A thick fog has sealed off the village for thirty years. A deserted house lies in dead silence, someone knocks at midnight, and vengeful spirits are trapped in an endless cycle. No one can escape.
Xiao Yi, a documentary photographer who believes firmly in science and not in ghosts, mistakenly enters a forbidden ancient village and comes face-to-face with one paranormal mystery after another, each overturning everything he knows.
A clock frozen at midnight, the vengeful spirits of a grandfather and grandchild searching for each other in the wrong place, an old man guarding the village with no shadow beneath the lamp... As each layer of strangeness is peeled away, all that remains is the long-buried guilt the deserted village can no longer conceal.
As his shattered memories gradually return, he finally learns the horrifying truth: he was the only living witness to the wrongful massacre of a family all those years ago.
Evil spirits search for their kin night after night, while the living hide their sins year after year. Beneath the all-enveloping fog of nightmares lies the monstrous malice that no one in the village dares to admit.
To atone for the sin of staying silent in his youth and break free from the nightmare of fate, Xiao Yi steps into the game alone. He tears through layer upon layer of hypocrisy, pierces thirty years of fog, and exposes the deserted village’s coldest, most chilling truth.
A different supernatural novel