A fifteen-day closed illusion serves as the first narrative protagonist. It abandons the perspective of the traditional human protagonist and uses the unique senses of the foggy illusion to completely witness the entire process of a deep mountain village falling from peaceful daily life into human purgatory.
A thick fog suddenly enveloped the entire mountain village without warning, creating an independent and isolated time and space barrier. Time outside the world stood still, and time in the village flowed alone. The inherent rules of the illusion destined that it would only exist for fifteen days, and it would dissipate on its own once the time limit was up. At first, the villagers just thought it was ordinary bad weather. As the breakouts failed again and again, the truth of the trapped people gradually emerged, and the survival crisis slowly disintegrated the original harmonious appearance of the countryside. Food shortages spawned looting and plundering, and panic spawned groundless suspicion. In order to find an outlet for their emotions, people fabricated the silent and lonely girl as a disaster star and used rumors to frame her. After manpower failed to break out, people turned to superstitious sacrifices and even hatched a ridiculous farce of sacrificing innocent people to escape the crisis.
In a desperate situation, ignorance and greed prevail, and sober voices are drowned out by mass madness. A heavy rain brings fleeting and false hopes, and after they are shattered, the despair of the crowd is heightened. After the illusion continued to absorb the villagers' various emotions such as violence, fear, selfishness, despair, etc., It gradually grew hazy sanity from the unconscious time and space cage until it completed self-awakening.
The people in the village gradually divided into two groups. One group chose to close the door tightly and wait for death in numbness. The other group, led by the young and young girls who collected herbs, explored the rhythm of the illusion and tried to find a way to break the situation. But speculators who were eager to enjoy the results followed the exploration team into the mountain. Their greed disrupted the laws of the fog, causing everyone to be scattered in the maze of space, and many people were buried deep in the thick fog forever.
As the fifteenth day comes to an end, the illusion has complete self-awareness and has the choice to permanently imprison the mountain village or dissipate on time. It looks back at the various behaviors of all living beings that took place in the past fifteen days, and sees clearly that the tangible fog is only an external prison after all, and what really traps people is the inner demons that are difficult to dispel. In the end, the illusion chose to follow the original rules, slowly disintegrating and dissipating at sunset, and unblocking the space barrier.
The fog dissipated, and the village returned to the human world. The surviving villagers walked out of the physical prison. Some people woke up and faced their mistakes with guilt, while some people still had obsessions and hostility, and were still trapped in the fog of their hearts. This fifteen-day fantasy trial has come to an end, leaving behind long-term thoughts about human nature's choices and self-salvation.
Concept: Desperate situations are a magnifying glass that can strip away disguise and vividly reflect the good and evil poles of human nature.
