During the Shunhe period of the Yuan Dynasty, the hundreds of years of witchcraft and poison curses hidden deep in Fujiao County's Yamen pillars were awakened by a bizarre river embankment collapse. The moment the governor arrived and read out the "Liu Shu of Qing Ping", the human-faced bug flew from the beams and pillars and got into the county magistrate's ear canal. After that, the yamen turned into a cocoon palace surrounded by huge egg sacs. The poison eggs in the officials' bodies hatched and devoured their internal organs and died strangely against the orders. The flesh and blood of the beams and pillars turned into a new law: "If there is no danger during the term of office, the winter eggs will self-destruct and disappear; to survive, you need to unravel the secrets of the nineteen volumes of strange books in the yamen." The new county magistrate Guo Binglin was obsessed with deducing the strange topics of the books, and gradually became crazy. Su Zhonggeng, the county magistrate, accidentally glanced at a few words in Volume 19, which turned out to be "The Picture of Ten Punishments on the Scales and Bones". On the day when the official silver of the yamen was covered with bloody mycelium, the chief clerk Zheng Yuanqi gouged out his eyes and committed suicide, leaving a warning in his blood: "Kill if you must!" When all the hidden books appeared, Guo Binglin suddenly chanted Gu rules in the yamen hall madly - the beams and columns collapsed, and the scarlet mycelium like karma fire dragged the last conscious person into the depths of the living cocoon. The curtain of the life-and-death competition suddenly opened, and everyone was looking for a way out in the ferocious visceral space of crime and punishment; and Su Zhonggeng finally understood that the only way is to kill the original evil egg - no matter who it incarnates, even the first one wearing a fish charm
