Records of the Urban Pest Remnants

Beneath the glossy surface of towering buildings lies a hollowed-out interior.

By chance, Lu Yin gains the ability to see the "city’s rot holes."

The "rule residues" and "anomalous debris" forgotten by common sense, eroded by time, and hidden in the folds of everyday life appear nowhere else but before his eyes.

A passenger that should not exist on the last bus, a hollow ring sounding on schedule in an old apartment, an invisible shadow feeding on emotions, puddles reflecting fragments of the past, corners that operate according to bizarre logic... These are not ghost stories, but the "rotting remnants" produced by the city’s metabolism—bugs generated by the workings of rules, sediment left behind by collective emotions, bones history failed to fully digest, and debris that modernity’s light could not illuminate.

With a similarly battered Family Heirloom Rotting Record and a pair of increasingly clear eyes, Lu Yin becomes both a scavenger and recorder of the city’s dark fragments.

What he must do:

Fish out drowned electronic ghosts from the data stream;

Negotiate with the faint "earth spirits" that guard abandoned places;

Interpret the lingering obsessions attached to objects;

Protect his own sense of self from conceptual erosion.

There is no savior, only a forced witness walking carefully along the edge of the cracks, trying to understand and occasionally clear away these "rotting holes" so they do not quietly expand until they swallow everything.

In the corners that neon lights cannot reach,

he salvages the missing pieces and struggles to keep things together.