In his third year of college, the unambitious Zhou Ming obtains a life simulator. As long as he meets the requirements, he can run a simulation.
At the end of each simulation, he can choose one of three rewards: knowledge, experience, or skills.
[You struggle to graduate. Afterward, you’re blessed with a 996 work schedule. After staying up late and working overtime for a long time, keeping irregular hours, and eating poorly, you suddenly die one night.]
[You learn your lesson and start exercising, studying hard, and preparing for graduate school. In the end, you fail the entrance exam and find an ordinary job. A few years later, you’re getting older, and after your family repeatedly pressures you to marry, you’re forced to settle for a partner and get married. After the wedding, you try to pull an “Endo Makoto” and get stabbed to death.]
[Your knowledge increases. You keep exercising and prepare for graduate school. You pass the entrance exam...]
[You publish a paper in a world-renowned journal and receive an invitation from a prestigious foreign university. You go abroad to study, but a year later, you die by suicide after being shot in the back.]
Thus Zhou Ming begins accelerating the world. Technologies that would otherwise take ten, twenty, even fifty or eighty years to emerge are brought forward one after another. Their early arrival speeds up technological progress, and Zhou Ming uses the new technologies of this accelerated future, obtained through the simulator, to push the world’s development even faster.
