[Tech-focused wish fulfillment, feel free to check your brain at the door or keep it with you] Lin Mo graduated from a vocational college and works three shifts at an electronics factory, tightening screws for a take-home pay of 3,800 yuan a month. His girlfriend of five years broke up with him last month, leaving him with just one line: “There’s no future with someone at the bottom like you.” Family gatherings are even more humiliating. He’s the one held up as a cautionary tale: “Study hard, or you’ll end up like Lin Mo, with your whole life ruined.”
He really thought this was all his life would ever amount to. Then a voice exploded in his mind: [High-Tech Manufacturing System successfully bound]. Everything changed, starting with his first “infinite-battery-life power bank.” A lithography machine sends ASML’s CEO flying to China overnight. A sixth-generation fighter jet has an air force general come knocking personally to discuss cooperation. Controlled nuclear fusion turns the country’s energy landscape on its head.
The people who once looked down on him now have to book appointments a month in advance just to see him. When his ex-girlfriend sees his face on the news, the coffee cup in her hand shatters on the floor. And this is only the beginning.
