Pockmarked Face, Frying Pan: Killing Japanese Invaders from the Start

Shanghai, 1931. The bustling foreign concessions are alive with song and dance, but beneath their glittering surface, dark currents surge. Only a few months remain before the January 28 Incident. Sui Yuan, who transmigrated here, has become a rickshaw puller at the bottom of Shanghai society. Then he activates the Survival System. An identity cursor distinguishes friend from foe, a Super Soldier Serum tempers his body, and the System’s shop lets him buy firearms and gear. Concealing his true face behind a mask, he uses nothing but a frying pan to kill a ronin from the Black Dragon Society under cover of night. He leverages the Secret Service to get into the Zhabei Police Station. The foreign concessions, alleyways, police stations, and foreign trading houses. Japanese spies, collaborators, and foreign powers: their forces are tangled together like interlocking fangs. He walks along the edge of a blade, wielding it in the darkness to root out traitors and false authorities, and strike down the enemy. The land lies shattered, but his conscience burns bright. Even as he sinks into the mire of a time of chaos, Sui Yuan wants to be more than a hidden blade concealed among the common folk. He also means to lead troops into bloody battles against the Japanese and defend his homeland.