National Treasure: Jin Tianbao Box 国家宝藏之觐天宝匣

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During the period of the Northeast Anti-Japanese United Army, the unit of the famous resistance leader Cui Erkuazi learns that the Japanese are looting the tomb of Emperor Huangtaiji. Leading his brothers, through countless dangers, he finally succeeds in stopping the enemy's operation.
To protect the nation's cultural relics, Cui Erkuazi and his men move all the treasures out of the imperial tomb. But when they lift the golden mask from the face of Huangtaiji's remains, they discover that in the skull, right in the center of the forehead above the eyes, there is a hole — the legendary "heavenly eye." Cui Erkuazi is stunned. At the same time, they realize that this tomb does not seem to be an imperial tomb at all!
Cui Erkuazi, who stays behind to cover the retreat, is captured by Xiao Jiannan, a police officer of the puppet state of Manchukuo investigating the tomb robbery. Learning that the man he has caught is the famed Cui Erkuazi of Guandong, Xiao Jiannan risks his life and career to rescue him and escorts him back to the mountain.
When the two reach the camp, they learn that several brothers who took part in the operation and entered the imperial tomb have already died mysteriously, and the mysterious deaths continue: within the few days the two spend back at the camp, several more men die under inexplicable circumstances. Xiao Jiannan, a detective by training, is entrusted with the task, and after countless dangers he finally succeeds in rooting out the hidden Japanese spy.
It seems the matter should end there, yet the mysterious deaths do not stop. The brothers are on the verge of collapse, and Xiao Jiannan is at his wit's end. Just then the camp comes under a Japanese punitive raid. Cui Erkuazi knocks Xiao Jiannan unconscious and hides him in a cave, then throws himself into a desperate fight with the enemy. Overwhelmed by superior numbers, the entire camp is wiped out — not a single man escapes.
Over the more than sixty years that follow, the miraculously surviving Xiao Jiannan spends his whole life trying to uncover the truth of this affair. Only on his deathbed does the matter come to the knowledge of his grandson, Xiao Wei.
Xiao Wei, together with his friends Gao Yang and Zhao Ying, begins an investigation. After countless hardships — including finding Cui Erkuazi's descendant Cui Chuang and recovering the coded rhyme Cui Erkuazi left behind — they locate the entrance to the old robbery tunnel, enter the imperial tomb, and retrieve the skull for forensic testing. In the end, Xiao Wei succeeds in solving the mystery that tormented his grandfather for over sixty years, and all the mysterious events find a scientific and rational explanation:
It turns out that of the brothers who died mysteriously on the mountain, some died natural deaths, but a considerable number were killed by the Japanese spy who had infiltrated the camp, and the last few to die were killed — as no one could possibly have imagined — by Cui Erkuazi himself while sleepwalking. The string of mysterious deaths deepened the fear already lurking in the superstitious Cui Erkuazi, and in his sleepwalking state his subconscious desire for self-preservation drove him to kill his own brothers. In the end Cui Erkuazi learns the truth himself, but as he is about to take his own life in atonement, his elder brother stops him. At that moment the Japanese begin their assault on the camp, and Cui Erkuazi dies fighting them.
As for that tomb, it is in fact not the imperial mausoleum of Huangtaiji at all. Xiao Wei and the others initially surmise that the "heavenly eye" in the skull was caused by trauma, but then things begin to go wrong: first, the forensic report shows that the hole in the skull was made by a Zhongzheng rifle at a distance of 300 meters, the bullet passing straight through. How could a man who lived 400 years ago have been shot?
Just then word arrives that Cui Chuang, who had also entered the tomb passage, has died mysteriously on his way home. It seems the mysterious curse has already descended upon them, and Xiao Wei is on the verge of breaking down.
The distraught Xiao Wei is suddenly abducted on the street by a group of mysterious men and taken to the imperial tomb. It turns out that all the mysterious events were orchestrated behind the scenes by Que San, a relic dealer from Panjiayuan. Xiao Wei had once brought the box to Que San for advice, and from the box Que San traced the whole history of the affair and plotted to steal the treasures the brothers had left behind in the tomb. As Xiao Wei helps the criminals open the tomb's mechanisms, he cleverly uses the traps to lock the villains inside the tomb passage, and in the final struggle Xiao Wei discovers that a bullet ricocheting off the ceiling kills the gangster. Thus the truth is fully revealed: the "heavenly eye" in the skull was also formed back when the camp brothers entered the tomb chamber — a gun went off accidentally, and the bullet ricocheted off the ceiling into the coffin.
The matter is finally settled, and Xiao Wei and Zhao Ying travel to Russia to visit an exhibition of cultural relics