History is no dead thing. When the noble spirit of “Wumu’s legacy” slowly awakens, and the wild abandon of “poetry and wine” gathers in Li Bai’s wine flask, they become gods walking among mortals.
Lu Jian’s ability is to touch and empathize with these gods, incarnations of historical concepts. His job at the National Containment Center is to make sure they remain safely “asleep.”
But when an Egyptian mummy is brought in, a golden scarab’s phantom flashes into view, and the most dangerous ancient Chinese god goes on a rampage.
The alarm shatters the silence. Lu Jian realizes that the containment breach is only the beginning: a mythological war sweeping across the world has quietly begun.
