From the start, Chen Minglun gets his hands on an alien black-tech database and a certificate declaring him mentally ill. All he wants is to be an ordinary villainous scientist.
One day in 2077, after watching the daily news in Free City, he finishes his last bite of instant noodles and shakes his head helplessly:
“Still nothing about me? Are they burying the story that thoroughly?”
Fine, I’ll just have to keep going.
And so, he presses a button.
Two minutes later, all eight satellites belonging to the Free City Council explode. Their fragments arrange themselves in the sky into glowing characters that read “Happy New Year.”
The whole city is in an uproar.
Free City Council: One day, we’ll make you pay!
Scientific Ethics Committee: You still dare to show your face! We’ll get to the bottom of those cruel genetic experiments you performed on the gang leaders!
A certain megacorporation: ... (too terrified by the ripple-effect weapon that destroyed the satellites to say a word)
