The Forbidden City’s underground palace hides a cross-disciplinary crime-solving team: a Daoist chief who uses an iPad to decode the River Chart, a Legalist swordswoman who issues electronic citations to Taotie, a Confucian heir who can destroy AI viruses with a guqin, and a Buddhist hacker who tracks illicit merit-trading on the dark web. When a Ming-dynasty tomb guardian spits out a bronze gear fitted with a chip,
when the codes in the Book of Lu Ban activate the Forbidden City’s celestial mechanism, they tear open the truth behind the Great Explosion of the Apocalypse: quantum worms writhing beneath the tiles of the Hall of Supreme Harmony are rewriting the Classic of Mountains and Seas. Ancient ferocious beasts versus cyberpunk technology: Confucianism, Buddhism, Daoism, and Mohism are all code. What they call suppressing demons is really about suppressing the monsters that have escaped the dark web of human nature.
