Chen Yan, a graduate student in the Department of Archeology, never thought that the bronze gear rubbings left behind by his father before his disappearance would involve him in a life-and-death mystery. That Qin Dynasty gear with a tooth pitch error of only 0.1 Mm actually has half of the face of a Qin warrior embedded between its teeth - the left eye is a mechanical pupil, and the right eye is filled with mercury poisonous mist.
When he and former special soldier Qin Lan sneaked into the K9801 burial pit, a bronze repeating crossbow shot poisoned arrows from the stone wall. The arrow shafts were engraved with secrets not recorded in the "Historical Records": "Astronomy above, geography below, eternal life hidden in the middle." In the underground palace, the twenty-eight constellations are illuminated by night light. The beads are lit, and the deviation of each star corresponds to the deadly whirlpool of the Mercury Galaxy; under the nine-story rammed earth altar, the "perpetual motion machine" driven by bronze gears is turning, and the "mermaid paste" lubricated by the gears is actually the last piece of the puzzle of Qin Shihuang's dream of immortality.
The international tomb robbing organization "Black Snake Society" has already laid a dragnet. What they want is not gold and silver, but the black technology of the Qin Dynasty hidden in the gears. Only then did Chen Yan discover that Qin Lan's explosive bag contained an undercover communicator. Professor Lao He's secret technique of Fang Xiandao concealed the truth about the madness of all members of the archaeological team in 1998.
When the poisonous mercury mist filled my chest, my father's voice suddenly rang in my ears: "When the gears turn, the living will turn into figurines, and the dead will speak..."
Is the ultimate secret of the bronze gear the key to the altar of immortality, or the self-destruction program that buries everything? And the truth about his father's ten years of disappearance may be hidden in the empty eye sockets of the Qin Terracotta Warriors - there, facing the coordinates of "Zi Wei Yuan" on the Eternal Night Star Map.
It sounds good and looks good.