In the 23rd year of the Republic of China, there were always two smells floating in the middle of the night in the French Concession in Shanghai: one was the smell of champagne on Xiafei Road, and the other was the smell of corpse wax in the old city wing.
Shen Yanqiu made a living by repairing the underworld, but found a human skin map in a bronze lamp holder. The map has twelve "sinkholes" marked with blood, and each of them contains secret treasures that can overturn the fate of the country. Some people have seen blinking jade figurines in the Kunlun permafrost, and have found breathing lacquerware from shipwrecks in Xisha. There are even rumors that the murals in the Luoyang ancient tombs will change their content according to the heartbeat of the spectators.
When the mysterious woman Su Manshu in cheongsam knocked on his door with half a tiger charm, Shen Yanqiu realized that the national treasures robbed by foreign museums were not the most terrifying things at all. What's really terrible is that there are "keepers" hidden in every sinkhole - they are not rice dumplings or mechanisms, but a group of living creatures covered in human skin, waiting to use the flesh and blood of tomb robbers to complete a sacrifice that lasts for three thousand years.
This is a race against time: the tomb robbers of the Eastern Army in the north, Boss Dai's special forces in the south, and even the priests from the Vatican entered the Qinling Mountains with crosses. And every time the map in Shen Yanqiu's hand was unlocked, there would be one more chewed-up corpse in the Shanghai concession.
What he didn't know was that hidden in the slits of Su Manshu's cheongsam was not only a short gun but also a birthmark exactly like his.
