I Will Be a Tyrant in 5025

Programmer Lukins accidentally triggered a quantum storm in the computer room and traveled to 5025 to become the tyrant of Ace Country. When he was crowned, he was shocked to find that his home address was engraved in the suspended crown, and the life countdown was beating in the pupils of the attendants. When the mechanical Prime Minister's tentacles spread out to colonize the star map, the frozen remains of "Lukins" of all generations were hidden in the underground icehouse. Each corpse was clutching a Switch game cartridge and a yellowed medical record. The jasmine tea that my mother stuffed into the refrigerator before she died turned out to be the biological key to unlocking the server in the lunar crater; the coordinates of the rental house that leaked in childhood were the fatal loopholes in the tyrant's code. In this self-hunt that spans three thousand years, Lukins must use bug-like maternal love and undelivered takeout orders to end this civilizational reincarnation experiment that feeds on humans before his memory is swallowed up by the crown. This novel and its characters are purely fictitious. Any similarity is purely coincidental and should not be imitated.