Villain? No, I'll catch up with the protagonist after passing the civil service exam.

At four o'clock in the morning, outside the abandoned air-raid shelter No. 713 in the western suburbs of Jinghai City.

At the hidden entrance overgrown with weeds, Zhao Tiezhu, carrying a large hydraulic door-breaking hammer weighing over 200 kilograms, strode forward with a face full of excitement.

"Let me see just how hard this tech geek's turtle shell really is!"

With a deafening roar from the engine, the armor-piercing steel cone at the front of the hydraulic hammer slammed into the rusty, half-meter-thick explosion-proof door.

"Bang—crash!"

Amidst the flying sparks, the heavy steel door emitted a painful, tearing metallic sound.

The gate collapsed inwards with a loud crash, kicking up a cloud of choking dust.

Lu Jingyan, wearing a pair of tactical boots, slowly stepped across the ruins of the collapsed iron gate.

The blinding beam of a tactical flashlight instantly ripped through the darkness of the basement.

The sight that came into view made even the seasoned special investigation team members gasp in shock.

This is not some dilapidated air-raid shelter at all, but a massive underground arms factory with a strong cyberpunk style.

Hundreds of black servers, each as tall as a person, were neatly arranged like a steel jungle.

The cooling fan emitted a deafening hum, and the walls were covered with a dense network of thick cables.

In the center of the room stood a dozen or so huge transparent glass petri dishes, filled with bubbling green nutrient solution.

Suspended in the nutrient solution are those tiny nanomechanical chip matrixes that are almost invisible to the naked eye.

"Good heavens, this is even more sinister than anything in science fiction movies!"

Zhao Tiezhu picked up the multi-barrel Gatling gun and cautiously aimed it at the petri dishes.

"Boss, do you think we'll turn into the Hulk if this thing gets leaked out?"

"It will not mutate, but will only cause severe heavy metal poisoning and acute peripheral nerve spasms."

Lu Jingyan sneered, his deep gaze instantly locking onto the super control console at the deepest part of the air-raid shelter.

In front of that huge circular holographic screen stood a tall, thin man wearing a dirty white lab coat and with hair as messy as a bird's nest.

The man's hands were moving like afterimages on the virtual keyboard as he frantically typed code.

Even after the blast door was forcibly broken open and he was surrounded by SWAT officers with their guns pointed at him, he showed no sign of stopping.

"Hands behind your head! Turn around! You are suspected of illegally manufacturing prohibited electronic products!"

Zhao Tiezhu roared and strode forward.

Upon hearing this standard legal warning, the man in the white coat finally stopped banging and slowly turned around.

His eyes were sunken, and his bloodshot eyes revealed a chilling fanaticism and madness.

Lu Jingyan's passive vision of "Absolute Rationality" instantly saw through his true nature.

This guy isn't a native of Earth at all, but rather a surviving villainous leader from a fallen sci-fi universe who fled to Jinghai City—codenamed "Doctor".

"Lu Jingyan! I've heard so much about you!"

The doctor spread his arms and burst into a fit of extremely neurotic, maniacal laughter.

The maniacal laughter echoed in the empty basement, sounding particularly jarring.

"You blew up the cultivation drug lord in the Golden Triangle with thermobaric bombs, and then sealed the higher-dimensional rift with that damned Codex of Cause and Effect!"

"You think this will save this low-dimensional world? Utterly foolish!"

The professor pointed to the roaring servers around him and laughed so hard he almost fell over.

"Since higher-dimensional gods can't come down, then I'll mass-produce gods in this lower-dimensional world using current technology!"

"Just extract a tiny bit of the residual spiritual energy from another world and integrate it with my nano-neuron connection technology."

"I can mass-produce those legendary cheat codes like cheap electronic grenades on an assembly line!"

Lu Jingyan watched his performance quietly, and casually tore off a pair of specially made stainless steel handcuffs from his tactical vest.

"You call it mass-producing gods by stuffing low-quality electronic waste into the blood vessels of ordinary people's brains?"

Lu Jingyan walked to the holographic screen, looked at the densely packed transmission data on it, and a hint of mockery flashed in his eyes.

"You may lack the most basic respect for China's Criminal Law and the Regulations on the Supervision and Administration of Medical Devices."

The doctor's smile froze on his face, seemingly not expecting Lu Jingyan's focus to be so bizarre.

"Lu Jingyan! Have you lost your mind? This is a system that allows ordinary people to rise above their circumstances!"

"I don't care if it's a system or a rice cooker."

Lu Jingyan grabbed the doctor's white coat collar and slammed him hard against the metal panel of the control panel.

"Unauthorized research, development, manufacturing, and deployment of miniature human implantation devices without approval from the National Medical Products Administration."

"They even forcibly administered vaccines using aerosols without the patient's consent."

With a "click," Lu Jingyan fastened the handcuffs tightly to the doctor's skinny wrists.

"This is an extremely serious crime of practicing medicine without a license and endangering public safety by releasing hazardous substances."

"You'd better prepare to spend your whole life operating a sewing machine in a special prison 90 meters underground."

The cold handcuffs made the doctor shiver, but the madness in his eyes did not diminish in the slightest.

Ignoring the red marks on his wrists from being strangled, he desperately turned his head to look at the holographic screen behind him.

"What's the point of arresting me? You're too late! Hahahaha!"

The doctor struggled frantically, spitting onto Lu Jingyan's bulletproof vest.

"I have completely uploaded the core algorithm of this system to the cloud server!"

"The 100,000 pseudo-systems deployed via drones have now all been forcibly bound to the brain's neural networks!"

His eyes were wide open, as if announcing the birth of a great new era.

"Right now, in the streets and alleys of Jinghai City, there are 100,000 destined protagonists ready to make a comeback and slap everyone in the face!"

"Everyone can be a Dragon King! Everyone dreams of becoming a super-rich tycoon!"

"When 100,000 people simultaneously feel that the world owes them justice and want to overthrow the order."

"Lu Jingyan! I refuse to believe that your lousy law book can catch all 100,000 lunatics!"

Enraged, Zhao Tiezhu kicked the doctor in the back of the knee, knocking him to his knees.

"Shut your stinking mouth! Believe me or not, I'll physically format you right now with a Gatling gun!"

Lu Jingyan ignored the doctor's clamor, his deep black eyes fixed on the progress bar jumping in the upper right corner of the holographic screen.

The green progress bar has reached its end.

Cloud data synchronization complete; core host upload progress: 100%.

[Current number of subsystems bound to the city: 104,521.]

Upon seeing this glaring number, Lu Jingyan's brows furrowed almost imperceptibly.

More than 100,000 ordinary people who might trample on the bottom line of the law at any time for the so-called system tasks.

This is indeed much more difficult than a simple high-dimensional invasion.

Because they were all originally legal citizens of this city.

Just then, Su Xiaoxiao rushed in from outside the blast door, panting and carrying a tactical computer.

"Boss! This is terrible! The city command center just issued twelve consecutive highest-level red alerts!"

Su Xiaoxiao's eyes reddened with anxiety, and even her black-rimmed glasses tilted to one side.

"The entire security system of Jinghai City is about to collapse!"

"What exactly happened?" Lu Jingyan turned around and asked in a deep voice.

"Those 100,000 bound citizens have all gone mad!"

Su Xiaoxiao turned the computer screen around, which displayed real-time footage from surveillance cameras at various intersections.

"Someone is throwing cash wildly from a CBD overpass to complete a system-issued 'generous giveaway' task, causing a severe stampede!"

"Someone claims to have activated the Martial God System and is dismantling a bus with his bare hands in the square; the traffic police can't stop him!"

"Someone even stormed into the Civil Affairs Bureau, insisting on registering his marriage with five girls at the same time, saying it was the ultimate mission for building a harem!"

Su Xiaoxiao swallowed hard, her voice filled with deep despair.

"Now the streets are full of self-proclaimed superheroes who own the system, and they don't respect the police at all."

The doctor, kneeling on the ground, laughed even more wildly upon hearing these reports.

"Did you hear that? This is human nature! This is the extreme desire for privilege from repressed, lower-dimensional beings!"

"The law doesn't punish everyone! Can you arrest them all? Can your prisons hold 100,000 people?"

"Bang!"

Without warning, Lu Jingyan raised his tactical boot and kicked the main power switch on the control panel hard.

A blinding spark exploded instantly, and the holographic projection of the entire laboratory flickered twice before going completely black.

The doctor's maniacal laughter abruptly stopped.

"The law doesn't punish everyone? That's because the enforcement wasn't strong enough in the past."

Lu Jingyan looked down at him from his high position, his eyes gleaming with an extremely cold and excited fighting spirit.

"When I, Lu Jingyan, handle cases, I never look at the number of people involved, I only look at the legal provisions."

He turned and strode out of the laboratory, the hem of his black special forces uniform fluttering in the cold wind.

"Tiezhu, take this madman back to the station and lock him in the same cell as that half-demon drug lord."

"Let him experience the warmth of fellow inmates among higher-dimensional beings."

Zhao Tiezhu grinned widely and lifted the doctor up like a chick.

"Alright, boss! I promise I'll make him realize his mistake!"

Lu Jingyan stepped over the heavy blast door ruins and connected to the encrypted communication frequency band directly to the provincial government's top officials.

"Su Xiaoxiao, immediately notify Director Chen to cancel all leave for all special police and armed police officers in the city."

"At the same time, we applied to the province to use three large indoor stadiums as temporary detention centers."

His voice was cold and resolute, exuding an unquestionable and absolute authority.

"I don't care if they're a super-rich person or a martial arts master, as long as they dare to cross the line of the law in this city."

"Treat them all as fraudsters carrying dangerous electronic devices!"

Lu Jingyan opened the door of the SUV and gave a cold smile as the morning sun rose.

"Since he likes to wholesale main characters, then our People's Police will go out and sweep the streets to buy them."

"Boss! Which daredevil should we go after first?" Zhao Tiezhu shouted excitedly as he shoved the doctor into the trunk.

Lu Jingyan floored the accelerator, and the car shot off into the bustling city center like an arrow.

"Let's go to the CBD first and meet that super-rich guy who throws money around on the overpass."