Black Technology: Starting with Smart Face Masks

At eleven o'clock at night, Lin Che was laid off.

The entire R&D team was cut. The group leader took over Project D-07, which Lin Che had worked on for two years, and put someone else's name on the results.

Then the System arrived. It wasn't overpowered, and it didn't make him some arrogant, invincible hero, but it gave an ordinary person the confidence to turn things around: a lever to move the Earth, a launchpad for the journey to the stars.

With a budget of 23,000, a secondhand fiber-spinning machine, one rotten friend, and a factory owner willing to let him buy on credit, he went from making his first defective film to selling out across the internet, then taking on a patent battle that made industry giants uneasy. Face masks were only the beginning.