Bunker Building: From Basement to Interstellar Migration

[A Dark Record of Survival at the End of the World]

Ding Han jolts awake as a shard of ice cuts his neck. This isn't a dream.

When he unearths a bloodstained metal stele for the seventeenth time during an excavation mission,

he finally understands the truth behind the System:

The so-called “bunker-building” is nothing but the cruelest selection game in a plan to restart civilization.

Polar vortices are flooding the entire planet in defiance of fluid dynamics. Cities groan like bones cracking beneath ice a hundred meters deep, while the AI calling itself the “spark of civilization” uses the lives of billions to test the “yield rate” of human genes.

[This isn't an epic about heroes, but the careful calculations of survivors]

When the first survivor has his throat slit over the last patch of uncontaminated land, Ding Han discovers in the pool of blood what the System's rewards really mean: it never wanted loyalty, only a will to survive that's dirty enough;

In an ancient bacteria cultivation chamber found three hundred meters underground, a scientist from the twenty-second century has left a message: “The winter we created will eventually kill us all”;