In 2077 AD, the "Source Catastrophe" broke out, human civilization fell overnight, and the world was swallowed up by strange "stardust". The high-rise buildings of the old era have become monster lairs, and electromagnetic storms and space chaos keep the remaining humans alive. And beneath the ruins, an astonishing signal came - an interstellar force called "Star Trace" came to Earth, and its purpose was to unearth the genetic key left behind by an "old engineer". Lu Yan is a useless technician who hangs out in the data repair room of Huancheng Library. His greatest skill is to win all his opponent's credit points on the virtual chessboard. He never thought about being a hero until the black stardust rain fell on top of his head. He became the center of a "passive involvement incident" - the Star Trace Army search team hunted down a mysterious girl who pretended to be mute. The chip on the girl's body accidentally activated the "causal deduction" system in Lu Yan's brain. He can see tens of thousands of possibilities in the next ten seconds, every step is a game, and every step is a murderous intention. From then on, a chess player who was looked down upon by others was forced to step onto the chessboard where the survival of the entire civilization depended. He has no supernatural martial arts, no magical weapons, only a pair of skills that can calculate people's hearts, and a pair of eyes that can find a glimmer of hope in the midst of death. The enemies are powerful and have intertwined forces, but what Lu Yan is best at is using their greed, fear, love and obsession to become his own pawns.
