Lin Mo, a modern stand-up comedian who makes his living with his mouth, wakes up to find he has transmigrated to Shanghai in 1937.
Even more absurdly, he has become a double agent who has just infiltrated Japanese military headquarters. He has no martial arts skills, no marksmanship, and no experience, only a mouth that can talk the living to death and bring the dead back to life.
Just as he trembles under the questioning of a Japanese major, his System activates. If he mocks the Japanese with humor, he can send them into an emotional meltdown, or even make them cough up blood and drop dead on the spot. He can also earn intelligence and magical items.
So while others use knives, guns, and bombs, Lin Mo puts on a stand-up comedy show inside Japanese military headquarters.
Translating a coded message? First, roast their writing skills. Attending a Japanese banquet? Take the opportunity to expose the truth about their invasion. Persuading Japanese soldiers to defect? Three sentences are all it takes to make them question their lives.
He passes intelligence through puns, lulls the enemy with deadpan jokes, and drives senior Japanese officials mad with stand-up. All across Shanghai, people are saying: Never listen to that Chinese man speak. It’s deadly, literally.
While everyone else is fighting with their lives, Lin Mo chooses to fight with a microphone. It turns out that in an age of darkness, laughter can be just as deadly as bullets.
This is the legendary tale of a stand-up comedian in the War of Resistance: he fights not with his fists, but with his tongue.
