I Worship the Ancient Gods in the City

Spread madness to gain divine power. I worship ancient gods in a modern city.

Li Yunfeng's life had been as bland as a cup of weak tea, until he bought a strange black game console at a secondhand market.

That night, the screen lit up, and a voice whispered inside his mind:

[Cognitive anomaly "The Whisperer" activated]

[Initial task: Hum this "pleasant melody" for three people to hear]

[Failure penalty: Permanent cognitive damage]

He did as instructed.

The next day, three coworkers began obsessively dividing everything into two equal parts: cactus spines, reports, even phone screens.

As for him, he received his first blessing: [The Art of Halving].

As it turned out, the thing he'd bound himself to wasn't an ordinary System at all. It was a sinister worship System that traded "spreading madness" for "incense offerings," exchanging them for power from unknowable ancient gods.

From then on, his life spiraled completely out of control:

The melodies he hummed drove people into bizarre obsessions;

The abilities he exchanged for grew more sinister than the last;

His coworkers, cultivation families, the government's "relevant departments," and the multinational conglomerate "FaithTech" all came to regard him as a "source of corruption";

And the true threat went far beyond that

Beyond the stars, the Great Old Ones were slowly awakening;

Behind the System lay a thousand-year game of strategy among the ancient gods;

And he was both a pawn and the one about to flip the board.

This was a path to godhood with no turning back.

It was also an apocalyptic war for the survival of civilization.