When a Warring States tiger tally resonates at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, restorer Lu Jiuyuan is dragged into a war between civilizations spanning five thousand years. A bronze key awakens quantum-state Qin terracotta warriors, a Ming dynasty star chart points straight to a Shang-Zhou sacrificial altar hidden by Hydra, and the patterns on Iron Man's armor power core perfectly match the cosmic radiation map on a Sanxingdui mask with protruding eyes. What is called an alien invasion is merely the cyclical resurgence of a lost civilization.
With a blood-forged star chart left by his grandfather in hand, Lu Jiuyuan discovers the terrifying truth hidden behind history: Bai Qi buried Zhao soldiers alive to seal Chi You's starship; Zheng He's seven voyages across the Western Seas were actually a hunt for escaped Zhou celestial officials; and the perpetual motion machine in Leonardo da Vinci's notebook clearly bears the coordinates of the Bashu script's "Heavenly Prison on Mount Min." As Marvel heroes' technology clashes with the mysteries of China's ancestors, an ultimate revelation about the survival of civilization unfolds with a roar in the fissures between time and space.
When Iron Man's repulsor lights up a laser crossbow in a terracotta warrior's hands, and Mjolnir resonates with the Marquis Yi of Zeng's chime bells to produce the trigrams of the I Ching, the ultimate secrets of the Marvel Universe are revealed to be hidden in ancient artifacts!
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