Surviving at Sea, While Running a Cruise Ship

When the torrential rain first began, no one knew it was a harbinger of the end of the world.

Zhu Shuan thought the storm would eventually pass too, but the steadily rising floodwaters suddenly swallowed the city.

At the brink of life and death, a cruise ship management System appeared.

Overjoyed, she immediately agreed and successfully boarded the ship. Then she realized she'd been duped.

The starter ship the System gave her wasn't a cruise ship, but an empty wooden boat.

[System: Please work hard to turn your wooden boat into a cruise ship, and build an all-purpose liner that every passenger will want to stay aboard forever.]

Looking at the ramshackle wooden boat that seemed ready to capsize at any moment, Zhu Shuan sighed and rolled up her sleeves.

Time to get to work!

People falling into the flood? They're passengers, of course. Fish them out!

Animals falling into the flood? Animals can be passengers too. Fish them out as well!

Objects falling into the flood? Fish them all out!

The battered wooden boat kept growing and getting refurbished, until it became a huge, multi-deck cruise ship.

At last, Zhu Shuan could take it easy. She lounged in a deck chair, using the System to place new buildings, and trading whatever wouldn't fit in the storage warehouse. She'd turned doomsday survival into a relaxing management game.

Zhu Shuan, holding delicious food: Enjoying life.jpg

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In Year 1 of the New Era, a catastrophic flood submerged Blue Star, and the cities vanished.

People built new cities in the sea's Level One, Two, and Three danger zones, and ventured into Level Four and higher danger zones to gather supplies.

Countless people died in the mid- and high-level danger zones while trying to bring home resources to support their families.

Everyone assumed that anyone who entered a mid- or high-level danger zone and failed to return within three months was dead.

Then a cruise ship appeared and shattered that rule of death.

It sailed lightly through every danger zone, bringing back people who had been missing for a long time and returning them to their families and friends.

And everyone who boarded the cruise ship would wail as they left: Captain, love me one more time! Let me stay aboard for just one more day!

Custom rooms, an arcade, a movie theater, a food street... I don't want to lose you! Aaaah!

Everyone knew that outside the cruise ship, not only were supplies scarce, but there was so little entertainment that it made you want to jump into the sea.

Reader's Guide:

1. Management and infrastructure building. At first, the protagonist salvages objects from the sea herself to stock up on supplies. Once she has enough, she won't keep hauling up so many things. After the ship upgrades, it will also have an automatic salvage system.

2. The central premise is the title. The blurb may change, but this is a story about running a cruise ship during a flood apocalypse.

Theme: Never give up on yourself, and you'll see the cruise ship that represents hope find you