Over a hundred kilometers from the urban district, in the countryside.
Jiang Qiao stood beside the muddy path, staring at the village ahead in puzzlement.
This village...
Had a population of several hundred.
Half of them were elderly.
And among those elderly...
Half had had their eyes gouged out, leaving only two dark, hollow sockets beneath their brows. They looked exceptionally horrifying and grotesque.
For some reason, this reminded him of a movie he had seen before.
There had been a vicious ghost in it.
Her name was Fusang Sao.
The movie's plot was simple. A director had adapted a film from a true incident. In the movie, a woman named Fusang Sao kidnapped other people's children and gouged out their eyes.
Later, after the villagers discovered her, they hanged her from a roof beam.
During filming,
the Actor playing Fusang Sao could never find the right feeling for the final hanging scene. After countless failed takes, the director grew furious and kept criticizing her.
After many attempts, she finally delivered a take that met the director's standards.
However.
The success of that take
was actually because the safety mechanism on the hanging rope broke, causing the Actor to turn fiction into reality and be hanged to death on the set.
The hanged Actor became a vicious ghost.
Like Sadako, she inhabited a videotape.
Anyone who watched the movie
would have their lives claimed by her.
Her method was to drag her victims into the Wooden House in the movie, then gouge out their eyes.
"Do you want to see how I die, too?"
"The people in this village do resemble the victims in the movie."
Jiang Qiao leisurely walked toward the village.
There was of course no Fusang Sao here.
But there had once been a factory here