Countdown to the Alien Invasion: I Lay Low and Become the Mastermind

Lin Yue died.

He died in the tenth year of the alien invasion, before humanity's last bastion, betrayed by that "savior," Zhao Tianci.

If you don't like straightforward prose and would rather read something more skillfully written, you can skip straight to Volume Two.

Only as he lay dying did he learn the truth: he was merely a disposable extra in a novel, parasitized by aliens within the first three chapters and reduced to background scenery. And Zhao Tianci, who seemed to have everything, was nothing more than a dog raised by the aliens.

When he opened his eyes again, he was back one week before the aliens launched their first trial.

This time, Lin Yue awakened the [Eye of Plunder]. It let him see every trial participant's opportunities, weaknesses, and vulnerabilities, and steal their abilities, memories, even identities when they were on the verge of death.

While others fought desperately through dungeons, he hid in the shadows and waited to reap the rewards.

While the chosen ones competed to be humanity's savior, he only had eyes for the "leeks" around their necks.

When Zhao Tianci strode confidently into the first trial, Lin Yue smiled.

"This time, you can fight tooth and nail. I'll just be the one who lands the finishing blow."

The alien invasion was still 30 years away.

But their seeds, their trial participants, their carefully chosen "chosen ones"...

were already being picked clean by a "dead man."