Twenty years ago, he failed to bring his closest friend back from that cursed cave.
Twenty years later, a dragon-patterned vase from the Palace Museum shattered in front of a crowd, leaving behind a bronze fragment that would guide their fate.
Secret treasures around the world began stirring one after another, and every clue pointed to a century-old colonial conspiracy buried beneath the shadow of the West.
A disillusioned professor was forced out of retirement to assemble a special archaeological team.
They would brave deadly dangers and unravel forgotten secrets.
From the whirlpools of the South China Sea to the hidden reaches of southern Tibet, from the depths of Angkor Wat to the thousand pagodas of Bagan...
They had to face not only the transnational organization Black Tide and its attempts to hunt them down, but also a crisis of trust within their own team.
When the bronze fragments came together again, the truth buried for twenty years finally came roaring back...
Theme: The return of cultural relics knows no borders, but the dignity of a civilization has its roots. The fragments pieced together over a thousand years reveal not only the truth of history, but also the silent resistance of Chinese and Indian civilizations against colonial plunder.
