The male lead, Chen Xu, is 35, unemployed and in debt. He returns to his hometown to lie flat and wait to die.
What comes isn’t death. It’s the apocalypse.
The sky splits open, another world invades, and alien energy spreads. Conventional weapons are useless, and the power grid goes down completely.
The will of the world binds a System to everyone and awakens their supernatural abilities, sending humanity to the front lines to fight the alien races.
Other people get abilities like stone skin or iron arms...
His is called “Handle Release,” an S+ rank ability, the only one of its kind in the world.
Scan for weak points, hit them one by one, and the target dies. The window lasts ten seconds. Miss it and the chance resets.
After ten years of writing code, he suddenly realizes: isn’t this just debugging?
Find the bugs, fix them one at a time, and start over if you time out. There’s only one difference: if the code breaks, you delete the database and run; here, if you mess up, you’re the one who dies.
He joins forces with Su Wan, his elementary school deskmate and a surgeon, and Tiedan, a boy from the blacksmith’s shop. Together, they kill the remains, clear out insect nests, and establish a base in the ruins, with a full ensemble of characters.
In the flood of the apocalypse, just finding your footing is already unimaginably hard. Protecting the people behind you may be harder than reaching the heavens.
A life laid off at 35 gets recompiled in the apocalypse.
