Rebuilding Order in a Bizarre Apocalypse

The blood moon descends. Paper money turns to ash, and steel crumbles. As the supernatural replaces the laws of physics and fear becomes the only currency, humanity wails and struggles to survive in a world overrun by ghosts. Lin You, a 25-year-old courier, awakens to the only “anomaly” in his desperate hour: he can see and use a new currency steeped in despair: 【Underworld Banknotes】. The System announces coldly: “Welcome to the Ghost Tycoon Game.” Ghost soldiers can be hired, haunted houses can be bought, and evil spirits can be driven away. Using his insight into “roads” and “people,” he builds a fortune from a stack of Underworld Banknotes and establishes the first “safe zone” in the city ruins, where rules protect the living from the countless ghosts roaming the streets. But power comes at a price. Every haunted house he acquires bears the curse of its former owner, and every ghost army he hires longs to turn on its master. Worse still, the “Skin-Peeling Red Robe” merchant guild entrenched in the city’s depths sees him as a rival it must devour, while the police captain who once upheld order views his “underworld currency rules” as another form of exploitation. Even the System he trusts most seems to conceal an ultimate trap that turns all assets into offerings. As the “Ghost Ruins” from the abyss begin to devour the world, Lin You stands atop the order he built, facing his final choice: Should he obey the System, sacrifice everything, and become part of the supernatural in exchange for eternal power? Or should he wager trillions in Underworld Banknotes and his title as a “Ghost Tycoon,” launch an earth-shaking act of bribery against the rules of the abyss, and gamble on a brutal yet free future for humanity? This is the apocalypse, and it is also a card table. His stakes are human hearts and Underworld Banknotes. What he seeks to build is the one thing that never loses value amid chaos: order.