Sixteen-year-old Yang Ji'an slept for three days straight. When he woke up, a green seal bearing the words "Mountain Patrol Envoy" had appeared on his belly.
From then on, the whole mountain was his territory. He knew every tree with a bird's nest and every gully with a hare in it, even with his eyes closed. He hunted roe deer, gathered wild produce, and protected the forest farm. It looked like his life was finally about to take a turn for the better.
But then Zhao Xiangu suddenly died, mysterious people from Institute 701 arrived in the village, and a faint blue light began to glow beneath an old pine on the back mountain.
What secrets were buried in these mountains? The stories of the old forests of Northeast China are a long tale. We'll take them one at a time.
