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Dunhuang Secret Documents: Tubo Treasure Scroll
> 1935, Dunhuang. > Shen Qingyan, a female archaeologist who studied in the UK, stepped into the Mogao Grottoes for the first time after returning to China, and found half of an ancient Tibetan scroll that had been deliberately burned in the ashes of the Buddhist Scripture Cave. The next day, the old Taoist priest guarding the cave unexpectedly fell off the cliff, leaving only an ancient saying on his body: "The man with the ocher face wakes up on the night of the full moon." > > In order to tra
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Shape the Year Without Leaving a Trace
A "graphene virus" caused all petroleum-based plastics around the world to degrade within 72 hours - infusion tubes disappeared, hard drive racks were shattered, and supply chains were broken. There are no zombies, no superpowers, just human civilization that suddenly fell into the pre-industrial era. Nurses remade IV tubes from bamboo, programmers carved codes into wooden boards, and farmers discovered an ancient plant fiber that could replace plastic... But these scattered glimmers were quickl
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Geological Madman of the Northern Song Dynasty
As soon as Shen Yan, a doctor of geology, opened his eyes, he became the nuisance son-in-law of a farmer in the Northern Song Dynasty. The village was flooded every year, and the county government could only build embankments to make money. Carrying a compass and a shovel, he asserted that "there is an ancient river under his feet and there is black gold underground." The villagers regarded him as a madman. When others prayed to God and Buddha to cure floods, he led people to dig vertical draina
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