"When the cultural relics of the Forbidden City open their eyes, the intangible cultural heritage skills turn into murderous totems"
In 2030, 17 world cultural heritage sites around the world suddenly become "forbidden zones for craftsmen." Mortise-and-tenon buildings will devour intruders, Suzhou embroidery stitches can sew time and space, and the lost sword-forging skills caused a rain of blood in Longquan Sword Pond.
Su Heng, a clock restorer at the Forbidden City, awakened "Object Listening" when he touched the "Jin Ou Eternal Cup", only to discover the death code left by his father: "On the third day of March, see you at the Shenwu Sect." He was forced to step into the restricted area and formed a team of "Intangible Cultural Heritage Awakeners" with the rebellious swordsmith Ye Mo, the archaeologist Cheng Xue, and the Miao silversmith Long Xiuxiu. They cracked the wooden cow and horse trap in the Xuankong Temple, awakened the flying patron saint in the Dunhuang murals, and stopped the revenge of Pan Fang Lei's weapon spirit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
But the "Taotie" organization in the dark is harvesting forbidden totems, and Su Heng's father is actually the first generation inheritor! When intangible cultural heritage skills become weapons of destruction, and when traditional craftsmanship encounters technological deconstruction, can they use the wisdom of mortise and tenon to piece together the broken civilization, and let Su embroidery thread mend the cracks in time and space?
"This is not the restoration of cultural relics, but a battle to defend civilization with five thousand years of ingenuity against data hegemony"
