Hello, everyone. My name is Lin Bufan, and I’m a full-stack engineer born in the 2000s. Can you believe it? I hadn’t been dead for ten minutes before the Underworld laid me off!
I was pulling an all-nighter at my desk, coding away with bloodshot eyes. A pop-up appeared in the bottom-right corner of my screen: [Three Realms Recruitment, weekends off, no overtime]. I clicked the X, and my heart suddenly seized. I dropped dead on the spot.
When I opened my eyes again, I found myself on the Yellow Springs Road, packed with semi-transparent ghosts. I was still clutching an Android phone with a cracked screen.
Suddenly, the phone screen glowed with an eerie red light, projecting a futuristic holographic panel into the air.
“Heavenly Dao Renewal System binding complete. Current phone battery = your remaining lifespan.”
The battery icon in the top-right corner plunged from 90% to 10% like an avalanche!
As the battery drained, my legs instantly turned into blue pixels and began to fade away. I stared at my hands in horror.
“Holy crap! So if I want to stay alive, I have to work for the Underworld for free just to earn charging fees?!”
