Urban Night Watcher: Sequence Origins

"The three great laws of protection":

1. Law of balance — If the number of espers exceeds the critical threshold (about 0.5% of the global population), the world will trigger a great cleansing mechanism, similar to an "aura tide flood."

2. Law of cost — At the same time as gaining a power, everyone must lose something of equal value. The stronger the power, the more painful the cost.

3. Law of inheritance — In the end, all espers' power must return to the world itself. No one can truly possess power forever.

These settings will be gradually revealed through constant twists later in the story, tightly linking together multiple key plot points at the end of volume 1 and the climax of volume 2.

Core cheat ability

"Anti-hustle system" — an innovative cheat built around "rule-based game theory":

Mechanism: after the system binds, every time the protagonist completes acts such as "slacking off," "being lazy," or "dodging work," he actually receives rewards; the more he goes against human nature, the bigger the rewards.

On the surface: the system is called the "Efficient Work Master System," and every time it uses the most fiery slogans to urge the protagonist to go move bricks.

Secretly: behind the protagonist's back, the system quietly rewards him for "slacking off"—and the protagonist gradually discovers the pattern, beginning a big game of "deceiving the superiors while bullying the subordinates" with the system.

Truth: the system is essentially a "highest authority weapon" left behind by three SSS-rank big shots who have gone missing. It was deliberately designed with reverse rewards to select the most disobedient person, because only those who refuse to obey rules can break this world's endless cycle.