Clear lake water swallowed the ruined city of Han City after the earthquake. Under the control of some invisible force, it defied the natural law that water flowed downhill. Whenever it struck the air, it fell back and rose again, slowly forming a lake surrounded by air on every side.
Beneath the shimmering water, buildings constructed with human technology changed before the eye. After only minutes underwater, these feats of engineering looked as though they had lain there for hundreds of thousands of years, coated in green slime.
If one ignored the hideous monsters swimming through the water and the Evil God at its center, receiving offerings from his favored followers, this half-suspended underwater ruin was a beautiful sight: the ninth wonder of the human world.
But neither the Universe Country Person nor people from any other nation wanted this "ninth wonder" to exist. They would have gladly wiped out both the wonder and the god who had made it with a Nuclear Bomb.
The Huaxia Office for the Administration of Mysterious Forces.
Huaxia had established this department after the Supernatural first appeared, to investigate and manage Mystic Power. To prepare for the upheaval that might come, it had transferred a great many elite personnel there, from religious and historical experts to agents and special forces soldiers. The department covered just about everything. Put another way, it could handle all manner of emergencies.
Embarrassingly, few supernatural incidents had occurred in Huaxia since its founding. Nearly every incident involving mysterious gods had happened abroad. When gods occasionally appeared to protect them, the department had no idea where to begin. The three essentials of Detection—evidence, circumstances, and motive—were all left to wild speculation.
As for the remaining incidents suspected of supernatural interference, they either turned out to be cases where the people