1937: The Red Flag Calls Me Home to Build a Star

Lin Chen, a gifted student studying abroad, was summoned back to China just as the Marco Polo Bridge Incident plunged the country into war!

He had barely set foot on his homeland before enemy planes ravaged the skies and his compatriots’ blood stained the land...

At this critical moment, the [Rise of the Stars] System activated!

“The commander’s orders: Protect Comrade Lin Chen at all costs!”

“Report! The Japanese planes are back!”

Lin Chen gave a cold laugh and ordered, “What are you panicking for? Let my ‘Sky-Piercing Monkeys’ give them a loud welcome!”

A new mixture of black powder exploded in the sky. Over the radio, an enemy pilot shrieked, “Baka! Their crude rockets actually chase people down and blow them up!!!”

Starting with nothing, he hand-built military equipment, made steel with primitive methods, produced sulfuric acid himself, and introduced the basics of radar!

With the System’s support, the tech tree lit up at a furious pace!

“Consultant Lin, can these blueprints really make a gun more powerful than Germany’s?”

“A gun? Next year, I’ll have Zero fighters doing aerobatics over their own graves!”

Secret agent assassinations? Blueprint theft?

Lin Chen produced a [Proximity Sensor] without hesitation. “Want to steal our technology? First, see if the landmines made in our border region will let you!”

In the past, the enemy laughed at us: “China has no technology, only bodies of flesh and blood.”

Now, the enemy wailed on their knees: “Where did they get these weapons?! Is this even science?!”

Standing beside a homegrown fighter plane, Lin Chen smiled faintly:

“You used to have planes and cannons, while we had an iron will.”

“Now we have planes and cannons...”

“Tell me, is your will made of iron?”