Rain Festival: the Circular Cage of a Convenience Store

The evening rain will always become as sticky as melted lard. The "convenience store" near Fu'anli hides soul-devouring secrets: white particles with the smell of ash are floating in the bottom of the oden soup, the dark red chips in the boss's fingernails are the remnants of a fire ten years ago, and the light gray symbols will quietly wrap around the wrists of everyone who comes close. Lily, who is raising medicine for her mother with lung cancer, Ajie, who is looking for his missing sister Xiaoyao, and Team Chen, who is pursuing a series of old cases, are accidentally involved in the cycle due to a "five hundred yuan a night" part-time job - the eyeless black shadow of a man in a plaid shirt, the memorial tablet wall in the hospital basement, and the giant copper bell rack on the rooftop appear one after another. They thought they had dismantled the conspiracy of the "main soul", but when they broke through, they discovered that the warm light of the convenience store had already been woven into a large cage covering the entire city. The sticky rain that had not stopped for ten years was the "nutrient" of the cage, and the so-called "escape" was just falling from one cycle into another, more secretive cycle.