When Lynch woke up, he found himself trapped in a strange office building with "Office Rules" posted on the wall: latecomers will be "optimized", empty cups will be "interviewed" for more than ten minutes, and people who work overtime for 72 hours can "resign" - and the last person to leave jumped from the top floor.
A lawyer specializing in contract review could tell him instinctively that there was a loophole in the rules. He wrote a "Supplementary Agreement", successfully modified the terms, and tore a hole in the rules.
But he soon discovered that this was just the tip of the iceberg. Similar "fields of rules" are constantly emerging around the world, and his name is written in the "drafter" column of all rules.
It was no accident that the system selected him. Six years ago, a person with almost the same name as him and a highly similar thinking pattern - Lin Qi - was implanted with a neural signal transceiver, and brain signals were continuously transmitted to the mother machine of the rules without interruption for six full years. His brainwaves are hidden in every rule that is generated and put into operation.
Lynch is the rules reviewer. What he has to do is not only to crack the rules, but also to find the person who has been imprisoned for six years before the rules engulf the entire city, and decide for the entire world: whether to shut down the system or rewrite the rules.
It can be done unless prohibited by law. He can write in everything that is not written in the rules.
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Genre: Urban Suspense / Rules and Ghost Stories
Keywords: lawyers, rule rewriting, brain signals, six-year unsolved case
Status: Serializing
Intent: Rules can be rewritten, but the people trapped by them cannot be forgotten. This is the story of a man who expertly pried the system and pulled another man out of the shadows who had been buried for six years. What is changed is the rules and what is protected is people.