Night-Shift Veteran: Subduing Evil in Xuandu

The mall isn't a mall. It's a wealth-gathering formation. The security guards aren't security guards. They're wardens against evil spirits. When capital starts devouring people, ghosts are cleaner than humans. For demobilized soldier Qin Yuan, the night shift begins when he sees the first person who has fallen to their death, ruled a suicide. The mall is haunted, but its books are filthier than its ghosts. Every inch of its geomantic energy has been arranged into a formation: the Inverted Seven Stars, the Sky Veil, the Eight Gates Locking Souls. The formation's eye isn't a magical artifact, but people: shopkeepers, foremen, customers, even the mall's own CFO, all driven to their deaths by “legal” means. Their souls are siphoned into the great formation, bringing the mall its most prosperous fortune. A feng shui master lays the formation, while the capitalists circle in to make a killing. Capital increases and dilution, betting agreements, entrusted management, sale-and-leaseback schemes, malicious bankruptcies: how many people have died thinking it was simply their bad luck? By day, Qin Yuan and his companions investigate the accounts; by night, they suppress the evil spirits. They'll make the mall pay back what it owes, one debt at a time. Understand these tricks, and you won't become the next victim.