A Multidisciplinary Prodigy in the Fiery Red Era, Starting at Harbin Institute of Technology

In 2033, Wang Ling, a dual master's graduate in metallurgy and mechanical automation from Jinling University of Technology, died of pancreatic cancer.

Having burned through his remaining years, he unleashed the fury of a century of national humiliation and hatred in a blaze of fire. When he opened his eyes again, he was on a battlefield in 1953, where the smoke of war still lingered.

Reborn as the badly wounded commander of a Volunteer Army reconnaissance company, he had a bullet wound deep in his bones and injuries from artillery fire etched into his flesh. Fortunately, he survived and withdrew with his unit to China for treatment.

At the brink of death, the Industrial Knowledge Base Assistant System finished binding to him. An immense trove of metallurgy, mechanical engineering, and electronic engineering materials was stored in his mind.

In the impoverished 1950s, outside powers had sealed the country off as tightly as an iron barrel. The industrial base was weak, and the nation was dependent on foreign suppliers for materials, machine tools, and electronic components.

Starting in the classroom and laboratory at Harbin Institute of Technology, he used the professional expertise of a master's graduate from the future and his System's knowledge base to climb the technology tree, one step at a time.

He developed specialty steels, tackled shipbuilding, and laid the foundations for early electronics and computing, taking products from laboratory prototypes to mass production in factories.

He broke through technological barriers, filled gaps in the industrial base, and paved the way for the rise of a great new China, step by step.

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