[Doomsday Disasters + Farming + Wasteland Development + No Romance + No Female Lead + Brotherhood]
As glaciers melted, rising sea levels swallowed 80 percent of the world's land at a terrifying pace. Raging tsunamis destroyed modern civilization, forcing the surviving humans to migrate en masse to the inland plateaus. When the floodwaters receded, all that remained for the survivors was barren land soaked in seawater and severely salinized, along with deadly red-tide mists carried inland by the monsoons.
Back in the ruined city on the plains, Lu Zhou dragged his exhausted body home to a place reduced to rubble. There was no fresh water, no food, and even a single seed that could sprout was a luxury. In this ocean-swamped age, where morality had collapsed and resources were desperately scarce, he unexpectedly awakened a natural affinity for wood from the ancient family heirloom, Fragments of the Ancient Farming Manual.
On this salt-crusted land where nothing grew, he started with a few green shoots, hauling soil, storing water, and putting up a shelter. Storms threatened to tear off his roof, while resource monopolists wanted to wring every last bit of production from him. To survive, and to protect the only home he shared with Lin Ye, a feral boy he had found among the ruins, Lu Zhou had no choice but to transform an entire high-rise into a sealed ecological farm. In this world full of danger, you either farm or die. His goal is to grow a “life ark” above the ocean, one that will never be submerged.
