After three years of taking the civil service exam, Lin Wan failed every time, always missing the mark by just a fraction. She was starting to question her whole life.
On impulse, she opened a certain battle royale game set on an island, only to get bound to an island logistics system:
She had to work nine to five, stock supplies, collect loot crates, and sweep up shell casings. Being late meant losing performance bonuses, and every mistake required a written explanation.
Unexpectedly, her work was livestreamed across the stars. Millions of people in the Interstellar Federation fought over the thousand available spots.
A worker sorting trash on a garbage planet was slacking off and hoping to leave early when inspiration struck. With one tap, he sent an entire warehouse of scrap slated for destruction as a tip, filling the System’s inventory on the spot. [Ding, A tip has arrived from Interstellar Federation viewer “Garbage Planet Sorter A Ye”: a pile of trash.]
Interstellar netizens were in stitches: Dumping trash across dimensions? That’s brutal!
But domestic academicians were on the verge of tears: battle-damaged miniature reconnaissance mechs, slightly defective all-purpose household robots... These aren’t trash. They’re vital national assets!
Before long, one technological breakthrough after another was put into practice, and the whole internet exploded:
Deserts turned into oases, new energy technologies overtook the competition, aerospace materials caught up with the world, and medical technology shattered expectations...
Netizens argued fiercely: This is moving way too fast! Is everyone going to start cultivating immortality next?
Other countries overseas were baffled: How did all those technological bottlenecks that had held us back for decades get broken without a sound?
Just after Lin Wan was made a permanent employee ahead of schedule, the System suddenly chimed:
[New dimensional signal detected. Activating passageway...]
