Diyuan Notes

Fifteen years ago, geological engineer Shen Xuanqing disappeared in the northwest Gobi. Official conclusion: geological hazard. Fifteen years later, his son Shen Mo received an old book. There was a scrap of paper inside the book, which contained the coordinates of his father's disappearance and a line of words - "He is not missing, he is gone." Shen Mo walked into the Gobi desert with the incomplete notes left by his father and a bronze compass. The moment the compass was embedded in the groove of the rock wall, the stone steps "grew" out of the stone, leading to a darkness that did not exist on the map. There are no ancient tombs and no treasures underground. But there is something scarier. Geological profiles are carved on the rock walls - people thousands of years ago recorded every "breath" underground using symbols that only modern geologists can understand. Father's handwriting appeared on the rock wall, with a button embedded underneath, exactly the same as the one in Shen Mo's pocket. On the second floor, a door is engraved with: "Shen Xuanqing enters, Zhou Yuan stops." The door knows who will come. On the third floor, my father appeared. The complexion is pale and the eyes are awake. He said: "The bridge cannot be crossed." But he walked across it himself. He chose to "come back" and was trapped on the third level for fifteen years. He is waiting for someone. Waiting for someone to take his place. Shen Mo had an extra button in his pocket. My father stretched out his hand from the darkness and stuffed it in through fifteen years. Engraved on it is: "Don't walk on the bridge. Go underneath." "Below" leads to a fourth level deeper than the bridge. An older project, a darker space, and the truth that my father had not dared to tell for fifteen years. Six buttons, six words. The moment they gather together, Shen Mo will find his father. But is the father a living person, or something else?