Overnight, temperatures around the world plunged to minus seventy degrees.
Cities froze, rivers solidified, and billions of people turned into ice sculptures with their next breath.
Human civilization collapsed. Marauders ran rampant and savage beasts roamed freely. Only two kinds of people could survive:
Those with power, who seized supplies and built fortifications.
Those with good fortune, who could find a sliver of hope in desperate circumstances.
Lin Ye had been nothing more than an ordinary young man.
The moment the extreme cold hit, he unexpectedly became bound to the Shelter Construction System.
While everyone else huddled in the ruins, drinking melted snow and gnawing on tree bark, his basement kept evolving:
Insulation, climate control, automated farms, weapons workshops...
While survivors fought over a mouthful of hot water, his shelter was brightly lit, with rice and flour in abundance.
But the extreme cold was only the beginning.
The System's missions grew more brutal with each one:
Survive three days of extreme cold: Reward, a generator.
Take in fifty survivors: Unlock an industrial module.
Establish a new order for humanity: Uncover the truth behind the apocalypse.
In his enemies' eyes, he was a tyrant who controlled food and shelter.
To his companions, he was the leader guiding humanity into a new era.
Yet behind the System, he gradually stumbled upon a shocking secret:
This frozen catastrophe was no natural disaster. It was... a trial for human civilization.
When the extreme cold receded, an even more terrifying "extreme heat apocalypse" was about to begin.
Lin Ye gritted his teeth and swore:
If the apocalypse is going to wipe out humanity, then I'll build a new world of my own!
