Shu Daoqi

In the late 1990s, the smell of temple smoke mixed with the rusty smell of iron lumps could be smelled everywhere. Shu Daoshan, a Sichuan girl with a leg that doesn't work well, swaps temples with her father Shu Daoshan, who doesn't like to talk much. She lives in a temple, with green tiles as a bed and Buddhist niches as walls. The incense in the temple can temporarily suppress the bad disease on her body. The two of them are the agents of the "Former Folklore Security Committee", the "incense money collectors", to put it bluntly, they are the reputation of people with super powers who work hard. On the surface, this organization hangs prayer flags to practice religion, but behind the scenes, it uses prayer flags to block it and operates a secret laboratory. It seems that there is a bigger secret. On a full moon night, bloodthirsty monsters would crash into the temple door, and the organization would send an iron monk smelling of formalin to urge them to "consecrate", not to mention that there would be guns watching in the dark, scheming against them. Her father had a bone needle stuck in his throat and couldn't speak the entire sentence, but when in danger, he stood in front of him like an iron tower. Shu Daoshan's legs were as withered as wood, but his hand that was not easy to use could hold the thread used to sew the corpse and tie it firmly on the monster's bones. The temple was both a refuge from disaster and like a cage. The incense suppressed the disease, but the price was that her blood became more and more like the color of a monster. The two of them were like two broken chess pieces, moving on the chessboard of this era, stepping on broken bones with every step. Only in the end did I realize that from the very beginning, they were serving as flesh and blood fuel for the organizational machine. No matter how loud the bells in the temple were, they couldn't cover up the "click" sound of the machine gears turning - in that sound, there was hidden the pain that she didn't express, as well as the words that were stuck in her father's throat and couldn't be spoken.