[Wasteland-era Republic of China + hard science and technology + cosmic horror]
Gray fog seals the city, and the Old Gods whisper. Lin Wan, a science-minded woman, transmigrates into the body of a lowborn medical apprentice. Rejecting the System and its cheats, she uses primitive steelmaking, ammonia synthesis, and penicillin to build a “City of Steel” amid mountains of corpses.
Gu Chen, a berserk soldier king whose past is a mystery, becomes her blade, carving a path through the bloodshed for her.
While others pray to the gods, she dissects monsters with a scalpel and clears poisonous miasma with fluid mechanics. From slums to armories, from exploring ancient tombs to leading a nation in resistance, this is an impassioned epic of reason crushing superstition and industry challenging the gods.
“Power up the whole city. Target: the Old God’s true form. Fire!”
