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Around fifty miles west of Chengdu-the largest city in the Sichuan province-lies an ancient village at the base of a montane forest. 

A temple is carved into the rocky mountainside, hidden deep among the towering bamboo, whose legend speaks of a spirit trapped within its caverns.

A willow is as old as time itself,  whose fragile and crooked branches tell the fate of the world as long as it lives.

An anonymous post online details the events leading to their own disappearance.


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