Part 1

BOOK 8. Zhao Yunlan is a detective in a newly formed department dealing with strange crimes, but there are only three detectives and they don't have an office. Chu and Daqing work for Yunlan but their loyalty is to Black Robe who agreed to live here and police his own people who came willingly, or were stranded on this side of the gateway when it closed. The new department was his decision. The story follows the death threats to shut down the department by killing Yunlan or anyone else around him.