Pulse Return

Introduction to the work Half a page of scraps of paper scattered in the Dunhuang Sutra Cave unexpectedly led to an unsolved case from 28 years ago - Shen Yuanzhou, a top cultural conservator who disappeared mysteriously while escorting him back from overseas in 1998. The only son Shen Ye left behind accidentally inherited the family's centuries-old "vein vision" ability: he can see all the cultural relics implicated in the veins of thousands of years of civilization. From the darkroom at Sotheby's in London, to the dusty niches in Cave 17 of the Mogao Grottoes, from the pile of oracle bones buried underground for three thousand years in the Yin Ruins, to the broken branches of the bronze sacred tree still stained with mineral soil in the Sanxingdui sacrificial pit, Shen Ye followed the fractures scattered around the world. After tracing the line all the way, they came across the secret overseas smuggling group "Grey Bird": they were not trying to sell cultural relics for profit, but they wanted to tamper with and cut off the core thread of Chinese civilization, erasing the identity memory of a civilization from generation to generation. Two generations of cultural conservators have been retrograde for half a century. Countless nameless people who have been on the front line of the pursuit of cultural relics have disappeared into the dust and perseverance. All the scattered fragments, oracle bones, bronzes, and scriptures have finally returned one by one to the coordinates where they were buried in their homeland, following the veins that spanned the mountains and seas. That is not a dead old thing, it is the heartbeat of Chinese civilization that has lived for thousands of years. As long as the veins are still connected, the echoes of thousands of years will never stop.