The day the divine tree awakened, the cultural relics my father restored began to glow.
I’m Lin Jian, an ordinary restorer working on cultural relics at Sanxingdui. I thought my life would stay this way: my family fallen on hard times, my father missing, and my craft barely keeping me fed.
Then one day, the bronze divine tree in the museum suddenly began to shine. The world changed, folded spaces opened, and legendary mythical beasts reappeared among us.
The authorities came to me and said this was the start of the “experimental field assessment countdown.” They told me that Earth was a Jiuzhou experimental field established by a higher civilization, that ancient myths were all operating protocols, and that my father’s research, his “alien civilization intervention theory,” mocked as the ravings of a madman, was the truth.
Forced to join the Bureau of Abnormal Event Investigation, I teamed up with Jiang Li, a descendant of the Pillar Guardians, and embarked on a deadly journey to find Mount Buzhou and decipher the Hetu and Luoshu diagrams.
But the Zhulong organization had already set its sights on us. They wanted to embrace the Observers willingly, trading humanity for a place of privilege in the new era.
And I, a pure human specimen incapable of awakening supernatural abilities, had only two weapons: a family heirloom black stone tablet and an uncanny ability to sense the hearts of cultural relics.
Should I clear my father’s name, or fight for civilization’s right to choose its own fate?
The divine tree has lit up, and the countdown has begun. This time, it’s our turn to define humanity’s fate.
