Your Objection Has Been Recorded

SYSTEM NOTICE Audit region: DENVER. Forecast coverage: 0.60. Passing threshold: 1.00. Failure at assessment: compulsory deployment. Exemptions: none for age, injury, or noncombat status. The apocalypse has rules. Mason Reed has learned that they are rarely written for his benefit. Denver has a safe zone, three Anchor Cores, and the beginnings of something that almost resembles a government. It also has a Regional Audit thirty days out, a coverage forecast of 0.60, and a remedy for failing that is measured in people.这个不是比你那个好 The numbers say they are going to fail. There is one intake that will accept a challenge: a Regional Audit Relay somewhere west, holding the records no municipal terminal will show him. Reach it, find what the decision was actually based on, and prove the procedure wrong on its own terms. The road there is Collectors, forced quests, frozen settlements, and evidence that Earth may not have been the System's first customer. And the deeper Mason digs, the worse the paperwork gets. Authorizations that should have lapsed are still being enforced. Rules contradict their own descriptions. Whole populations may have gone through this machinery before humanity ever entered the queue. Mason spent his old life on a help desk, closing tickets nobody read. His skills are still called Please Hold, Chargeback and Escalate. He cannot run. Nothing heals because he levelled, nothing refills because the situation is desperate, and the Administration is about to decide it would rather hold one of his skills itself. Customer service never taught him how to win an argument. It taught him how to make them put it in writing. Your Objection Has Been Recorded is Book 3 of The Last Help Desk — a progression LitRPG apocalypse with system mechanics, tactical survival, party progression, dark humor, and a hero who would really like to speak to whoever approved this policy.