On the thirty-seventh day after losing his job, Lin Yuelou got a white-robed Daoist Venerable as a new downstairs neighbor.
The man made hand seals and muttered at a shared bicycle, trying to ferry the iron steed beyond the mortal world.
Passersby thought he was crazy. Only Lin Yue saw a line of golden text appear before his eyes:
[Ten-thousand-year Daoist Venerable from the Cultivation World; fleeing across worlds; Fortune: 999 | Original World: Destroyed]
After awakening the [Protagonist Recognition Eye], he discovered that the neighborhood was already packed with protagonists from all across the worlds who had fled here.
An apocalypse war god was cowering in the stairwell, terrified of a stray cat. A fallen empress arrived with a suitcase of cash, ready to buy the entire building outright. A reborn mogul wanted to recreate his past fortune, but even the home-buying policies had changed.
These mighty figures who once dominated countless worlds had come to a modern city, where their powers were firmly suppressed by the rules of reality. The slightest supernatural act would trigger reality's corrective force and leave them publicly humiliated on the spot.
He thought he was just there to watch the spectacle and enjoy the drama.
But Lin Yue gradually realized that these people hadn't come here as tourists.
The white mist, the "Void Heavenly Dao," was devouring worlds one by one. They were refugees who had escaped the destruction of their worlds.
And every time he used the Recognition Eye to help a fugitive rewrite their fate, the misfortune on that person would transfer to Lin Yue.
The more people he helped, the worse his luck became.
From neighborhood security guard to specially appointed government case handler, from dismantling plotlines and turning the tables to facing the crises threatening all the worlds.
Beneath the comic farce, the threat of world destruction was drawing ever closer.
When the scripts of countless worlds tried to corrupt reality, Lin Yue, a young man who wanted to lie flat, stood up.
"You want to replay the fates of countless worlds in my city? You'll have to get past me first."
