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- 1 The Jiuzhou Investigation Bureau 九州调查局 I’ll use the eyes I have now to tell you stories from the past. From the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, through the Xia, Shang, and Zhou dynasties, all the way to the present, countless secrets lie hidden in the gaps of history. They wander between reality and illusion, concealed from the world. They are legends who have transcended reincarnation and blended into the mortal realm. A flower blooms with five petals, and the fruit comes naturally. The story of the Jiuzhou Investigation Bureau 281Reads—Score—Shelves
- 2 Treasure Hunting in Tibet's Secret Realms, and the State Even Gave Me a Government Job 西藏秘境探宝，国家竟还给我编制 [Secret Realms] [Treasure Hunting] [Eerie Mysteries] [All Things] Stealing treasures is illegal. Do not break the law by trying it yourself... The vast world holds everything imaginable, and every sort of wonder. People have all kinds of theories... In 2006, I boarded the first train bound for the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau to search for dzi beads in Nagqu Prefecture. I never imagined that this would become a turning point in my life. I also encountered things beyond anything I could have imagined: t 167Reads—Score—Shelves
- 3 Building Bureau 749: My Teammates Are Uncle Nine and Wang Ye! 打造749局，队友九叔，王也！ Transmigrating to the 1980s, meeting Uncle Jiu from the start, and slaying a flying jiangshi! Hoping to land a government job, Duan Tianya reported everything to the authorities and established Bureau 749! From then on, legends sprang up across the land of China! His subordinates included Uncle Jiu, Zhang Xiaoge, Bai Yue Kui, Feng Abao, and Wang Ye, though no one knew they existed! Until A senior government official came to his door in person! “A dragon fell from the sky in Yingkou, witnessed by 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 4 I Came from Bureau 749 我来自749局 Spiritual qi revival, and the world undergoes a dramatic transformation! The mysterious Old K, a man from the future year 2060; the lizardmen, who claim to be Mercury's native inhabitants; the Skywolf Clan, desperate to return to their homeland; and the SPC organization, weaving its web in the shadows. The world is no longer centered on ordinary people, and the Awakened are gradually coming into view. For Zhou Tailang, cultivation means survival, and only those who survive have the right to cont 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 5 Secret Cases of Bureau 749 749局秘案 Top-secret files from the State Secrecy Bureau have been mysteriously stolen. Bureau 749 steps in to investigate, peeling back layer upon layer of mystery through the smallest clues in search of the ultimate truth... The mysterious Bureau 749, a wondrous world beneath the Earth's surface, bizarre and unknown life forms, and a shocking conspiracy hidden from the world! What is the code of the ancient city of Dunhuang? Was the prehistoric Great Flood merely a legend? What secrets lie behind the my 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 6 749 Bureau Internal Report 749局内参 There is no such thing as peaceful, carefree days. Behind the scenes, unseen by you, there are people shouldering the burden on your behalf. This group gazes into the abyss and protects the light for everyone else. The secrets of Lop Nor? Does a world beneath the Earth's surface really exist? Do cultivators really undergo tribulation to ascend? Could this world really be virtual? Are we nothing more than a string of code in a computer? It all began when I came into contact with this mysterious o 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 7 The Secret Wilds 秘野奇域 In 2035, the global archaeological community was rocked to its foundations. Mysterious bronze solar wheels, unearthed one after another across the world, linked humanity's ancient civilizations together. To solve the astonishing mystery behind the bronze solar wheels, a secret field unit was urgently called into action... 166Reads—Score—Shelves
- 8 The Shennongjia Classified Files 神农架密档 A mysterious video intercepted from overseas shows a crystal coffin. Inside lies the corpse of a wild man. Experts identify the body as the legendary Shennong. The coffin is secretly hidden somewhere in Shennongjia. A special-abilities squad with a T-series designation ventures deep into Shennongjia, where they fight a life-or-death battle against evil forces, one that will determine the future course of humanity! 70Reads6.5Score—Shelves
- 9 The Legendary 749 Bureau 传说中的749局 The Legendary Bureau 749 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 10 Interstellar Affairs Investigation Bureau 异星事务调查局 A Chinese take on Men in Black meets The X-Files, focused on dealing with extraterrestrial affairs on Earth. [No harem, no System, no formulaic tropes, no invincible protagonist, no mindless plot, and no wish-fulfillment. Please read with care if these bother you.] [Urban + aliens + parasites + light horror] Chen Le never imagined... that when he went to the teachers' office to hand in his homework, he would see tentacles emerging from beneath his homeroom teacher's pant leg! As more and more bi 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 11 Paranormal Affairs Office 灵异管理处 My name is Yin Yu. I'm a Taoist priest. I used to be just an ordinary person among the masses. By a twist of fate, I joined a special department called the Paranormal Administration. The five arts of mountain, medicine, destiny, physiognomy, and divination; the shamanic spirit mediums of the Northeast; the Hunan and western Hunan arts of gu poison and the Flower-Falling Cave Maidens; reincarnated tulkus of Tibetan Buddhism; protecting a flood dragon as it enters the sea and transforms into a dra 75Reads—Score—Shelves
- 12 My Years as a Feng Shui Master 我做风水师那些年 This was originally supposed to be called The Years I Spent as a Monk. But then I remembered that I had also spent some time as a Taoist, so I'll start my story as a feng shui master instead. This is a book of insider secrets unlike anything ever written before. When you or your family travel, have you ever come across a temple, or even a museum or memorial hall, where a master tries to enlighten you? They may be dressed as monks, Taoists, or lay practitioners. Do you want to know where they com —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 13 The Forbidden Zone Code: My Years on the Scientific Expedition Team 禁地密码：我在科考队那些年 Li Xian, 35, is the top operative on the national rescue team. In recent years, there have been repeated accidents involving hikers who went missing or died while exploring. To reduce such incidents, he begins livestreaming his rescue missions and expeditions, explaining how to handle emergencies along the way. He also wants to remind everyone to respect nature and value life. Personality: decisive and meticulous Abilities: a walking encyclopedia, capable of anything. 41Reads—Score—Shelves
- 14 The Explorer 探险家 A quarrel one night five years ago was followed by the disappearance of an archaeological team of dozens, who vanished without a trace. Five years later, a photograph marked with a time and place suddenly surfaced. Two members of the team, who had been leading the expedition, appeared in the Kunlun Mountains. What secrets lay behind it all? The mysterious phoenix-snake pillar, the last Lop Nur native in the desert: was it the property of the Queen Mother of the West, or the key that opened the g 97Reads—Score—Shelves
- 15 Strange Records of Bureau 749 749局异闻录 Have you ever wondered whether, beneath the modern city’s towering skyscrapers, ancient and unsolved mysteries still lie in wait? Xiao Lang, a rookie investigator and former ordinary patrol officer, is pulled into a “haunted building murder case” and forced to join National Bureau 749, a secret agency hidden within the government that specializes in supernatural incidents. Carrying half of his family’s inherited Book of Yin Talismans and bearing the mysterious “spirit-splitting” constitution, 135Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 16 Bureau 749? Report on the Spatial Disappearance Phenomenon 749局？空间消亡现象报告 Bureau 749? Report on the Spatial Annihilation Phenomenon —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 17 Case File of the Ninth Bureau 第九局异闻录 The Ninth Bureau has been involved in countless strange and bizarre events from the years before the Republic was founded to the years after. So what is the Ninth Bureau's past and present all about? Let me tell you the whole story. 219Reads6.3Score—Shelves
- 18 Uncovering China’s Mysterious Cases 揭秘中国神秘事件 This book introduces readers to real-life bizarre, mysterious, and uncanny events from across China. Each chapter tells one true story, guaranteed to open your eyes and leave you amazed. 47Reads—Score—Shelves
- 19 Demon-Slaying Journal 除魔手记 Are you sure that everything you see is real? Do you believe that people who live forever really exist? Can everything you've encountered be explained by science? Fortune tellers, Taoist masters, monks who cultivate in temples: they all appear in the mysterious cases of history... —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 20 Paranormal Investigation Notes 探灵笔录 A fortune-teller said I was a child sent by a hundred ghosts, and that I was destined to deal with the dead all my life. So I chose to become a forensic pathologist, working at the boundary between life and death. In ancient times, people called this profession a coroner’s. We were considered ill-omened and ranked among the lowest of occupations. Over the years, I’ve handled all kinds of bizarre and uncanny cases. I’ve recorded these terrifying incidents, which no living person should get involv 31Reads6.9Score—Shelves
- 21 Beneath Fuxian Lake 抚仙湖底 Beneath Fuxian Lake 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 22 The Mountain Keeper 守山人 At the start of the Ming dynasty, why did Liu Bowen sever the dragon veins throughout the land, yet spare the Changbai Mountain range? At the end of the Ming dynasty, why did Nurhaci invade the passes, then seal off Changbai Mountain for more than two hundred years? All kinds of eerie things happen deep in the old forests... 64Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 23 Seventeen Deadly Trials 致命十七关 A suspenseful adventure with an all-female cast Main couple: She seems like an innocent, clueless kitten, but secretly loves that she understands more than anyone else, while the other seems cold and aloof, but is actually incredibly shy and blushes easily. Side couple: She seems bold and strong, but cries in her girlfriend’s arms in private, while the other seems like a sweet, gentle angel in white, but is ruthless and decisive, never hesitating. Forced into a secret passage, the four women 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 24 Top Secret 749 绝密749 [Fiery battles with a touch of humor + romance without the wish-fulfillment feel] [A story full of twists and turns] Who would have thought an ordinary mountain was actually a coffin mountain shrouded in sinister energy... and that a Mo Demon and a Yaksha would appear there! Who would have heard that a roadside barbecue joint, full of everyday bustle... hid a dried corpse glowing with an eerie green light! Who would have guessed a mysterious bone mound lay beneath a dry well... guarded by a Hair 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 25 Bureau 749: You're Supposed to Contain the Paranormal, Not Become It 749：让你收容，不是成为诡异 [Cause and effect reversed]+ [Containment]+ [Bureau 749]+ [Lobotomy Corporation]+ [Eerie] After a truck accident, Lin Yu transmigrated to a world somewhat like his own, but filled with all kinds of monsters known as the “Eerie.” Here, Bureau 749 is no longer an urban legend. Containing the Eerie is their everyday job. Lin Yu awakened a cause-and-effect-reversing System. Complete a mission, and he can claim its cause and effect! Get on first, pay the fare later! And the Eerie contained by Bureau —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 26 Bureau of Paranormal Investigations 特异事物调查局 [Mystery + horror + sci-fi + adventure + wild imagination] Before graduating, forensic science student Ren Lin dissects a beautiful female corpse. Not long afterward, he meets a woman who looks exactly like the corpse, with a horrifying scar beneath her neck. A voice keeps echoing in his ear: “Did the corpse you dissect feel pain?” This is only the beginning, just the tip of the iceberg! Ren Lin joins the Bureau of Special Affairs and rises from a low-ranking agent to a legend! 45Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 27 The Supernatural Incident Investigation Bureau 灵异事件侦探局 I was just an ordinary junior police officer, but I couldn't fight fate's wheel and got swept into a department I'd never heard of: the Paranormal Investigation Bureau. Joining the Bureau opened the door to a whole new and exciting life, but as one bizarre case after another came along, I gradually realized that everything had been predestined. None of it was a coincidence. 14Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 28 749 Bureau: Classified Files 749局秘闻 Have you heard of Bureau 749? Some say it’s a classified agency. Others say it’s a mysterious organization that researches supernatural phenomena. Still others believe Bureau 749 investigates and covers up cases involving extraterrestrial life forms appearing within the country. Which of these rumors is true? I didn’t know either, until I got caught up in a bizarre murder case and became a member of Bureau 749. That’s when I discovered that the bureau was far more complicated than anyone could i 328Reads7.7Score103Shelves
- 29 Bureau 749: The Special Heroes Unit 749局之特殊英雄组 The world isn't as calm and peaceful as it looks. Just like in the sci-fi movies you've seen, there are a handful of strange people, strange events, monsters, and paranormal phenomena in this world. Some of them, however, can easily cause social unrest and inspire fear. Our 749 Bureau was established to deal with such things. 1.6kReads5.9Score101Shelves
- 30 Tales of the Tomb Gate Hunt 墓门狩记 Xu Changsheng is cursed with the fate of a lone star. At seventeen, he brings death to all thirteen members of his family, leaving only his distant granduncle, Zhang Facai, alive. Zhang Facai encounters a sinister supernatural affair at the Liu family estate in Changbai Mountain and is rescued by Linghu Shou, a mysterious tomb-raiding officer from the Northern School. Linghu Shou chooses Xu Changsheng and takes him to Harbin, where he joins a band of extraordinary people on an expedition into th 58Reads7.8Score—Shelves
- 31 Adventure Livestream: My Gods Are a Little Different! 直播探险：我的神明有亿点不同！ After an accident, Lin Qi transmigrates to a parallel world and activates the Live-Stream Exploration System! From then on, Lin Qi embarks on a journey to find the mysterious, bizarre, terrifying mythical beasts from legend, the kind that make your sanity plummet. From the snow monsters of the Himalayas to the mysterious temple deep in Lop Nur; from the dragon tribe in the Mariana Trench to Ning'en, a humanoid behemoth in the deep waters of Antarctica; death worms, lizard people, butterfly peopl 189Reads—Score—Shelves
- 32 Bureau Zero-One 零一局 The Zero-One Bureau handles paranormal incidents. After the protagonist, Liang Yuzhang, was born, an old Daoist recognized his exceptional nature and took him in as an apprentice to learn Daoist arts. Starting in kindergarten, he helped people deal with paranormal incidents, becoming a minor celebrity in the surrounding villages. He joined the Zero-One Bureau in middle school, and after joining, handled all sorts of supernatural cases involving ghosts, demons, and monsters. These events also dre 3Reads—Score—Shelves
- 33 Records of an Archaeological Bureau Temp 考古司编外人员记事录 My name is Wang Xuanyi. That's what my father, whom I never met in my whole life, named me. Of course, that's not important. When I was twenty, I was on the Huhketu Grassland in Inner Mongolia, helping a friend buy sheep from local herders to sell in the inland provinces and Hebei. How should I put it? I guess my life really began in Huhketu. On the grasslands, I encountered wolves. We stumbled into a tomb with no way out. On the snowy mountains, we saw the last glow of the Bon god. In the Qinl 17Reads—Score—Shelves
- 34 I Transmigrated and Joined Bureau 749 穿越的我加入749局 Wu Jun, who had just lost his job, transmigrated to the ancestral planet. Carrying three major theories and one troublesome problem, he returned to Earth. The first thing he did was hand over all his secrets to the nation, then join Bureau 749 and set out on the path to uncovering the truth. Bureau 749: We hide among the people. We are willing to make sacrifices. We bear the darkness. We believe that the interests of the nation come above all else. The three theories about Earth from the ancestr 24Reads—Score—Shelves
- 35 Live Expedition: Uncovering the Truth Behind UFO Files 直播探险：从解密UFO文件开始 [Global Livestreamed Exploration + Unsolved Mysteries + Uncharted Places + Mysterious Creatures + No Female Lead] “Nan, what was that thing waving at you in Fengmen Village?!” “Nan, don’t go underwater! There’s something in the sea following you!” “Holy crap, Nan, look! What’s that glowing thing at the top of the pyramid?!” Yi Nan was just a sma 263Reads5.4Score111Shelves
- 36 Special Incident Investigation Bureau 特殊事件调查局 Heaven has its yin and yang, and the earth has two sides. Our society is no different. Joining the Special Investigations Bureau means living alongside the dark side of this world. Murderous curses, midnight phone calls, Meng Po’s soup... Behind these chilling cases, are we dealing with supernatural forces, or is there a mastermind pulling the strings? The Special Investigations Bureau exists to stir up the turbulent currents of this shadowy world and uncover the black hand reaching out beneath 11Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 37 The Secret Record of Tomb Robbing 摸金秘记 [A premium, exclusive Tomb Raiding novel] [Zhang Jia Sishu's latest masterpiece of 2016, set to become the ultimate Tomb Raiding novel!] The appearance of an exceptionally beautiful female corpse shattered my ordinary life. Armed with a family-inherited secret art of Tomb Raiding, I opened an ancient imperial mausoleum sealed for a thousand years, seeking rare treasures buried underground and unraveling a mystery beyond anyone's reach. 184Reads6.6Score—Shelves
- 38 The Bureau of Foreign Affairs' Strange Tales 外事局诡闻录 All the petty affairs of the world are interactions between people. Whether good or bad, they belong to the realm of internal affairs. Anything beyond ordinary human life, anything ordinary people cannot accept, belongs to external affairs. That is the meaning behind the name of the External Affairs Bureau. Skin-Human Ravine, the Five Barbarians' Ghost Cave, a thousand corpses vying to steal fortune, a mother and daughter possessed by yin spirits, a ghostly yang infant... I experienced all kinds 3.3kReads8.6Score262Shelves
- 39 507: Top Secret Files 507绝密档案 I had only just graduated from police academy when I witnessed a bizarre car crash with my own eyes and came into contact with the legendary Bureau 507. From then on, my career as a police officer changed forever... 958Reads6.8Score136Shelves
- 40 Dragon Seeking 寻龙 Forty years ago, a great flood unearthed an ancient Warring States tomb. Forty years later, a mysterious will from my grandfather leads me back into the tomb. Carve corridors through mountains and hollow them out for tombs! How many secrets lie hidden in the tombs of ancient kings? To find a dragon, seek the mountain's winding folds. Each winding ridge marks another pass; If a gate has a thousand locks, a prince or lord must surely lie within. Only when I opened the coffin did I realize that som 936Reads6.6Score104Shelves
- 41 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! 838Reads6.6Score102Shelves
- 42 Bureau 749: Supernatural Investigations 749局之超自然探秘 Tian Yun, endlessly fascinated by supernatural phenomena, receives a mysterious letter that leads him to the enigmatic 749 Bureau. The 749 Bureau is a special institution dedicated to researching supernatural phenomena. It has ancient buildings, strange equipment, and a group of mysterious researchers. From its origins in the competition between the United States and the Soviet Union to research the supernatural during the Cold War, the bureau has undergone many changes and developments. After 5Reads—Score—Shelves
- 43 I Went to College Orientation as a Corpse Driver, and the Director of Bureau 749 Wept 大一赶尸去报到，749局长哭了 [Urban Fantasy] [Corpse Driving] [Absurd Comedy] [749 Bureau] [Funny Horror] Zhang Wei, heir to the corpse-driving tradition of western Hunan, is kicked down the mountain by his father during his first-year summer break. His mission: take a "client" who died far from home back to their hometown, so they can return to their roots. To save on travel costs, Zhang Wei simply rides the talisman-covered "client" like a shared bike! On the road, he meets a weasel spirit seeking a title: "Do I look like 71.2kReads7.4Score8.3kShelves
- 44 Investigation Bureau 739 739调查局 A mysterious investigation bureau, a series of inexplicable supernatural events, and a young man who has studied Taoist arts since childhood: together, they set the stage for a strange journey through life. An infant boy is abandoned in the mountains, surrounded by birds and protected by beasts. When the Taoist Qin Xuangguan happens upon this extraordinary sight, he realizes the child is no ordinary person and takes him back to the mountain to raise him and teach him the Yin-Yang arts. By chance 549Reads6.8Score—Shelves
- 45 I Write Horror Novels on Tomato Novel 我在番茄写恐怖小说 A friendly heads-up: [This story is wildly imaginative] This novel brings together over a hundred stories, with elements of the uncanny, fantasy, and Lovecraftian horror. Unlike other novels, it has no long, tedious passages. Every story is full of eerie, fresh surprises. 107Reads—Score127Shelves
- 46 Global Adventure: I'm the World's Number One Explorer 全球探险：我是世界第一探险家 [Global exploration + wilderness survival + livestreaming + System] I transmigrate to a parallel world and embark on a global expedition. I walk through the primeval forests of the Greater Khingan Range, face attacks from wolf packs, and come within inches of brown bears. I explore the deepest reaches of the world, venture into the uninhabited heart of the Yarlung Tsangpo Grand Canyon, witness the existence of wild men with my own eyes, and cross bloodsucking jungles crawling with leeches. I sur —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 47 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 1.2kReads7.1Score100Shelves
- 48 The Longevity Project 长生计划 A handsome young man has turned up at my house, mooching food and lodging without paying, all under the excuse that he’s lost his memory. Every sign points to the fact that he has been alive for a very long time... 465Reads8.3Score106Shelves
- 49 Bureau of Supernatural Investigations 超自然事件调查局 A bizarre murder case draws me into the investigation of mysterious supernatural events: crew members on a deep-sea fishing vessel inexplicably slaughtering one another, immortals hiding in the city, legendary vampires, Nazi doomsday troops of a godlike race and their Aryan holy city, and a gigantic human-face structure on Mars. We are not alone in the universe, and human society is just as complicated. 358Reads8.4Score—Shelves
- 50 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 1.8kReads8.6Score221Shelves
