Using a cheat costs you years of your life! Seeing three seconds into the future makes your heart stop for eight seconds!
Zhu Rong was just a smuggler, but he was forced to become the “living insurance policy” for human civilization.
One day, the strange cargo he was transporting suddenly lit up and slammed into his right arm. From then on:
• Hunted jointly by the Star Alliance and the Empire, with a bounty high enough to buy a planet
• Strange markings crawling from his arm toward his heart. Medical diagnosis: at most two years to live
• Every use of his abilities comes at a terrible cost: blindness, memory loss, organ failure
And the so-called “mission to save the world” turns out to be:
Use a rickety ship he can’t even afford to repair, and take four “unreliable” crewmates:
❌ The Empire’s runaway chief scientist (she stole the cargo)
❌ A veteran mechanic whose daughter died under mysterious circumstances
❌ An experimental girl who can hear “machines crying”
❌ An eight-year-old royal orphan who woke up after being frozen for 50 years
And go repair a “civilization-destruction program” that even its creators abandoned.
As the darkness devouring entire star systems draws near, and the elite choose to abandon 90% of humanity and flee on their own,
that eight-year-old girl tugs on Zhu Rong’s bloodstained sleeve:
“Big brother, can we… make the stars stop crying?”
He spits out the blood in his mouth and grips the controls.
This galactic insurance policy, paid for with his life,
Takes effect today.
[Click to read and witness how an ordinary man keeps civilization going at the cost of his life]
Interstellar smugglers are bound to a life-saving system, and every time they save their lives, they are gambling, and the price is heartbreaking and high! The protagonist Zhu Rong is ruthless and has a bottom line, the bond between the team is amazing, the secrets of the Phoenix are reversed layer by layer, the empire hunt + the crisis of the Devourer are parallel, the writing is smooth and not procrastinating, every chapter has exciting points and suspense, the more you read, the more addictive you are. Five-star recommendation!