A bloody file that was deliberately erased, a life-and-death pursuit that spanned forty years.
Retired soldier Li Wu returned to his hometown, a small village forgotten in the folds of the mountains, with the mystery of his father's bizarre sacrifice and a rusty five-pointed star cap badge of the People's Liberation Army. What awaits him is not nostalgia, but a shocking secret drenched in blood - a female ghost in a red cheongsam weeps blood every night, South Sea sorcery refines "immortal Yin soldiers", defeated bandit leaders collude with secret forces, and weave a huge "net" of darkness that covers the mountain city.
The clues are hidden in the red rope that grandma twisted with her blood hair, in the suicide note that the widowed Tian Po paid for with her life, in the dusty depths of top-secret files in the archives, and in the cold evil lock with the word "hub" engraved on it at the bottom of the Luohun River. From deserted villages and abandoned kilns to ancient pagoda ghost markets, from sinister soldiers borrowing passages to strange cocoon rooms, Li Wu discovered during his pursuit that the sacrifices of his fathers were far from ordinary, and that he had already entered a huge puzzle that had been carefully laid out for forty years.
"The key is in Luo, and the lock is in Soul River." The madman's ravings are the only guide. When the bloody past intersects with the current crisis, and when the lone pursuer becomes the prey that must be eliminated in the "net", Li Wuwei can only hold on to the blood-stained iron scissors in his hand, cut through the fog on the lost road where ghosts and people's hearts are intertwined, and find the "key" that ends all cause and effect.
The dark side of history, the traces of evil magic, and the ghosts in people's hearts. This is a bloody reckoning that spans two generations, and it is also a desperate road leading to the ultimate truth.
