One second before his girlfriend Su Rou and Han Xu joined forces to kill him by snapping his neck, he was still handing over source crystals and giving up his beam rifle. He’d fed eight years of sincere love to a dog. When he opened his eyes again, he was back seven days before the Mechanical Era arrived. He walked into a loan company, slapped down the property deed his grandfather had left him, and borrowed 720,000 yuan at an outrageous interest rate. Then he headed straight for the auto show and pointed at the latest heavy-duty truck. The bigger, the better. The salesperson stood frozen in place as he stared at the iron-gray behemoth, a cold glint in his eyes. This time, no one was taking his mech core from him.
