A Chinatown Brawl in America Meets Japan's Warring States Era

In 2026, friends and family gather for a wedding feast in Elm Creek, a town in West Virginia, USA.

Then a flash of white light sweeps through town. The power goes out, and all phone signals disappear.

The bride's brother, Zhou Weicheng, sets out with the town sheriff and several miners to investigate. When they reach the town limits, they discover that the familiar road simply ends there. Beyond it lie unfamiliar fields, a village in flames, and soldiers armed with matchlock guns.

This is northern Ise, Japan, in 1569, amid the chaos of the Warring States period.

They drove for only a few minutes, yet have been transported 457 years into the past. And they aren't the only ones who have come here. The American town behind them, populated mostly by Chinese immigrants, has also been swept into this strange era, along with its 3,000 residents, factories, machines, and firearms.

Will these 3,000 people change the course of history, or will they vanish into the dust of a turbulent age?