A Broken Lantern from the Start, I Built a Mechanical Divine Realm

Ten billion people around the world are dropped into the Everlasting Silence Wasteland. Each starts with a drafty wooden shack, and their lantern fuel will last only 11 minutes!

Gray fog presses against their faces, and their sanity plummets. Countless people wail in despair and beg for help, but the moment mechanical engineer Lu Bai grips an iron axe, he activates the [Furnace of All Things and Blueprint of Truth System]!

Others chop rotten wood for fire and cough up blood from the toxic smoke. Lu Bai throws it into the furnace: [Purification complete! Obtained smokeless, high-energy refined charcoal. Heat output increased by 500%, safe zone expanded to 10 meters!]

Others are at a loss when faced with incomplete blueprints. Lu Bai runs a one-click simulation: [15% of the blueprint is missing. Automatically completed and upgraded to green-grade, fine-quality rapid-fire alloy crossbow!]

Others are scared witless and killed on the spot by a first-tier mutated tusked beast. Lu Bai lands a headshot in five seconds and drags it into the furnace: [Analysis successful! Obtained 20 high-energy, frost-patterned pure meat steaks. Eating them increases cold resistance by 5 degrees Celsius!]

When Lu Bai lists 100 grams of sizzling, fatty roast meat on the World Trading Post, the ten billion arrivals go wild!

"What the hell?! It's only been an hour since we got here, and you've already opened a chain of barbecue shops in the wasteland, boss?!"

Ding! A trading frenzy begins. Granite +82, black ironwood +65. In an instant, the wooden shack transforms into a black-stone fortress kept at a constant 22 degrees Celsius!

A cold snap hits. Ten billion people freeze into ice sculptures?

Lu Bai watches the flames dancing in his furnace and sneers: Sorry, but once you go into my furnace, even an indescribable god will be refined into a high-energy battery!