After Returning from the Third War, They Called Me an Outer God

Lu Shang, the last “spark” of human civilization, carries a grand mission to spread knowledge (or so he believes). He has barely flown beyond Earth's atmosphere when he looks back and watches his home get blasted into cosmic dust in a nuclear fireworks show. When he wakes, a hundred years have passed. The good news: He's finally back on Earth! The bad news: Earth has regressed to a bizarre Medieval 2.0, where “communication means shouting, and faith means trembling.” Even better news: He's won himself a VIP spot in an asylum, accused of having a “demon” whispering in his head?! (Lu Shang: That's my AI! A hundred years ahead of your technology! Get it?!) In this bizarre apocalypse, people treat phones as evil iron relics and monopolize knowledge as divine revelation. Lu Shang's plan to sow the seeds of civilization hits a wall. Even more terrifying, the patchwork religion believed in by these illiterates might actually be real! The Lady of the Silver Moon demands sacrifices? The Lord of Thorns likes self-mutilation? The Lord of Radiance despises light bulbs? What kind of evil-god KPIs are these?! His only loyal companion is Zero, a sharp-tongued, scheming AI. The two form a “he-and-she con artist” duo...no, a “detective and doctor” agency, struggling to survive beside Radiance City, a den of evil-god evangelists. But as Lu Shang investigates in search of a way to restore humanity's glory, he discovers: What kind of corruption lies at the edge of the universe? Why can he understand the evil gods? Why does looking at bizarre creatures make him hungry? And what earth-shattering secret is locked deep in the database of Zero, the AI who traveled with him through a century of deep space, always insisting, “It's for your own good”? This is the story of a former hero forced to start a business in the wholesale market for evil gods. When the whole world points at you and calls you an “Outer God,” can you still walk the path of a hero?