When the rust stains of bronze climb onto the tear stains of the Mona Lisa, and when the trembling of the chimes tears apart the cracks in time and space, history loses its gentle mask and reveals its fangs that corrode the world.
Cultural relics restorer Su Yan's right eye mutated late at night at the Louvre and turned into a "corroding pupil." From then on, he could see the decay under the surface of civilization: Leonardo da Vinci's "Savior of the World" shed rusty blood, the bells of Zeng Hou shook the Nine Songs Fantasy Land, the Great Wall beacon tower turned into an erosion monitoring station, and under the waves of Yunmengze, Qu Yuan's remnant soul was still stitching the world together with Chu Ci.
Bronze is both a lock and a bait.
The Su family's bloodline carries the curse of coexisting with the Eclipse World, and every generation must sacrifice one person to guard the anchor point.
The attic where my mother disappeared, the files where my father was obliterated, the warning inscriptions on the stumps of the Twelve Golden Men... The truth is like a rusty gear, biting into the lie of Qin Shihuang's fishing tripod from Surabaya, the star beacon of King Zhou Mu's western tour, and the suspended bronze heart in the Quantum Buddha Kingdom.
When the Statue of Liberty in New York is devoured by rust spots, and when the laser trap in Cave 493 of the Mogao Grottoes awakens, Su Yan is forced to embark on a desperate path that tears apart time and space - using memory as a blade and blood as a sacrifice, in the maze of history, mythology and science fiction, looking for the slim possibility of civilization's survival.
This is a battle of rust that spans thousands of years. The bronze tide overflows the classics, the tentacles of erosion penetrate reality, and at the critical point of entropy increase, human beings are nothing more than a trembling dust under the rust-colored sky.
