The Bell Doesn't Ring

The bell rings and all the ghosts retreat. When the bell stops ringing, the owner of the mountain comes to collect the debt. In order to save my missing brother, I stepped into the isolated Tongling Village. Everyone here has a brass bell tied to their wrist. When the bell rings, the things in the shadows will move away. But from the time I put on the first brass bell, the bell never rang again. My brother was found - there was something maturing in his body, and he used his last consciousness to say something in my ear: Brother, it is in your body. The copper bell is not a talisman, but a seed spread by the mountain owner. Each copper bell is feeding the fragments in the body. When the fragments grow up, the person will be "replaced" - you are still you on the outside, but no longer on the inside. The disappearance of my father, the arrival of my younger brother, and even every step I took into the village were written into the contract twenty years ago.