The twelve zodiac animals, rat, cow, tiger, rabbit, snake, horse, sheep, sheep, monkey, chicken, dog, and pig, all eleven kinds of creatures can be found in the world.
Only dragons exist only in totems, ancient books and legends.
Geological engineer Lu Chen has always had a question in his mind: Why did the ancients put a non-existent creature into the twelve earthly branches?
When he was seven years old, a flash flood raged, and a real dragon appeared to suppress the flood. The whole village witnessed the miracle with his own eyes. But the dragon's breath swept across the valley, and the memories of all witnesses were wiped out.
Lu Chen was the same, only the lingering obsession remained in his heart, but he couldn't recall even a single scene.
Many years later, his father Lu Zhixing disappeared mysteriously, leaving only a black iron relic box.
In the box was a stack of yellowing exploration manuscripts and a gray-white bone fragment that he initially thought was an ancient fossil.
The moment his fingertips touched the bone fragment, the memory that had been sealed for twenty-one years was suddenly released.
Only then did he know that this was no ordinary fossil, but a fragment of the keel left by the Yingkou dragon in 1934.
Dragons are real.
But every time it appears, it erases everyone's memory of witnessing it.
For thousands of years, everyone who has seen the dragon has forgotten it, and the truth has been buried in the mountains and rivers.
The dragon in the Chinese zodiac is not a figment of the ancients. It is an ancient memory that has survived from humankind and has not been completely erased.
To find his missing father and to retrieve the erased truth.
Lu Chen holds the only remaining dragon bone in the world and travels through deep mountain rift valleys and underground rivers and ancient pools in Kyushu.
Instead of relying on metaphysics and secret techniques, relying only on geological exploration skills, following the traces left by the rock formations and veins, we can search for the real dragon hiding in the world.
