Deep Sea: A Guide to Surviving the Apocalypse

His brain stolen, dragged into a bizarre game, and told the world was doomed: He Shiqi’s life began in an operating room and plunged straight into an absurd abyss.

In a card game where the fate of the world was at stake, his opponent was a deranged, eerie clown, and his fellow players were ten faceless shadows. He bought back his brain with three copper coins, then turned the tables on the game’s master, who controlled everything, by exploiting traps in the rules.

When he opened his eyes, Blue Star was already gone. He had become a bottom-rung laborer on a survival platform, living in an unfinished apartment, taking filthy, backbreaking jobs, and facing mutant ruins where flesh writhed.

The contaminated cards the clown left behind, the truth of the game known to no one, the plot to destroy the world hidden behind the platform...

He Shiqi lifted a cup of matcha coffee, smiling as if none of it mattered.

“Why should I care if the world is destroyed? I just want to take back everything that belongs to me, and, while I’m at it, drag every one of these charlatans into the game to play with me.”