Vol. 1Cases Beneath the Red Moon

Li Wei solved a series of supernatural cases, from murders and haunted places to the Baskerville family curse, while earning new powers and allies. After returning to Fog City, he left Ovelia investigating the Luddites and planning to mechanize her family’s fields.

  • Li Wei helped defeat Amelia and exposed Doctor Dolittle’s resurrection ritual behind the Courtesan Killer case.
  • Li Wei and Katie found a blood-draining killer, and an old man ordered Li Wei to find the culprit and protect Katie.
  • Li Wei exposed Betty and Maggie as vampires and destroyed the force controlling the House of Death.
  • Li Wei escaped the house with his team, bought Crimson Temptation, and began planning a customized steam car with Hank.
  • Li Wei and Katie defeated the Ghost Knight at the Red Moon Inn and uncovered Bishop Raphael’s occult connection to the earlier cases.
  • Li Wei and Katie destroyed the Imperial Bridge’s red cores, exposing the buried children’s skulls and allowing the Queen’s warship to cross safely.
  • Li Wei uncovered the Baskerville family’s werewolf curse and defeated the ancestor who had murdered relatives to seize leadership.
  • Li Wei recovered the Emerald Heart and returned to Fog City after Ovelia began investigating the Luddites and planning to mechanize the family’s fields.
Chapters 1–102 Read from ch. 1

Arc 1The Shadow Beneath the Chapel

Li Wei solved the Courtesan Killer case and followed its supernatural aftermath through Lady Claytie’s death, an underground chapel, and a new blood-draining murder. The arc ended with Li Wei and Katie confronting a zombie as masked soldiers arrived and an old man ordered Li Wei to find the culprit.

  • Li Wei joined Inspector Lestrade’s investigation into the Courtesan Killer and traced the killer’s claw-marked footprints toward the Lower City.
  • Li Wei questioned courtesans and witnesses, uncovered Doctor Dolittle’s hidden operating room, and learned that he had turned Amelia into a monster through a resurrection ritual.
  • Li Wei and Katie helped defeat Amelia after Doctor Dolittle confessed to killing courtesans for the ritual, and Li Wei received a police consultant offer and new system skills.
  • Li Wei followed a black thread from Doctor Dolittle’s coffin to Lady Claytie, then saw a curse kill her at the Glorious Club and rescued her body from the burning room.
  • Li Wei and Katie found a hidden chapel beneath the Pink Lady and discovered an All-Seeing Eye carved into its throne, while Li Wei later experienced a dreamlike encounter beneath a red moon.
  • After Edwards was found bloodless at the Royal Academy of Medicine, Li Wei questioned witnesses and suspected a mysterious woman whose appearance they could not remember.
  • Li Wei and Katie followed a blood trail through the police station and found a man eating a corpse, then watched masked soldiers destroy the zombie.
  • An old man ordered Li Wei to find and erase the culprit and asked him to look after Katie.
Chapters 1–25 Summaries Read

Arc 2The House of Death

Li Wei exposed Betty and Maggie as vampires, then joined Military Intelligence Section Seven and led a team into the House of Death. After destroying the force controlling the house, he claimed Crimson Temptation and began preparing to build a customized steam car.

  • Li Wei investigated Edwards’s death and Rogers Blanco’s murder, then discovered that Betty and Maggie were vampires and helped destroy their batlike monster.
  • Li Wei joined Military Intelligence Section Seven, received specialized weapons, and helped launch The Explorer to monitor reports of strange incidents.
  • Li Wei and Katie investigated the House of Death, where an old woman’s account and a series of doll-like apparitions revealed the Lancaster family’s disappearances.
  • Li Wei entered the house with Katie, Anthony, Henry, and Elizabeth, but the house separated them and trapped each in a scene drawn from the past.
  • Li Wei and his companions fought Henry’s possession, armed soldier-Dolls, and the boy’s scarlet threads before Li Wei shattered the giant doll controlling them.
  • Li Wei and his team escaped the house, and he bought Crimson Temptation at Moonlight Splendor, fulfilling an additional condition.
  • Li Wei unlocked Puppeteer and asked Erin to take him to her uncle Hank’s steam mechanics factory.
  • Li Wei designed a streamlined supercar, and Hank agreed to build it and prepare Li Wei’s requested equipment.
Chapters 26–50 Summaries Read

Arc 3The Imperial Bridge Case

Li Wei investigated the Red Moon Inn’s haunting, uncovered Bishop Raphael’s connection to a series of occult cases, and stopped a supernatural threat to the Imperial Bridge. The bridge’s hidden remains were exposed, its danger was defeated, and the Queen’s warship crossed safely.

  • Li Wei and Inspector Lestrade discovered that Lancaster Manor had become the Red Moon Inn, where a séance led to the manager’s death and Alice’s disappearance.
  • Li Wei found Alice in an underground temple and defeated the Ghost Knight possessing her, while the Ring absorbed the red force binding the girl.
  • Li Wei earned rewards for the case, then learned that inn manager Alexander Bratton had supposedly died years earlier and investigated his empty grave with his companions.
  • Li Wei and Katie entered the Holy Lord Church’s catacombs and found Bishop Raphael leading a ritual around a model of the Imperial Bridge, linking him to the earlier cases.
  • The Royal Guard tried to arrest Raphael, but he transformed clergy into Feather Monsters before Li Wei set the church ablaze with incendiary rounds.
  • Li Wei realized a children’s game foretold the Imperial Bridge’s collapse and took Katie beneath it for a rehearsal, where the decks fell and swept them into a supernatural version of the bridge.
  • Li Wei and Katie fought animated towers and objects, destroyed the red cores, and exposed the buried skulls of children inside the bridge walls.
  • Li Wei learned the Church’s priests had hidden the skulls there, collected his mission rewards, and watched the Queen’s warship cross the Imperial Bridge safely.
Chapters 51–76 Summaries Read

Arc 4The Baskerville Curse

Li Wei investigated the disappearances of the Baskerville family heads, uncovering a werewolf curse, a hidden history of murder, and a plot linked to Luddites. He left Ovelia with the family’s secrets exposed and her plans for agricultural mechanization underway, then returned to Fog City.

  • Li Wei invested in Uncle Hank’s steam-car company, then accepted the queen’s order to investigate the Baskerville family heads’ disappearances and protect their heir.
  • On his way to Delicat, Li Wei picked up Little Red Riding Hood and investigated a string of killings in Wolfhead Village, where she revealed herself as a werewolf seeking revenge.
  • Li Wei found the Baskerville crest in the Wolf God’s cave and connected the village’s werewolves to the missing family heads.
  • At the Baskerville estate, Li Wei worked with Ovelia to uncover a family history of female leaders, murdered girls, a hidden study, and an Emerald Heart necklace.
  • A pack of wolves attacked the manor, and Ovelia’s missing father abducted her before Li Wei pursued them into the forest.
  • Ovelia’s great-grandfather admitted to murdering relatives to seize the family leadership, while Li Wei fought him and recovered the Emerald Heart.
  • Ovelia’s necklace summoned a Three-Headed Hound that killed Old Sir Baskerville, and his diary revealed how he had spread the curse and turned family members into werewolves.
  • Li Wei completed the investigation, received his system rewards and ten thousand pounds from Ovelia, and returned to Fog City as she began investigating the Luddites and planned to mechanize the family’s fields.
Chapters 77–102 Summaries Read
Volume 1 of 8