The Ancient Treasure of Immortality

Half a century ago, my grandfather went hunting in the mountains of the Northeast.

He waited for three days and three nights, but no tigers, leopards, wolves, or bears appeared. Not even a roe deer or a wild rabbit showed up. Instead, he came upon eight hunters, covered in blood.

The eight beasts depicted on the hunters’ backs, a fox, a wolf, a snake, a tiger, a brown bear, a wild boar, a rat, and a swimming dragon, formed a curse known as “Immortality.”

Half a century later, my father disappeared, right there on the same mountain ridge in the Northeast where my grandfather had once waited…