Chapter 8: The Tomb Below the Temple H1: The Thing at the Door Through the gloom, the figure at the temple entrance resolved into something utterly nightmarish. It wasn’t a person. It was an empty… 

Chapter 7: The Drowned Temple H1: The Rendezvous It was past nine when I got back to the city. The taxi dropped me at our rendezvous point, a quiet industrial park on the outskirts, and… 

Chapter 6: Below the Riverbed H1: The Ghost of the Yangtze The air back home still tasted of green things and damp earth. Walking the muddy path through the fields, I was flooded with memories… 

Chapter 5: The Wyrm-Slayer of Yixing H1: The Serpent’s Pearl “Smell like one of them?” I repeated, grabbing the collar of my shirt and sniffing it. Nothing. Just the faint scent of soap and the… 

Chapter 4: The Secret of the Great Flood of ’98 H1: A Prophecy in the Static The Great Flood of ‘98 was a wound on the soul of the nation. I remember it vividly. We… 

Chapter 3: The Sichuan Revenant Panic of ‘95 (Part Three) H1: The River of Fog and Fire The rumors outside the base walls intensified, spreading like a contagion. Meanwhile, the pressure from the top was… 

Chapter 2: The Sichuan Revenant Panic of ‘95 (Part Two) H1: A Dream of Dead Eyes Sleep refused to come that night. I lay in the dark, my ears straining for the rumble of trucks… 

Chapter 1: The Sichuan Revenant Panic of ‘95 (Part One) – Revised H1: The Ghosts of Memory and the Weight of Silence Before I put these words to paper, I locked myself in my study…