Shen Du earns 4,500 yuan a month. Instant-noodle cups are stacked halfway up the trash can.
A silvery-gray cube appears in his palm.
**In 180 days, the apocalypse will arrive. A dark purple sky. Mutated life forms. Survival rate: 12%.**
He checks his balance: 2,847 yuan and 60 cents.
How is he supposed to save the world?
The System says: spend money. Every yuan converts into national fortune points, which unlock advanced technology. Factories can produce 480 samples a day.
He can’t tell anyone. They’d call him crazy.
There’s only one way: make himself important enough that the country will listen to him.
So he starts unveiling one technology after another.
Super batteries. A single charge gives you a range of 2,000 kilometers.
Supercars. Zero to 100 kilometers per hour in 1.4 seconds.
Drones. Three production lines running in parallel.
Medical testing devices. A 99.5% match rate.
The National Health Commission arrives. The National Development and Reform Commission arrives. The Ministry of Industry and Information Technology arrives.
Finally, the State Council arrives: “Are you planning to reveal everything?”
“Everything.”
What he doesn’t say is that the sky won’t stay blue much longer.
Abyssal Energy Building Materials. Fifty times stronger. Build eight shelters. Hundreds of meters underground. All 1.4 billion people move below ground.
The whole country becomes one giant construction site, racing against the countdown.
Win the race, and they live.
Lose, and their odds are 12%.
But the goal isn’t to hide underground.
It’s for 1.4 billion people to emerge from below and take back the entire world.