[Core Slogan]
Justice is too expensive. I can't afford it, so I only buy discounted spare ribs.
[Synopsis]
My phone balance is 347.62 yuan, my rent is three days overdue, and the life-for-sale contract my mother left behind is burning hot in my head.
Gu Shen thought this was the lowest life could go, until the "Tide" arrived and a filter from another world overlaid reality.
In this world, the spiritual qi revival isn't a chance to ascend to immortality. It's a sickle wielded by capital to reap its profits.
The Upper City monopolizes the conduits and controls the tickets to immortality. The conduits drive people from the Lower City straight toward monsters, and put a clear price on their lives:
10 years of life = 30,000 yuan in compensation = 8.2 yuan a day.
Gu Shen doesn't want to be a hero or save the world. He just wants to survive, paying the least possible cost for the best chance of making it out alive.
He picks up scrap metal nobody else wants, fixes appliances nobody else can repair, and searches for fragments of "source matter" among the corpses of monsters.
He carefully calculates the cost of every move he makes, and watches coldly as others use morality to manipulate people.
While others cry out for justice amid the ruins and talk about ideals in a doghouse,
Gu Shen thinks only, "Don't talk to me about ideals. My ideal is getting paid without having to work."
But when the numbers in that ledger can no longer measure the value of a life, and "justice delayed" becomes an accomplice to evil,
this self-interested man, who hates trouble and loves keeping accounts, finally decides...
Very good, the logic is correct