In the summer of 2028, young Gao Li sent his grandfather Gao Youtang back to Qinling Mountains to escape the summer heat. A short video about "the mysterious death of a traveler on the Ao Tai Line" has revealed the secret of the 88-year-old logging team leader's silent life.
In 1960, young Gao Youtang entered the primeval forest area of Taibai Mountain. Here, death comes in the most unreasonable way: a good swimmer drowns in a shallow pool, a drunken person freezes to death on a sunny day, and there is always a strange noise after the sound of an axe... Teammates die in eight strange patterns one after another. Only he summed up the law of bleeding: knocking on a tree to scare the spirit, woolen yarn to guide the way, animal dens not destroyed, and unpredictable pool water.
But this is not the work of ghosts. Gao Youtang finally discovered that Qinling Mountains is a living mountain with memories - it constantly "plays back" all the moments of life that have disappeared here for thousands of years. The sound of the logging team's axes unintentionally became a pendulum that awakened sleeping memories.
This book uses a dual-line narrative to interweave the current world and the past. Through a logging ax soaked in time and mountain spirit, it reveals a deeply buried anecdotal record of the Qinling Mountains. This is not only a mountain adventure, but also a family epic about sacrifice, memory and reconciliation. When the sound of the ax sounded again, Shan still remembered everything.
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