Steelcore City, the pinnacle of cyberpunk metropolises, is home to both humans and intelligent NPCs, where the line between game and reality has grown blurred.
Top player Su Mo is betrayed and killed, then reborn as S-0927, a low-level maintenance NPC struggling to survive.
By chance, he acquires the “Inverse Core Time-Space Cluster,” which lets him call upon seven versions of himself from parallel timelines and share their knowledge and skills.
Every time he does, NPCs across the city behave erratically. The cost is steep, but the power is astonishing.
Thick-skinned and tough as nails, he spends his days repairing mechanical cockroaches while secretly picking up technical skills, then uses his hacking abilities to cause trouble at night.
Relying on his gaming experience and mechanical talent, he claws his way up from a heap of scrap and takes revenge on his former enemies.
He gradually uncovers a plot to harvest time and space, orchestrated by the “Time Core Overseers,” while his own identity grows ever more mysterious.
After gathering all the fragments of time and space, he discovers that the highest authority is hidden within his own NPC shell.
At last, he sets the city’s scrap metal in motion, builds a quantum network, defeats the Overseers, and embarks on a journey across the multiverse.
He was once a player. Now he is a mechanical legend with a free will, illuminating the many strands of the multiverse and reshaping the laws of time and space.
