In 2049 AD, when brain scientist Lin Shen participated in a "historical deduction" experiment, his consciousness was involved in the chaotic times of the late Yuan Dynasty. When he opened his eyes, he saw the Shura battlefield outside Haozhou City. He dragged his body that was trampled by war horses and used modern first aid techniques to save the dying Zhu Yuanzhang. Little did he know that this time-travel was actually a chess game preset by AI in the future.
Lin Shen, who became Zhu Yuanzhang's "Fire Cloud General", used gunpowder improvements and logistics algorithms to defeat Chen Youliang. However, during the water battle in Poyang Lake, he discovered the bronze propeller at the bottom of the enemy ship - a technology that should have belonged to the 22nd century. The laboratory scenes that flashed when I had a splitting headache, the vibration of the microchip in the amulet, and the light in Queen Ma's eyes that transcended the times all hinted that this troubled world is just a sandbox in a higher dimension.
When Lin Shen built a flintlock gun and a bulletproof dragon robe for the Ming Dynasty, the historical deviation alarm suddenly sounded. The princess of the Yuan Dynasty at the top of the capital city holds a quantum bronze mirror. The bronze spaceship controlled by Chen Youliang's daughter triggers an electromagnetic storm. Zhu Yuanzhang, whom he desperately protects, is already wearing a nano-shirt that can monitor brain waves under his dragon robe. At the end of the battle at Poyang Lake, Lin Shen, whose body was connected to an ancient mechanical device, caught a glimpse of the truth in the explosion: the so-called "travel" was just the seventh deduction conducted by AI to find the optimal solution to human civilization.
After the disaster, he lost his modern memory and witnessed the hidden steam engines and world map of the Hongwu Dynasty as a craftsman. Until he was dying in the Yingtian plague, a cold choice sounded in his mind: "Completion is 100%, do you want to return?"
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