Desperate for answers—or distraction—Lin Wei sent a DM. Ten minutes later, a reply: “Watch this before midnight. Don’t watch alone.”
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
“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.”
“Deliver us from evil, Grandpa said. But what if the evil is inside the house?” deliver us from evil 2020 bilibili
If you meant a specific Bilibili video or creator from 2020 titled “Deliver Us from Evil,” let me know — I can help track or reconstruct it further.
He messaged @OldSoul_2003 again: “What do you need?”
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. Desperate for answers—or distraction—Lin Wei sent a DM
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.”
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:
In the spring of 2020, when the world felt like a held breath, Lin Wei, a 22-year-old college student in Shanghai, found himself scrolling Bilibili at 2 a.m. again. The pandemic had turned his dorm into a gilded cage. His days blurred into livestreams, danmaku scrolling like digital rain, and the hollow comfort of autoplay. Deliver Us from Evil Platform: Bilibili Year: 2020
Lin Wei refreshed. The video was gone. Deleted. But in its place, a new comment thread appeared on a completely unrelated Genshin Impact fan edit. Hundreds of users, all posting the same four words in danmaku:
Deliver us from evil. Deliver us from evil. Deliver us from evil.
Lin Wei’s hands shook. He realized: this wasn’t a horror ARG. It wasn’t creepypasta. It was a cry. A network of isolated kids, using Bilibili’s anonymity to name what couldn’t be named at home. Evil wasn’t a demon under the bed. It was a parent who never knocked. An empty fridge. The social worker who never came because the world was on lockdown.
The reply came as a single danmaku, green text against black: “To be seen. To be heard. To be delivered.”