When Lin Jiu used a laser pointer to scan the bronze compass newly collected in the antique store, the dial suddenly burst out with dazzling blood—the hands spun wildly, casting a death countdown of "28:00" on the wall. What's even weirder is that the mobile live broadcast software automatically started, and 30,000 viewers were witnessing the empty nanmu coffin slowly seeping black blood on the Qing Dynasty altar table behind him.
"Welcome to No. 28, The Forbidden City of the Living."
A strange woman's voice came from the coffin. Lin Jiu's flashlight beam swept through the coffin, and his own face was clearly illuminated. The barrage exploded instantly, and someone recognized the faded cinnabar charm on the coffin lid as the lost "Seven Stars Formation of Lending Life" in "The Book of Lu Ban". At this time, the countdown suddenly accelerated, and the audience ID in the live broadcast room actually corresponded to the twenty-eight notches of the bronze compass.
In order to break the curse, Lin Jiu had to join forces with the mysterious tomb keeper Su Qinghe. This cold-faced lady, who can use silver needles to decode oracle bones on the skin of corpses, led him into the quantum state of the ancient tombs deep in the Qinling Mountains: Yin soldiers from the Republic of China patrolled the caves with guns, and the shadows of Shang and Zhou priests were using bronze cauldrons to boil human bones. The electromagnetic pulse guns they carried became the only weapons that could break the barrier of time and space.
When Su Qinghe's blood activated the last seal of the compass, their wanted order suddenly spread on the dark web. The "Bronze Ghost Face" offered by an overseas auction house at a high price actually coincides with the necklace totem worn by Lin Jiu's mother who disappeared when she was young. And under the ruins of the ancient village that devours living people every 28 years, lies the terrifying truth that rewrites the history of human civilization - a particle collider composed of nine bronze tripods is counting down to restart the "dissection of corpses" that was interrupted three thousand years ago.
