The Secret of Yin Gu Slope

In the winter of 1995, heavy fog closed the mountains in the mountains of Guilin, and the snow in Zhujia'ao, a poor village, was colder than in previous years. When Zhu Xiaohui returned to the village with a certificate of college graduation and his trousers still stained with dust from the county town, he encountered something strange - his third uncle hanged himself in his cowshed. There was a pair of red embroidered shoes at his feet. The mandarin duck eyes on the shoes were actually inlaid with human fingernails. People in the village said that something from the "Yin Gu Slope" came out. In recent years, the sound of chains has always been heard at night on the barren slope where the bones of "bad elements" from decades ago are buried. Some people say they have seen faceless black figures digging dirt in graves, and some people say they heard women crying and counting coins. What is even more bizarre is that anyone who is close to Yin Gu Slope will have black and blue fingerprints on the back of their necks, as if they are being grasped by something. Zhu Xiaohui was born with the ability to see "things" that ordinary people cannot see, but he didn't believe in ghosts and gods since he was a child. Until he found out that his third uncle had dug something in Yingupo before hanging himself; until he found half a yellowed verdict on the beam of his old house. The name on it was exactly the same as the woman who was drowned in the pond in his dream. The snow is getting heavier and heavier, blocking the mountain roads and the way to survive. Every old man in the village disappeared, and their death conditions were exactly the same as those "bad elements" back then. Zhu Xiaohui stared at the black and blue fingerprints on the back of his neck in the mirror, and suddenly understood—— It's not that "things" have gone out of business, it's that the wronged ghosts of the past have finally counted their debts. And what he was looking for was not just the bones buried in the frozen soil, but also the human lives that had been buried under heavy snow for decades.