Humanity across the globe was dumped into the Dome Realm at the same time by the "Migration Protocol." When Lin Ye opened his eyes, he was standing in a windowless, doorless wooden cabin. His health bar was full, but his strength, constitution, and agility were all zero. By the stove crouched a gray-furred little beast chewing on air: his awakened pet beast, Huidou. The rules were brutally simple: invincible inside the walls, wilderness outside. There were no maps, no coordinates, and each person was about a thousand kilometers from the next. He spent the afternoon reading the status panel, chose farming blueprints, and started by chopping wood. He boiled water and waited for the fire, turned over soil and kept track of his stamina, then made a meal that cost ingredients but restored stamina. He went through every step of a meal, from washing the pot to scrubbing the dishes. Old Zhou, A-Che, and Shen Tang gradually came online in the channel, and the four of them exchanged tips across distances none of them could ever cross. When it came time to upgrade his first blueprint, he gave up on expanding the farmland and chose instead to stockpile materials for a teleportation array. That meant venturing beyond the invincible boundary for the first time to collect stone. The pot had to be big enough, and there had to be four chairs. He waited to see who would arrive first.
