Global Survival: I Bound the Stardew Valley System

All of humanity woke up to find themselves dumped in a barren otherworld so bleak it was enough to crush all hope.

There was no food, no water, and no shelter. The gray-yellow wasteland was crawling with indescribable monsters. After dark, they would follow the scent of the living to find you.

A cold announcement appeared before the world: Do your best to survive. Good luck.

In the world chat, billions of people wailed and cursed, waiting to die in despair.

Tang Zhao was one of them.

But just as he was ready to accept his fate, a System notification rang out in his mind.

[Stardew Valley System successfully bound.]

Tang Zhao stood frozen for a full three seconds, then picked up a hoe and began tilling the soil.

While others drank their own urine to survive in the wilderness, he grew his first crop of parsnips by the pond.

While others crawled desperately across the ground with monsters on their heels, he built the first wooden cabin.

While others had no idea where they would find food for the next day, he was already brewing blueberry wine, fishing for bass, and grilling dried fish on his own porch.

The whole world was fighting to survive the apocalypse. He was the only one farming in another world, and thriving at it.

Every day, people spammed the world chat: "Could some kind soul please spare me a bite to eat? I'm begging you!"

Tang Zhao glanced at the crops piled high in his granary, the fruit wines lined up on the shelves, and the fish darting about in his pond, then silently closed the panel.