Echoes of the Abyss: Building Infrastructure in Infinite Instances

What's it like to die ten thousand times? Han Zhou knows better than anyone. Trapped in the lowest-difficulty deep-sea instance of an infinite-flow world, he dies in ten thousand different ways before the System finally bugs out. Instead of granting him some godlike skill that boosts his killing power, it gives him a uniquely bizarre one-of-a-kind talent: “Master Builder.” While other challengers struggle to survive in horror instances and strengthen themselves, Han Zhou swings a pickaxe and unfurls his blueprints: “Not enough oxygen? I'll hand-build a light-algae farm!” “Monsters attacking? I'll line the entrance with traps and barricades!” “The lord's blocking the door? Then I'll build an outpost turret and reason with it!” He thought he could lie low until the end of time, but unexpectedly saves a mysterious girl and gets dragged into a deadly battle between the “Awakened” and the “Sweepers.” Beneath the deep sea, he also discovers the ruins of an ancient civilization's ark... The System's cold, all-frequency announcement resounds across countless planes: [Maximum alert! Anomaly Zero has appeared! Sweeper units have gone missing! All regions are under indefinite lockdown!] Meanwhile, the culprit, Han Zhou, is hiding in his constantly upgraded deep-sea safehouse, staring wide-eyed at the disassembled pieces of the System's most powerful weapon, the Sweeper: “This material... these runes... that's enough to build three more basement levels!” “Mr. System, don't worry. I'm about to take your ‘iron rice bowl’ apart and show you how it's done!” This is a mad construction project with the entire infinite world as its worksite, the tale of an “anomalous variable” surviving and fighting back against the System's attempts to eliminate him, and an ultimate mystery about the seeds of civilization, an ancient ark, and the truth behind the System.