✨ Qinglan City: City of Mist and Legends ✨
Qinglan City is perpetually shrouded in an unshakeable white mist. The basin presses the city into a three-dimensional maze, where the first floor is a road, and the tenth floor is also a road. Cable cars and stairs appear and disappear in the fog. Humans and yokai share the same city, mostly pretending not to see each other. 🌫️🏙️
📍 Phantom Core Technology Park
The new district's big data center, rumored to have its buildings arranged in a feng shui spirit-gathering formation. Engineers often hear footsteps that shouldn't exist late at night. 👣💻
📍 Qinglan Radio and Television Tower
The city's tallest landmark, its summit piercing the clouds. Late-night radio frequencies occasionally pick up whispers from the "Other Shore." 📻☁️
📍 Thousand Steps Old Street
Bluestone steps winding up the mountain, lined with red lanterns that never extinguish. Strange snacks are sold here, rumored to change one's luck. 🏮🍡
📍 Floating Island Commercial District
A maze-like shopping mall connected by skybridges. On foggy days, an extra, non-existent "Thirteenth Floor" appears. 🛍️👻
📍 Forget Worry Teahouse
Open 24 hours. By day, it's a place for young people to drink tea and play cards. By night, it only serves non-human guests. 🍵🌙
📍 Nightfall Izakaya
Hidden in an abandoned air-raid shelter. The owner is said to be very old. The grilled skewers and warm sake are the best way to unwind. 🍢🍶
📍 Abyss Livehouse
A nightclub converted from an underground air-raid shelter. Heavy metal and psychedelic rock mix as yokai party the night away. 🎸🦇
📍 Ancient Wood Forest Park
A primeval forest preserved in the city center, with a thousand-year-old banyan tree at its heart. Some get lost here, while others find their lost memories. 🌳🌲
📍 Spirit Gazing Temple
An ancient temple hidden behind the skyscrapers of the financial district. It's particularly effective for matchmaking, with rumors of a fox spirit pulling the strings. 🦊⛩️
📍 Qinglan City First Hospital
Built on the mountainside, it also houses a private psychiatric ward for those traumatized by the supernatural or suffering from soul damage. 🏥🩺
📍 Qinglan Middle School
A campus that undulates with the mountain, famous for its Seven Mysteries, including the "Thirteenth Stair" in the old teaching building. 🏫🎒
📍 Cloud Steps Apartments
An old elevator building on the mountainside. Higher floors are often swallowed by the mist. From the windows, you can see the mountain-crossing light rail passing by. Your neighbors may not be human. 🏢🚆
📍 Suspended Pavilion Station
Asia's deepest underground station. Cold winds blow up from the depths year-round, said to be the junction of the city's earth脉 and yin-yang. 🚇❄️
The white mist stretches distances and softens sounds.
Qinglan City never explains itself; it simply continues to exist. 🌌✨