Reborn in Bureau 749

The frozen tactical dagger dripped with eerie blue blood. Ye Qiu looked at the reflection of golden pupils in the ice and finally understood why his master had risked his life to carry him out of a bronze coffin decades ago.

Deep inside a Qinling mine, Ye Qiu had just secured a permanent position when he faced the first major crisis of his career. As a searchlight swept across a bronze altar covered in strange inscriptions, his radiation dosimeter suddenly went off the charts. The jade pendant he had worn for twenty years even began resonating with the altar. The incident not only awakened Ye Qiu’s ability to foresee the future, but also brought to light a top-secret file sealed by Bureau 749: the only survivor of the Qinling expedition team wiped out ten years ago was Li Mingyue’s father.

Li Mingyue, who held doctorates in both paleography and neuroscience, discovered a startling pattern while deciphering Western Zhou blood-sacrifice inscriptions: every supernatural site corresponded exactly to the location of a modern nuclear power plant. As the two investigated bronze artifacts smuggled by the Raven Group, Ye Qiu’s foresight suddenly failed when he faced an augmented assassin. The artificial nerves implanted beneath the killer’s skin could emit infrasound that disrupted brain waves.

From the quantum-entangled state of Sanxingdui’s bronze sacred tree to a Yuan dynasty star chart salvaged from the depths of the Yellow Sea, they gradually uncovered a history that had been erased: ever since the time of King Mu of Zhou, someone had tried to reactivate the prehistoric altar at Kunlun Ruins every five hundred years. Now, the abnormal weakening of Earth’s magnetic field is pushing humanity toward its sixth cycle of civilization’s rebirth.