Scientific Guide to Exorcism: Records of Strange Cases in the Republic of China

In the troubled times of the Republic of China, strange things happened frequently. Family members were wiped out at the wedding banquet, people borrowed their lives from the green lantern, corpse poison spread, patients disappeared, weird wedding dates... Everyone said it was the work of ghosts and gods. And Lu Yanzhi never believed in ghosts. After returning from studying abroad, he is the youngest forensic doctor in Jiangbei City and the only successor of Taixuan Guan. While others were busy burning incense to pray to gods, he carried the autopsy box into the murder scene, used body spots to determine the time of death, used bones to find the truth, and used dissection to overturn one "haunted" rumor after another. In his eyes, most ghosts in the world are just human hearts. Until a bronze life-saving lamp that should not have burned, a mysterious photo spanning twenty years, and an old case from the Republic of China that was deliberately buried, made him discover that there are some truths that cannot be explained immediately by science. Reporter Xu Qinghe believes in the truth, patrolman Shen Yunchuan believes in his brothers, master Lu Xuanzhen believes in Tao, and Lu Yanzhi only believes in evidence. When forensic medicine meets Taoism, when science meets metaphysics, and when bizarre cases gradually point to the Wuxiang Sect, a mysterious organization that has been hidden for decades, Lu Yanzhi has to rethink what his father once said: "Science is responsible for finding answers, and Taoism is responsible for facing the unknown. The truly scary thing is never the ghost, but the person who borrows the name of the ghost." This is a story about forensic science using science to solve crimes, using Taoism to suppress evil, and gradually uncovering the truth in the fog of the Republic of China.