Strange Stories from Yinxu

In the middle of the Yan Dynasty, the west wind spread to the east. Railways and telegraphs brought the world closer, but deep within the folds of this ancient land there was something that had never been illuminated by modern civilization. Folklore scholar Lu Qingyuan is a scholar who believes in reason. He used field investigation methods to measure every inch of rural beliefs, and used empirical evidence and logic to dismantle every rural legend. In his world, there is nothing that cannot be recorded, classified, and explained. Until he got that letter. Old friend Shen Zhiyuan sent four pages of paper from a place called Baisha County in the southwest border. This place name does not exist on official maps, and there are only three lines of vague notes in the county annals during the Jiaqing period. Shen Zhiyuan said in the letter that he found a place called "Unnamed Ruins" - a door leading to an underground stone chamber. The four walls were engraved with symbols that did not belong to any known civilization, as well as a sound that "should not be heard." Shen Zhiyuan added a line at the end of the letter with trembling handwriting: "They know I am writing." He never sent a second letter after that. Lu Qingyuan embarked on a journey to find old friends. From the university study in Pujiang to the scourge of the mountains in the southwest, he thought he was tracking a disappearance case, but he didn't know that he was following Shen Zhiyuan's footsteps and walking into the stone room step by step - walking into a truth that existed long before the birth of mankind. And that truth is waiting for him.