A Survival Guide to Handling the Strange

[General Rule One: Ghosts cannot be killed.] [General Rule Two: Conventional weapons cannot inflict any real damage on them.] [General Rule Three: There are only three ways to survive an encounter with a ghost: evade its rules, escape its range, or use a “cursed object” to suppress it for a short time.] The ninth year since Wuchuan City fell. The entire city has become a vast vessel of malice. The noose in an unfinished high-rise, the last bus running empty on a stormy night, the bloated corpses floating in the sewers... Every place where resentment gathers becomes an “anomaly.” When anomalies build up beyond their limit, they resonate and become a “calamity” that devours everything. Lu Xun, third cleaner at the Anomaly Management Bureau. Wearing a low-grade cursed object that gnaws at the flesh, he walks the brink of sudden death across the city. He believes in no salvation and hopes for no miracles. He only wants to... survive in the narrow gap of a dead-end situation.