Soul-Calming Needle

When the AI ​​"Speaker of the Dead" awakens the remnant soul of the corpse, the mulberry wood handle of the silver soul-killing needle suddenly becomes hot. On the first day when Lin Yan, a former forensic doctor and now an mortician, took over the Huai'an Funeral Home, he discovered the blasphemy of technology against the undead. The "closed eye talisman" pattern emerging from the needle body resonates with the red light of the obsession recorder brought by the paper craftsman Su Jiuer, pointing to the strange paper figurines excavated from the Gujia real estate construction site, and a folk secret that spans Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Longhu Mountain, and western Hunan begins. The nine-inch soul-suppressing needle can reveal the red marks of guilt, the 3D biological gel can repair the incomplete soul veins; the fragments of mulberry paper turn into a red boat that guides the way, and the residual pattern of the Chenzhou Talisman hides a century-old covenant. Lin Yan, with the dull pain of a broken soul, teamed up with the cursed Su Jiuer and the Xuanmen defector Qingxu. Following the guidance of the fragments of the ancestral tablet, from the secret cries in the sound of the tide in Wuzhen, to the illusion of massacre in the mirror of the dead in the haunted house of the Republic of China, to the blood wall soul contract deep in the underground palace, he gradually uncovered the truth of the "Three Offerings of Souls". The capital tycoon Gu Shenzhi attempts to use AI to trap souls and break the curse. The elder Longhushan betrays the mulberry covenant in the late Ming Dynasty due to greed, and the goodwill and remorse scattered in the mulberry paper letters and skulls will eventually become the key to breaking the situation. When the soul-suppressing needle melts the mirror of the past life, and the soul-raising paper kite weaves light butterflies all over the sky (each light feather hides the mark of the reader's goodwill), Lin Yan finally understands: the soul-suppressing needle never suppresses the remnant soul, but the contempt and obsession of the human heart. The Chenzhou talisman sent from Xiangxi has just touched the tide and revealed its characters. In the distance, the bells for exorcism have become shorter and longer. This inheritance of salvation has just left the water town of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.