Deep in the Qinling Mountains, there is a village that cannot be found on the map.
Qihu Village, seven families, seven taboos, seven seals. The handwriting on the stone tablet at the entrance of the village has been worn away by wind and rain, leaving only a prophecy: "Seven households will survive one person, and one person will survive seven households."
Reporter Li Ming came to investigate a bizarre disappearance. Three months ago, the girl Chen Xiaowan disappeared here. The three friends who were traveling with her were all mentally disturbed. They only kept repeating the same sentence - "You can't go to Qihu Village."
He found the village.
In a deserted village shrouded in thick fog, there is an ancient well with no bottom. In the cave on the well wall, countless gray shadows squirmed; in the mud at the bottom of the well, a dark heart was still beating. It summons visitors in your dreams, trades you with what you desire most, and then devours you forever.
The last old man in the village told him: You were not summoned, you walked in on your own. So you are not a sacrifice, you are a variable.
He broke three of the seven taboos. Seeing the fog has not gone away, hearing the sound and already responding, meeting the well and seeing it. And the bronze mirror in the shrine is waiting for him to break the last taboo——
"Don't look in the mirror."
But if he wants to end this curse that has lasted for four hundred years, he must find the truth in the mirror, go down to the bottom of the well and open the stone letter, and say the word "no" when his heart is tempted.
This is a story about desire and price. The curse of Shichinohe Village was never what was in the well—it was the people themselves. It was curiosity that opened the stone letter, greed that fed it, and fear that made it stronger and stronger.
When you stare into the abyss, the abyss stares into you.
And deep
