American psychologist John Holden arrives in London to participate in a symposium aiming to expose witchcraft and devil-worship as a fraud, with attention centered on a cult run by a Julian Karswell. Debarking his plane, Holden learns that the symposium leader, Henry Harrington, has suddenly died and he is now in charge. What only the audience knows is that Harrington was clearly killed by a demon, apparently summoned by Karswell to avenge his persecution. Despite both threatening and cajoling behavior by Karswell, Holden determines to proceed, though the only cult member willing to talk about his experiences is in a prison psychiatric ward, catatonic after allegedly killing yet another cult member. However, Harrington's niece, Joanna, believes, based on her uncle's notes, that Karswell may indeed have some satanic powers derived from an ancient tome in an obscure language which he has been able to translate, and attempts to warn the skeptic Holden. Karswell's mother also attempts to warn Holden off. However, the thing which begins to most get to Holden are the occasional, but mounting, sensory and mental disturbances he begins experiencing after an encounter with Karswell, and the discovery that, during this encounter, Karswell secretly slipped a slip of parchment with a curse in runic symbols on it into Holden's belongings, a parchment identical to one Harrington recorded having had passed to him in a similar manner shortly before his death... [N.B. Holden at no point stays at the Karswell estate].。凌晗的王者光环竟和父亲凌炜的神秘失踪而造成的童年巨大心理创伤有关。某生物集团巨贾司马风邀请凌晗探寻4600年前突然消失的华胥文明以及传说中“超越生死”的神秘力量。除了巨额报酬外,司马风展示了先遣队全军覆没前传回的影像---一条让凌晗无法拒绝的线索。历经天坑秘境、地下人形生物等生死考验后,凌晗终于带队抵达华胥文明最后的遗迹“雾隐城”,父亲当年以身犯险探寻此地及司马风此行的真实目的被揭开。华胥文明的“终极秘密”出现在众人面前。司马风的行动引发了4600年前化作“不死战士”向死而生保护族人的3000华胥勇士破棺而出。面对即将散播至地面的远古细菌和注定有去无回的结果,凌晗毅然走向解决问题的终局。。