[Real Bank Robbery + Everyday Reality Gone Wrong + Rise from the Bottom + Cthulhu Invasion + Travel Between Two Worlds]
I make 3,000 yuan a month and work as a security guard at an apartment complex. My life is a pile of dog crap.
Then a luxury car from the Xinghuan Group pulls up at my guard booth, and a man in a suit tosses me a phone.
There’s only one line on the screen: “Sole mission: rob a bank.”
I scoff and reach for my phone to call the police, but he grabs my shoulder. “You think this is a crime?”
“It’s an interview.”
“A-an interview?!”
“Right. If you succeed, you get a ticket to the ‘new world.’ If you fail...” He adjusts his sunglasses. “It’s not like your life can get any worse, is it?”
That day, I gripped my rifle and headed for the biggest bank in the city.
I thought I was robbing it for money.
Then, as sirens blared, the man in the suit sent me a new message: “Congratulations. Now look up and see what you were really meant to rob.”
I looked up and saw a purple-black rift split open in the sky.
Countless tentacles were slowly dangling from within.
Later, the Xinghuan Group applauded me. “Welcome aboard.”
“Starting today, your KPI isn’t guarding a gate anymore.”
“It’s, ”
“Every time the dark side of the world invades, go rob its ‘banks.’”
“Steal its core and feed it to our Earth.”
“Use the paranormal to keep humanity alive.”
And me, Zhao De, former security guard, current “interdimensional bandit.”
A stun baton in my left hand, and in my right, the eldritch god’s heart I just stole from the abyss.
