Want to Try a Gacha Pull? [Apocalypse]

Cheng Nuo is a hardcore blind-box addict, often failing to even make back what he spent. One day, a Rubik's Cube Gacha System suddenly descends upon Earth. It's a disaster-survival edition: if your luck runs out and you spin a monster, you die. Cheng Nuo, whose gacha luck is absolutely terrible: "..." If they want him dead, they can just say so. The starting ability everyone gets from the gacha machine is usually either offensive or defensive. His is a 3D map. Cheng Nuo: "...Even the gacha machine thinks all I can do is run for my life." To stay alive, he sets his sights on a classmate from another department who works part-time hauling bricks at the construction site on campus. From what Cheng Nuo can tell, the guy is lucky, looks like he can fight, and is an honest sort. A few words should be enough to lure him away. A little good luck and bad luck to balance each other out, and everyone's future will be bright. A few snippets: Gacha Monster A: "I was still just an egg, looking forward to hatching in five minutes and raising hell. With only a few seconds left, that demon found me with pinpoint accuracy and smashed me to pieces. QAQ." Gacha Monster B: "I had him cornered, but then he ripped up the entire building and smashed me with it!" Gacha Monster C: "I was throwing my weight around when he walked up, trapped me inside his map, and sent a whole bunch of dark elves to beat me up..." Person A: "I told him, 'Take as much as you want,' and he went and moved every last supply in the warehouse into that map of his..." Merfolk raise towering waves, dragons in the sky breathe black flames, and giant beasts on land trigger earthquakes, but the City of Dawn, which Cheng Nuo conjured from his imagination, still stands tall. He also created the work he is proudest of: a boyfriend who perfectly combines the forms of various monsters. One map from the start, and the whole world in the palm of your hand. [Before You Read] 1. This story has no connection to real life. 2. Reproduction of this work without authorization is prohibited. It is published exclusively on Jinjiang; all other versions are pirated. 3. App purchases cost 0.03 yuan per thousand characters. Chapters are charged by word count, not at a set price. ***Coming soon: Collecting Blind Boxes Until I Strike It Rich. Please add it to your collection!*** Countless black towers appear across Earth. After defeating monsters and clearing a stage, the reward is a treasure chest, and every chest is a blind box. Nothing gets people more excited than the chance of finding an "elf egg." Legendary elves, such as dragons and merfolk, are almost impossible to come by. Blind boxes become a different kind of lottery. Take a chance, and your bicycle might turn into a fighter jet. Even with the black towers already here, Ye Wen is still a miserable wage slave. Every day, he opens blind boxes for customers on livestream. His company is garbage and can't attract the strong, so the blind boxes he gets are mediocre and sales are just as bad. His boss chews him out every day. One day, he casually opens a blind box for himself and finds a key inside. After using the key to open a door to another world, Ye Wen discovers that... Everything in the black-tower treasure chest blind boxes was put there by people and elves from another world. The same magical plants are clearly sold wholesale in the other world. And enchanted gear requires silver that can absorb and store magic. In the other world, silver costs about as much as gold does on Earth. Ye Wen: (stunned) (thinking) (throws his head back and laughs) (wiggles excitedly and nearly throws out his back) Ye Wen takes Earth's silver and exchanges it for the other world's currency, then buys goods from the other world and slips them into the treasure chest blind boxes sold on his livestream. In just one week, he sells as much as the company does in an entire quarter. The manager assumes it's because of the high-quality blind boxes and fires Ye Wen to make room for a relative. The quality of the blind boxes immediately plummets, and viewers drag the livestream room onto the trending charts. While the manager is being fired, Ye Wen sets out on his own and makes a roaring success of his blind-box business. As his business grows, Ye Wen visits the slave market in the other world to find someone who can look after his home there. His requirements: cheap and scary-looking. The owner takes him to a filthy, run-down place, where Ye Wen immediately spots a half-breed. Those horns, the fine scales at the corners of his eyes, and his cold green gaze make him perfect for guarding the house. As Ye Wen happily leads the man away, the owner smiles, thinking that at last some sucker has bought the disobedient slave who killed several previous masters. Theme: Believe that you can do it.