On his 87th day of unemployment, Wang Xiaoming received a text message: Your account has been credited with 999,999,999,999.00 yuan.
He thought it was a scam and reported it on the spot, only to discover the balance was real.
He tried to hand the money over, but nobody would take it. He tried to freeze it, but the bank refused. When he called the police, they treated him like a fraudster. So he cautiously tried spending a little: a jianbing with two extra eggs. It actually worked.
So he bought a car and a watch, paid his landlord six months' rent, and even bought out the freezer at the convenience store downstairs. No matter how he spent, the money never ran out, until one day, a text from an unknown sender appeared:
[Zero System] Traceback prompt activated. Fragment 1/99 unlocked. Every time you spend, you take one step closer to the truth.
Only then did Wang Xiaoming understand: this money wasn't a gift, but an admission ticket. And before him, someone had already kept the truth safe for him. The price was that they disappeared without a trace.
He had no choice but to spend while investigating the money. And the more he squandered, the closer he came to the secret buried ten years ago: Who gave him this money? Why him? And... where was the last person who received it now?
