Heart of Bronze: The Earth Veins Return to the Abyss

Bronze Heart: The Earth's Veins Return to the Ruins is a science-fiction mystery blending suspense, adventure, and Lovecraftian elements. Zhao Chuan, a young man just released from prison, sets out to find his missing father and gets caught up in the mystery of a Warring States tomb in Dragonspine Mountain. He discovers that the ancient tomb is actually a prison holding an extraterrestrial bronze battleship called the Bronze Sparrow Terrace. The vessel lives by devouring dragon veins, and it is on the verge of awakening. Zhao Chuan joins forces with Chen Jianshan, the head of an archaeological team, to investigate, but they are attacked by inhuman monsters known as Bronze Wraiths, and Chen is captured and transformed. Carrying the “Derelict Vessel Project” his father left behind, Zhao Chuan takes a mysterious key and fragments of an ancient mirror deep into the thousand-year-old underground palace, aided by the anonymous hacker Luo Si and Qin Zhao, guardian of the mirror. There he activates the star dial and obtains the coordinates of the “Eye of Guixu” on the far side of the moon. At last, in the jungles of northern Myanmar, he activates the ancient beacon “Wangshu,” using his own consciousness as a guide to lead the battleship through a jump into Guixu and avert the end of the world, at the cost of his own disappearance. Against its vast setting, the story explores civilization, sacrifice, and existence, revealing the brilliance of human nature and the choices people must make.