A Mountain from the Start: I Live Off the Mountain

[Survival game + devouring and fusion + single male lead + no romance + unusual pets]

[This is the author's first long-form novel, so please forgive the rough writing.

Some scenes are a little gross, since the story involves Taotie and includes descriptions of eating oneself. If that's not for you, please don't read.]

Bad news: While eating at a farm stay, Jiang Yu accidentally ate poisonous mushrooms that he had picked and cooked himself. His face turned blue, he foamed at the mouth, and with a final gasp, he collapsed.

Worse news: All the able-bodied young people on Earth had been transported into an apocalypse game, where survival was up to them alone.

Good news: The moment he was on the verge of death happened to coincide with the start of the transfer, so he didn't actually die. When he opened his eyes, Jiang Yu found himself in a dilapidated thatched hut halfway up a mountain. He had also awakened a special poison-resistant constitution, making him virtually immune to all poisons and able to eat anything without worry. The drawback was that he got hungry very easily, and if he went hungry for too long, he would lose consciousness.

Figuring that he might as well make the best of things, Jiang Yu decided to grab whatever he could find to fill his stomach. As long as he stayed alive, that was enough.

But to keep himself fed and prepare for the two-person duels held once every ten days after the beginners' period, Jiang Yu had no choice but to work hard at growing stronger. Before he knew it, he was ranked first across every leaderboard and had become the strongest person in his world.

But that wasn't the end of it...