Lu Chen, 32, a former special forces soldier. A car accident stopped his heart for three minutes.
During those three minutes, he saw the future: the sky split open, cities were destroyed, and nuclear winter descended.
When he woke up, he had only 72 days.
Everyone thought he was crazy. He quit his job, borrowed money, and bought three shipping containers’ worth of supplies. Food, medicine, seeds, tools, generators: he hauled everything he could think of to Cuiping Mountain like an obsessive man.
Then the apocalypse really came.
As cities crumbled into ruins, order collapsed, and people fought over half a can of food, Lu Chen built the first wall on Cuiping Mountain with his supplies, his partner Tiezhu, and Xiao Lu, a 14-year-old girl he rescued from the ruins.
From 13 people to 1,000. From a barren mountain to a town. From surviving to living like human beings.
He repelled the Black Scorpion Gang’s raids, withstood the Iron Brigade’s siege, reconciled with former enemies, and grew the first vegetable in the nuclear winter. He established seven rules and built a school, a hospital, and a farm.
On the thousandth day of the apocalypse, Lu Chen stood atop Cuiping Mountain and watched the sunrise.
The gray skies had cleared. Spring had come. The roads were open.
This isn’t the story of one person. It’s the story of a group of people who chose not to give up.
