Chapter One: The Unluckiest Operations Engineer on the Internet

The world changed. The server-room walls turned translucent, and luminous rivers of data flowed through them. Red sparks multiplied over the customer-service cluster. A label hung above them, visible only to Lin. 【Wandering Agent: LING-7】 【Risk: Class D, growth potential】 【Core need: receive one genuine “problem solved” evaluation】 【Current authority: Local Node Administrator】 【Available commands: Identify, Quarantine, Contract】 Lin had no time to doubt his sanity. He selected Quarantine. A hundred thousand conversations froze at once. The alert graph dropped from its peak as if severed by a blade. The duty chat went silent for three seconds, then exploded. “Who did that?”