Highway Survival: Starting Out in a Tiny Car

(Apocalyptic survival, no romance, satisfying and lighthearted, with a no-nonsense heroine)

Top programmer He Linzhou dies from overwork, only to wake up forced into a brutal road survival game.

While everyone else struggles to survive within the rules, he decides to make the rules work for him.

[System warning: Vehicle allocation anomaly!]

He stares at the pink electric tricycle that has appeared out of thin air, with a full charge and a range of a thousand kilometers. The newbie phase? He can just keep exploiting the bug until it gets fixed.

[System warning: Supply crate logic error!]

He crouches in front of the crate and refreshes it five times a second, until he has spawned so many air drops that they overflow.

[Server-wide announcement: Player “I’m Super Brave” gets the first kill on a mutated beast!]

Holding the iron pipe he removed from the vehicle frame, he looks at the silver chest that dropped to the ground and smiles for the first time since entering the game.

“This game is more fun than writing code.”

While other players are still starving, he’s already eating self-heating hot pot by the roadside.

While the whole server still fears the night, he’s figuring out how to glitch himself a permanent safe house.

The System sees him as a virus and spares no effort in throwing up red warnings.

He calmly pulls up the underlying commands and enters a line of logic bomb code:

“Either let me play until the servers shut down, or I’ll shut them down right now.”

Bugs are his talent, and his deadliest weapon.

“I used to work for the System. Now the System works for me.”