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The story begins in the early morning of June 18th, 1992, when Woo Anai, a local resident, gazed into the dark waters of one of these mysterious ponds. The ponds, arranged as five rectangular bodies, had appeared unchanged for centuries. Villagers had warned children away from them for generations, yet no one could say precisely why. Despite the community's reliance on these ponds for fishing and water collection, nobody had ever successfully measured their depth. Probing with bamboo poles only revealed that they stretched deep into the ground, disappearing without ever feeling the bottom.