In a world divided by “secret treaties,” bizarre rules have invaded reality, and the old order has long since collapsed.
The Order Bureau reigns from the top, monopolizing the resources needed to survive. Heretical obsessions lurk in the shadows, sacrificing innocent souls. Ordinary people can do nothing but eke out an existence in the gaps between ghost stories and contamination.
Lu Chen is a wasteland broker who operates on the fringes of the black market. He has no godlike power to destroy the world, only an extremely cool head, a precise grasp of the finer points of the rules, and a mysterious copper coin that can insert “false logic” into the gaps between them.
From secret deals in a dilapidated apartment to becoming the mastermind posing as the head of a high-ranking secret organization; from life-and-death gambits on the edge of danger to wielding fabricated authority capable of toppling a vast empire...
“If the gods of this world are nothing but a stack of runaway rules and programs, then I am the one and only loophole.”
This is a dark story of a rational mind who uses information gaps and meticulous logic to impersonate a god in a desperate wasteland, rising from the bottom as an ordinary mortal.
Theme: In a desperate wasteland ruled by blind rules, a merciless official order, and unknowable forces, individuals may seem insignificant. Yet through the protagonist's transformation into a “false god” with an ordinary human body, meticulous reasoning, and cool psychological tactics, the story shows that even when confronted with overwhelming rules and the weight of fate, human reason, resilience, and independent will can still find a gap, break the chains, and redefine one's own destiny and order.
