Corpse Calamity 1644

In 1642, a mysterious meteor struck Kaifeng, unleashing a horrific plague of the dead consuming the living. To repel rebel forces, the city's dikes were breached, unleashing cataclysmic floods upon the ruins. Two years later, a fourteen-year-old modern middle school student finds himself thrust into this twilight of the Ming dynasty as Crown Prince Zhu Cilang. Journeying toward Nanjing under the guise of an imperial retainer, the time-displaced youth makes an eccentric resolution: to scour the imperial archives for blueprints of steam engines in order to outmaneuver the entrenched Ming bureaucratic elite—all while entirely oblivious to the silent, harrowing terror gripping his loyal maid beside him. Blending historical apocalypse with dark survival, this gripping alternate history explores a crumbling dynasty beset by both political betrayal and the walking dead.