In 2048, 100,000 players collectively traveled to the real chaotic times of the late Yuan Dynasty.
There is no system, no cheats - only one cold rule: resurrect 72 hours after death, and die permanently after five times.
Twelve thousand people died on the first night.
Retired major general Zhao Dehan woke up among beggars in Hengyang with his legs ulcerated; Li Xinghuo, a state-owned enterprise cadre, was slashed in the neck by a Yuan soldier with a knife. In the ruined temple, the twelve survivors sang "The Internationale" in a low voice, and people continued to sing in the darkness. After dawn, they decided to establish a base.
Three hundred militiamen used the "three-three system" tactic to defeat the 5,000-yuan army; professional players in the chemical industry extracted saltpeter from the soil of the old wall; the children's group used the sound of horns to report messages; four crossings of Chishui, instant messaging created a miracle of war; on the bank of the Xiangjiang River, all members of the Iron-Blooded Division stopped and said: "Brothers, see you in 72 hours"; in the Songpan grassland, the swamp in twenty days ate two thousand people, but the living continued to move forward.
Some people joined Zhang Shicheng as an official, while others fought and split among themselves. Those who stayed used bamboo to cut work-share coupons, allowing illiterate tenant farmers to write their names for the first time.
From the first cry of the public trial of the landlords in Wangjia Village, to the strategic shift of 80,000 soldiers and civilians 25,000 miles away; from the 300 militiamen to the 300,000-strong army; from the night in the cowshed to the raising of the five-star red flag on the top of Nanjing City.
In twenty-two years, one hundred thousand pieces of sand built New China.
This is not a cool novel, but a story about a group of ordinary people who were thrown into the cruelest era and chose to organize themselves and repeat the Long March with blood and faith.
If you had five lives, how would you live?
