Rebuilding Civilization: Rising from the Steam Age

Long Luo, former CEO of a technology manufacturing company.

After transmigrating to a parallel universe where steam civilization has flourished in a grotesque fashion, he discovers that humanity is trapped in a technological cage of gears and boilers.

In this absurd age of billowing steam,

steam engines belch tar-black flames, telegraphs spit out not electric currents but "divine revelations" that drive people mad, scientists study the "perpetual motion soul theory," and engineers sacrifice living creatures to boilers.

Long Luo: What is this place?!

Long Luo: Tell me, this definitely isn't Holy Terra, right?!

A technology tree?

Humanity is trapped in steel and madness, and even the last sparks of hope are about to die out.

Until that night.

A woman in a dark green robe with black patterns

crashed into his workshop.

Si Tu Yao: Humanity doesn't have much time left. Either we rebuild civilization, or we become someone else's fertilizer. Work with me. You have no choice.

Long Luo: Can I say no?

Si Tu Yao: Then you, you little vermin, stay right there and behave while I call a starship over to blast you into the sky!

Long Luo: o.O??

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.