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Introduction to "Paper Maker: Wumeng Mountain Strange Deeds" Lin Yan, who has been guarding the Inkstone and Bamboo Paper Shop in Wumeng Mountain in southern Sichuan for four generations, resigned from his job in the city and returned to his hometown just to track down his father who disappeared mysteriously thirty years ago. My father left only half of the incomplete "Bamboo Deed Book of Southern Sichuan", which scatteredly recorded the secret past events of villages in the mountains. During the continuous rainy season, the branch secretary of Kuzhu'ao Village came to the door in the rain and brought white paper embryos that appeared out of thin air one after another. The baby's cry in the bamboo forest was heard in the mountain village every night, and strange stories spread throughout the village. Retired criminal policeman Zhou Weiguo was at a loss and came to ask Lin Yan for help in detecting the anomaly using his ancestral bamboo paper craftsmanship. The Lin family's bamboo deeds are unique in pattern, and the weird workmanship of the paper tires points directly to the old woman who lives in seclusion in the back mountains. A strange incident that seemed to be caused by ghosts and gods led to an old case of abandoned babies that was deliberately buried by the whole village in the 1990s. Since then, floating corpses in water coffins and strange shadows of hanging coffins have been staged in various villages in Wumeng Mountain. Underneath each strange folklore phenomenon, they are all old crimes that were man-made. Lin Yan used a bamboo deed as a clue to connect the dusty past scattered in the mountains and fields. Following the layers of fog, he gradually got closer to the secret conspiracy that spanned decades behind his father's disappearance.