The Quantum Stitcher and the Blood-Red ICU

When your scalpel can cut through space and time, how do you choose between saving one person and saving seven billion?

At three in the morning in the ICU, Lin Shen clutched his sister's third critical-condition notice when a bizarre installation prompt for Cyber Era 2077 suddenly appeared on his phone. The moment he aimed the camera at her pale face, terrifying streams of data burst across his retina: her diseased bone marrow stem cells were marked with a green indicator, meaning they could be repaired.

“Life Weaver System activated. Pay 20 million Causality Points immediately.”

The bloodstained scalpel melted in his hand and became a quantum suturing device. But the monitor above the operating table wasn't showing a heartbeat. It was counting down to a sudden dengue outbreak in a Southeast Asian country. Lin Shen had no idea that when he pierced his sister's ninth intercostal muscle, a pregnant woman in Tokyo would miscarry because her blood-forming stem cells had vanished without a trace.

This world doesn't need superheroes. It only needs sinners who know how to keep accounts.

To pay the System's astronomical treatment fees, Lin Shen used his brain's neural overclocking to trade Bitcoin on Wall Street, only to accidentally crack the encrypted wallet of the dark web's emperor. He used nanobots to clean up chemical pollution, but instead triggered mass hysteria across an entire neighborhood. When he finally scraped together enough for his sister's bone marrow transplant, the surgical lights suddenly revealed Cthulhu runes. It turned out that every organ healed was trampling the corpses of parallel universes in reality.

“Congratulations on unlocking the hidden achievement: Reaper's Intern.”

Now the world's top surgeons are hunting him, cyber-assassins from the Raven Organization are after him, and even the World Health Organization is investigating him…