Hello, stranger. It may be difficult to give you an accurate introduction to the world I live in, just as it would be difficult for you to explain your world to people from before the Industrial Revolution.
The revolution we are experiencing is what we call the Human Revolution, because the potential of human beings is about to be developed to a level our predecessors could hardly imagine. To explain it in a way you can understand, it would go like this:
Everyone in our world is being dragged off by an infinite-flow system to do hard labor. Within three seconds of reaching adulthood, a person will be snatched away by some "infinite-flow game." For our world, being taken is like receiving an enrollment notice for compulsory education. (We're grateful that some of them send back current students and graduates, so life in the real world can go on.)
But I'm an exception. From the age of eighteen until now, I have never been taken. At first, I was relieved that I wouldn't have to risk life and limb, but also anxious that human evolution had forgotten me, like a middle-schooler who skipped class for two years without the teacher ever calling home. Later, not being taken gave me the chance to take on a new identity: observer of the Human Revolution. Now, stranger, allow me to share my observations with you, and witness this grand revolution together.
The main story is told in third person. All characters are original, not based on real people or derived from other works. This is not a collection of separate stories. I'm trying to make it funny.
The history/anthropology student who keeps passing by the protagonists of infinite-flow stories around the world is the shou. The gong is tentatively some obscure Lord God among the countless infinite-flow worlds. P.S. "Obscure" here means his real name is unknown, not that he isn't famous.
Theme: The ordinary can be extraordinary
