Black Workshop in the Floating City: Starting by Hand-Rolling Level-One Filter Cores

[Waterborne Survival + Rise from the Bottom + Craftsmanship + Minimalist Golden Finger + Slow-Paced Farming]

An endless acid sea swallows the world, and the survivors huddle aboard the Iron Whale, a giant mobile floating city cobbled together from countless wrecked boats and metal hulls.

Lin Ye transmigrates into the body of the lowest-ranking drifter in the outer floating-platform district. From the start, the platform beneath his feet is leaking, and the “buoyancy tax” balance on his wristwatch is zero!

The Iron Anchor patrol is already standing outside his door. If he can't pay five water-drop coins, they'll strip him naked and kick him into the acid sea to feed the mutated blind eels!

At this desperate moment, Lin Ye digs out five shoddy water-purification filter cores left behind by the original owner and saves his own life.

The original owner was a filter-core apprentice who couldn't keep his pants on. He poured all his hard-earned money into the swaying “red-lantern boat,” then died suddenly after taking counterfeit drugs.

Taking over this wrecked body, Lin Ye plans to survive through his craftsmanship. Then he unexpectedly awakens the minimalist talent [Transform the Rotten]:

As long as he completes a full crafting process with his own hands, he can automatically spot hidden flaws in the materials, and his finished product is guaranteed to be free of impurities and reach the recipe's flawless perfection grade!

The price, however, is extreme exhaustion. He can only work continuously for an hour and a half at a time, and must sleep for four hours straight to recover.

Lin Ye sticks to the ironclad rule of “never going out to sea, just keeping his head down and growing.” Starting with a tiny level-one filter core on a pitch-dark lower-deck platform, he upgrades machine tools step by step, monopolizes water and power, and leisurely builds the largest supply empire in the entire floating city!