Survival Above the Sea of Clouds: Stockpiling and Farming at Ten Thousand Meters

Qi Ji, who suffers from a rare disease, is pulled into a survival game for all humanity. From the start, he has a floating wooden boat, blue skies and white clouds above, and an abyss below.

The good news: His illness is gone, and he can finally leave the isolation ward.

The bad news: He has a negative status effect, and only 10 HP left.

Despite this disastrous start, Qi Ji is overjoyed. As long as he can move freely, he has a chance to defy fate!

He salvages chests and stockpiles supplies, crafts items to trade for materials, and even takes advantage of his negative status to buy up unwanted junk items for cheap and use them to gear himself up.

Once the beginner period is over, natural disasters such as hurricanes, hailstorms, falling fire, and lightning storms arrive one after another. Qi Ji upgrades his little boat into a mobile castle, transforms his floating desert island into a secluded paradise, and stays home, well-fed and cozy, dozing off with his pet in his arms.

After the disasters pass, the rankings update. Qi Ji sits firmly at the top of the server leaderboard, while elves, wingfolk, beastmen, and goblins from beyond his island line up to buy his goods.

*

When Qi Ji had just left the beginner village, he ran into the elf Ilfilin.

After an emergency landing on Qi Ji's boat, Ilfilin pulled out a stack of business cards at their first meeting.

"Before you stands a wandering merchant, a freelance mercenary, an alchemy apprentice, a trainee mage, the beloved child of the elven Mother Tree, a bard of the elements, a free-spirited adventurer, and an expert on ancient ruins. Captain, you look like a very generous person. Could you buy me a meal?"

Qi Ji glanced back at his boat, which had barely been upgraded to thirty square meters, and answered earnestly, "My boat isn't big enough for all those people."

*

Qi Ji had always thought Ilfilin was a fake elf.

He seemed to know a little about everything but excelled at nothing. He was always showing up to mooch food and drink, and his casual manner of speaking and acting was anything but elflike, apart from his face.

It wasn't until they ran into danger that Qi Ji realized this man was actually a demon king's protector.

*Demon king's protector means "protecting someone like a demon king." It originally referred to a highly skilled game booster, and later came to mean a protector, emphasizing an intimidating presence and a strong desire to protect.

Huai Xu never dreamed that he, a blind man, would become a pioneer.

A year ago, a mysterious force descended upon Blue Star. The sun disappeared, endless walls rose between nations, and a deadly survival game began, with the fate of each country at stake.

In the first three rounds, Huaguo took the lead, drawing attacks from other nations. Its pioneers suffered devastating losses, and the country faced a fight for survival.

At this critical moment, a divine prophecy card revealed Huai Xu's image.

After learning why, Huai Xu hesitated for only a second before agreeing to enter the boundless desert and search for supplies for his country.

Even though his eyes could only detect light, and more than a thousand soldiers had already died there.

But as soon as he entered, he made a fatal mistake.

Pioneers were allowed to carry only three items, but he had forgotten to take off his navigation headset beforehand, and lost his most important water bottle.

As he stood there helplessly, a familiar electronic voice rang in his ear.

"Map update detected. Rerouting your route. Please wait... Route updated. Follow the audio prompts to the nearest water source."

*

As a top soldier, Qi Wu had always been confident.

Even though Huaguo had drawn a hellish start, and only eleven pioneers remained alive in the boundless desert, he believed he could surely carve out a new future for his country.

But after repeated encounters with high-level monsters, then suffering from dehydration, hunger, serious injuries, and a high fever that brought on hallucinations, he finally realized that luck was part of one's strength.

As he drifted in and out of consciousness with fever, a cool hand pressed against his cheek, and a pleasant voice sounded in his ear:

"Xiao Ai, are you sure this is edible? Why does it feel wrong when I touch it?"

*

Among the pioneer livestreams from every country, the Huaguo stream had a particularly strange atmosphere.

[YOOOOOOOOOOOOO~ He reached out! He reached out! I knew this would happen!]

[It's been ages since Huai God got his sight back, and War God is still all over him. Tsk, tsk, tsk~]

[Is the country still not opening up pioneer spots? I want to go to the boundless desert and serve my country! Definitely not because I want to ship them up close!]

Theme: Survival comes first.