1. The Virtual Starting Gun

At exactly midnight on December 21, 2025, every Tesla screen globally—from Model 3s at charging stations to giant billboards in Times Square—simultaneously turned pitch black. A single line of white text appeared, simple yet electrifying:

“Are you smart enough to own the future? ‘The Last Riddle’ has officially begun. Tesla’s most special gift awaits the sole individual who finds the key. Hint one: It lies where the sun never sets.”

Elon Musk, in a brief livestream, simply smirked and said: “This prize isn’t measured in money, because it is priceless.” Instantly, the world plunged into a frantic fever. From anonymous hackers in Eastern European basements to mathematics professors at Harvard, everyone joined the greatest digital treasure hunt in history.

2. Data Labyrinths

Leo, a young unemployed engineer living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, was one of the millions participating. He realized the first hint wasn’t just geographical. “Where the sun never sets” referred to the Starlink satellite network—entities forever bathed in sunlight in orbit.

By analyzing Starlink’s signal fluctuations, Leo found coordinates leading to a remote part of Svalbard, Norway. But he wasn’t alone. As Leo stepped onto the frozen tundra, he saw dozens of helicopters and snow-rovers from rival corporations already there.

The competition was no longer a mere brain teaser. It had become a war of survival. Musk was forcing humanity to prove they had not just brains, but the courage and speed to match.

3. The Depths of Truth

The second riddle appeared as a metallic polyhedron buried deep beneath the permafrost. To solve it, players had to interface directly with Tesla’s AI through a previously unannounced protocol.

Leo, using a custom-built laptop, breached the core. In that moment, he realized a horrifying truth: These riddles were actually simulations of Earth’s ecological collapse over the next 50 years. Each solved riddle provided a piece of a technological solution to save the planet.

“Musk isn’t giving gifts,” Leo thought, his hands trembling as he typed the final command. “He’s forcing us to save the world with him.”

4. The Secret Door at Starbase

After a month of navigating 12 layers of encryption—from massive prime numbers to quantum physics laws—Leo was the only one to receive the final message: “Come to Starbase, Texas. Bring your faith.”

There, amidst the towering Starships, Elon Musk stood waiting. No cameras, no cheering crowds. Just Musk and a small box made of matte black carbon fiber.

“Congratulations, Leo,” Musk said, his voice raspy from sleep deprivation. “You outlasted 10 billion people. You solved equations that my AI took years to even find loopholes in.”

Leo panted, asking: “What is the gift? A billion dollars? A Starship fleet?”

Musk shook his head, slowly opening the box. Inside was no gold or car keys. It was a Generation 7 Neuralink chip, shimmering like a synthetic diamond.

5. The Prize: “The Breath of God”

“This is Project Prometheus,” Musk explained. “Inside this chip lies the entire blueprint for eternal clean energy and the means to repair Earth’s atmosphere. I couldn’t release it publicly because political powers would destroy it to protect oil interests.”

Leo stood frozen. Tesla’s special gift was the control of the planet’s destiny.

“I need someone outside the system, someone with the intellect to understand and the independence to protect it. Your gift is the burden. You will lead a secret council, operating this technology to save Earth without the need for any government.”

Leo looked at the chip, then into the exhausted eyes of the world’s richest man. He realized this competition was the ultimate test to find a successor for Musk’s ideals.

6. A New Era

The next morning, the world woke up to the news that the competition had ended. Elon Musk posted a photo with an anonymous stranger with the caption: “The future is in the right hands.”

The public was outraged, never knowing what the “gift” truly was. Tesla Model 3s kept driving, Starlink kept operating, but they didn’t know that in a secret room in Tokyo, Leo had started the ignition for an eternal green revolution.

Elon Musk had launched a service not found in any business catalog: Salvation. And that gift, as he said, truly could not be priced. It was the breath of a tomorrow that humanity thought was already lost.