Reincarnated as a Building (Infrastructure)

[My new story, A Guide to Running a Wasteland Hotel as a Crooked Businessman, is now available. Welcome to read!]

[The full story is complete. I’m slowly revising it and fixing typos.]

[Special chapters whose titles and descriptions include “[Buy with Caution]” expand on the main story. You can skip them without affecting your reading experience, so buy them as you like, cuties.]

Blurb↓

Yu Jian, an ordinary college student who loved playing all kinds of farming and construction games, died after stepping in to help someone

Then he transmigrated, becoming a prison.

A prison that had just been built, with no inmates yet, in a desolate area far from the city.

Yu Jian: ???

Before his eyes lay a bloodstained apocalypse. Zombies roared, mutated beasts howled, and inmates ran wild.

System: Hey, do you still love playing construction games?

Yu Jian: …?

*

He would build a shelter with walls of iron and stone,

where no one would go hungry or be left to wander homeless.

He would let the spark of civilization light up the world,

and the land bear abundant fruit.

People would live and work in peace,

and even make use of the scarce electricity left in this wasteland,

so entertainment could once again become part of everyday life.

But first, he had to deal with the thugs occupying his body and relieving themselves all over the walls.

Yu Jian: …Damn it!

*

In the distant future,

people would sing the praises of Prison No. 13,

calling it the dawn of the apocalypse,

the birthplace of civilization once more.

The inmates would receive the punishment they deserved.

Hunters would wear the smart wristbands handed out by the prison’s master,

letting them accept missions and earn contribution points.

Children would use teleportation abilities to get to school safely.

The elderly would receive secret recipes for strengthening their bodies.

It would be a place from which the light spread.

…

Yu Jian: Thanks for asking. At the time, I was just trying to complete the System’s mission.

Reading notes:

1. A million-word story, possibly two million.

2. My take on construction and development, with a relatively slow start.

The Creation Editor [The Fourth Calamity]

Blurb:

Question: What does it feel like to create a world from scratch?

Answer: Thanks for asking. I found a group of free laborers.

They voted on the races. They made up the legends. They even built the cities themselves.

Then they praised the “game” for its excellent immersion and realistic NPC interactions, calling it the pinnacle of full-dive gaming. It was unbelievably satisfying.

*

Ji Wushi, a special-effects artist who had graduated from college not long ago, somehow inherited a newly born world and became its only god.

At the time, land and sea had not yet been divided. Space was desolate, and only plankton drifted through the universe.

Like a blank sheet of paper, it was his to color as he pleased.

So towering mountains rose from the ground, mighty rivers roared through the land, and he created everything: swords and roses, poetry and magic, every law of nature.

*The Post-Creation Book records that in the early days of civilization, the intelligent races suffered disasters they could not resist. Mutated forces of nature and savage magical beasts nearly destroyed the world.

At that moment, the Creator sent his chosen down to the mortal world.

They were immortal and fearless, pushing forward without hesitation. They led the races they represented to the heights of greatness and glory, ushering in an age of great prosperity

The players summoned without knowing what was going on: Hehe, Genesis is so much fun! I could play for a billion years! Please release more premium items! I strongly recommend removing the purchase limit on resurrection potions! Listen to what the players want!!!

Reader notes:

1. My take on The Fourth Calamity, with no identity-reveal plotline.

2. A silly comedy.

Theme: Fight crime and build a better world.