"My dad worked as a security guard at Qin Shihuang's Mausoleum for 20 years. Before he died, he gave me a bronze key and said, 'Don't go to the underground palace unless you want to know how your mother died.'"
Advertisement copywriter Lin Xiao thought his father was just a taciturn ordinary person, until he pried open a secret passage under the Terracotta Warriors and Horses Scenic Area and was called "Young Master" by a group of "Hanfu tourists" wearing bronze masks.
Deep in the underground palace, the mercury river is like blood, and the silver elixir is suspended - what Qin Shihuang seeks is not immortality, but the genetic key to control human nature. The mother's death was actually related to a genetic experiment that spanned two thousand years.
When a modern biotechnology company tries to restart the "Qinmercury Pill", Lin Xiao must make a choice between the blood curse and the bottom line of human nature: to become a tomb-keeper in the new era, or to let history repeat itself?
This is not only a tomb robbing adventure, but also the ultimate torture of "what makes a human being".
