(No harem, no invincibility, no System, not a power fantasy. The apocalypse departs from a realistic worldview, so read at your discretion.)
During a routine maintenance job, parameter engineer Lin Shen discovers eerie memory remnants. These data fragments point to an “initial setting” deliberately hidden by the System. To investigate the truth, Lin Shen ventures into a data fold and, just as his consciousness is about to collapse, encounters a mysterious being claiming to be the “Zero-Generation Parameter Engineer.” When Lin Shen tries to modify the core code, he discovers that this so-called “default” is actually a memory prison humanity chose for itself. This is the story of a parameter engineer who accidentally touches the truth of the world while repairing a System bug. Let’s begin with that anomalous maintenance task.
