The Devil in the Well

A dry well, sealed for forty years of evidence. In 1945, the Japanese Army Colonel Yamada Koji massacred forty-three people in the village during the retreat and fell into a well. The chemical warfare documents he carried with him sank to the bottom of the well together with the poison gas bombs. Forty years later, Michiko, an onmyoji from Japan's Jiuju sect, sneaked into Mian Village. In the name of repairing the old house, he set up an eight-door golden lock formation beside the well in an attempt to destroy the evidence. Uncle Liao, the old mage of Mian Village, set up a four-cornered altar and fought with her across the air - the copper coin sword versus the bone staff, the cinnabar talisman versus the bronze mirror array, the soul-inducing flag versus the soul-locking curse. This contest, which spanned forty years, was the real end of that war. To the west of the altar, an ordinary peasant woman named He Yuzhen discovered Michiko's secret. She used her fingers to tear off the hair on the bone staff and exchanged her life for her life to protect her husband who was guarding the west. The gas bomb at the bottom of the well was eventually leaked, and all Japanese who stepped into Mian Village were killed by the chemical weapons buried by their ancestors. Sixty years later, the octogenarian husband returned to the well, faced the sealed dry well, and said to his daughter: Remember this, not for the sake of hatred, but for the sake of no longer having it.