Strange Stories From A Chinese Studio.

Summary

In Licheng County, two officers returned from their duties and met two individuals claiming to be ghostly officers of the city god. They revealed they were delivering a document about a catastrophic event in Ji Nan, predicting nearly a million deaths on the first day of the new year. Alarmed, the officers realized they would be caught in this disaster. The ghostly officers advised them to avoid returning, emphasizing the severity of the calamity over the minor penalties for missing their deadline. The officers followed this advice and escaped the massacre that ensued when northern troops invaded Ji Nan, leaving a million corpses behind.

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