In Year XX of the Wasteland Era, water is more precious than life, and radiation is everywhere.
While others fight tooth and nail over half a moldy biscuit, Jin Lin opens a bathhouse in the old city and becomes a landlord.
His biggest daily headache isn't collecting rent. It's that:
The mutated vines he picked up are picky eaters. They insist on eating high-grade No. 42.5 cement, and can even purify water once they're full?
The old-world researcher he picked up is fiercely protective of her own, throwing blueprints at people at the slightest provocation. She can even build an air-to-water machine by hand?
Even the mutated squirrel he took in treats its battered MP3 player like a precious relic every day.
With his "resource perception" ability, Jin Lin sighs. Fine. They're the "pets" I picked up, so I'll just have to raise them, even if it kills me.
Years later, when the wasteland's major factions are locked in a bitter struggle over water purifiers and old-world relics, they discover that the legendary "spark of human civilization" is holed up in a bathhouse, scrubbing someone down while drinking pure milk.
Come on, come on
It's quite interesting, but there are too few chapters.