When Cao Ruiyu woke up on the humus soil of a strange mountain col, the cold electronic sound in his mind was announcing a game that could not be exited - "Welcome to the wilderness to survive, death is the real death."
No respawns, no saves.
The system releases not only players, but also mutant vines that spray venom, mutant wolves that grind their teeth in the dark night, and radiation zones hidden behind the fog. The words in the survival manual gradually blurred, and "cooperation" and "predation" were repeatedly pulled on the edge of resource exhaustion. The exposure of each coordinate may lead to fatal covetousness.
When the first player is forever silent in the group chat, when the fence of the shelter cannot stop the greed of the same kind, when the ultimate task of the system points to "sacrifice and elimination" - Cao Ruiyu finally understands that the most terrifying thing about this game is not the monsters in the wilderness, but the fangs of humanity exposed when forced into a desperate situation.
He must hide the coordinates under the surveillance of the system, use homemade bows and arrows to fight against the hungry wolves, use encrypted symbols to exchange lives with trustworthy people, and build the last fortress between the ruins and the jungle. Because those who survive to the end not only have to fight against the wilderness and the system, but also face a more cruel question: when you become the "last player", is the land under your feet a new home or another prison?
Reader comments
The author wrote this book with great care and it is very good.
The author wrote this book with great care and it is very good.