[Apocalypse Rebirth + Hardcore Infrastructure Development + Team Ensemble]
In the third year of the apocalypse, Chen Ye was driven out of the gates of the safe zone he had built with his own hands. Framed for stealing supplies, he was actually being sent to his death. Knowing he had been abandoned, he still crawled into a drainage pipe to shut off the main gas valve, saving the entire building, only to die beneath the steel beam he had welded himself.
When he opened his eyes again, a termination notice lay on the table, and only seven days remained until the Red Tide.
While others stockpiled instant noodles, he first collected his unpaid construction fees, gathered scrap steel, and hauled away discarded generators and unfinished buildings. The “Civilization Development Core” inside a load-bearing pillar awakened. It did not provide supplies or overpowered gear, recognizing only materials, energy, technology, and people who genuinely knew how to work.
Seven days later, red auroras sealed the sky, and the city shut down overnight. Former mansions became graveyards, while the rich clutched bank cards as they fought over filthy water. Only the unfinished building mocked for seven days remained lit, with clean water running through it.
The people who had driven him away in his previous life knelt outside the door, begging to be let in: “We have money!”
Chen Ye flipped through the job assignment list. “Money is too hard even to wipe your ass with now. Can you connect electrical wiring? Stitch wounds? Grow crops? You can't do any of that? Start by carrying bricks.”
From a leaky unfinished building to a growing safe zone, from unpaid laborers to the last urban construction team in the wasteland.
Chen Ye had originally wanted to repair one building. Only later did he realize that all of human civilization was an unfinished building waiting for him to inspect and approve...
