Code Zero Nine

Code Zero Nine is a fantasy web novel by Yuewen Group author Zero Below Ninety Degrees, serialized on Qidian from February 15, 2021, and completed on May 17, 2022, totaling about 1.05 million characters and 393 chapters. The story is set in a mysterious superpower world: every person hosts a "superpower element" and is assigned a corresponding "code," and the lower the code number, the stronger the ability. The protagonist, Han Feng, was a product manager at a software company—a standard 996 office drone—who transmigrates into this world after an absurd development request, becoming an 18-year-old graduate of a superpower academy who can only awaken a support ability ranked beyond the top hundred, taking the form of sand and dust, leaving him unemployed upon graduation. After being killed in an attack in the outskirts, the superpower element in his soul unexpectedly fuses with the element in his body, awakening the mysterious power codenamed "Zero Nine," allowing him to return from death and kill his opponent. Thereafter Han Feng observes the rules and loopholes of the superpower world through the eyes of an "otherworldly product manager," starting with sandbox techniques and advancing through coordination and combination, getting drawn into conflicts in Red Leaf City, Sky Wind City, and elsewhere, clashing head-on with A-rank and S-rank powerhouses, and gradually approaching world truths such as the "War of Divine Creation." The work features snark, meme play, and trope subversion, blending workplace thinking with superpower combat in a brisk rhythm.