Modern urban fantasy + healing + environmental protection and intangible cultural heritage. A deaf-mute girl and a misanthrope save each other. During a century-old sea-worship ceremony in a fishing village, Lin Xi dances barefoot over the waves as a substitute priestess.
When the sea breeze carries a strong stench toward her, she sees countless fish carcasses borne atop the waves.
The crowd screams and scatters. Only she kneels in the icy seawater, touching the gills of a dying grouper with her fingertips. “Red devil...hurts...”
Inside an abandoned observation station on the cliff, Gu Yuan stares at pollution figures that have shot off the charts and sneers. “Humanity finally managed to kill itself.”
The drone camera suddenly catches a girl on the shore, scooping up toxic algae with her bare hands.
He dives the machine toward her, and a roar bursts from its loudspeaker. “Are you trying to get yourself killed?!”
But the girl lifts her face and presses a venom-soaked shell into his palm.
He sees the words carved into it: “Save them.”
Stranger still, glowing jellyfish crawl up his disabled right hand along the waves.
