Deep in the Hengduan Mountains in southwest China, Suolong Village is like a forgotten black mole, embedded under the gray mist-shrouded Sanlong Ridge. The villagers call themselves "curse keepers" and abide by the ancestral precepts: the monument is sealed under the full moon, the red rope is forbidden, and foreigners do not stay overnight for more than seven days. For a hundred years, all outsiders who explored the village's history either went crazy, committed suicide, or disappeared from the world - until ten years ago, a heavy rain washed away the mountain road, and ninety "refugees" disappeared collectively, leaving only twenty blood-stained photos of the Curse Keepers.
In order to investigate the unsolved case, City News reporter Lin Shen took photographer Chen Mo and folklorist Su Wan, who claimed to be a descendant of the Su family, on this mountain road of death known as "Ghost Seeing Sorrow". The old shoes under the rotten leaves, the gnawed compass on the back of the hand, the arched corpse on the cliff... Strange events entangled the three of them like a spider web. When they finally arrived at Suolong Village, the blood worms oozing out of the cracks in the soul stele, the unfamiliar photos hanging in the village houses, and the same cyan birthmark on Su Wan's lower back as the "Curse Keeper" all revealed a cruel truth: they were the sacrifices of this "Twenty Years Festival".
Fragments of the village chronicle reveal a terrifying past: a hundred years ago, villagers mistakenly dug the Huangquan Vein and awakened the ancient god "Mountain Spirit" who feeds on fear. The so-called "curse suppression" is nothing more than a lie that uses the souls of living people to fill the cracks in the earth's veins. Curse keepers have been burdened with the fate of sacrifice for generations. Su Wan's mother and aunt were sacrificed because of their resistance; Lin Shen's grandfather once fled the village, but inherited the "curse-suppressing blood" to him - this is the reason why the mountain spirit chose him.
