The boat was made of white bones and the boatman was a scarecrow. The entire vessel had been constructed from countless bones, seamlessly interlocked and stacked together. Large and small bones alike gleamed icy white, almost like jade, yet emanated a chilling, macabre aura. It was obvious at a glance that these were not ornamental, They had been stripped from real creatures and pieced together to form the shape of a boat.0

Standing at the stern of this bone-crafted boat was the boatman, crudely assembled from straw. His limbs and joints were clearly made of human bones, while the rest of his body was stuffed with disordered straw, like the ugly patchwork of a mischievous kindergartener. His oversized head was entirely made of straw, with a mouth and nose roughly drawn in charcoal. The eye sockets were hollow,...0