National Fate: Restoring Along the River During the Qingming Festival

[National fate] [Cultural confidence] [Dimensional superiority] [Exhilarating national war] The global war between nations begins, and each country’s contestants are sent into a beginner’s village based on their nation’s cultural relics. Egypt’s contestants are chased through pyramids by mummies, Nordic contestants encounter sea monsters aboard Viking ships, and island nation contestants struggle to survive amid the towering waves of ukiyo-e paintings. Lin Yuan, China’s contestant, stands at the Rainbow Bridge in Along the River During the Qingming Festival, looking completely lost. Before him is a bustling Northern Song marketplace. A charcoal seller frets that he can’t sell his charcoal, the tavern hostess warmly invites him in for a drink, and the clang of a blacksmith at work rings out from a smithy. System notification: Complete the test of cultural heritage to earn points. While contestants from other countries fight like maniacs, Lin Yuan is writing ad copy for the charcoal seller, helping a boatman out of a bind, and strolling through Bianjing with the painter Zhang Zeduan. The Chinese livestream chat is full of viewers watching him. Viewers around the world: “???” Are they on vacation? Only when the six-nation coalition, jealous of China’s progress, tears through the painting to invade The blacksmith melts down their armor, the carpenter dismantles their siege engines, a physician knocks out an entire army with a packet of sleeping powder, and an embroiderer trips a berserker on his eighth charge with golden thread. The whole world goes mad: “You Chinese, what on earth do you use to fight wars?” Lin Yuan stands at the Rainbow Bridge, 814 ancient Chinese figures behind him. He says softly: “Let them see what it means to crush your enemies with the power of civilization.”