Qingluodu: Archives of Folklore and Oddities

In order to complete the folklore project, Chen Ye followed his instructor to Qingluodu, which was almost disappearing from the map. The smell of fish floats in the river breeze, the incense candles in the Dukou Temple are half burned, and the faded Ferry Code is engraved on the stone tablet: 1. There is only one ferry at the ferry port. It leaves at 1:00 every day. If you miss it, you have to wait for the next day. ​ 2. Do not accept dried fish from strangers, especially if it is freshly caught from the river. ​ 3. Don't look at the lanterns on the river at night, they are not for lighting the way for living people. ​ 4. If you hear someone calling your name from behind, don't look back and don't answer. ​ 5. Never trust a boat ticket floating on the river unless it is stamped with the cinnabar seal of the Dukou Temple. … As the investigation deepened, more and more codes emerged and more and more contradictions emerged. The sign on the abandoned pier reads "Don't believe the rules of the Dukou Temple", while the stone tablet at the Dukou Temple is engraved with "The notice on the pier is fake". The mentor who was traveling with him suddenly became a stranger. The companion he picked up from the riverside said that he died here ten years ago. There was no boatman on the ferry on the river. Chen Ye finally understood that his grandfather's warning before his death was not superstition—— In Qingluodu, the rules are not to protect you, but to help it select its prey. In order to leave alive, he must tear apart all the contradictory codes with his own hands and find out the secrets that Qingluodu has hidden for nearly a hundred years.