The Grave Robbers' Chronicles: Sea Treasures

Lin Shen, an archaeology student, is drawn into a thousand-year-old mystery by a cryptic journal left behind by his grandfather. A bronze snake casket turns up on a sunken Northern Song Dynasty ship, and clues emerge about an archaeological team that vanished forty years ago. When Lin Shen joins an expedition with Wu Xie, Fatty, Zhang Qiling, and the others to explore an ancient tomb in the Qinling Mountains, a mechanism modeled on the Twenty-Eight Mansions, a strange presence inside a bronze warrior, and three-eyed snake markings appearing on their bodies drive them toward the ultimate sacrifice demanded by the “Bone-Shedding Ritual.” As an unknown virus spreads from the Star Marrow Stone, a seven-day countdown closes in. Lin Shen discovers that he is the sole surviving test subject of the “Big Dipper Project,” launched thirty years ago, and that the entire tomb was built as an altar specifically for him...