Phoenix's Cry

Chen Xiao wakes up to the sound of gunfire and sees his comrades fallen in blood. A 'system' binds to his soul. Its task is simple: collect heroic spirits and help them reincarnate. The system lets him hear the 'echoes' of dead soldiers in his dreams. In despair, it uses the power of those 'heroic spirits' to show him a glimmer of hope. Chen Xiao thinks he is just a chosen 'graveyard keeper'. He travels from the snowfields of the Northeast to the plains of North China, then to the water towns of Jiangnan. He watches familiar faces turn into cold numbers under the system's prompts—Savior No. 1, No. 2, No. 3... until No. 3000. Only after the war ends does he realize that the system collected not data, but the most unyielding souls of this land. And those souls have long merged with him, waiting for the moment of peace to complete the final 'martyrdom'—to dissolve themselves into this land.