He was hurled from the blood and fire of 2077 back into his family’s laboratory, thirty years earlier.
Facing the peaceful year 2047, Lin Ye knew he was a walking spoiler. The trigger for World War III and the timetable for the resource-depletion apocalypse were all buzzing in his head.
Should he carry every secret alone and go on in isolation, misunderstood?
Or gather a band of “unreliable” teammates and forcibly overturn the wheels of history?
He chose the latter.
From the start, he woke a genius programmer with a cup of coffee to the face, then used a set of “fake parameters” to blow an overseas spy lab sky-high.
Deep in the mountains of the southwest, he discovered that the enemy wasn’t secretly digging up rare earths, but a kind of “living mineral” that could grow on its own and devour everything!
His investigation led across borders to the African rainforest, where he witnessed a mad scientist injecting strange green liquid into a river, contaminating an entire mining region...
His teammates complained that he was always making references to the future, like an early sign of senile dementia.
His enemies saw him as a dangerous variable that had to be erased.
But Lin Ye simply clenched the fragments of memory from the future in his hand and looked at the companions gradually gathering around him:
A sharp-tongued, patriotic tech nerd of a heroine, and a directionally challenged but formidable retired soldier.
From the core code of the laboratory to resource wars raging thousands of miles away, they used the wisdom of their era to fight the shadows cast by the future.
When the “players” hiding behind the global chessboard finally revealed themselves,
when the treasures sleeping beneath the East China Sea drew covetous eyes from all sides,
Lin Ye knew the final battle was no longer just a struggle over resources.
This was a partnership between a solitary prophet and the wise of the present, a rebellion by the dead of the future against a predetermined fate.
At the folds of time, they would restart an era without war, for China and for all humanity.
