Shen Yuan transmigrated to a parallel world and endured ten years of hellish trials before finally maxing out the Tomb Raider Grandmaster System.
He planned to hang up his boots and enjoy retirement as a laid-back archivist at the Institute of Historical Research.
But then the Divine Domain's National Destiny Forbidden Zone descended, and two people from each country were randomly chosen and bound to their nation's fate.
The two people selected for the Dragon Kingdom were Jiang Churan, the nation's beloved archaeology school beauty, and Shen Yuan, the salaried archivist who spent his days slacking off!
The entire internet wailed, certain this powerless archivist would drag the Dragon Kingdom down.
Yet when faced with terrifying blood corpses and deadly traps in the forbidden zone, foreign contestants suffered heavy casualties, while Shen Yuan was forced to reveal just a tiny bit of his "survival instincts."
He probed a trap with two fingers, subdued a blood corpse with a black donkey hoof, and even pulled out a Luoyang shovel during a break to locate dragon veins and read the terrain!
The school beauty was baffled. "You call this being an archivist?"
As the entire internet erupted in shock, Shen Yuan earnestly explained to the livestream camera:
"Everyone, trust in science. This is what we call ancient geological environment surveying!"
"A black donkey hoof? It's a preservative for carbon-based life forms!"
"I swear, I'm a law-abiding citizen. And that move, Star Lord Kick, is just part of the eighth set of broadcast exercises I do every day!"
After reading a few chapters, my blood pressure rose