After staying up all night, Lin Ye died suddenly and woke up as a System bug in a cyberpunk cultivation world: BUG-747, with 30 days left until deletion.
In this world, cultivators must take on “tribulation missions”: rules-based horror scenarios. Failure means having their Dao foundation formatted and their souls turned into fuel.
During his first tribulation, Rule 7 read: “Rule 7 does not exist.”
While everyone else despaired, Lin Ye smiled. He could see streams of green code that no one else could understand. The hidden text of Rule 7 read: “Anyone who violates Rules 1 and 4 at the same time will be erased.”
He pulled out cinnabar, smeared his robe red, and shouted, “Administrator! I’m reporting a bug in Rule 7!”
The spirit of the book crashed, the system collapsed, and Lin Ye survived.
From then on, this bug with a programmer’s background took the wildest path imaginable:
At the Golden Core stage, he wrote an infinite loop into the cultivation technique of an elder hunting him, making his opponent vomit blood on the spot.
At the Nascent Soul stage, he sent garbage data packets to an ancient god, forcibly awakening the strongest beings from five civilizations.
At the Spirit Transformation stage, three sentences were enough to make the five great ancient gods kneel and swear allegiance.
At the Tribulation stage, the higher-dimensional “Source” descended to reclaim this world.
Lin Ye raised his hand and typed the final line of code:
[New rule: The Source is permanently banned.]
The Source screamed, “What kind of monster are you?”
Lin Ye smiled:
“I’ve been writing code for ten years. I know how to deal with anyone who refuses to comply.”
In this game, I am the rules themselves.
