One night, Lin Wei received a final DM from @OldSoul_2003: a voice clip. The boy, now soft-spoken, said: “I got out. My grandma took me in. Thank you for lighting the lantern.”
One night, an anonymous upload appeared in his recommendations. No thumbnail. No title. Just a string of numbers: . He almost swiped past. But the view counter read zero , and something about the stillness of it pulled him in.
Desperate for answers—or distraction—Lin Wei sent a DM. Ten minutes later, a reply: “Watch this before midnight. Don’t watch alone.”
Lin Wei never learned his real name. But he’d learned something else: that evil doesn’t always wear horns. Sometimes it wears a family photo. And sometimes, deliverance begins with a single person choosing to see . deliver us from evil 2020 bilibili
The video was grainy, shot on what looked like a 2010s camcorder. A child’s bedroom. Posters of Naruto and Sailor Moon peeled at the edges. In the center, a boy sat cross-legged, maybe ten years old, staring into the lens. Then he spoke:
Lin Wei spent the next week building a simple Bilibili collective—no algorithms, no ads. A channel called (灯笼). It hosted anonymous audio submissions: kids reading poetry, playing piano, or just breathing into a mic to prove they still existed. He added hotline numbers in the description. Crisis resources. A comment section moderated by volunteer psychology students.
“Deliver us from evil — not by removing the dark, but by giving us the courage to name it.” One night, Lin Wei received a final DM
“My uncle locked me in the garage for three days.” “She said if I told anyone, they’d take my little brother.” “I haven’t left my room since March. Not because of the virus.”
The reply came as a single danmaku, green text against black: “To be seen. To be heard. To be delivered.”
“Deliver us from evil, Grandpa said. But what if the evil is inside the house?” Thank you for lighting the lantern
He traced the usernames. Most were new accounts, created April 2020. But one stood out: , whose upload history was a single, private playlist titled The Quarantine Tapes .
Here’s a short narrative inspired by the phrase “Deliver Us from Evil,” set within the Bilibili community during 2020 — a year of uncertainty, isolation, and unexpected digital connection. Deliver Us from Evil Platform: Bilibili Year: 2020