I Gave Humanity Cheats, but They Already Had Cheats of Their Own?

[Ding! You have bound the “Humanity's Self-Rescue Cheat”! Please note: The product manual has been lost. Final interpretation rights belong to a certain civilization.]

Lin Qi, a physicist who worries about his receding hairline every day, is suddenly struck on the crown of the head by an ancient tech tree. Other people build spaceships by doing calculations; he just clicks in his mind and gets everything for free.

And so things take a strange turn: while the opposition cries, “Live or die with Earth!” his team is arguing on a lunar farm over whether spicy potatoes count as a Sichuan contribution. While the whole world debates who should get a ticket, his Beijing colleague rides the space elevator, muttering, “Guess what? This cable is more stable than my home broadband!”

But when his AI-genius junior assistant starts suspecting he has “turned on a global editor,” and the tech tree in his mind flashes a red message: [Unlocking Lv. 3 requires payment]... Lin Qi looks at the ark under construction and suddenly wonders... Could this cheat be a trap that makes you pay in installments?