Scavenging at Sea: An Office Worker Coasts to Victory in a Disaster

One morning, ordinary office worker Su Xiaoman woke up in the middle of a vast ocean, dumped there along with her dog.

Beneath her was a leaky, rickety raft, and in her pocket she had only 100 seashells. The System told her: Welcome to the disaster survival world. You have seven days of beginner protection, after which you’ll face torrential rain, tsunamis, poisonous fog, and extreme cold, one after another. Most absurd of all, this world is divided into four separate zones: she is in the ocean zone, her parents are in the zombie and frozen zones, and her older brother is in the desert zone.

A family of four, scattered across four places. No one can rely on anyone else.

Su Xiaoman thought she was done for, but then her hidden talent awakened: [Take Advantage of Everything]. In simple terms, if someone has a golden finger, she can piggyback on their buffs. If someone is a big shot, she can reap the benefits. Discounted trades, resource bonuses, System resonance: as long as she has thick enough skin, big shots become her mobile supply depots.

While everyone else fights for their lives at sea, she’s making a living off them. While others battle monsters to level up, she resells supplies for a profit. While everyone else gloomily gnaws on ration bars, she enjoys self-heating hot pot while watching the sunset, with a talking poodle and a rescued spirit monkey at her side.

When the first disaster struck, torrential rain poured down, sea levels surged, and low-level sea monsters swarmed in like a tide. At last, the people who had looked down on her realized that the woman who cried “Big shot!” more than anyone had more trump cards tucked away than any of them.

She wasn’t just going to survive the disasters. She was going to build a city on the sea.

“Who says you can’t win by lying flat? I call it strategic rest.”

She wasn’t just going to survive the disasters. She was going to build a city on the sea.