A glass workshop in Bangkok was hit by a fire in 2017, and Chen Jingming, a non-hereditary heir, was buried in the sea. Strangely, there were no signs of burns on his body, but the forensic doctor found hydrogen phosphide residues in his nasal cavity. The surveillance footage showed that the fire started from the glass tower in the center of the workshop, and the twelve zodiac portraits on the tower reflected bloody light and shadows in the flames.
"Seeing the angel from the palace, this is the 'Suzaku throwing himself into the river' evil spirit in the 'Yang Zhai San'!" Tang Ren's compass was attached to the molten glass liquid, and the magnetic needle pointed to the Bagua brick at the base of the tower. Su Chen scraped the charred material from the seam of the brick, and the mass spectrometer showed that it contained white phosphorus and nitrate - the formula of Ming Dynasty ware.
Qin Feng pulled up the workshop design and suddenly stuttered: "Basement...basement ventilation system!" Thermal imaging showed that the underground corridor formed a Qimen Dunjia formation, and there was an abnormal heat source in the Kan position. When the three broke through the secret door, thirty glazed Medicine Buddhas stood quietly in the dark blue light, and the night-shining pearls embedded in the Buddha's eyes oozed black liquid.
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Tang Ren used a folding fan to pick up the night-shining pearl, and under ultraviolet light, the secret was revealed: "At 11:30 pm, the glass turned into a blade." Su Chen activated the nano-scan and found a micro-prism array hidden in the pearl. Suddenly, Qin Feng's watch sounded an alarm - the gas emitted by the Buddha's Eye liquid spontaneously combusted into a ghost when it came into contact with air.
"This is the 'cold' recorded in The Exploitation of the Works of Nature!" Su Chen dragged the two of them and rolled to avoid the snake, "Mix white phosphorus with saltpeter, use a glazed prism to focus the moonlight and ignite it!" Tang Ren threw out the Five Emperors' Coins to smash the Medicine Buddha, and half a piece of rice paper fell out of the Buddha's belly - it turned out to be the workshop deed from 1937, and the signer's name was "Yamamoto Ichiro".
During a stormy night, Qin Feng raided the archives and discovered a shocking fact while deciphering the microfilm: Chen Jingming's grandfather had copied the Forbidden City's glazed tiles for the Japanese Special High Section during World War II. Tang Ren's compass suddenly attached to the safe, and the magnetic needle trembled like crazy - hidden in the safe was a complete set of fake Manchu palace architectural drawings.
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The glazed tile numbers on the drawings of the fake Manchu palace are exactly the same as the remains of the disaster workshop. Su Chen used 3D modeling to restore the building structure and found a lightning device hidden on the roof. Tang Ren measured the ruins with Yu Bu: "The combination of Yin and Xu is a combination of Yin and Yang. This is using Yang House to set up Yin Formation!"
Qin Feng suddenly stuttered and pointed to the corner of the drawing. After zooming in 3 times, he could see the small calligraphy: "Glass is the medium, leading the soul to the east." The three of them explored the Japanese cemetery on the Chao Phraya River at night. Tang Ren's Luoyang shovel dug out a glazed urn under the stele forest - the 12 zodiac animals on the urn were exactly the same as the glazed tower in the workshop.
"Look inside the altar!" Su Chen's laser pen cut through the sealing layer, and human bone fragments were mixed in the ashes. The DNA comparison results were horrifying: these were the remains of Japanese soldiers from World War II, and Chen Jingming's genetic test showed that he had 1/8 Japanese ancestry.
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In the wooden house of the night watchman in the cemetery, Tang Ren found boxes of cold light sticks, whose packaging was printed with the logo of a multinational energy company. Su Chen disassembled the light-emitting component and found that the internal wafer was engraved with the "Kamikaze Special Attack Force" emblem. Qin Feng hacked into the company's server and found that the "lighting equipment" exported to Southeast Asia in the past decade was actually an improved version of the cold device.
"This is a new type of incendiary bomb made with World War II technology!" Su Chen exclaimed under the nano-microscope. The aluminum phosphide module at the core of the wafer releases highly toxic gas when it comes into contact with water vapor. Suddenly, the floor of the wooden house collapsed, revealing the underground altar - thirty colored glass soul-guiding lamps formed the Big Dipper array, and radioactive isotopes were detected in the lamp oil.
Tang Ren used the "Thousand-Jin Lock" method from the Lu Ban Book to break the secret compartment of the altar, revealing the yellowed records of Unit 731's experiments. Qin Feng suddenly recited fluently: "...Experimental Subject No. 49, spontaneously combusted under cold irradiation..."
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In the secret room of the Chen family's old house, Su Chen found half of the "Secret Method of Glaze". Tang Ren used cinnabar to restore the remaining pages, and the words appeared: "Glass is a material, which can connect yin and yang". Suddenly, the whole bookcase turned over, revealing a dried corpse wearing a World War II general's uniform - a sword tightly grasped in the sword, with the "Yamamoto" family crest engraved on the blade.
"Grandpa!" Chen Xingyu, the son of Chen Jingming, who came out from the dark, raised his gun and sneered, "Our family has kept this secret for eighty years..." He threw out the glass marbles, which exploded on the ground. Tang Ren used a compass to block it, and the magnetic needle ignited the phosphorus powder to form a wall.
Qin Feng took the opportunity to decipher the secret compartment of the knife handle, and found the U disk contained the records of contemporary military transactions. Su Chen suddenly discovered the interlayer of the secret book pages - the real "Liuli Secret Method" recorded the improvement of anti-Japanese weapons, and the ancestor of the Chen family was actually an undercover anti-Japanese craftsman hero.
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At the abandoned dock on the Chao Phraya River, thirty cargo ships were fully loaded with refrigeration equipment. Chen Xingyu activated the control console, and the moonlight reflected by the glass lighthouse formed a dead focus on the river. Tang Ren threw out the Five Emperors' Coins to jam the gears, and Su Chen used the nano-sleeve to rewrite the chip program.
"You don't understand!" Chen Xingyu laughed crazily, "This is Grandpa's last wish..." Suddenly, Qin Feng stuttered and shattered the main control screen, and the hidden poison gas device backflowed. Tang Ren tore open the ancestral amulet - the true genealogy of the Chen family inside appeared in the light, proving that Yamamoto Ichiro was actually adopted by a Chinese craftsman who was killed by the Japanese invaders.
In the explosion, the conspiracy of the year was wiped out. Three months later, Su Chen stood in front of the reopened glass workshop. In the eyes of the restored Medicine Buddha, the night-shining pearl reflected colorful spots of light - that was the picture of the destruction of anti-Japanese weapons engraved in the pearl by the ancestors of the Chen family. Tang Ren fiddled with the newly made Feng Shui compass, and Qin Feng delivered a letter from the international criminal police: a multinational group was investigated for smuggling troops, and the chairman's surname column was clearly written as "Yamamoto".
The rainstorm washed away the smoke, and a new commission knocked on the window frame along with the raindrops. Under the glass lamp, the three figures disappeared into the night of Bangkok again...