[Civilization gamesmanship + hard logic + refusing to kneel and striking back]
Who says the Milky Way is a dark forest? It's clearly a brutal, rigid “civilization audit and examination” where the strong prey on the weak!
Weak civilizations are expendable resources. Powerful civilizations are the examiners.
Earth is branded “Class: Enslavement,” its energy supply locked down and its dignity weighed and traded like scrap iron.
Just as all of humanity is about to kneel in despair, a man carrying cheap synthetic soup and wearing flip-flops returns from deep space.
“You set the rules? Sorry, I wrote the underlying code.”
Faced with a supposedly “certain death” trial, he breaks the rules down into flowcharts and turns survival into a model answer.
Faced with an “absolute” blockade, he gives a casual squeeze and reduces the homeworld of a higher civilization to industrial waste.
Lin Xi: “We want legal clauses. Who signs, and who takes responsibility?”
Zhou Yuan: “I’m here for three things: refuse to kneel, collect what’s owed, and turn Earth from a lowly test-taker into the only one setting the exam!”
(Content warning: No System, no idiots, just hard-nosed gamesmanship. Watch Earth’s civilization steamroll the universe!)
It's boring. The second picture shows that four hundred years ago he could predict the future when he was still on earth, and he also knew the future leader.