Lin Mo never dreamed that binge-watching a spy drama could pull him right into its plot.
One moment, he was slamming his hand on the table in his rented apartment and cursing the villain. The next, he had transmigrated into the world of Beacon of Espionage, set in 1937, as a disposable collaborator in the No. 76 Secret Service who wouldn’t survive three episodes. And things got even more ridiculous: the Espionage Action System he was bound to gave him a bizarre mission from the start: escape within thirty minutes, then deliver a cutting threat to a female underground agent. Failure meant ten minutes of electric-shock treatment.
Facing a gun pointed straight at him and the ice-cold stare of a female courier, Lin Mo escaped by bluffing and using the combat skills awarded by the System. But he soon discovered that the System didn’t just issue bizarre missions like “play the pig to eat the tiger” and “undercover product promotion.” It also liked to spring updates in the middle of things.
In the lion’s den of No. 76, he bluffs the Japanese and their collaborators with one hand and outmaneuvers his fellow agents in the Military Statistics Bureau with the other. Every now and then, he even helps the underground party pass along false intelligence. The System’s shop can exchange points for an indestructible body technique, or spit out a useless item like A Collaborator’s Guide to Bad Behavior.
When a hilarious System meets a transmigrator who acts decisively, watch Lin Mo make the spy game his own amid the flames of war: using modern knowledge to make the head of the secret service pay dearly, relying on System rewards to take on Japanese warriors, and rising from a despised disposable collaborator to a conspicuous big shot in Republican-era China who gives every faction a headache.
Expect the most hard-hitting gunfights and the most absurd System missions. Watch Lin Mo tap-dance on the edge of a blade and turn a spy drama into a triumphant comeback story!
