
Yin Deed Book
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Yin and Yang contract, entangled with cause and effect. Folklorist Shen Yanzhou received an anonymous letter containing only a yellowed theater ticket with scrawled words on the back: "The gong is played at the third watch, and strangers avoid the table. If the play ends, the road to hell will be cut off." He stepped into the century-old stage in the barren mountains of the southwest, only to find that there was no one under the stage, except for the faintly lit blood lanterns. On the stage, the troupe sang "Mu Lian Saves His Mother". The actors' makeup was pale, and their sleeves were dripping with corpse oil. The shadows of the "audience" below the stage were twisted like hungry ghosts, and there was a scarlet mark on their necks-- They are all the dead souls who were hanged on the beams a hundred years ago. This "dark drama" is just the beginning. The embroiderers in the Corpse House in the south of the Yangtze River sewed shrouds with dead people's hair, and the wearer's flesh and blood turned into silkworms within seven days; the bone statues in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes in Dunhuang glimpsed the sins of previous lives, and those who looked directly at them had their skin and flesh peel off into white bones; the coffin boatmen at the junction of Sichuan and Yunnan carried living people across the River Styx, and three thousand Yin soldiers under the water used the passage to seek their lives... Shen Yanzhou was forced to take charge of the "Yin Deed Book" and became a "living judge" walking in Yin and Yang. Every time a strange thing is solved, there will be another line of blood on the book: "The theater troupe's soul debt is repaid with one's life; the evil fate of the soul is repaid with an eye for a needle; the cause and effect of the Buddha's cave is repaid with bones..." But he gradually discovered that behind all the weirdness was the same century-old murderous plot-- The "keeper" of the underworld sneered: "Do you think you are saving people? The outcome has already been written in the Yin Deed Book." The puppet master under the costume whispered: "Guess, who was the judge who secretly changed the contract and killed tens of millions of people?" When the world became an endless city, he was the last person to hold the scale. When the judge writes, he does not care about good or evil-- Cutting off cause and effect, or cutting off life?
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