Nationwide Farming: My Crops Unlock Black Technology

When Shen Shuo woke up, he found himself in a wasteland that had never appeared on any map.

System notification: The world's civilization has regressed by 97.3%, and the flame of civilization will be extinguished within three generations.

He must restore the remaining 2.7% of civilization to 100% within twenty years.

Others transmigrate with a knife from the start. He starts with a patch of land so acidic it's nearly dead.

But he has a doctorate in agronomy.

When he plants his first crop of mushrooms, the System displays a notification:

[Unlocked a fragment of civilization's memories: Ancient Kiln Blueprint, Fragment One]

It turns out this world wasn't without technology. It had simply been forgotten.

Plant buckwheat to unlock a lost smelting technique.

Build irrigation channels to unlock ancient hydraulic engineering.

Build a mushroom workshop to unlock the complete ancient kiln.

While others are still practicing slash-and-burn farming, the first high-temperature kiln has already risen on Shen Shuo's territory.

When the people of Shanshan Village arrive with knives to collect their grain, they find storehouses full of dried mushrooms and a new kiln sending smoke into the sky.

They ask, "Who exactly are you?"

Shen Shuo brushes the dirt from his hands. "A farmer."

From 2.7% to 100%, from a wasteland to a city of civilization.

This time, he will replant the flame humanity lost, one seedling at a time.