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No. 8: Kaib Mongb Kib

No. 8: Kaib Mongb Kib
Director: Zi Cheng
Script: Zi Cheng

Kaib mongb kib, kaib mongb kib, when a draft of cold air swirls around your shoulder, do not turn around.

When Zhong Si, a Foxian lady from the Fanghu, returned to her village after studying on the Luofu for over a century, she noticed everything had become eerily different from the home in her memories. As she dug deeper, she discovered the village elder had passed away for years, and people are worshiping an indescribable entity as the new village elder.

"Kaib mongb kib" is a medicinal concept among the Foxians of Fanghu, meaning "being physically taken over by evil entities." Zi Cheng, who grew up in a Fanghu Foxian medical family, naturally utilized this concept and created this piece called Kaib Mongb Kib.

Kaib Mongb Kib is the first horror immersia in Xianzhou's history. Previous authors would utilize horror elements in their works to help the plot along and not as the central theme, due to the mindset that extreme negative emotions such as horror would not make for a good entertainment experience. However, Kaib Mongb Kib's viral success utterly shattered the antiquated notion of the entertainment industry and set off a boom for horror-thriller Butterfly Immersias.

It is worth mentioning that Zi Cheng used Xianzhou people's fear of Heliobi to masterfully create an eerie atmosphere in this piece. However, Heliobi has now become a standard in horror Butterfly Immersias, and gradually lost its original magic.