System Collapse: This Little Rat Conquers Rivers and Lands

Hilarious! Satisfying! Sci-fi! Max-level!

Lu Chen, former investment banking elite, now a "veteran NEET," binds to the System "Collapse Compensation Protocol: Mouse Edition." Low-energy lie-flat living? No, precise, high-powered strikes! He'll overturn the world with the "Way of the Mouse!"

He recruits true mice: a socially anxious hacker, a misanthropic painter, and a trust-fund kid who has given up, forming the "Anti-Overwork Alliance."

The new System's Host is a Version 2.0 workaholic. Its abilities include the "996 Aura," the "Blessing Fist," and "KPI Chains." Those bound to the officially deployed "Positive Energy System" see Lu Chen as a virus.

With his mouse-sized vision and insight, he manipulates global stock markets, bankrupting a hedge fund that shorted him overnight.

The "Work Hard System" is a tool used by an alien civilization to select slaves, and "collapse" is a culling mechanism they deliberately created. Lu Chen's "Mouse Protocol" is a "seed of civilization" left behind by an ancient civilization.

Drawing power from the "will to live" of billions of ordinary people, rather than from effort points, he covers the city and withstands the aliens' cleansing beam.

The world's rules are rewritten: "Hard work doesn't always bring success, but protecting those you love will always give you strength."

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual persons or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.