Restore Overseas Remains and Expose Centuries-Old Lies of the West

My name is Lu Guanheng, a restorer who specializes in cultural relics returned from overseas. Until I found the remains of a finger bone belonging to a late Qing Dynasty worker among a batch of Dunhuang scrolls. The moment I touched it, I "saw": burned villages, cargo holds filled with living people, blood mines under the colonists' whips... Anonymous warnings followed: "Stop investigating unless you want to be the next 'collection' item." I laughed. They don't know that every bone I repair is "resurrected" in my mind, telling the truth: The "Oriental Skull Wall" in the Paris Catacombs is inscribed with erased names; The British Library's "Folklore Contract" has a bloody fingerprint on the back of the deed of sale; The "private collection" of a New York rich man, with a boy's family letter sealed in a porcelain vase... The more remains I restore, the more horrifying the connections become: In the past hundred years, the West has stolen more than just cultural relics? They stole the bones of a hundred thousand ancestors and tampered with the memory of the entire civilization. Now, I am standing on the podium of an international academic conference with my newly restored bones. Faced with a room full of "authorities", I pressed the play button. The last words from a hundred years ago echoed throughout the audience through bone conduction sound: "Tell my parents... I didn't do it voluntarily... I want to go home..." The whole place was dead silent. In my earphones, the coordinates of the next remains came: "Antarctica, frozen for hundreds of years, wearing a Ming Dynasty flying fish suit." —————— The remains can speak, but history is not silent.