On his thirty-third birthday, Chen Mo was laid off.
The moment when the mortgage text message and the car loan reminder vibrated at the same time, he stood under the office building in the early morning, carrying an old backpack filled with sundries, feeling that his life was like a piece of bad code that could not escape an endless loop.
Just on the verge of despair gnawing at sanity, the phone screen automatically lights up.
A simple fishhook icon flickered faintly.
[The "Civilized Angler" system is successfully bound.
[Newbie gift packs are being distributed...]
There was no fishing gear or bait in the bag.
There is only the vast entertainment fire from another dazzling civilization:
The cold universe of "The Three-Body Problem", the magical chapter of "Harry Potter", the light of freedom of "The Shawshank Redemption", Jay Chou's youthful melody, the wandering epic of "The Wandering Earth"... Countless works that have illuminated a world have sunk into his personal "fishing pond" in their most complete and original manner.
The former company's tens-billion-dollar AI conference is being broadcast live around the world.
Chen Mo used the "Precision Delivery" experience card provided by the system to send the first paragraph of "The Three-Body Problem" to the top of every viewer's screen.
"Give time to civilization, not time to civilization."
When the entire network went crazy for this glimpse, when the former supervisor called in anger——
In a dilapidated rental house, Chen Mo typed the first line of code that truly belonged to this civilization era.
From then on, the down-and-out coder turned into a "civilized fisherman".
Others fish, he fishes for civilization.
While others are involved in involution, he gives civilization to the years.
This is a story about using the bright starlight of the entire high-dimensional civilization to fight against the cold gravity of reality, and ultimately illuminate oneself and the entire world.
