Daomu Biji
| Author | Xu Lei |
|---|---|
| Original title | 盗墓笔记 |
| Country | China |
| Language | Chinese |
| Subject | tomb adventure |
| Genre | historical fiction, science fiction |
Daomu Biji (simplified Chinese: 盗墓笔记; traditional Chinese: 盜墓筆記; pinyin: Dàomù bǐjì) variously translated as Grave Robbers’ Chronicles,Grave Robbery Note and The Lost Tomb, is a novel series about the grave-robbing adventures of Wu Xie, a young man hailing from a family that had been tomb-raiders for centuries. Written by Xu Lei (Chinese: 徐磊) who is better known by his pen-name Nan Pai San Shu (Chinese: 南派三叔), it was first serialized online at Qidian China (simplified Chinese: 起点中文网; traditional Chinese: 起點中文網; literally: "Starting Point Chinese Net"), a Chinese website for publishing, writing and reading novels. Written over a span of five years and published as nine separate novels, it is one of the most popular novel series in China from 2007 with several million fans and over 20 million copies sold. The author has also written two sequels, Zang Hai Hua (Chinese: 藏海花) and Sha Hai (Chinese: 沙海) which continued the leading character's story, neither of which were finished at the time of the author's announcement to retire from writing on March 22, 2013.
Along with Ghost Blows Out the Light, Daomu has contributed greatly to creating a craze and subsequent market in the Greater China area for novels focusing on grave-robbing that also deal with the supernatural.
50 years ago, a group of Changsha grave robbers dug out manuscripts of the location of treasures from Warring states, but an encounter with an undead rendered almost the whole group dead. In the present, the young grandchild of the sole survivor, Wu Xie, discovers a secret within his grandfather's notes. Together with his third uncle, Wu Sanxing, and a few other experienced tomb robbers, to search for the treasure. But what no one expected to find the intriguing mysteries that accompanied their tomb robbing adventure - just who was the owner of that tomb? Will they be able to find the real coffin? And just where will these puzzle lead the group?
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