Everyone in the City Gives Me a Penny a Day

When Chu He woke up, there was a strange bank text message on his phone.

[XX Bank] Your account ending in 9527 has received a transfer of 0.01 yuan. Balance: 10,000.01 yuan.

At first, he thought it was a scam. Then, one minute later, another message came in.

Another 0.01 yuan.

Then a third minute, a fourth... Transfers poured in without end, like raindrops that would never stop, converging from every corner of the city. Each one was a negligible 0.01 yuan, but multiply that by the city’s eight million residents...

80,000 yuan a day.

Chu He became the entire city’s sole “parasite.” No one knew where the money came from or who was sending it. He could spend money like a god, but there was one condition: he had to stay in the city.

Until one day, a mysterious number claiming to be the “recipient account administrator” sent him a message: “Number 1433, your daily spending limit has been exceeded. Please spend it all within 24 hours, or ‘debt mode’ will be activated. The last Host to enter debt mode tore down half the subway line in their own city just to pay off the debt.”