1944, Changbai Mountain. Four hundred and twenty-seven workers were sealed in the underground fortress, leaving an unfinished game of chess. Someone carved four words on the bones: Don't forget me.
In 2024, Chen Jiuyuan received a call.
Since then, he has traveled through five mountains and rivers——
In the steel fortress in the northeast, there is a chess game paved with bones buried; under the reef in the South China Sea, an ancient cannon from the Opium War has been guarding for 180 years; in the depths of the desert in the northwest, the top-secret report of seven engineers decayed with the wind and sand; in the Savage Mountain in the southwest, the souls of tens of thousands of expeditionary troops are still waiting for the word "go home"; under the turret in Beijing, a secret that has lasted for hundreds of years is waiting to be seen.
He is not a grave robber. He is from the State Administration of Cultural Heritage.
Everywhere, there are foreign forces watching. Everywhere, there was someone ahead of him. You have to go down everywhere - to places where the living dare not go, and bring up the stories of the dead.
He has two partners: a silent special forces veteran, and a female doctor whose grandfather died in the underground fortress. Their mission has never been to dig for treasures, but to take another look at the world for those who have been forgotten.
Some people say that if you go down, you won't be able to come back up.
He said: Someone has to go down.
A chain of mountains and rivers, dragon bones everywhere.
If someone remembers, they never died.
