Novels like Investigation Bureau 739
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- 51 Bureau 749: Classified Files 749局绝密档案 Bureau 749: Do you want to know its secrets? The dead returning to life? Vampiric zombies? Clones? All will be revealed here. 785Reads7.4Score108Shelves
- 52 Diagnosed With Terminal Cancer, I Became a Guardian of Civilization 确诊癌症晚期，我成了文明守夜人 The doctors said I had only three months to live, but I became the last guardian of civilization. Late-stage cancer? No, it was turbid breath entering my body! Chemotherapy was useless? Only ancient artifacts infused with spiritual energy could keep me alive! From ghostly shadows in the Forbidden City to Pangu creating the heavens, I coughed up blood as I traced back five thousand years, laying my hands on the dragon veins of the Xia and Shang dynasties and the heroic spirits of the Han and Tang 8Reads—Score—Shelves
- 53 It's 2:30 A.M. Let Me Tell You a Story! 凌晨两点半，我来给你讲故事！ Before I knew it, this book had passed 200 chapters. Time flies, and now the story is nearing its conclusion. It will end after just one million words. We’re currently in the rapid-update phase, with three chapters posted every day at 9 a.m. This book is a collection of folk horror stories set in the countryside. Each chapter is a standalone story, and every plot has been carefully crafted by the author. Comments from fellow readers are welcome. If you like it, add it to your bookshelf. 7Reads—Score—Shelves
- 54 Paranormal Creatures Investigation Bureau 灵异生物调查局 After the spiritual qi revival, paranormal incidents break out across the country. The Paranormal Investigation Bureau is founded in response. Fu Kuan is reborn from a parallel world. He activates the System. From the start, he draws out a cultivator. Whenever ghosts or monsters cause trouble, they must be eliminated! 333Reads—Score—Shelves
- 55 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
- 56 The Divine Mortician 神葬师 I am the peerless Divine Burial Master. I use heaven and earth as my coffin to bury every ghost and god in the world, and feng shui formations to safeguard the nation’s fortune for generations to come. The world honors me as the National Feng Shui Master. Bureau 749 regards me as its pillar of support, and I trounced the Kiku Sect. Yet in the ultimate battle ten years ago, I won but still lost everything. With my cultivation gone, all I could do was return to my hometown and wait to die. Then, o 28Reads—Score—Shelves
- 57 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 865Reads7.2Score111Shelves
- 58 Case Files of the Unusual: New Century 异案调查录2：新世纪 A century marks one hundred years. In this new century, technology and information are advancing at breakneck speed, and all kinds of bizarre cases are springing up everywhere. News of them spreads faster than ever before. A boy who can only walk by hopping, another person's face appearing in the village well, a human shadow appearing on a factory warehouse wall in the middle of the night, and more... Only the Unusual Cases Investigation Bureau can handle this series of bizarre incidents... 53Reads—Score—Shelves
- 59 Strange Tales from the Northeast Paranormal Investigation Bureau 东北民调局异闻录 This is an organization dedicated to investigating and handling all kinds of bizarre supernatural events. To avoid causing public panic, it was established under the name Bureau of Folklore Investigations. The novel reimagines and develops various supernatural legends from Northeast China. Its strange events and compelling stories are presented with a distinctive Northeastern sense of humor. All manner of mysterious incidents, mountain spirits, and ghosts are told here! 403Reads—Score—Shelves
- 60 The Laughing Underworld Chronicles 笑冥录 “If an almanac could turn you into a ghost right on schedule, but the price was wearing a dead person’s clothes once a day, would you use it?” Top-voted answer (by the poster “Lord Wuchang Has No More Years of Life Today”): “Thanks for the invite. I’m in the underworld, just got off the night shift.” 1Reads—Score—Shelves
- 61 A Century of the Supernatural 百年灵异 This is a truly unusual book, recording the supernatural events that took place in a village over the course of a century. These events are unlike traditional tales of ghosts, fox spirits, demons, and immortals. There is none of the vulgar promotion of superstition or idealism found in popular culture. Instead, the book is filled with the world's strangeness and unknowns, leaving readers baffled. After the shock and terror, you can't help but question and imagine what lies beyond, and find yours 8Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 62 Supernatural: My Years Hunting Ghosts at Bureau 749 灵异：我在749局打鬼那些年 The appearance of a white coffin and a red coffin at the construction site changed my fate. That night, I saw corpses that could move and a ghost that could steal a person's soul. They were all "deceiving" me, trying to make me die. What should I do... When you think the person behind you is a ghost, the real ghost may be the one standing in front of you... Once it's dark... don't read this!! 216Reads—Score—Shelves
- 63 Tomb Raiding Tales from Republican China 民国盗墓往事 A long-lost memory brings a gripping story from the past to light. What I’m about to tell you is a secret from the Republican era… 3.5kReads8.8Score609Shelves
- 64 Twenty-Four Strange Tales 二十四异 A child found by an executioner, a senior member of the Daoist sect, and the godson of a Yellow Immortal lead the way. Joined over time by twenty-four more people with extraordinary abilities, they form an organization in Republican-era China dedicated to dealing with supernatural incidents. 4.4kReads9.2Score609Shelves
- 65 Notes on Strange Folk Tales 民间诡事札记 The countryside hides the strangest legends and lays bare the truest depths of the human heart. A single red embroidered shoe beneath an old pagoda tree holds a grievance and a hatred left unspoken. A strange peddler knocking at the door in the dead of night carries no ordinary goods in his pack, only old stories frosted over with time. A bronze mirror rising from an ancient well can reflect ghosts, but not the depths of the human heart... These curious tales scattered across bustling streets an 66Reads—Score—Shelves
- 66 749 Special Incident Investigation Bureau 749特殊事件调查局 [Based on real experiences. Just listen for fun, and I hope you enjoy it.] [No superpowers + first person + in the style of Strange Tales from the Ministry of Culture. If you like Strange Tales from the Ministry of Culture, jump right in.] At last, I have the chance to write a story about this mysterious department. I don't know how many people have heard of Bureau 749, let alone how many know anything about it, but Bureau 749 has always been shrouded in mystery. Its full name is the Bureau of S 7.2kReads7.5Score476Shelves
- 67 At Bureau 749: I Slay Everything with a Nuo Mask 人在749局：我以傩面杀穿一切 [Decisive and Ruthless + Supernatural Resurgence + Plenty to Read] A bloody urban legend at Cangnan University tears a hole in Yin Hong’s peaceful life. The red sandalwood Nuo mask his parents left behind before disappearing turns out to be a forbidden object connected to the ancient Nether Ruins. As the bronze pattern of a glaring face and bristling beard creeps across his skin, he hears countless shamans chanting war songs inside his skull, while the golden-red blood surging through his veins 5.4kReads7.3Score625Shelves
- 68 The Strange Realm Archives 诡域档案 Six years ago, Comrade Peng Gang, an outstanding investigator in the Ministry of State Security of Huaxia and deputy director of the Seventh Bureau, met a strange death while on a mission. Six years later, several investigators go missing one after another. The case they were investigating is deeply strange and has countless connections to the case from six years ago. In response, the mysterious investigation team, Fifth Bureau, Ninth Division, begins looking into a series of cases in the realm 332Reads9.1Score—Shelves
- 69 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—Shelves
- 70 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... 719Reads8.8Score102Shelves
- 71 From the Start, I Became a Ghost Emperor and Turned Myself In to the Nation! 开局成鬼帝，我把自己上交国家！ [The supernatural descends + No System + A national strategic asset + No heroine + Invincible!] What do you do when you transmigrate to a world where the supernatural has descended and discover that you’ve become a ghost? Most people would probably hide, terrified that the authorities might hunt them down! But Jiang Ge has other ideas! As soon as he realizes he’s become a ghost, he turns himself in to the government without hesitation! If I surrender quickly enough, no one can lay a hand on me! —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 72 A Collection of Folk Ghost Stories 民间鬼怪故事合集 The faint of heart should stay away. This collection of ghost stories is all based on things I’ve seen and heard myself. Ghosts and monsters really do exist in this world. Call it superstition, or call it mysteries science has yet to explain. (Better to believe they exist than to assume they don’t.) 94Reads—Score104Shelves
- 73 Chronicles of the Supernatural 异灵实录 At three in the morning, check the list of the dead; let the ferryman guide your soul. Chinese horror stories, spirit-summoning, death notes. Some things can be explained, while other feelings defy description. A terror that makes you shudder as you think it over rises from the depths of your heart. After reading these 99 stories, you'll find yourself questioning your own life. There's a rumor that you should never stay in the last room on the ground floor of a hotel. The author once traveled ou 24Reads9.2Score—Shelves
- 74 The Enigmatic Files 迷离档案 A psychologist skilled in behavioral analysis is drawn into a series of bizarre murders. Each case seems connected to him. This is a battle of wits, strange and uncanny... But when he finally gets close to the truth, he discovers that everything conceals a shocking mystery. (This story is entirely fictional. Any resemblance to real people or events is purely coincidental.) 825Reads9.0Score107Shelves
- 75 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 4.4kReads8.4Score232Shelves
- 76 Bureau of Anomalous Biology Investigations 异常生物调查局 The day after my grandpa died, everyone in town showed up… 528Reads8.2Score102Shelves
- 77 The White-Haired Swordsman: The 749 Bureau's Secret Chronicle of the Nine Provinces 白发执剑人749局秘藏九州录 Synopsis "With white hair as my offering, I wield my sword to protect five thousand years of Chinese civilization!" In 2023, Xu Kun, a genius from Qingbei, is forced to awaken. He is the last heir to the bloodline of the Yellow Emperor. His hair turns white strand by strand, and in his hand is a broken fragment of the Xuanyuan Sword, capable of slaying gods and demons. Secret files from Bureau 749 record: A curse left by Xu Fu has surfaced beneath the Yellow River in Zhengzhou. Cutting off th 2Reads—Score—Shelves
- 78 Memoirs of the Kunlun Mountains, 1978 1978年昆仑山回忆录 In the autumn of 1978, Professor Zhang Wenli and his party arrived from Beijing in Yingdudaban to carry out a routine site survey lasting fifteen days. As a local assistant, I was honored to work alongside the professors from Beijing. But this ordinary survey was soon plagued by one unexpected incident after another... 5.2kReads8.8Score425Shelves
- 79 A Freshman at College, and I’m Already Eating Monsters at 749 刚大一的我，在749吃妖怪 [Ruthless] [Monsters are so delicious] [Let’s take a bite first] “The blind fortune-teller said I’m doomed to be a lone star, bringing bad luck to anyone I get close to? Bah! That’s only because I haven’t eaten my fill!” Lin Chou isn’t a transmigrator, but he got stuck with a transmigrator’s hellish starting scenario. While others fought for their lives against ghosts, he drooled over them. “Mmm, this wailing blood jade is crunchy, with a hint of chicken! That grudge amalgamation tastes like cha 5.4kReads7.5Score345Shelves
- 80 Paranormal Livestream: Post Your Fears in the Chat 灵异直播：把害怕打在公屏上 Radio host Zhang Yang wakes up to find that he has transmigrated to Blue Star, where ghost stories are in short supply. Bound to the Supernatural Master System, he collects Fear Points to exchange for special items! The Haunted Pen. The Midnight Ringing. Corpse Driving in Western Hunan. The Yellow-Skinned Weasel... Endless horror stories harvest his listeners’ Fear Points! 524Reads6.0Score—Shelves
- 81 The Nether God Never Returns: Learning Soul-Calming with the Gods 冥神不归：带着神明学镇魂 [Urban Imagination + Supernatural Ghost Control + Passionate Ensemble Cast + Extreme Twists] My childhood friend disappeared for four days. When he appeared again, he had become a monster that devoured people. And inside me, an ancient Nether God who had watched over the Three Realms awakened. As the supernatural returned and the dead beyond the city entered the underworld, I was dragged into a game of gods and mortals. The Soul-Suppressing Bureau's Thirteenth Squad? They are the line of defense 57Reads—Score—Shelves
- 82 Unemployed Right After Graduation? The 749th Bureau Recruited Me at My Door 毕业即失业？我被749上门征召 [Transmigration] [No Female Lead] [Decisive and Ruthless] [Upright Values] If you don't like it, don't read. After transmigrating to the parallel world of the Great Xia Kingdom, Qin Yi's golden finger turns out to be a cookbook. This cookbook is strange: its main ingredients all come from supernatural creatures, and eating them makes Qin Yi's strength improve by leaps and bounds. [Raw Hound-Wolf Loin: Gain the spell Wolf Charge after eating. Turn qi into a wolf, and sweep all before you.] [Charc 4.9kReads7.6Score360Shelves
- 83 The Paper Effigy Shopkeeper Is Not to Be Messed With 纸扎铺老板不好惹 [A So-Lazy-He’d-Die Bottom (Sheng Qing) × A Green-Tea, Jealous Hades Top (Yan Nanque)] [Two Male Leads + Both Powerful + Fantasy Ghost-Hunting + Sweet Romance] Three thousand years ago, Sheng Qing was a human-world guardian deity who wanted for nothing. Three thousand years later, to make ends meet, he had no choice but to drag his long-neglected, badly atrophied body to open a paper-offering shop near a graveyard in Jingcheng. On the shop’s opening day, restless spirits took turns showing up. T 18Reads6.7Score—Shelves
- 84 Department of Paranormal Investigations II 神秘事件调查处【贰】 The X-Files Investigation Bureau, Part Two “That's a dragon!” “No, there are no dragons. That's a kite, that's a black plastic bag, that's a bird soaring through a storm. You've read Haiyan, haven't you? Exactly.” In 1968, our country established Institute 507, whose full name was the Institute of Space Medicine and Engineering. Later, as more and more supernatural events were discovered, the institute began handling certain cases. In September 1974, some departments of Institute 507 were split 6.4kReads8.8Score577Shelves
- 85 True Tales of Ghost Encounters: Paranormal Files 撞鬼实录之灵异档案 Li Yuanfeng was born with unusual eyes and ears. It was those eyes that helped him solve one bizarre case after another... One shocking tragedy after another, desperate screams for help, a terrifying game at a university in the dead of night... A man embedded in a wall... A child used as a sacrifice... The secrets of an ancient, haunted house... What are the voices from the well trying to tell us?... How can severed limbs be pieced back together?... A pair of eyes that can see through every cycl 326Reads8.8Score103Shelves
- 86 Working for State Security, I Can Scan for Spies 人在国安，我能扫描间谍 With graduation just around the corner, Jiang Cheng was looking for a job when he was assigned to attend a special recruitment interview. Only after answering a series of questions did he learn that the Ministry of State Security had its eye on him. At the same time, Jiang Cheng uncovered the mystery of his own background. To discover the truth behind the 303 military-industrial espionage case, Jiang Cheng joined the Ministry of State Security, activated a scanner map, and set out to capture spi 378Reads7.9Score169Shelves
- 87 The Dark Night Draws Near 暗夜将至 When a person's soul grows powerful enough, it can give rise to an ability almost like that of a god. Hidden in our world is a group of people who possess this extraordinary power. The story I'm about to tell you is about one of them. This book updates three chapters on odd-numbered days and two on even-numbered days. I'll try my best not to take any days off... 3.8kReads9.1Score592Shelves
- 88 749: No Joke, the Intern Is Cultivating Immortality 749：没开玩笑，实习生修仙的 In the height of summer in August, thunder rumbled again and again despite clear skies in a mountainous region in the south. Then two mysterious men arrived at the foot of the mountain, sent from the capital to deal with a centipede spirit about to undergo its tribulation. Just as their mission hit a snag, a young man came down from the mountain. He raised a hand and killed a two-meter-long centipede, then took out the Wind-Calming Pearl on the spot. The incident caused quite a stir at Bureau 74 15.5kReads7.4Score1.4kShelves
- 89 Legend of the Investiture of the Gods: Summoning Heroes Across the Ages 封神传奇，召唤万古英烈 (No harem, no formulaic plot, no invincibility, no System, no stupidity, and not a power fantasy. Read with caution if these bother you.) When chaos first divided, Pangu came before the Three Pure Ones; the Taiji, Two Forms, and Four Images hung in the heavens. The first year was Zi, the second Chou, and humanity appeared in Yin; the wise Youchao saved us from the beasts. Suiren found fire, so we no longer ate raw food; Fuxi drew the trigrams before yin and yang. Shennong brought order to the 13Reads—Score—Shelves
- 90 AMA: The Archivist AMA：归档者 That year, the gods of this world abandoned humanity. 1968, Spring Offensive: AMA-YN-001 appears in East Asia. 2001, within the Federation: AMA-US-012 appears in Seattle. 2010, Rocky Mountains: AMA-US-117 appears in the mountains. 2021, 1989, … Outsiders invade, anomalies awaken, memetic contamination spreads, zombies besiege cities, ancient gods’ remains surface, and impostors infiltrate. The only thing standing between them and humanity is the AMA (Anomaly Management Agency), and the archivi 39Reads—Score—Shelves
- 91 A Strange Tale Every Night 夜夜都有诡故事 [Extreme Supernatural Horror] [Ghosts, Fox Spirits, and Other Strange Creatures] [Not for Women] [Not for the Fainthearted] Based on personal experience and real events. The occult is science we have yet to touch; science is the occult we have already mastered. 22Reads—Score—Shelves
- 92 Are All Those Powerful Figures Who Died Actually Me? 那些死去的大佬都是我？ After transmigrating to a mysterious and dangerous otherworld, Gu Li discovers that he can die and be reborn over and over. Every death is the start of a new life. The more people he saves and touches in his lifetime, the greater his rewards! Forbidden knowledge? Cults? Plagues and disasters? Forbidden zones? Eldritch evil gods? Gu Li is ecstatic. How could he pass up a chance to get himself killed? Bring it on! He was once the savior of Saltwind City. He was once the protector of the Great Xia 681Reads9.1Score103Shelves
- 93 The Dream of the True Page Tao: A World Made Real from Illusions 真页道之梦化虚界 The supernatural returns, alongside alchemical arts, thunder magic, talismans, the 749 Bureau, and battles between Chinese and foreign practitioners. This is a secret chronicle of cultivation, ghost slaying, demon-smiting, and god-killing. Mysteries are gradually awakening. Where do ghosts, monsters, spirits, and demons come from? Immortals have attained the Dao, but the gods are hard to summon. The world is mired in desire. How can anyone cross over to safety? With the power of the Dream Realm, 227Reads8.0Score100Shelves
- 94 Hunting Evil Spirits 猎祟 [Superpowers]+ [Organization] Office worker Tu Yile accidentally awakened superpowers and, through a twist of fate, joined the special operations unit of the “Relevant Departments.” Teaming up with the experienced Long Sihai, he wields true fire to vanquish evil and restore peace to the world! 187Reads7.5Score—Shelves
- 95 Strange Tales from the Bureau: The Final Chapter 民调局异闻录之最终篇章 A strange past, a mysterious department, an eccentric white-haired man, and a fat man who can see through everything: the final chapter in the history of the Folk Affairs Investigation and Research Bureau. 16.6kReads9.3Score1.8kShelves
- 96 After I Dumped My Jerk Ex, a Powerful Figure from the Underworld Set Their Sights on Me 和渣男分手后，冥界大佬盯上我 Two male leads + mystery and the supernatural + solving cases + powerful leads + satisfying revenge The sweet young love of college couldn't withstand reality. For the sake of a bright future, his boyfriend cheated on him and left without hesitation. Think he's just a college student working a part-time job? That's only because you haven't seen him at night, transformed into the director of the Special Events Investigation Bureau, judging yin and yang, deciding life and death, fighting evil spir —Reads—Score—Shelves
- 97 Tales of the Supernatural 灵异怪谈 Yin-yang masters are fated to suffer the Five Evils and Three Deficiencies. Is there any way to escape their fate? A life-and-death romance with a bloodthirsty vampire zombie! After desperately searching for the Strange Records of Yin and Yang, he discovers it is all part of an even bigger conspiracy! The Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang, bloodthirsty vampire zombies, an inn in the underworld, an ancient Warring States tomb, and the Strange Records of Yin and Yang all feature in Strange Tales of the S 1.6kReads8.8Score139Shelves
- 98 Supernatural Revival: I'm the Only One Who Knows the Plot 灵异复苏：只有我知道剧情 Chen Mu transmigrated into a parallel world where the supernatural was resurging. Terrifying ghosts were everywhere, posing a grave threat to humanity. Humanity's only way to fight back against the resurrected ghosts was to enter the mysterious Tower of Reincarnation. Clear its various instances and earn System rewards, growing stronger in the process! After entering the Tower of Reincarnation, which others described as mysterious and perilous at every turn, Chen Mu discovered something. Mr. Vam 985Reads7.3Score—Shelves
- 99 60 Chilling Stories from Real Life 来自现实的60个惊悚故事 (Purely written by hand, not AI) Schemes! Poisoning! Possession! Framing... evil spirits! Returning from the dead! Ghosts! Curses... Terrifying and chilling stories based on real events, showing you the things that lurk in the dark world! Every story is a horror short drama! 21.3kReads8.9Score2kShelves
- 100 Tales from the Civil Affairs Bureau: The Sequel 民调局异闻录后传 Twenty-six years ago, when I was born, someone told my fortune and said my fate was tainted by ill luck. So my grandfather gave me a name meant to ward it off: Shen La. Twenty years ago, when I was six, I innocently saw a friend from that other world. Four years ago, when I was still a special forces soldier, I took part in a bizarre incident. Fate led me to an organization called the Bureau of Folk Affairs Investigation and Research, where I became an investigator. From that day on, my nightmar 1kReads9.4Score—Shelves
