Chapter 1: Human Hell

  "It's so cold...... Huh? Why is there a bloody smell?", Hu Weidong dazedly pushed away the heavy object that was pressing on his body, slowly opened his eyes, and with some effort got up, but saw a horrific scene, "Is this hell?"

  Only to see dozens of corpses lying horizontally and vertically under Hu Weidong's feet, the polluted blood staining the land under his feet red. In front of a silver locust tree, a half-naked woman was hanging, her not-so-full breasts were cut open with a long gash, her internal organs spilled all over the ground, apparently she had been dead for some time. Although her face was covered by her blood-stained hair, Hu Weidong seemed to still feel her pain, hatred and unwillingness before she died. Not far from her, there were more than ten half-naked or naked women lying in a pool of blood, it was clear that they had been raped and then killed. Hu Weidong's gaze swept over the scene, which was about the size of a school playground, and saw nearly a hundred corpses, this made Hu Weidong, who was normally rational and self-controlled, feel like there was a raging fire burning in his chest, "What kind of person did this? It's simply beastly! I'm going to kill him!"

  "Wait, shouldn't I have been blown to death already? Did I cross over?", Hu Weidong calmed down a bit after a while and only then remembered his own situation...

  Hu Weidong, although not well-known among the people in his previous life, was already one of the best artillery and ammunition experts in China and even the world. However, on his 44th birthday, he died in an accident while testing a new type of high-explosive ammunition due to a slight operational error, following in the footsteps of his grandfather and father, once again proving the high risk of this profession. As Hu Weidong was at the center of the explosion, he hardly had time to feel any pain before being blown to pieces...

  It was probably because of this that Hu Weidong didn't immediately realize he had traveled through time after waking up. Of course, the shocking scene before his eyes was also a major reason that couldn't be ignored. For the same reason, Hu Weidong walked a few steps before discovering that he was injured, and when he looked down, he saw a conspicuous bullet hole on his left chest that was still slowly bleeding...

  "It's really lucky, his heart was on the right side, otherwise he would have died immediately after being shot... I've never heard of anyone surviving with a broken heart. But also thanks to the close shooting distance, the bullet went straight through the chest and came out, the damage can be tolerated, otherwise if it had entered from one eye and exited from a big hole on the other side, or stayed inside, even if it hadn't hit his heart, I wouldn't have been able to stand up now..." Hu Weidong sighed with lingering fear.

  He suddenly crossed into an unknown era. If it were an ordinary person, they would likely be bewildered for a while, but as a technology expert, Hu Weidong's rationality was much stronger than that of ordinary people, allowing him to quickly regain his composure. Of course, this was also because before crossing over, Hu Weidong had already been alone (his family members were all engaged in high-risk occupations, so their lifespan wasn't long, and both he and his wife were workaholics, never having children after marriage). He didn't have many emotional ties, although now thinking of his wife who died young due to researching nuclear weapons, his heart couldn't help but feel a pang of sadness...

  At this moment, the remaining memory fragments of the new shell have quickly merged with Hu Weidong's soul. It turned out that this young man was not yet sixteen years old, but he had encountered such a disaster and his family was destroyed. What made Hu Weidong hard to believe was that it was not the anti-war period he thought it was, but the winter of 1934, the 23rd year of the Republic of China. The ones who slaughtered so many fellow villagers were not the invading little devils, but the returning village team that appeared in countless literary works in later generations...

  "How can we be so cruel to each other as fellow Chinese?" Hu Weidong exclaimed in anger, but at the same time, he couldn't help but think of some historical materials about the Republic of China that he had read before. "After the Long March of the Red Army, the masses in several main bases suffered a disaster of extinction. In just one year, hundreds of thousands of people died from massacre and starvation. In the three years before the full-scale outbreak of the war of resistance, the total population of each major base decreased by tens of millions (at that time, even official media such as the Central Daily did not avoid mentioning this). Minxi Liancheng, Jiangxi Xingguo and other counties even became almost men-less counties..."

  "No, I must stop this tragedy! At least, saving one is one... it's also a revenge for this child and his family!" Hu Weidong clenched his lower lip tightly, making an almost impossible vow in his heart. However, Hu Weidong's decision was not entirely impulsive justice, because he was also one of the targets of the massacre, so saving people was also saving himself. After all, more people meant greater strength. Moreover, Hu Weidong was not an ordinary scholar with no combat skills. At 16 or 17 years old, he had joined a special forces unit and became a battalion commander after just over a year. Later, due to his father's will and the fact that the military industry really needed more talent, he reluctantly left the special forces to study in Japan for three years before returning home to follow in his grandfather's and father's footsteps on the perilous path of military industry, which was not well-known but extremely dangerous. During his time in the special forces, Hu Weidong was particularly valued for his exceptional skills and command abilities, but he also had excellent martial arts skills, which were very important for him to make a name for himself from scratch.

  However, Hu Weidong also knew that although this new body was precocious and had a better physique than the average 16-year-old boy, if he were in good condition, his skills from back then could be brought out at least 70%. But with his current state of hunger, injuries, and lack of weapons, it wouldn't be easy to eliminate the villains and protect the crowd. Nevertheless, the difficulties of reality couldn't shake Hu Weidong's determination. After finding some coarse food hidden away using his residual memories to replenish his energy, Hu Weidong simply familiarized himself with his new body before resolutely heading out. On the road, he unexpectedly discovered that this new shell of a body was actually better than his own from when he was in the special forces, especially in terms of vitality, which was very abundant. Even with injuries, he didn't feel particularly tired or weak. Hu Weidong didn't know if this was a benefit brought by crossing over or if the boy originally had an exceptional physique, but either way, it wasn't a bad thing...

  Although his hands were a bit rusty, Hu Weidong still relied on the tracking skills he learned in the special forces to follow the traces that might have been left by those villains and arrived at the second village he saw after crossing over. The mournful cries and wails that came from afar made him indignant, but he could only endure for the time being, because there were more than thirty of those beasts, Hu Weidong couldn't help but worry, "There are actually so many people......it's not easy to handle!"

  But just then, a certain comrade suddenly walked unsteadily to the bottom of a certain tree not far from where Hu Weidong was hiding and undid his belt, it turned out he wanted to relieve himself...