Urban Remnants: Strange Cases of the Anomaly Bureau

In the thirty-seventh year of the spiritual energy revival, beneath the city, the eerie is awakening. Only a few know that what has revived is not just spiritual energy, but also the evil spirits buried deep in history. They hunt the living according to fixed rules, and ordinary thermal weapons and martial arts strength mostly cannot truly obliterate them. Seventeen-year-old Chen Yan is an ordinary senior high school student at a key municipal school. At the scene of a bizarre family massacre, he accidentally awakens his supernatural ability [Remnants]. By touching the belongings of the dead, he can briefly see fragments of their memories from the last period before death. This is an investigative ability not suited for combat. It has no earth-shattering power, only the ability to uncover the hidden eerie truth behind murder cases. A series of serial bizarre cases follow one after another, and supernatural events disguised as murder cases surge in the undercurrents of the city. Chen Yan moves between the criminal investigation brigade and a special agency that deals with supernatural events, solving bizarre cases while exploring the killing rules of the revived evil spirits. He has seen people devoured by mirrors, heard footsteps in the corridor that only sound at midnight, and witnessed terrifying scenes of the dead repeatedly reenacting their moments of death. With remnants as his eyes and reason as his blade, the youth investigates the source of the revived entities in the shadows of the bustling city. When all cases are connected, he realizes that this revival is no longer merely ghosts and monsters causing trouble, but ancient beings returning to the human world. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Urban Remnants: Strange Cases of the Anomaly Bureau — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠