I Went Beachcombing and Found a Rare Sea Creature [Apocalypse]

After the apocalypse arrived, it seemed that only marine life had escaped infection and mutation. While everyone else was busy building a base or heading off to join one, Su Ran stayed in his little seaside house. He spent his days combing the shore and gathering seafood, living a fairly comfortable life. ...Until one day, he found a mermaid while combing the shore. Su Ran: Damn it, so the ocean got polluted after all! The mermaid had a magnificent deep-blue tail, a sexy, muscular upper body, and a handsome face. He held up a scallop in both hands and fell into thought. "This is our child..." Su Ran: "Bullshit! If you want to freeload, get to work!!" And so Su Ran's backyard gained one marine worker who complained about sore feet every day. Later, Su Ran found an octopus monster, a starfish monster, a sea urchin monster, and more while combing the shore... And before he knew it, his little house had somehow become a base for marine life??? The mermaid sorted vegetables every day, the starfish plowed the fields, the octopus cleaned the house, and the sea urchin fought off zombies by rolling into them! Everyone worked from sunrise to sunset, keeping to a wonderfully regular schedule! Life on land was great, so marine creatures began moving their whole families over to join Su Ran. His "base" grew bigger and bigger, and its reputation spread far and wide. The big bases wanted to establish relations with them, the small bases wanted to merge with them, and an alliance organization asked Su Ran to share his experience in building a base... Su Ran: Don't ask me. It's too much trouble. I don't want to do it. A certain mermaid smiled. "I'll make sure I don't add to your burden." Su Ran clutched his nearly broken waist and roared, no longer able to stand it. "Bullshit!!!" Next story: Working as a Nurse at the Infinite Monster Hospital Blurb: After graduating from university, Wei Lin couldn't find a job. Just as he was at the end of his rope, he received an extremely strange job offer. Work location: [You'll find out when you get there] Work hours: [When everyone else is asleep, it's time for you to work] Salary: [The most generous compensation in the world] Scams these days were getting ridiculous. Wei Lin decided to meet the scammer, record the evidence, and go tell the police some jokes. He didn't expect the mysterious door to close behind him, revealing a dim, ten-story hospital built around an open atrium. Excited screams echoed through the building. The patients enthusiastically flung severed fingers and hurled eyeballs at him from upstairs, as if presenting him with a grand welcome gift. The head nurse stood calmly in front of him. "Welcome to the Infinite Monster Hospital. As you can see, this is the only monster hospital in the infinite-world setting. Our job is to treat monsters injured in instances and send them back." "Work location: Mostly in the hospital, though sometimes you need to go out on emergency calls, driving an ambulance into instances to carry out critically injured patients." "Work hours: After eight every night, when the players gradually enter the Infinite City." "Salary: Life is precious. As long as you work diligently, you'll have an immortal body." Wei Lin fell silent for a long time after hearing all that. "...So you can't pay me, but you can guarantee that I won't starve to death, even if I have nothing to eat?" "Exactly." "What kind of evil employer would put out a job posting like this?!" * In the twenty-first century, starving to death wasn't exactly dignified. After accepting the job, Wei Lin began his daily shifts as a nurse. X month X day, midnight rounds Room 1: Patient asleep. Room 2: Voices coming from inside. When I opened the door, I saw a human face on the patient. It vanished when I blinked. Suspect a hallucination caused by overwork. (Strongly request compensation for labor in addition to the immortal body, preferably cash.) Room 3: Chewing sounds coming from inside. I really didn't want to damage my eyes with anything indecent, so I skipped it. Room 4: Window wide open, patient missing. I jumped out the window and found the patient in the [Lost] instance, laughing at a terrified player and tossing the player's head around. Head recovered. Room 5... Room 108: Patient asleep. Rounds complete. Note: For the past few days, I've felt a strange gaze on me whenever I enter Room 108, but the patient really is asleep and hasn't opened their eyes. Has anyone else felt the same? Bottom: My terrifying ghost of a top~ Top: My charming nurse wife *The blurb has been screenshotted and archived. Please do not plagiarize. Theme: Enjoy the little things in life