Apocalypse: I Rose to Power After Disguising Myself as a God

[Science Fiction + Doomsday + Interstellar + Livestream + Deduction and Puzzles + A Decisive, Cunning Protagonist Who Isn't a Goody-Two-Shoes]

The Age of Abandonment. In June 2330, the world will once again witness the “Great Conjunction of Seven Stars,” an event that happens once every 77 years. But humanity is no longer obsessed with this cosmic spectacle. They have long since stopped believing in the universe, the sky, or any of the so-called “laws of truth” within it, because they discovered that the entire universe might be fake.

After the great catastrophe, humanity retreated underground, despairingly convinced that they were nothing more than toys abandoned by the gods, with death as their only escape.

To rekindle people's passion for life and restore their faith, the three great governments launched the World Painter Livestream Program. It aims to show people the mystery and vastness of the world aboveground, and to tell them that the great catastrophe was not a punishment from the gods.

{World Painter Program, Batch 147:

1. Livestream audience: all of humanity except the World Painters;

2. All rights to the World Painters transfer to the three great governments upon entering the livestream, including their lives, and remain theirs until fifty years after death;

3. World Painters are criminals from the years 2022–2330. All rights to them belong to the three great governments;

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World Painter No. 89757: Zhang Yuan. Charges: blasphemy and deception.

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(Also known as Beneath the Cold Lake. Entirely fictional, so please don't read yourself into it.)