Lin Chuan, an ordinary young man, never imagined that the bronze casket his grandfather warned him never to open would shatter his peaceful life. Inside, a strange jade cicada with a blood-red eye dragged him into an unimaginable nightmare: a “cicada eye” had sprouted on his back, growing incessantly as it watched his every move.
At the same time, a text from an unknown number announced that he had become the thirteenth “candidate”:
“Welcome to the Corpse Liberation Game. Complete nine ‘cicada molts,’ or become food for the curse.”
To survive, Lin Chuan and his childhood friend, the Fatty, were forced to take up their ancestors' tomb-raiding trade once more. Following the clues, they ventured into ancient forbidden sites buried deep underground, packed with deadly mechanisms:
- In a Western Zhou shaman's tomb, anguished cries echoed of humans merging with cicadas;
- In a Han dynasty tomb built with nested cypress logs, mutated alchemical corpses stirred in the darkness;
- Beneath an extraordinary Tang dynasty feng shui site, a strange ritual seemed never to have ended...
