Return to Ruins: Thirteenth

Chen Sanliang is a corpse makeup artist in a funeral parlor. After working for five years, he has handled more dead people than living people. That night, he put makeup on an unknown female corpse fished out of the river, opened her clenched fist, and a copper coin fell out of his palm, with a square hole, green patina, and the word "Longevity" engraved on the front. He touched the copper coin. The female corpse opened her eyes and said "Thirteenth". Then he died. When I woke up, I was on a Nuo stage, surrounded by gray fog and no sun or moon in the sky. There were eight dead people around, plus nine of him. A bronze Nuo face hangs in the fog and announces the rules: determine life and death by touching the bones, and the loser will fall into the abyss. Some people screamed, some collapsed, and some squatted on the edge of the stage and smoked cigarettes. Chen Sanliang relied on the skills of the undertaker to survive, feeling out the bones of the recently deceased's hands and the shine of his nails. But surviving is just the beginning. This place is called Guixu. Go down seven levels and get deeper and deeper. The soul of the dead must stay for thirteen days to resolve its obsessions before it can rest in peace. Those who cannot do this will turn into unconscious ghosts and wander around forever. In the fog, there were people doing business with copper coins engraved with the word "longevity", and some people had lived through dozens of reincarnations. There was also a man named Shen Yan, who was gentle and elegant. He established an organization called the Immortality Society in the ghost market and was polite to everyone. Chen Sanliang doesn't trust anyone. Because he saw a line of writing on the wall backstage: "Don't believe Shen Yan. - The last one is Chen Sanliang." He just wants to get out alive. Until he heard a voice at the edge of the dense forest, as if it had emerged from the bottom of the water after ten years - "Brother, I am here." His sister's soul was locked under the 810th soul-suppressing nail, and the only way he could save her was to