ABO, but the Spirit Animal Is a Wrench

[Unconventional Sentinel/Guide, unconventional male Alpha and female Beta]

[Three updates daily after signing. I'm determined to update before 11:30. Can a deadline dodger pull it off?]

This is a world of ABO and Sentinels and Guides.

Beta Kuang Ye was an ordinary person even after graduating from college. Her family threw her into an arena show: awaken a spirit companion or die.

With tens of millions watching, Kuang Ye really did awaken a spirit companion! Except her spirit companion was...

A wrench.

Every other spirit companion was a fluffy animal. A nonliving spirit companion was unheard of.

Kuang Ye and her family quickly became the Alliance's biggest laughingstock.

Because of the wrench scandal, her fiance wanted to break off their engagement.

On the day they called it off, her Alpha fiance mocked her. She was neither as gentle and cute as an Omega nor capable of giving him three babies at once, and her spirit companion was a hick's wrench. Even the lowest-ranking Betas in the contamination zones wouldn't want her.

Of course, if Kuang Ye begged to be his bedmate, he might consider it.

The wrench was getting hard.

When her former fiance demanded, "What are you planning to do?" Kuang Ye smiled, her expression as dazzling as the wrench. "I'm going to bend you over."

"Oh, and I'll use the wrench to pound you into an O," she added.

With no value as a childbearer and no value for a political marriage, Kuang Ye was driven out of the Alliance's central region by her family. She joined an expedition team and ventured deep into the contamination zone.

Everyone thought Kuang Ye would die there without a trace. But she discovered that her spirit companion was not only exceptionally good at clearing contaminants, it could also combine materials to make weapons.

Even veteran expedition teams were helpless in heavily contaminated zones. Kuang Ye went in alone and came back with a huge haul.

The contaminants along the way became raw materials. Kuang Ye used her spirit companion to handcraft a chainsaw, assemble a laser gun, and even build a tank.

When a contamination wave struck the Alliance's frontier, the top Sentinels suffered heavy casualties. Ignoring everyone's attempts to stop her, Kuang Ye disappeared into the contaminants, wrench in hand.

Just when everyone had lost hope, gunfire and flames tore through the darkness.

A Beta everyone considered useless, wielding a spirit companion everyone considered useless, the wrench, was shooting contaminants down one by one and saving an entire city.

Kuang Ye: So it turns out I wasn't playing Alliance Online. I was playing Crafting the Ultimate Wrench.

At this rate, handcrafting a starship is just around the corner. There's only one problem:

She's a liberal arts graduate, not a science major...

In the interstellar age, contaminants and human evolution arrived at the same time.

The brave Sentinels and Guides of the White Tower used their bodies and their lives to stop contamination waves from devouring human settlements.

The grueling war of attrition lasted for decades. Humanity was driven back step by step and never managed to wipe out the contaminants completely.

Eventually, a small safe zone appeared. It grew into a city, then a planet, then an Alliance.

On this land, no one ever had to fear an attack by contaminants. The dark night of human history had passed.

People called this sanctuary the "Wilderness," after its builders, saviors, and governors.

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The youngest major general in the Alliance's history, Mu Xingbei, an S-rank Sentinel from the White Tower, became the "Most Irresistible Alpha" in a vote among the Alliance's countless Omegas, thanks to a side-profile photo taken at his promotion ceremony.

When reporters asked about his ideal partner, the handsome, cold, sword-sharp Alpha remained silent for a long time.

According to the textbooks, Alphas and Omegas were a perfect match.

But the person he'd had a crush on since adolescence was destined to remain free and rational forever, beyond his power to mark.

Years later, during his heat, the scene Mu Xingbei had dreamed of countless times finally came true. The most powerful Sentinel bit wildly at his lover's gland, trembling as he exposed his neck and coiled around his beloved like a snake. His breathing was ragged.

"Please, mark me..."

"But," Kuang Ye said, looking at Mu Xingbei, who was on the verge of breaking down beneath her and whose eyes turned red at a single touch. She hesitated. "I'm neither an Omega nor a Guide."

Summary: A Beta woman with a spirit companion that's the holy grail of engineering saves the world by accident.

Pragmatic, powerful heroine x aloof, lovesick hero who's willing to become an O for love

[Content warning]: This is not GB, it's BG! I simply enjoy writing cool, aloof guys showing their vulnerable side.

The Apocalypse Card Game: From Zero

The day Yu Shao found an internship in Hangha City, she moved into her new place and began a new life.

But it was the beginning of a new life for all of humanity

The card game descended.

Overnight, thick fog separated the world's cities. Mythical towers rose from the ground, and survivors struggled to live in cities transformed into game maps, while fending off monster attacks and defending their shelters.

Luckily, there was the card game.

Draw from the event pool: supply cards provide food and everyday goods, item cards reinforce and upgrade shelters, and ability cards are the rarest of all. Their holders can use the abilities shown on them to fight monsters.

Hehe, as long as you're lucky enough, the game can give you anything you want...

Or you can willingly sacrifice a part of yourself in exchange for a ten-card draw.

On the first day of the card game, having just moved into a rental and unable to find even one pack of instant noodles, Yu Shao thought:

I'm doomed. Am I the random passerby who dies at the start of every apocalypse stockpiling story?

On the seventh day of the card game, players began awakening their talents. Yu Shao saw hers and felt the world go dark:

[Underworld Engraver]

Passive skill: When a talent holder dies (smudge), obtain one (smudge) card.

Yu Shao: What good is a new card if I'm dead???

On the fifteenth day of the card game, Yu Shao died. No, wait, no, no, no.

Huh? How was she alive again? Yes, yes, yes!

It turned out that her real talent was

A chance to revive after death and obtain a card that inherits her own stats.

To survive the apocalypse card game, Yu Shao was trapped in a vicious cycle of carefully dying and coming back stronger...

Short on clothes and food.

Player 1: Offering 50 packs of luosifen, 10 jugs of purified water, 2 sets of winter clothes... All I want is one three-star ability card.

Yu Shao, with a whole pile of cards from her own deaths: Deal!

Not enough materials to upgrade a shelter.

Player 2: Begging for an ability card!!! Please help me out, boss. I'll give you every shelter item card I have, please!

Yu Shao: Sounds like a good deal.

A neutral monster was curious about the "strange" cards in Yu Shao's hands and wanted to examine them.

Yu Shao smiled slyly. "Sure. What good stuff will you trade me for them?"

Yu Shao quietly grew stronger. The players only realized belatedly that her cards were endless. She lived well in a high-level shelter, and no one dared attack it. She even seized several strongholds inside the towers, and even neutral monsters came to curry favor with her.

At last, one day the fog lifted. All the players looked up at Yu Shao, standing at the tip of the tower, and heard the final System announcement. It felt like a lifetime ago:

[Congratulations to Huaguo player Yu Shao for clearing the game!]

I Eloped, Then Got My Happy Ending with Three Men

You woke up.

The bad news: You had lost your memory.

The good news: You were about to marry the heir to the country's oldest and most noble family.

What would you choose?

A. Walk down the aisle with Vincent Landau.

B. Follow your heart and run.

You looked at your diary, where your own handwriting said, "Don't trust anyone," and decisively chose the latter.

After you ran away, your powerful fiance used every means at his disposal to find you. He said you were truly in love, and that if you had broken off the engagement, someone must have manipulated you.

It was someone else's fault.

You, his beloved, were always right.

But as you looked at your diary, you shook your head to yourself. What woman in love would describe her lover as "a useful, lovesick idiot with a naive, sunny disposition"?

A mysterious beastman priest took you in. By day, he listened to his parishioners' confessions. By night, he bowed over your lap, letting you stroke his curled horns as he pressed against your belly and whispered his own confession.

The Madonna stood behind him, but all he could see was the deity before him.

Then there was the elite captain of the Enforcement Bureau, who let you get away again and again, only to seize your wrist and arrest you time and again with his silent, piercing gaze.

Every one of them had said, "Lily, I love you."

But every man proved that there were things in the world he valued far more than loving you.

What a coincidence. So did you.

You loved only yourself.

Theme: Never give up in adversity