Ling Cage: Winning Over He Guangzhe

When a Dusty’s body awakens in a garbage heap and the silver band on his wrist blares an ear-piercing alarm, no one expects that this outcast, numbered 9527, will use deadpan jokes to upend the genetic order of the entire Starvault Realm.

On the first day after Lu Chen transmigrates, he runs straight into a Ravager attack. He smashes a Spine Gu’s head with a wrench, only for the System to tell him: this thing is edible, and it can even help him level up. Beneath the Lighthouse lies the wasteland’s law of devouring or being devoured; above it, the Lightkeepers rule under the dominion of their scarlet armbands. And he, of all people, has a mouth that can leave enforcers wide-eyed and make girls smile.

The predicament is the scarlet substance embedded in his gene lock, the turning point is the jokes that tumble from his mouth, and the price is the mutant constitution slowly awakening within him. He earns a reputation as the team’s “wisecracker” among the Hunters, while struggling to survive amid Fan Yin’s split personalities. From finding mimic chests in surface nests to performing stand-up at the Lighthouse, he fights absurdity with the absurd and dismantles oppression with jokes.

When civilization is reduced to scraps of data and faith becomes a tool for brainwashing, what should humanity choose? Keep cowering in the cage of hierarchy, barely clinging to life, or let a Dusty crack open the way to a new era with 101 deadpan jokes?