Shen Tang, a landscape designer and overworked 996 office worker, is pulled into the "Apocalypse Puzzle" game one second before she dies of exhaustion.
Other players start with: a 5-square-meter patch of dirt, a bottle of water, and half a biscuit.
She starts with: a 2-square-meter patch of scorched earth, a blade of dead grass, and a 24-hour countdown.
The System says: Rank in the bottom 100 for land, and you're eliminated.
Everyone thinks she won't last three days, until...
Shen Tang awakens a talent: land devouring and evolution.
Other people's plots grow through upgrades. Hers grow by "eating." While others go hungry, her mysterious seeds produce one filling fruit a day. While others flee from Void Beasts, one Radiance Fruit makes the monsters steer clear.
She climbs the leaderboard all the way from dead last to first place across the server.
Zhou Yan leads thirty men to hunt her down. "A woman? Stick with me, and I'll keep you alive."
The next day, Zhou Yan's plot is gone.
A male player says, "Women aren't suited to surviving the apocalypse."
Shen Tang eats a Stamina Fruit and flips his plot over with one hand. "What did you say? I didn't catch that."
Later, she has a floating town, a team of superpowered fighters, and a following.
Players across the server all ask: Who exactly is this Shen Tang?
Then the truth about the apocalypse comes to light: the last person alive will become the Creator God of the new world.
All the top players join forces to hunt her down.
Shen Tang sits in her flower-filled courtyard and takes a sip of tea.
"What's the rush? Let me finish watering this pot of flowers."
Then she stands up and "pieces" the entire apocalypse into a new world.
The whole server falls silent.
It turns out she never wanted to be a survivor.
What she always wanted was to be the creator...
