What is the most profitable thing in this world?
In reality — the arms trade.
Next — the drug trade.
[As of 2022, the global drug trade reached 500 billion]
In this world — only drugs.
Their circulation has long surpassed everything else. They generate more money than wars, oil, and technology combined. Because drugs do not sell death — they sell hope.
The hope to become smarter.
Faster.
Stronger.
Richer.
Sometimes — immortal.
The facts are simple. Most people who use drugs degrade and die. This is confirmed by statistics, medicine, and the streets. But there are exceptions. A small percentage. Those who do not merely survive, but change. Their thinking becomes unconventional. They act faster, take more risks, and are not afraid to cross boundaries an ordinary person never would.
It is from people like these that geniuses, criminals, dictators, and billionaires emerge.
History has known this for a long time.
In the age of explorers, people first encountered substances capable of changing not only the mind, but the body itself. Some died almost immediately. Others went through withdrawal, madness, and disease — and came out different. Back then, it was called a curse, witchcraft, or divine punishment.
By the twenty-first century, drugs had ceased to be mystical. Apartment stairwells, dead drops, night streets, endless wars against substances that are never won. The police sell. Governments look away. Youth dies. No one is surprised anymore.
The middle class is a myth.
Social mobility is a joke.
The future is a luxury.
Sometimes the system glitches.
Sometimes death does not lead where it should. Medical reports record strange cases that never make it into statistics. People are written off too early. Errors, coincidences, negligence. No one talks about them, because it is easier to consider them dead.
Such cases are not discussed publicly. They are not given names. They are not studied officially. They simply disappear between the lines of reports, records, and archives.
This world is not about morality.
Not about fighting addiction.
Not about salvation.
This is a world where drugs have become a mechanism of selection.
And in this world, his story began.