Notes of Strange Anecdotes: Searching for Immortals

The world is about to be in turmoil, with famine, military disasters and epidemics rampant. Rumors suddenly arise among the people that "immortals caress the top of the head, tie hair and grant immortality". People who are about to die flock to them. What they want is not to ascend to immortality, but to live a few more days. Cui Jue and his entourage Xue Liu passed through a city. They thought it was another scam to make money out of despair in troubled times, but during the investigation, they discovered that the so-called immortal fate was not empty talk, but a set of secret methods that were buried deep underground and operated layer by layer. People are screened in the side courtyard, seeds are stored in the north warehouse, and life is maintained in the inner courtyard; the poor are used to test the road, and the rich are promised to extend their lives. Between the old mines of the past and the deep houses of the current era, "white strands" are quietly growing through the flesh and blood of living people. This is not a deity descending to the earth, but someone using the thought of all living beings as being "reluctant to die" to bring weird species into the human world.