The Whole Village Transmigrates: Restarting Industrial Civilization

At noon on the Harvest Festival, the sky split open. All 3,420 residents of Hongliu Village, village and all, were hurled into another world. There was no way back. Hooves thundered at the village entrance, and the curved blades of the Black Jie scouts were already chasing down refugees. Chen Yan, a young village official trained in engineering machinery, parked a tractor across the road. Two farm machines formed a line and charged. Their steel bodies turned aside a rain of arrows, and in three minutes they crushed more than twenty horsemen. They won their first battle, but nobody could smile. They had 200 tons of diesel, 500 rounds of ammunition, 200 doses of antibiotics, and enough grain to feed the village for only three months. Their modern supplies looked impressive, but every use brought them closer to running out. Once consumed, they would be nothing but scrap metal. The scouts who escaped would take the news back. The next wave would be two hundred horsemen. After that, a thousand. Factory Director Ma said, “The fuel will run out, but as long as we’re willing to learn, we can make more.” They lit the earthen blast furnace. The first batch of iron failed. They lit it again. Coal, iron, and water were all within ten miles, in Luoyan River Valley. Chen Yan had the route laid out in his mind: earthen cement, iron smelting, steam engines, internal combustion engines. They would take their village from agriculture to industrial civilization, without skipping a single step. The Black Jie’s sabers wouldn’t wait for them to level up. Furnace fire or horsemen’s blades: which would cut through the other first? Open the first chapter and see how a village restarts civilization in the face of utter desperation.