reads—Score114d adds
- 129 There’s Someone on My Back 我的背上有个人 I always thought I'd slept wrong. I tried medicated plasters and got X-rays, until I met an old man who said, "Young lady, someone has been riding on your back for nearly half a year. You need to send her on her way, right now..." —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 130 Luring Ghosts 招诡 A lot of the time, there are secrets and things hidden inside you that even you don't know about. For instance, what happens after you fall asleep... 376Reads8.0Score—14d adds
- 131 Maoshan Secrets: The Way of Yin and Yang 茅山秘录：阴阳道 Do you believe ghosts exist? The moment you ask that question, one might be listening. When he was five, he watched his home burn to ashes with his own eyes. Twenty-two years later, he became the seventy-third-generation direct disciple of the Maoshan Sect. His master said, “Go down the mountain. Gain experience and find the answers.” He thought it would be an ordinary journey down the mountain. He was wrong. In an ancient Jiangnan town, five young people died in the same dream, smiling, th 37Reads—Score—14d adds
- 132 Living Witness to the Strange 活见异闻 Grandpa had seen a ghost for himself. In the dead of night, he went behind the villagers’ backs to dig up a dead woman’s grave, and even stripped off her... 36Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 133 Route 14 Night Bus 14路夜班公交车 My name is Li Long. For triple pay, I took the night shift on Bus Route 14, the one everyone else avoids. It starts at the old depot in the west of the city and ends at the back gate of the crematorium. Departure time: exactly eleven at night. The passengers have no body heat, no breath, and no faces. They are the souls of those who drowned in the river three years ago. A chilling aura hangs over the route, ghosts follow in its wake, and every stop hides a curse that claims lives. Three rules ar 1Reads—Score114d adds
- 134 At the Crime Scene, a Prompt Appears Above the Victim’s Head 命案现场，死者头顶飘出提示框 [System-focused] [Crime solving] [Urban] Three months into the job, Gu Bei, a trainee forensic technician, was examining a hanging scene when a line of blood-red words appeared out of thin air above the victim’s head: [She didn’t tie the knot]. Using the bizarre clue, Gu Bei applied his forensic knowledge to reconstruct the scene and expose the truth behind the staged suicide. Then came [It fell twice] on the face of a car-crash victim, and [Died before the fire] on a charred body at a fire scen 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 135 Chronicles of the Ashen Earth 烬土录 You can try it, but I wouldn’t recommend it. The book was signed too early, so I can’t change the title anymore. It can only be called Records of the Ashen Earth now. I originally wanted to change it to The Mountain Keeper: I Slay Demons with My Sharp Tongue. Synopsis Deep in the Qinling Mountains lies a town called Ashen Earth, where generations have served as mountain keepers. I, Chen Nian, had kept watch for seventeen years, but on the day the peachwood tablet shattered, my entire clan tre 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 136 Don’t Call My Name at Midnight 半夜不要喊我名字 Believe it or not, this is a true story. She is Yang Xiaofan, dumped by a man who had been using her for her money, then left with nothing. With almost no savings left, she had no choice but to move into a deserted house. The mysterious landlord disappeared without a trace after his first appearance. After midnight, terrifying knocks and calls to summon spirits put her life in danger. A black cat that comes and goes appears at strange moments, then vanishes without a trace. Again and again, I wa 1.2kReads8.3Score—14d adds
- 137 Case Files of Unusual Investigations 异案调查录 Throughout the vast world, from ancient times to the present, there have always been mysterious events that humans cannot explain. And there is a group of people who endure countless hardships in their pursuit of the truth. The cases they investigate are all considered paranormal… 501Reads7.4Score—14d adds
- 138 Supernatural Tales: Twenty Years as a Spirit Medium 灵异怪谈：出马二十年 The Great Immortal takes his place, and sinister forces lurk in haunted lands! When I was 19, my parents laid out a banquet for ghosts, inviting a living corpse and the Eight Great Immortal Clans. For the next twenty years, I relied on my craft of raising ghosts and posing as a Great Immortal to make my way in the spirit-medium trade. I kept company with ghosts and monsters, consorted with wild immortals, and crossed blades with strange and dangerous people, always with my life on the line. 83Reads9.1Score—14d adds
- 139 I Went to Pay Respects at Grandpa's Grave, and Somehow Angered Him Back to Life? 给爷爷上坟，把爷爷气出来了？ [Supernatural + comedy + fantasy. This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual events is purely coincidental!] “Grandpa, help me earn enough to buy a house, and I’ll send you a whole hall of maids. Grandpa, bless me so I can buy a BMW, and I’ll make your home even more luxurious. Grandpa, bring me good fortune, and I promise you’ll have plenty of gold ingots to spend. Grandpa, bless me so I win the jackpot, and I’ll set off a hundred thousand firecrackers for you!” “Good grandson, 407Reads7.1Score—14d adds
- 140 Unemployed from the Start, I Can Only Survive by Swallowing Ghosts Whole 开局失业，只能生吞鬼物维持生活 [Spiritual Qi Revival + Supernatural City Life + Leveling Up + Almost Invincible + Everyday Life] Spiritual qi has revived across the globe, and the world is no longer at peace. Demons and gods lurking in legends have appeared once more. Xie Wunan is an ordinary office worker, yet he was born with Daoist eyes that let him see yin and yang and communicate with ghosts and gods. A tiger-head jade plaque gave him a new title: [General Who Subdues Spirits]. From then on, however, he also encountered 162Reads7.3Score—14d adds
- 141 The Ominous Coffin 凶棺 It all started with a coffin that floated up from the river... I thought it was a fortune dropped from the sky, but it turned out to be a disaster. After I pried open the coffin, I began to feel that something unclean had followed me home. My daughter grew stranger by the day. She was only three, yet she had already started developing! 125Reads—Score—14d adds
- 142 Welcome to the Nightmare Livestream!!! 欢迎来到噩梦直播间！！！ My new work is out! Everyone is welcome to read it on Tomato Novel. I hope you enjoy it. Your support is what motivates me to write, and I'll do my best to tell every story well! 5Reads—Score—14d adds
- 143 The Underworld Decree 阴职令 A wedding invitation, a register of the dead, and a journey as a guide between worlds. Chen Du was an ordinary young man, until the yin-difference title inherited from his ancestors swept him into the conflicts between the worlds of the living and the dead. Old scores beneath the locust tree, lost souls in the paper city, every debt had to be settled by his own hand. This is not a story about becoming an immortal. It is a cycle of repaying debts. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 144 Celestial Official of the Corpse-Subduing Sect 镇尸天官 The unfathomable mystery of immortality, horrifying strange happenings in a mountain village, a mysterious ancient tomb buried deep beneath the earth, and ancient legends from the barren wilderness... None of it should have had anything to do with me. But after my grandfather's bizarre death, I could no longer escape my fate and was dragged into this endless conspiracy... 441Reads7.3Score10214d adds
- 145 Awakening the Heavenly Eye: Summoning a God to Face the Great Black Buddha Mother 天眼眸启：请神硬刚大黑佛母 (Supernatural + not a self-sacrificing saint + funny + almost invincible) Li Yang was born on the twenty-fourth day of the sixth month in the lunar calendar. He never expected to be born with a third eye and a strange destiny, drawing him into a mysterious conflict beyond imagination. The Great Black Buddha Mother, far away in Yun Province, even came in person to seize him... Fox spirits, zombies, Miaojiang gu, Kuman Thong, Yellow River corpse collectors... When Li Yang arrived in Yun Province w 69Reads—Score—14d adds
- 146 Taoist, Spare Us! Zombies, Ghosts, and Monsters Are Freaking Out! 道士请饶命，僵尸鬼妖慌麻了！ [Supernatural] [Feng Shui and Folk Customs] [Ghost Hunting and Corpse Suppression] [Transmigration] [No System] Chen Yang, a Taoist who used to sweep temple floors, transmigrates to a world without Taoist priests and discovers that he has become the village idiot tasked with guarding the village. The village chief says, "My dead father is causing too much trouble. You have to get in the coffin and keep him company!" Chen Yang replies, "Trouble? That's right up my alley. I'll have your dad settle 107Reads—Score12114d adds
- 147 Department of Paranormal Investigations 神秘事件调查处 The Secret Incident Investigation Bureau, Book One As a child, Zhuge Yun was struck by lightning and branded with a thunder rune. During an archaeological excavation, he accidentally awakened the thunder element within himself. After joining the Ninth Division, under the Huaxia government’s secret agency, Bureau 749, Zhuge Yun and his teammates handled all kinds of supernatural incidents. The mysterious Poyang Lake Delta, ghost soldiers crossing the land, resurrected terracotta warriors in the M 4.4kReads8.4Score23214d adds
- 148 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office 阴阳事务所 The Yin-Yang Affairs Office is closed during the day and open at night. We don't take cases from the living, only from ghosts. I'm a man of principles. What? A pretty young lady wants to come visit? Yo, I might consider it! A bewitchingly beautiful, sultry red-robed female ghost; a headless ghost whose head was chopped off with an axe; the Black and White Impermanence from the underworld... They're all regulars here. To tell you the truth, even the King of Hell was raised by me! 355Reads7.8Score10114d adds
- 149 I’m Going to Lure 100 Lost Souls 我要勾满100个亡魂 Sequel to I Guide Souls at Wangxiang Terrace Lin Jiaojiao, 24, an overworked office worker, suddenly dies on the Nth night in a row of staying up all night revising proposals. When she opens her eyes again, she has already completed every step of the underworld’s procedures. But just as she reaches Wangxiang Terrace, the guide Zhou Yi stops her. “Your attachment remains unresolved. You can’t be reincarnated.” Judge Li Muzi offers her a way forward: work as a soul reaper under him, and she can be 11.2kReads—Score4k14d adds
- 150 Raising a Fox as My Wife II 养狐为妻Ⅱ I am a jinx, born under an ill omen. To keep me alive, my grandfather arranged an extraordinary betrothal for me when I was a child… 299Reads7.3Score—14d adds
