The City's Ashes Calibrator

Beneath the bustling city lie layers of hidden ailments. Hollow foundations, hidden defects in utility networks, ecological imbalances, loopholes in regulations: these hazards, concealed by reports and tacitly accepted by standards, slowly gnaw away at everyone's lives.

Lu Chen is a calibrator who operates at the fringes of the system. He seeks no earth-shattering supernatural powers. Armed only with instruments, case files, and data, he tears open the polished facade to expose the hidden wounds beneath. From structural hazards in residential buildings and underground cavities to contaminated water supplies, urban heat islands, geomagnetic disturbances, and the ecological depletion of the land, every long-standing affliction affecting ordinary people is something he must calibrate.

The forces he fights are never demons, but inertia, chains of vested interests, and barriers of silence. Again and again, he gathers evidence, confronts those responsible, and files reports. With an ordinary human body, he fights to secure the safe living space ordinary people deserve. As the city's ailments spread across the whole land, and even into the boundless starry realms, his path of calibration leads from one city to the vast heavens.

He uncovers layer upon layer of dark secrets and witnesses the hypocrisy and cruelty of civilization's order. In the end, he chooses to sacrifice himself for the Dao, burning away his own source to ensure the lasting survival of humanity among all races through his sacrifice alone.