There are three iron rules in "Trouble in the Mountain Village": Don't ask for names at night, don't look back when you hear voices, and don't bow your head when you see God.
Jiang Che, a critic who enjoyed deconstructing horror novels, became the first person to die in the book who violated the iron law after criticizing the book.
But he didn't die.
When he woke up as cannon fodder "Lin Mo", he found that he had the most terrifying weapon in his hands - the complete plot. He knows who will die and how, and he also knows the dirtiest secret behind the "mountain god".
However, when he tried to change the fate of the first person, the whole world seemed to be modified by a code, and instantly slipped into deeper darkness. The "spoilers" he knew became a reminder, and the "traps" he avoided became the only way to go.
This village, this novel, seems to have a life of its own. It is learning, disguising, and using the narrative techniques he is most familiar with to weave an inescapable death trap tailor-made for him.
He is not here to break the curse, he is here to be "read" by the curse. And when he turns to the last page, he will understand that the real horror is not the ghost in the book, but the "person" who wrote the book.
Intent: The work mainly expresses the fear of "narrative" itself. It subverts the "human vs. Ghost" model in traditional horror stories and explores how when a fictional world has self-awareness and can self-correct and disguise itself based on the "reader's" cognition, knowledge and logic will become the most deadly traps. The real horror does not come from unknown ghosts and gods, but from the "author" or "narrative will" itself, which is aloof and enjoys playing with the fate of the characters. It deconstructs and reorganizes human fears and weaves an inescapable web of despair about "fate."