One hundred percent mystery, a thousand percent heart-pounding adventure: a challenge to the limits of your nerves!
From a primeval forest beset by eerie fires to the forbidden mysteries of western Hunan, this tale takes you deep into a mysterious realm where humanity’s ugliness lies hidden.
Zhou Tong, a senior college student, suddenly receives an anonymous letter. The writer says they are plagued by a curse and hopes Zhou Tong can help break it. According to the letter, it is the Miao villages’ “burning paper effigy” curse: write your enemy’s birth date and time on a paper effigy, then set it on fire, and before long your enemy will die a mysterious death. Zhou Tong wants to find someone who knows about the matter, his senior schoolmate Ai Chen, but learns that Ai Chen mysteriously disappeared while investigating it in a Miao village!
To find Ai Chen and investigate the “burning paper effigy” curse, Zhou Tong ventures alone into mysterious Miao territory. There, he encounters the spine-chilling corpse-driving rites of western Hunan, a perilous primeval forest, the suffocating “burning paper effigy” curse, and the mysterious art of Gu… Are these bizarre events the work of supernatural forces, or part of a human conspiracy?
The truth is gradually revealed beneath the ashes of the burning paper effigies.
