[Wish fulfillment] [Military] [Farming] [Civil engineering] [Infrastructure-building] [Survival] [Wild imagination] [Army of the Living]
In a chaotic, barren age, the Great Zhou has fallen and war rages across the land! Warlords fight among themselves, slaughtering refugees within the borders, while foreign horsemen pour in from beyond the frontier, trampling the land and massacring villages. The Han people have been reduced to two-legged sheep, wandering homeless and starving in the cold, with human lives worth less than grass!
Heng Dali, a modern-day civil engineering student who slacked off and failed his exams, had the worst luck imaginable. He transmigrated in his sleep and from the start was forced to roam the land with his little sister. No money, no food, no one to rely on: pursuers, famine, and blizzards came one after another, nearly burying the siblings right where they stood. At the critical moment, he awakened the Civil Engineering Heavenly Book System, and the knowledge he'd wasted four years learning on construction sites came roaring back. He was going to use his engineering skills to make his way through this chaotic age!
While others fled for their lives, he turned around and started building infrastructure, recruiting refugees, and raising fortresses. Bandits and warlords came looking for trouble? He dug pits and set traps, sending a whole gang of burly men packing with some good old-fashioned engineering. Foreign horsemen wanted to massacre a city? He used lime concrete to build walls so hard that the cavalry crashed into them with their heads ringing. A white-frost cold wave was freezing people to death? He built fire walls and underfloor heating, keeping refugees so warm through winter that they took off their coats and sipped soup. The enemy cut off the city's water? He dug underground rivers and built waterworks, creating an oasis in seven days and making every opponent eat their words!
He was equally skilled at clearing land, farming, building machinery, and repairing roads and bridges. He gathered all kinds of unlucky refugees, assembled a workforce of skilled laborers, and raised an army of the living all his own, digging traps to repel enemies and building cities to shelter the people. In this thoroughly ruined wasteland, he started from nothing and built, through sheer hard work, a safe haven in the midst of chaos, where no one went hungry or thirsty and the defenses were utterly impregnable!
