I had terminal lung cancer. The doctor said I wouldn’t live another month.
Then I got bound to a System.
【Mission: Drive a Type 99A main battle tank five kilometers along the Zhurihe Integrated Training Ground course】
【Time limit: 20 minutes. Do not stop at any point】
【Mission reward: +150 days of life, commercial lithium battery technology】
【Mission failure: -35 days of life】
I was twenty-four, a junior office worker, and didn’t even know which way a tank hatch opened.
On my own, I was doomed. With nowhere else to turn and carrying the most absurd secret in the world, I knocked on the door of an unmarked building:
“I’m bound to a System.”
The people inside stared at me in silence for a long time. “Why did you come to us?”
“Because I believe in my country.”
From that day on, I drove tanks, operated tunnel-boring machines, and competed in combat drills… The System’s missions grew more outrageous each time, and the entire country stood behind me.
And the country has never let down anyone who believes in it.
