"If you want to survive, you have to follow her" X "If you want to get out, you have to use her"
Qi Hao has had many outrageous dreams.
I dreamed that I was chased by zombies for three streets. I dreamed that I turned into a cat and had its tail stepped on. I dreamed that I stood on the podium and sang "Love Business" to the whole class. But those dreams all have one thing in common - after waking up, she will happily say "Fortunately it was a dream."
This time, she failed to say this.
At her uncle's funeral, she lit the eyes of a paper mannequin red. Then the hands came up. Then came the coffin. Then comes the soil. Then there is a place called Bupu Village.
Not a common village.
The name sounds weird. Not ordinary? Or "No, Pucun"?
I really don't have time to think about this. She only knew that she was now tied to a paper man whose neck she had strangled, walking on a road forever shrouded in black and white fog. There are bridges on both sides of the road, and on the bridge there are people walking back and forth holding green paper lanterns, with empty eyes, as if they are waiting for something, or guarding something.
There are people in the village who are marrying off their daughters. You are not marrying people, you are marrying blood.
There is Bai Wuchang in the village. Every night they go out on a parade, followed by a paper man with eyes dotted with red ink. If anyone in the area he sweeps is not asleep and has trembling eyelashes, he will be taken away to make elixirs.
Qi felt like he had entered a horror movie set.
But horror movies at least have scripts. There is none in Bupu Village.
Every rule here is changing, every villager speaks no human language, and a hand may be stretched out from every seemingly safe corner. And the paper man who was supposed to be her biggest threat was walking quietly beside her at the moment, his red wedding dress like a ball of solidified blood in the gray mist.
Qi Hao asked her: "Why did you help me?"
The paper man turned his head, and her face was reflected in the red-tinted glass eyes.
"Because you killed me once."
"What reason is this?"
"Things in this village don't know they are alive until they are killed once."
Qi Hao didn't understand. But she knows one thing -
In Bupu Village, rules are meant to be broken.
Concept: Symbiosis of Humanity
