A Thousand Ants Devour the Manor

**A contract worth a fortune, a manor no one has taken over in thirty years, and a strange loop designated P-Φ-03.**

Gu Shen, a PhD in entomology, has been "exiled by the academic world." He once studied a parasitic wasp that should not exist, and the academic committee sealed away his research paper. After six months unemployed, he receives a contract paying two hundred thousand yuan a month to move into an old manor deep in the mountains, covering three mu, and serve as its "caretaker."

The employer communicates only through a lawyer. There is just one rule: **No matter what you hear at night, do not open the door.**

Gu Shen assumes it is some kind of local custom.