I Transmigrated to the Wasteland and Saved a Girl with Distilled Water

Name: I Transmigrated to the Wasteland and Saved a Girl with Distilled Water
Author: Damn, He's Awesome

穿越废土，我用蒸馏水救妹子

by Damn, He's Awesome (倍儿他么棒)

Status: Ongoing
Length: 1.2M Words
Genre: Sci-Fi & Apocalypse
Updated: 1d ago
English: Request a translation

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Synopsis

[Heads-up] A wasteland island survival and settlement-building story. The protagonist doesn’t dominate everything from the start. Things begin with shortages of water, food, and boats, and the home is built up little by little.

[Heads-up] Focused on everyday life and building a community. This isn’t a dark apocalypse story, and it doesn’t center on people harming one another. Everyone is just trying to survive.

[Heads-up] Several female supporting characters, with bonds and mutual support, but no mindless devotion to the protagonist.

[Heads-up] The protagonist has no System or special abilities. He relies on knowledge from his previous life, distilled water, and rules he establishes to slowly build a life on a wasteland island.

A catastrophic tsunami swallowed nine-tenths of the land.

Three hundred years later, humanity lives on floating islands, barren reefs, and wrecked ships. Fresh water is more precious than gold, ships are land, and sea routes are life.

At sixteen, everyone else awakens a Tide Mark, gaining the power to control water, ride the wind, dive deep, or tame beasts.

But after I transmigrate here, I fail to awaken.

The people of White Reef Floating Island call me a waste of food and water, then exile me to Blacklight Reef to die.

Blacklight Reef has no water, no food, and no boats, only a dilapidated lighthouse on the verge of collapse.

Everyone says I won’t last seven days.

But I know how to build a still.

The first basin of fresh water saves a female diver.

The first sack of sea salt earns me food.

The first water shelter gives refugees a place to settle.

Later, a female captain, a scavenger woman, a female craftswoman, and more refugees choose to stay.

That’s when I realize that water isn’t the only thing of value on this sea.

There’s also salt, ships, ports, and new rules that can help people survive.

If the old floating islands won’t let us live,

then I’ll build a new home for us here on this wasteland island.

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544Chapters

422Reads · 30 days

3.5kReads · all time

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