I Use a Game System to Build in the Apocalypse

After waking from a nap, Chen Xi finds herself inside the hardcore survival game she'd played until she was practically bald from all the grinding.

She's now the commander of the "Glory" base, a disaster zone plagued by a lack of oxygen, dwindling food supplies, and zombies pounding at the door!

Looking at the familiar yet brain-dead clones before her, enduring the screenful of flashing red danger warnings, Chen Xi takes a deep breath of foul, polluted oxygen and smiles a twisted, perverse smile:

"No big deal! It's just a real-life version of Oxygen Not Included in the Wasteland. I know this map like the back of my hand!"

[Warning: Base food supplies are about to run out]

Chen Xi: "Don't panic. I could draw the hydroponic farm blueprint with my eyes closed!"

[Warning: Unknown creatures are attacking the base's outer walls!]

Chen Xi: "Small potatoes. Automated turret array, countdown: 3, 2, 1, activate! Let's show these zombies what the firepower of a veteran PVE player looks like!"

[Warning: Your mood is dropping because you're eating mudroot...]

Chen Xi: "Shut up! Once I fix this toilet, I'll rebuild this whole world from the ground up!"

In this hopeless wasteland,

Chen Xi's miraculous base starts with puddles of sewage. Starting from scratch, she builds an ecosystem and leads the survivors in creating a new world!

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A few things to know before reading:

1. This story features a zombie apocalypse in a wasteland, a built-in game System, and base-building from beneath the planet's crust.

2. Heroine: old-school internet troll; sandbox base-building game fanatic; emotionally stable; no limit to her outrageous stunts.

Theme: Don't fear adversity. Move forward bravely toward the light.