烧腊

　　在一场死亡率不是1%，而是98%左右的疫情之后，艾莉离开了她的街区，到了一个新的城市，在那里她遇到了奎恩，一个对新世界有独特生存之道的人。

唐载初年，位于郊外校场倒塌的通天浮屠残骸一夜之间复活。天空中一条火龙照亮夜空，并喷射火球摧毁了整个校场，死伤无数。随后通天浮屠也燃起大火，化为灰烬。而异族鬼道在城外叫嚣，只有武则天效仿大佛自焚，天下才可免受灾难。城中内外人心惶惶，狄仁杰奉命彻查此案，却遇到了与自己有过节的大理寺少卿裴东升。二人不打不相识，被迫一起调查此案。面对外敌的入侵，队友的不信任，狄仁杰决心背水一战，势要查明案件的真相。

　　The nightmare was about a demonic possession. A long time ago, there was an evil in a small town and it was jealous of the girl and would never let her go, since the devil loved the girl. One night, the evil raped the girl and she became pregnant. After months the girl could not hide her baby, her father figured her secret out and clapped the girl in irons and locked her room door. But the evil put the gun to her father' temple and saved the girl. The father had a stroke and had been sleeping on the bed for three months and died. Time went on and the girl brought a child into the world. Naturally, people who were living in the village heard the story and they did not want to see neither the girl nor the baby since when the baby was born, plants dried in the field, fishes lost in the lake and people had prayed to the god for rain, but nothing changed in the village. People got so angry, dug a hole in front of the fountain, put her into the hole and threw stones at her face. The girl died soon after. The evil went off the deep end, took a revenge of the village and killed everyone except two sisters because the evil wanted them to take care of its baby...

A noir portrait of Italy in the Seventies.