Xu Fu's Voyage East: Drone Swarms Breach Great Qin's Borders

210 BC, Xianyang Palace. Qin Shi Huang pounds the table and roars, “You said you were looking for elixirs of immortality. Why do you keep fiddling with this flying iron thing?” Xu Fu raises a remote control. A drone hovers in the hall. “Your Majesty, this can survey mountains and rivers across a thousand li. It’s more useful than magic.” A cold glint flashes from the sleeve of the fangshi beside them. A dagger slides three inches from its sheath. No one knows that this “fangshi” is actually Chen Mo, a geological engineer from 2024. A magnetic storm hurled him into the Qin dynasty with three drones, a solar charging panel, and a tablet at 7% battery. He had planned to coast through life, but the First Emperor forced him to search for an elixir of immortality. With no other choice, he uses drones to map mineral deposits, survey underground veins, and predict natural disasters, relying on modern technology to stay alive. But he soon realizes that this game is far more dangerous than he imagined. Zhao Xuan’s spies watch him day and night, Lu Sheng’s dagger is coated in poison, and Zhao Gao sneers from the shadows. Even A-He, the young apprentice who saves him food, carries Fusu’s jade pendant in his arms. One wrong move, and he’ll be convicted of deceiving the emperor and lose his head. And when the Xiongnu spies spot the drone wreckage, when the First Emperor’s secret letter reveals the emperor’s schemes, and when another fleet appears on the vast East Sea Xu Fu finally understands: there is no such thing as an elixir of immortality. True immortality means planting a seed in time.