The Seven Silver Formula

【Hardcore historical mystery + transnational battle of good versus evil】 【Archaeological suspense, respectful of history, no tomb raiding】 In 1646, Zhang Xianzhong, leader of a peasant uprising in the late Ming dynasty, was ambushed at the mouth of the Min River in Sichuan by the Southern Ming general Yang Zhan. He suffered a crushing defeat, and countless treasure-laden ships were sunk. From then on, later generations told the legend of the sunken silver at the river mouth. For three hundred years, no one could bring up a single piece of gold or silver from the riverbed. After the 1990s, more and more treasure hunters salvaged and stole from Zhang Xianzhong's sunken ships in the Min River. The treasure connected to seven oddly shaped silver ingots retrieved from the Min River became a new target coveted by tomb robbers, and many foreign forces joined the contest to unravel the mystery of the seven silver ingots. Yang Dianfeng, a top computer science student at a 985 university, is accidentally kidnapped by a tomb-robbing gang. He is soon arrested and then co-opted, and unexpectedly becomes the leader of an archaeological survey team. From then on he is drawn into a fierce struggle against foreign tomb robbers, beginning a fog-shrouded, bizarre, and utterly extraordinary adventure. This novel is a suspenseful mystery archaeological adventure story. Strange folk customs are all explained through relevant scientific discoveries. The archaeological passages are grounded in evidence. All deductions are alternate-world fiction; any resemblance is purely coincidental. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: The Seven Silver Formula — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠