"Good news: fifty billion from the start. Bad news: a monthly salary of 4,100."
Lu Ye binds to a Hometown Revitalization System. The fifty billion in public funds can only be used to develop his hometown, while he himself can only draw a fixed salary of 4,100. The only way to get a raise is for his hometown's GDP to soar.
To raise his salary, Lu Ye returns to a dilapidated county town ranked among the country's least-developed and starts a livestream to recruit workers.
Viewers think it's just another ordinary poverty-alleviation publicity stunt.
But then Lu Ye takes one look at a village layabout who never applies himself:
[Hidden Talent: A Master of Fine Control. Best Match: Covert Heavy-Industry Mecha Tester!]
So Lu Ye makes a grand move, pouring fifty billion into building a "Special Heavy Industry Base" in the hills behind the village.
A few days later, news breaks that the layabout has earned a top-level medal of merit at the border while piloting a mecha, and the whole internet is stunned!
Next, Ergou, who can hit anything with his slingshot at the village entrance, becomes the chief designer of an electromagnetic cannon. Auntie Wang, who dances in the square every day, becomes a negotiation expert who trounces Wall Street...
Viewers: "You were supposed to alleviate poverty, but you turned your hometown into a sci-fi heavenly realm?!"
Looking at the rapidly soaring GDP and his own monthly salary, which has finally climbed into the hundreds of millions, Lu Ye says helplessly, "I really just wanted a little raise!"
