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Doctor Probert and his companions, including the American adventurer Thaddeus P Beaumont, set sail for Warlord Era China in their quest for the mythical Plateau of Leng. Although their expedition is plagued by enigmatic attacks from the sinister Tong of the Sleeping Cuttlefish, they eventually come ashore in Shanghai... But soon the expedition has lost its way in the singing sands of the Gobi Desert. Taken prisoner by Mongolian border guards, its members are marched to the capital, where they fall under suspicion of being enemy agents... Will the expedition ascend the Plateau? Who is their unknown enemy? And will they ever learn the true identity of the yellow-masked high priest?