Afterbirth: the Symbiotic Curse of Huangpizi Tomb

In 1980, Northeast China was trapped in Longling. This village, submerged by the Blackwater Reservoir, ostensibly follows the "law of symbiosis" left by the shaman - villagers need to drink bone soup every night to suppress animal transformation, and weddings and funerals are tied to the afterbirth burial method. And when the afterbirths of the seven babies were replaced with talisman pots, Chen Ziyang discovered that yellow hair was growing on his right hand. As the only pure-blood human, he was not only the "key" to break the curse, but also the ultimate medicine guide for the villagers to complete the "complete humanization" ceremony. When the afterbirth became a sacrifice incarnate, the boundary between human nature and animality completely collapsed in the bloody symbiosis. Obstetrician Chen Ziyang returned home for the funeral, but was involved in a "human-animal atonement contract" that lasted for thirty years. The black blood seeping from the grandmother's coffin, the baby's afterbirth carried away by the red-eyed weasel, the corpse tower made of hundreds of human and animal skeletons under the reservoir... All clues point to a cruel truth: the whole village is full of beasts, but he is human. When the blood moon illuminates the afterbirth monument engraved with names on the top of the corpse tower, Chen Ziyang must make a choice: use the bone bell to forever suppress the curse and transform into a mountain god, or bury the afterbirth back into the dragon bone stone and accept the absurd future of symbiosis between beasts and humans. "They kneel down and worship me as if they were worshiping a god, but they don't know that everything under the altar is a sacrifice." ——"Afterbirth: The Symbiotic Curse of Huangpizi Tomb"·Chen Ziyang