Under the Rift

On the day that 31-year-old architectural designer Lin Zhou was laid off, he received an anonymous email. A yellowed map fragment pointed to the coordinates of a rift in the earth. Twenty years ago, his college roommate Zhao Lei mysteriously disappeared in the same mountainous area. For twenty years, the call from the underground repeatedly appeared in his dreams, pinning him in a stable but empty city life, unable to take a step forward. Now, with a broken map and a sense of guilt that has nowhere to go, he has summoned four people who have also been optimized by mainstream society: an unemployed photographer, a geologist expelled from the system, a scout who was discharged from the army with punishment, and a folk history researcher who has not published a book for five years. An expedition team composed of losers sailed deep into the mountains of the southwest. What they discovered was not just a submerged ancient city, a stone wall engraved with ancient star maps, and a white light shining in the deep water - but an earthly civilization that had been deliberately erased by history, and a five-door underground system that covered most of China and far exceeded the level of craftsmanship of the same period. But there is more than one entrance to the system... This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.