An ancient city that has sunk for thousands of years, a rooster crow that shouldn't be heard, and a white skeleton holding a bronze medal...
Retired county magistrate Lao Chen does not believe in "natural punishment" but only believes in historical facts. He visited Linyi Jimingwa at night - the ruins of the legendary "Luomian City" that sank overnight due to extravagance and forgetfulness of origin, just to uncover the truth behind the folk tale.
However, when the third rooster's crow, as dull as a rusty bell, came from the ground, and dark red fluid seeped out from the cracks in the blue bricks, he was shocked to realize: the so-called "heavenly punishment" was just a lie made up by the living for the living; the real taboo was a warning written by the soul of the dead with the bones of the dead.
On the night when the prophecy came true when the carrying poles blossomed and the stone lions bled, he touched the bronze plaque engraved with "Lu's family has not returned"——
From then on, he also became part of the legend of Crow City.
Based on thousands of years of oral tradition from the land of Northern Shandong and using modern suspense writing techniques as its blade, "Cock Crow" takes you into the deepest night of Linyi: there are no ghosts and gods there, only forgotten good and concealed evil, quietly waiting underground for the next person to hear the cock crow.
