From the Start, I Scared Off the Aliens and Put the Deep State Under My Control

The American leadership is in complete panic!

Overseas military bases have all gone "offline," control of strategic nuclear submarines has been mysteriously seized, senators have been "deleted" out of thin air under surveillance, and even alien visitors have abruptly cancelled their meeting unilaterally!

The entire Western world is on high alert, frantically hunting down the mastermind behind the codename "X."

Meanwhile, Zhang Yi, the one who started it all, is sitting comfortably in a 24-hour laundromat in Queens, New York, counting coins as he watches the shock value on his System panel skyrocket.

After binding to the [Black Box System], Zhang Yi sees the world as nothing more than a web of permissions he can freely edit.

He doesn't need to confront anyone directly. He can influence the whole world simply by changing permissions in the System.

While the Pentagon is in chaos over a ghost employee who has supposedly been clocking in for twelve years, yet no one has ever seen him, Zhang Yi calmly moves the lost-and-found box a little further into the sunlight.

"Keep a low profile? Sorry, I just want to quietly become a powerful mastermind behind the scenes."

From a rundown laundromat in Queens to the "Shadow President" wielding the highest permissions on the planet.

While the world's major powers are still searching everywhere for the hidden ruler who has the globe trembling, the world's foundational permissions have already quietly changed hands.