We Agreed on a One-Man Grass-Cutting Spree, but You Led the Whole Internet in Defending a Lonely City

"I thought this was supposed to be an invincible hack-and-slash power trip. Why have you made me defend a lonely city by myself for forty years?"

The new war game Ironblood Through the Ages went on sale, and tens of millions of players eagerly prepared to become legendary overlords in a world torn by chaos.

But the moment they logged in, every player was trapped in a lone frontier city besieged by hundreds of thousands of cavalry!

No water, no food, no reinforcements!

The NPCs around them endured from fresh-faced young men in fine clothes to old soldiers with white hair and missing teeth, yet they still clung to their battered battle flag, defending it with their broken blades.

"Child, does the emperor in the Central Plains still remember us?"

When the city finally fell, eighty-year-old men throughout the city donned their armor and blew themselves up, taking the enemy with them.

A line of gilded text appeared in the ending cinematic: "The Anxi Army of the Western Regions held the city alone for fifty years, never surrendering until death!"

History bloggers across the internet wept on livestream: "This is the backbone that has never been broken throughout China's thousands of years of history!"