Longjing

Folklore researcher Shen Zhao went to Manyun Village in Xishuangbanna to investigate the legend of the "Pipa Ghost" because of the incomplete Dai notes left behind by his mother. The villages are covered with mysterious white-grey boundaries, Mo Pi is in charge of judgment, and the herbal medicine Maya Yu Yinghan has guarded the ancient Dai manuscripts and strange bones for generations. Shen Zhao gradually uncovered the secrets left over from ancient Yunnan: the so-called evil is not witchcraft, but a special kind of parasitic nematode that can force the human body into a state of near-death dormancy and suspended animation. Following the clues of the symbols, copper coins, strange one-legged footsteps in the mountains, and the bizarre dehydration of the dead, Shen Zhao discovered the past of 700 villagers in Longjing Village who disappeared collectively after their mysterious "relocation" in 1993. The man behind the scenes, Luo Zhengkun, is both his mother's senior brother and Shen Zhao's uncle. He registered a biological company in an attempt to use worms to achieve immortality. Shen Zhao was also horrified to discover that his mother had seen through Luo Zhengkun's madness and planted dormant insects into Shen Zhao's body when he was young. As he continued to get closer to the truth, the insects in his body were slowly awakening. He and detective Dao Shiming broke into the underground cave of Ailao Mountain. On the stone bed, there were villagers in suspended animation, and there was a giant insect mother sitting on the bottom of the well. The paranoid Luo Zhengkun was waiting here. When eternal life turns into endless imprisonment, the shackles that Shoujing's descendants have been carrying for generations, and the fate that is bound by blood, are all placed in front of Shen Zhao. This is a folk thriller story full of regional texture from southern Yunnan. It asks: is the person parasitized by insects a human being or a container?