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The Provence Project

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Twelve years of silence. One haunting dream. A secret that refuses to stay buried. For Zhengyu, the nightmare of the moonless highway never truly ended. While the world moved on from the violent crash that claimed her grandmother's body, Zheng spent a decade honing her mind and body for a truth no one else dared to seek. Now, the team that has been broken have reunited. They possesses the final clues: a mysterious stone and a USB drive filled with warnings of the unnatural. Together, they are The Cardinals, a team bound by lineage and armed with ancient heirloom weapons that choose their own masters. Their journey leads them into the heart of the Jiu Yang Ding mountain, a place where the living are sacrificed to a building-sized terror and the "Skinners"—hideous, skinless mimics—stalk the dark. From blood-stained ancient brothels to trap-laden underwater caves, the group must navigate a maze designed by ancestors who feared the very immortality they sought to create. But as their own powers begin to wake, they realizes the biggest threat isn't the monsters in the mountain—it's the web of lies spun by her own family. To find her grandmother, they all must face the mysterious Jue Wei and survive the brutal training of Qianlong Hamlet. In a world where every face is a map leading nowhere, only one thing is certain: Everything you see is not always true. We welcome you to the the journey with Zheng, Lili, Yi and Wen.
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Chapter 1 - Chapter One: The Dream

Under the stark, moonless night sky, the sound of the sudden, violent car crash echoed sharply across the empty highway before the silence returned, punctuated only by the dripping of fluids. The collision between the trucks and car, obscured by the heavy, nighttime fog, left the interstate blocked with a tangled wreckage of steel and shattered glass. The sound of ambulance sirens echoed through the street. The ambulances were heading towards them.

The old lady that was inside the car looked through the broken window towards a girl standing nearby, tears falling from her eyes and blood from her body. The old lady was surprisingly beautiful, her face showing elegance. Even when she was in pain there was a gentle smile on her face. She muttered some words under her breath. The girl, unable to hear, slowly walked towards her. As she wiped away her own tears. The old lady reached out, placing something heavy and wrapped in cloth into her hand.

"Run" she whispered "..run as fast as you can... you are my last hope, hide that away from them."

The girl hesitated, but the desperate look on the lady's face forced her to do as she was told. She clenched that thing in her hand and was ready to run. But suddenly someone yanked her away from the car, throwing her on ground. She hit the ground with a thud sound, her grip on that thing become tightened.

That man had a tall frame, wearing a black shirt and pants with a metal rod in his hand. His silence was more dangerous than any sound.

The girl's breathing hitched in her throat, as that man started to take heavy steps towards her. She looks for any possibility to run in the middle of the street. She slowly starts to crawl back, holding tightly to the thing that was in her hand. The ambulance siren's voice was coming closer. She knew he would be desperate, not for her, but for the thing in her hand. She gathered all her energy and ran as fast as she could.

Running through a street she has never seen before, she was looking for a place to hide, but unable to find one. She can feel her heartbeat in her head, her head throbbing with pain and tiredness.

Her legs stop near a big tree, she looks around in a hurry, she thinks to herself she needs to hide that thing before she hides herself. She moves closer to the tree, it was like she sees something on the tree, her hand moves close to the tree to touch it but then a heavy metal rod was slammed on her back, throwing her straight onto the wall.

The pain was sharp and unbearable. She slowly gets up, her legs trembling, she looks at the man standing in front, his face was covered with a cloth but the aura around was inhuman.

He kicks her on the stomach, making her fall back on the wall, the girl was exhausted. she had no energy remaining to fight back or run. The man crouches down to her level and slowly removes his cloth from his face. The girl slowly glances at him only to meet a horrifying face of something you can't describe.

The blood dripping from his body and a very bad smell, his face was like smashed by something. The most horrifying thing was his eyes, bigger than any normal human and muscles in his eyes were red like blood, like they will pop out anytime.

"Give...It...to..me".

The demand was clear, that "thing". The girl, terrified, doesn't say anything, the man grabs her throat, squeezing it. The girl unable to breathe, the world starts to fade under her eyes. Her eyes start to shut.

The only thing she saw last time was that horrifying face and voice.

"Give...It...to..me."