A Collection of Weird Stories About Jang Yi-Kyung

My name is Zhang Yijing. I was originally a horror cartoonist. I was so poor that I owed two months of rent. Until my old classmate Tian Yusheng handed me a part-time job: I would go to various places to collect strange things and write a report. One investigation fee was worth several months of my manuscript fee. "You eat two fish with one fish." He said, "You collect the materials and draw comics at the same time, and you can also write a report on strange things to earn investigation fees." I signed a contract and became an investigator for the "Domestic Oddity Supervision Association." In a farm in the Northeast, a pair of new rubber shoes was buried in the soil at the beginning of spring, with the work ID of the missing person stuffed in the shoe hole. Behind the bamboo curtain in Meixi, Zhejiang, a thin figure stands. At the back wall of Wanbei Cooperative, the sound of abacus beads sounded in the middle of the night... The spring equinox egg that cannot stand, the fingernail marks scratching the inner wall of the coffin, the red-veined tea tree that grew up by drinking the blood of living creatures, the water ghost boat passengers who got on the boat at the Yangtze River ferry, the kiln owner who burned living creatures as sacrifices to the kiln and finally fired himself into porcelain, the footsteps climbing up layer by layer at the bottom of the well... It was only a long time later that I realized that these came at a price. Every time I investigated a strange thing, my body became weaker and my spirit became closer to collapse. I suffered from insomnia, visual hallucinations, and auditory hallucinations. It became increasingly difficult for me to distinguish which ones were strange legends and which ones were unknown entities from the dark side of this world... I have to put them into a collection before it's too late. Because maybe one day, this collection of strange things can prove that I have indeed peeked into the truth behind the world... ——The true collecting notes of Zhang Yijing, a horror cartoonist and strange incident investigator.