To raise money for his mother’s medical bills, Xiao Ming takes a chance on a strange, high-paying job interview. After his blood drips onto a mysterious metal, he unexpectedly binds himself to the “Cosmic Mercenary System” and becomes the only candidate to pass the compatibility screening.
The System gives Xiao Ming a strict, one-day deadline to recruit his first team member. Just as he is about to fail, he meets Lin Wei, an art student, and persuades her to join the newly established “Star Alliance Mercenary Corps.” After signing the mercenary contract, Xiao Ming receives a beginner’s physical enhancement potion and a mysterious cultivation technique as rewards from the System, dramatically improving his physical abilities. But this is only the beginning. An energy being from beyond the stars had tried to possess Xiao Ming. Though the System’s restraints erased it, its existence hinted at a higher civilization and the vast expanse of the Myriad Worlds, both of which are gradually coming into view.
Beginning with an ordinary man’s struggle to survive, the novel unfolds a sweeping adventure across multiple universes through the formation and growth of a mercenary corps. From city streets to the vast reaches of space, and from Earth’s civilization to alien powers, Xiao Ming and his team embark on an unpredictable mercenary journey. Through trials of life and death, they will uncover the truth about the Cosmic Mercenary System and seek the earth-shattering secrets hidden throughout the Myriad Worlds.
