Real Code

Lin Mo is a structural engineer. When he was inspecting the construction site, he was sucked in by a fingernail-sized hole in the parapet wall. When he woke up, he became an abandoned child, surrounded by only a middle-aged man who used his body to shield him from the light and heat. He could never stand up again. People in this world gain power through "engraved" scrolls. They treat magic as art, and Lin Mo treats it as engineering—modularization, process optimization, and load accounting. While others were still debating which of the fire and water elements was stronger, he was designing a pluggable engraved architecture. Later he discovered that code was running at the bottom of the world. Later he discovered that he was not the only one who could read the code. A higher-dimensional existence has begun to "audit" the world. And every modification he makes is sending positioning signals to it.