Transmigrated into Jing Ke, the map is unfurled and the dagger revealed, its tip already pressed against the back of his neck.
Jing Ke is completely freaking out: a socially anxious military-content creator has transmigrated, only to start at an execution site?
Luckily, he binds to the Jiahao Social Death System: the more humiliating the situation, the more powerful the technology he unlocks.
Beginner mission: Drop to one knee, look Ying Zheng in the eye, and shout:
"Your Majesty has a powerful aura, but you're not handsome enough!"
The entire court freezes. Ying Zheng's eagle eyes narrow to slits.
Jing Ke curls his toes hard enough to dig out the Epang Palace, then unlocks blast-furnace ironmaking. White-hot flames refine pure iron, and he manages to save his own life on the spot.
From then on, Great Qin embarks on an absurd path of industrialization:
Shout a slogan to unlock the assembly line, producing a hundred swords a day to chop the Tai'a Sword in half;
Cut the ribbon and announce, "The hydroelectric plant is in operation," and a triple-bellows water-powered furnace smelts steel at 1,400 degrees;
Make a fool of himself during an armor demonstration at court, then unlock full steel plate armor that crossbow bolts cannot pierce.
Li Si keeps trying to kill him?
Cut off his iron supply, poison his swords, plant spies, impeach him at court...
Jing Ke fights back at every turn with the technology he earns through public humiliation, rising from a disgraced craftsman to Great Qin's Chief Metallurgist, overseeing iron production across the realm.
Ying Zheng goes from calling him "a madman spouting nonsense" to saying, "My dear subject, make another one. I want to see a cannon."
Jing Ke lowers his head and checks the technology tree:
Black powder, firearms, field cannons, steam engines, railways...
He's still 1,970 social-death points short of unlocking the main battle tank.
The six-nation coalition at Hangu Pass, don't get impatient. Once I roll out the tanks, you'll all praise Great Qin as the coolest!
