What they protect is not the ancestors, but the prison.
What they bury is not dead people, but hope.
Folklore professor Zhou Yuanshan received an anonymous package: a medical diary from 1923 and a yellowed photo. The mountain village in the photo was exactly the same as the "Tomb Guard Village" he was about to inspect.
In this village hidden deep in the mountains, time seems to be frozen in the Republic of China——
The villagers wear old-fashioned clothes, avoid talking to the outside world, and hold bizarre Nuo opera live burial ceremonies every month.
The buried person will return from the forbidden area in seven days, but the blue birthmark on his shoulder will be darker.
The tablets in the ancestral temple have no names, only the same birthday and death date.
The owner of the diary, Shen Huaijin, a young doctor a hundred years ago, once witnessed the truth on the night of the blood moon:
"There is no corpse in the coffin, no bones in the tomb, the living has died, and the dead have risen."
As the investigation deepened, Zhou Yuanshan discovered:
His DNA matches Shen Huaijin;
The entire village is a sophisticated living formation;
Every villager is a prisoner and a jailer;
The so-called "living burial" is a cruel transaction that has lasted for six hundred years.
When the blood moon of hundreds of years comes again,
Seven lives are about to be sacrificed,
The lamentations of tens of thousands of dead souls came from deep underground——
Zhou Yuanshan must make a choice:
Will he become the next Shen Huaijin and continue the curse with self-sacrifice?
Or uncover the truth of the contract and release the pain that has been imprisoned for six centuries?
This time, will the ones buried alive be living people, or history itself?
