Lin Chuan, an ordinary young man, never thought that the bronze box that his grandfather warned not to open before his death would completely tear his peaceful life apart. A strange blood-eyed jade cicada in the box dragged him into an unimaginable nightmare: on his back, a "cicada's eye" grew that only kept growing and watched his every move.
At the same time, a text message from an unknown number announced that he had become the thirteenth "candidate":
"Welcome to the corpse dismemberment game. Either complete nine 'cicada sheds' or become the food of the curse."
In order to survive, Lin Chuan and Fatty Fatty were forced to return to their ancestors' old gold-making business, following clues and breaking into ancient forbidden places that were buried deep underground and where all the mechanisms had been exhausted:
- The witch sacrificial tombs of the Western Zhou Dynasty echoed with the painful wails of human beings and cicadas becoming one;
- In the Huang Chang Ti of the Han Dynasty, the mutated corpse is ready to move in the darkness;
- Under the strange Feng Shui acupoints of the Tang Dynasty, the strange rituals never seemed to end...
