Jason Lin was a nobody — fired from his junior dev job, drowning in debt, sleeping on a couch in Shenzhen. Then the global AI hiring boom exploded, and every tech giant started a bidding war for talent. But Jason didn't get hired. He got something better: a dying man's whisper, three words — "The ship is compromised." The ship: Ningyuan Diankun, the world's largest all-electric container vessel, about to sail its maiden voyage carrying billion in AI chips. A ghost protocol is buried in its navigation system, designed to redirect it into the Strait of Hormuz during an American military blockade — triggering World War III. Only Jason can see the code. Only Jason can stop it. And every intelligence agency on Earth wants him dead.