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Sophora Blood Thirteen Bells

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Tags: #folk horror #system cannibalism #Cthulhu elements #ghost marriage curse #suspense thriller #cursed token #psychological thriller #dystopia Introduction: In order to investigate the disappearance of his girlfriend Gu Xue, reporter Shen Changan broke into the ghost marriage village that has been passed down for a hundred years and found that the clan headed by Old Master Zhao raised ghost brides through the "Seventh Happy Man" sacrifice system. The mute girl Gu Xiaoman used the palm print code to guide him to crack the blue brick code. The nails in the annual rings of the locust tree, the creeping wedding candy paper, and the dream butterfly fragrance that can peek into the memory of the dead gradually revealed the bloody truth behind the "three bricks" - all tokens are concrete symbols of the cannibalistic system. When Shen Changan found out that he was the candidate for the eighth happy man, and Gu Xiaoman's snake-shaped birthmark was devouring his humanity, an ultimate horror that combined live trial, Yin medium cocoon, and cave corpse array swept over. The butterfly hairpin hides Gu Xue's memory of being made into a paper man, and the human-faced cocoon hatches the villagers' collective evil thoughts. It is finally revealed that what is hidden under the word "囍" is not folk customs, but the abyss of alienating living people into parts of the system.
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Chapter 1 - Prologue: Blood Letter Revealed

夜深人静,窗外的月光冰冷,只勾勒出屋内家具模糊的轮廓.沈长安坐在桌边,指尖夹着一封微微泛黄的信.这是顾雪留给他的最后一封信.

信的边缘有点磨损,好像被反复摩擦过一样.他的指尖微微颤抖,不是因为寒冷,而是因为有一种即将切断与自己双手的最后一丝联系的感觉,夹杂着悲痛和决心.打火机冰冷的金属外壳在他的手掌上摩擦了许久,最后,随着一声轻柔的"咔嚓",一团橙黄色的火焰舔了出来,照亮了他眼中复杂而模糊的光芒.

他把火焰引到信的一角.火焰贪婪地蔓延,纸张蜷缩着,烧焦了,散发出淡淡的烟花味.沈长安盯着跳动的火焰,仿佛要把顾雪的笔迹,连同那些难以言说的过去,化为灰烬,深深地埋葬在他的记忆中.

然而,奇怪的事情发生了.

就在火焰即将吞噬信纸中央的一行字迹时,原本光滑美丽的墨水在高温下变成了奇异的深棕色,就像凝固的血痂.一行扭曲不完整的笔迹,仿佛被一股无形的力量从纸的背面挤出来,突然出现:

"不要相信仪式!第三排抽屉里有一面镜子——"

笔迹在"镜"后戛然而止,留下一个暧昧的破折号,仿佛作者当时遇到了什么意想不到的情况,或者被强行打断.

沈长安的瞳孔顿时一缩,心跳剧烈,差点撞到胸口.他下意识地想把火焰移开,但为时已晚.出现的大部分警告笔迹已被火焰吞噬,只留下一个碎片般的图像印在他惊恐的视网膜上.

"不要相信这个仪式..."他喃喃自语,一股寒意从他的脊椎上涌上来,瞬间蔓延到全身.顾雪在提醒他什么?哪个仪式?是村里要为她举行的冷酷的鬼婚吗...?

更让他感到恐惧的是,在信的末尾,也就是签名本来应该在的地方,有一个用细线绑着的折叠的小婚礼糖果包装纸.就在火焰穿过附近时,一颗米粒大小的粘稠暗红色"血珠"从红色糖果包装纸的边缘悄无声息地渗出!

"血珠"并没有掉下来,但就在他试图挽救这封信的时候,它被印在了他张开的左手掌心.一股淡淡却清晰的灼痛袭来,仿佛是恶毒的烙印 他摊开手掌,随着微弱的月光从窗户射进来,他看到手掌上有一个细小的,不规则的红色印记,颜色是耀眼的红色.

他压抑着心中的悸动和恐惧,小心翼翼地捡起了那张几乎被烧焦的婚礼糖果包装纸.摸起来微凉,有一种异常的粘稠感.他屏住呼吸,在月光下小心翼翼地观察着糖果包装纸.

糖果包装纸似乎是用某种特殊材料制成的,而不是普通的纸.在月光下,隐约可见极其精细的蜘蛛网状图案.当他将注意力集中在这些模式上时,一个可怕的发现让他感到困惑.他的血液几乎凝固了——这些看似随意的线条,它们的方向,分支,甚至微小的裂缝,几乎与他小时候去过的鬼婚村门口第三块青石板上的裂缝完全吻合!

这怎么可能?!普通的婚礼糖果包装纸怎么会与数千英里外偏远村庄的特定石板上的裂缝联系起来呢?

他的眼睛盯着糖果包装纸的一角.在那里,在复杂线条的掩护下,两个模糊的阿拉伯数字以更深,几乎难以察觉的颜色 - "13" 印制.

Thirteen... this number suddenly broke into his mind, like a dull death knell. Thirteen steps? Thirteen households? Or... the thirteenth sacrifice? Countless chaotic thoughts emerged in an instant, and were dispelled by a deeper chill.

Shen Changan tightly grasped the strange candy wrapper, and the red mark on his palm was still burning. Gu Xue's suicide note, the visible warning, the bleeding candy wrapper, the matching cracks, the mysterious number "13", and the unfinished hint - "There is a mirror in the third row of drawers".

This one All the clues were like scattered fragments, pointing to a terrifying truth wrapped in thick fog. He knew that he could no longer indulge in sadness, nor could he choose to escape. Gu Xue used the last message of her life to open a door to the abyss for him, and behind the door was an unknown ritual, a huge conspiracy that might exist, and perhaps the key to unlocking the real cause of Gu Xue's death.

He stood up suddenly, his eyes cast sharply at the dusty old desk in the corner of the room.

The third row of drawers... What kind of mirror is hidden inside?