When Lin Yuan's camera focused on the white Yunnan golden monkey that had never been recorded, he thought it would be the pinnacle of his career. Until the screams of his teammates suddenly came from the intercom, followed by deathly silence.
Now, the award-winning nature photographer is facing the most primal challenge of all - survival. In Heizhugou, a primeval forest known as "Chinese Bermuda", the compass rotated crazily, the trees changed positions overnight, and his teammates disappeared as if they were swallowed by the earth.
All he had with him was a satellite phone with no signal, half a bottle of water, and his grandfather's research notes from sixty years ago. A warning is written in red pen on the title page of the note: "Don't believe the shadow you see, don't eat the luminous fruit, when the moon appears green, you must find the granite cave..."
As night falls, Lin Yuan discovers that this forest is far more dangerous than he imagined - the "guardians" who are regarded as mountain gods by local villagers, the "humanoid creatures" recorded in the military archives, and the "moving trees" mentioned in his grandfather's notes are not just legends. The only ones willing to help him were a golden monkey with an injured front paw, and the strange girl who claimed to "guard the secrets of the forest for generations."
When the countdown to survival begins, Lin Yuan must solve the puzzles left by explorers from three different eras in order to find a way out of this living forest. But he soon realized that some people were destined to belong here forever...
