The Quantum Appraisal Bureau

When damage to cultural relics becomes the key to decoding history, their guardians offer their flesh and blood as sacrifice.

On a stormy night at the Palace Museum, an ebony casket seeped with an eerie mercury glow.

X-rays pierced the lid, revealing a luminous night pearl on the pages of the People’s Daily from 1950. This national treasure, which should have been locked away deep underground, had somehow shone on the pages of a newspaper seventy years ago!

The young antiques appraiser Lin Feng had no idea that the 112-degree burn mark his mother had carved with her life was crystallizing on his right hand into a cocoon-like scar of supernatural power:

· Touch a relic to read the memories it retains, at the cost of his brain tissue breaking down

· See a fracture and discern its quantum key, accompanied by the agonizing metallic transformation of his right arm