I Am the Only One in the Village Who Remembers Yesterday's Funeral

The day after his grandfather was buried, Lin Ye woke up and found that the mourning hall was gone. The white flags, portraits, and paper ashes had all disappeared. However, his father told him that his grandfather had died five years ago. But Lin Ye remembered last night's wake, the red mud he stepped on during the funeral, and his grandfather's strange words before his death - "Come back before the well is closed." What's even weirder is that not only one funeral was forgotten in the village. At four o'clock in the morning every day, someone is erased from their memories, photos, household registrations and lives. First, it was the descendants of the missing miners, then the rescue team members, and finally, even Lin Ye's father became "a person who never existed." Only the notes, old photos, work ID cards, and account books buried deep in the walls and foundations left traces of their lives. Thirty-seven years ago, the official record of the Qingling Mine Disaster was only nine deaths, but what Lin Ye found deep in the abandoned shaft were forty-seven work numbers that had never been recognized. Some people have deleted the list, some have stopped rescue, and some have spent thirty-seven years of silence in exchange for everything they have today. Now, the old mine is about to be permanently backfilled. Once the well is sealed, the names of the forty-seven people, the buried cries for help, and the entire village's losing memories may never be recovered. Everyone advised Lin Ye not to investigate. Some people are afraid that the project will be suspended, some are afraid that old scores will be revealed, and some are even more afraid that they will be erased next. Lin Ye only does one thing: to find everyone who disappears. Because he gradually discovered that the terrible thing was never just that the whole village forgot a funeral, but that when everyone accepted that "this person never existed", a person's life would really be completely wiped out from the world.