Black Old Things

Linhai, a second-tier coastal city, has a century-old port that has accumulated a large number of cursed old objects. It is the gathering point for evil and sinful karma across the country. Jiangsu, 27 years old, a recycler, runs a shabby little shop called "Shiguang" alone. After his parents died mysteriously ten years ago, he dropped out of school to take over the family business, and for ten years he only dealt with old things. He is gifted with the ability to sense the lingering breath on old things. When you touch an old object, you can "smell" the emotions of its previous owner. This is not a superpower, just a keenness honed by ten years of solitude. Until late that night, an old lady called and asked him to collect the relics. He picked up a bronze bell in a pile of junk, and when he touched it, he could see the dead. The bell shines by itself, rings by itself, and grows words by itself. In the old building where people had died, the ghost of the old lady stood at the door and said to him, "Give me back the bell." A black line that couldn't be rubbed began to appear on his right index finger, spreading towards his palm bit by bit. Detective Li Rui told him that four people had died in that building in the past three years, and they all touched the same thing. A woman named Lin Wanqiu took out a yellowed fragment of an ancient book and revealed a secret that her father never told until his death. The Black Emperor of the North, the mark of sin engraved in time and space by the ancient Ziwei Northern Emperor, was torn into seventy-two pieces and scattered on the old things in the world. His father searched for him for twenty years and died in the backlash of Hei Qian. Now the bell found him. The rules are simple. The cost is also simple: every time he uses it, he loses part of his body. Taste, smell, hearing, emotion, and finally himself. No turning back