Lu Chen worked overtime until three in the morning. When he woke up, he found himself lying in another world.
No generous starter pack from a System, no newbie protection period, just a blunt-tongued Civilization-Building System: it gives you the blueprints, but you find the materials, recruit the people, and do the work yourself.
In three days, he built a drafty wooden hut.
In five days, he dug a well.
While digging, he unearthed a stone slab covered in symbols.
That afternoon, a group of fur-clad natives knelt before him and called him “Aka,” which meant “god” in their language.
They said the remains of the gods lay buried underground.
They said their ancestors had waited for the gods to return for generations.
They said he could take anything he wanted, as long as he helped them survive.
Lu Chen looked at his hands, rubbed raw and bloody from hard work, then at the people who thought he was a god.
He remembered what the System had told him: the more Civilization Points he earned, the more blueprints he could unlock. The more blueprints he unlocked, the larger his territory would grow. The larger his territory, the deeper he could dig.
What was down there?
Where had those “gods” gone?
What was the truth about this world?
Lu Chen had no idea.
But he did know one thing:
First, he needed to build somewhere people could actually live.
