Apocalypse: Bound to the System, I Become an NPC

[System] [Base] [Quest Dispatch] [Zombies] [Mutant Beasts] [Army of Ability Users]

Slow-paced story. Proceed with caution if that bothers you.

The red moon hangs high, and the apocalypse descends. Chu Xia, a photography student, inherits his parents' bookstore.

A lousy System bars him from leaving. The bookstore has only a fragile, basic energy shield, so to build an impregnable fortress, he can only guide readers to keep awakening and leveling up, and assign them quests.

As zombies and mutant beasts evolve and gain intelligence, they seem to be pursuing something, launching one attack after another on the utterly unremarkable bookstore.

To stay alive, Chu Xia relies on the meager resources at hand and this bunch of crafty readers to hold back the invaders.

Once upon a time, members of the book club all called him: Boss Yixia, courtesy name Mengde, inheritor of Cao Wei's spirit...

Chu Xia protested, "I'm just a photography student who hasn't graduated yet. I want to deepen my professional knowledge. What's wrong with studying lighting and composition...?"