In 2026, a "rift in the national destiny" will appear around the world. Countries compete for resources and survival rights in the rift. If the national luck value reaches zero, the country will collapse.
China's National Games started third from the bottom. There are few awakened people, and the battlefield is retreating steadily.
Northwest Border Guard Post, a temporary worker with a monthly salary of 3,200 yuan.
His name is Lingjun. A retired scout with no awakening and no fate, no one takes him seriously.
The night when the beast wave came, the map he had been drawing for eight months was spread out on the table for the first time.
Thirteen people, zero awakening, blocked 300 strange beasts in Hongshi Gorge.
After the battle he discovered something was watching him from deep within the rift - a humanoid silhouette that could speak into his mind.
"One hundred and thirty-seven," it said. "You were the third one who didn't back away."
Afterwards, a recruitment letter from the capital pushed him into the most brutal selection in the National Games Theater: the Zhuguo Selection.
The pass rate is less than five percent. The loser will be permanently disqualified from awakening.
He walked into the capital with a bullet casing from sixteen years ago.
The owner of the cartridge case saw the same thing in 2009, reported it, and died. No one listened to him.
Now Lingjun is carrying the stack of maps and standing in the shadow of the National Games Theater Building.
He has no destiny. But he can deduce.
Every battle was fought in his head three moves ago.
"You are not the strongest pawn, but you know how to make every move."
Ten national game games, from border posts to global chessboards.
He used his mortal body to forge the destiny of a country
