Sun Guishan is an oil engineer posted to Africa. By a stroke of luck, he makes contact with a local tribe. He works during the day and helps the tribe command its battles at night, already acting every bit like a warlord.
But to his utter surprise, after the tribe grows stronger, government forces intervene and rout them completely.
The tribal chief is more than ready to hand him over, but then the chief is mysteriously killed by a woman with a gun.
Unexpectedly, fate gives him another chance, letting him transmigrate to a parallel world's Republican-era China, where he has a real shot at becoming a warlord!