A Mysterious and Bizarre Serial Murder Case

Autumn 1987, Binhai Old Town. Private detective Yan Mingzhi was hired to investigate a case of a missing teenager. All that was left at the scene were torn clothes, inhuman claw marks, and a wall covered with strange symbols. The police classified this as a serial case, but kept secret about many "paranormal" evidences. Yan Mingzhi originally believed that everything could be explained logically, but during in-depth investigation, he witnessed the "thing" in a dark alley - a tall, pale shadow with strange proportions. What followed was more eyewitness testimony: a low roar like metal friction, cold and hard black scales, and warnings about "underground anomalies" in dusty archives from the 1960s. When the police and a mysterious armed team raided an abandoned machinery factory late at night, Yan Mingzhi lurked on the side and witnessed a horror beyond imagination: a monster covered in carapace and with scythe claws carried out a bloody massacre in the moonlight. When he was cornered, a mysterious man wearing a trench coat and holding a long knife fell from the sky. This knife cut open not only the body of the monster, but also the appearance of the world that Yan Mingzhi knew well. The truth was far darker than he imagined.