Echo Night

In Yunling County, surrounded by mountains, the "Nanshan Miao Village" has the Drum Tower as its center and the ancient well as its eye. As the festival day approaches, a series of bizarre murders occur in the county, and the deceased are all related to this village. Reporter Diao Mingzhou went to the village to "gather news", but in fact he was conducting a secret investigation. Whistling is not allowed at night, no light is allowed on the well surface at midnight, and outsiders are not allowed to wear silverware that has not been "purely decorated" into the Drum Tower - taboos are like protection and shackles. Soon, the silver jewelry turned black, the camera "couldn't capture" the shadow, and folk songs that aligned verbatim with the old cases appeared one after another. A'duo, a girl who can sing a question-and-answer tune, reveals the century-old secrets of the "Gu Po" and her family. The broken monuments in Baigu Mountain sew history and the present together. When fear and interest are peeled away layer by layer, rational reporting can explain most of it, but it cannot erase the small section of "unspeakable". He thought the answer to the mystery was settled - until the night he left, the fog began to rise at the mouth of the river, and the singing began again, as if he was asking, but also as if he was answering. (The place names and customs in the article are all fictitious.)