At a newly discovered sacrificial pit at Sanxingdui, archaeologists unearthed a bronze ring that should not exist. Its pattern had never been seen before.
While cleaning it, archaeology graduate student Lin Yan was cut on the finger. A drop of blood seeped into the grooves, and a thread of golden light raced along the design, so fast it seemed like an illusion.
But the wound healed overnight, leaving a strange scar on his fingertip. Zhang, the night watchman, went mad, muttering over and over, "I've been marked." In the storeroom late that night, the bronze ring began to glow on its own in the darkness. A voice came from deep within it: "You've come."
A vast secret tied to the fate of human civilization was about to unfold...!
Three thousand years ago, someone sealed away a civilization with blood. Three thousand years later, the ring chose Lin Yan. The break in the ring marked the location of a door. He didn't dare imagine what lay locked behind it.
But the door was already opening.
