When Civilization Wanders into a Livestream [Infinite]

[Completed] [Male Lead] [This is the romance section. If you want a no-CP story, please look elsewhere.] [The setting is explained in the author's note for Chapter 1]

Seven years into the Abyss, the people of Blue Star had long since grown used to the livestreams in the sky. Instances streamed every day, and players died every day. Everyone had become numb to it all.

Then one day, a woman suddenly appeared. She seemed cold, yet was impossibly powerful.

Jin Xia: Why did you pull me in? I'm not even human!

The Abyss not only pulled her into an instance, it also gave her an utterly useless skill.

Talent: Visible Bullet Comments (Interactive Version) - E Rank

Bound to a body she couldn't even change, Jin Xia was so furious at this apparently worthless skill that she couldn't help laughing.

Fine! You're the one who pulled me in.

In the newbie instance, the players were being tormented by exams and losing their minds, while the death toll climbed rapidly.

Jin Xia held up the pointer she'd snatched from the NPC teacher. "If a teacher is lax, the fault lies with the teacher."

"The teacher hasn't held herself to high standards. She's been lazy."

"It's because of your laziness that my grades are bad. How can you blame me? This is all your fault."

"I think you're the one who needs to go to detention, my dear teacher."

NPC teacher: ?

The players had never seen anyone turn the tables and psychologically manipulate an instance NPC before. Even more astonishing, she'd actually managed to overpower the teacher and escape the death zone.

And that wasn't all. The teacher, transformed into a monster, was rampaging through the hallway.

Then Jin Xia said, "A hall full of flowers intoxicates three thousand guests; one sword's frost chills fourteen provinces."

She was holding a mop handle, yet with a single sword stroke she really did freeze the monster in ice, saving countless players.

Players: S-so strong.

Bullet comments: [What incredible word magic!]

Ever since Jin Xia became a player, the people of Blue Star suddenly realized that the instances had taken on a different meaning. The players who entered instances alongside her couldn't stop grinning.

So NPCs can be taken out.

The rules don't have to be followed.

Even an NPC's identity can be taken over.

Is this really the Abyss we know? As Jin Xia continued to stir up trouble in the instances, people finally stopped fearing them and started looking for ways to fleece them instead.

When they encountered a monster, they took it apart to see how it was made. Medical students stayed up all night with their professors watching the livestream, then had to submit reports to Jin Xia.

Was development getting off track? One report from Jin Xia dragged the entire Huacheng Management Office into the public eye.

Looking up at the black vortex overhead, Jin Xia knew that she had to lead her people through the trials.

She also had to make the brilliant civilization behind her stand tall at the peak of the vast sea of stars.

In one instance, Jin Xia encountered a strange being like herself. After finally saving up enough points, she searched all over Blue Star but couldn't find her kindred spirit's "lair."

Just as she'd given up on the idea of bringing home a "little brat" to raise for fun, she met him again in another instance.

A consciousness of civilization from another world told her about the cruel realities hidden behind the Abyss.

But this kindred spirit was close to death.

A self-aware heroine born from an ancient civilization * an otherworldly consciousness whose people have fallen into the Abyss and wander its instances as the male lead

Plot-focused. The heroine is stronger than the male lead.

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[Not a horror-style infinite survival story. The specific setting is explained in the author's note for Chapter 1.]

[Please don't imagine plot points even the author doesn't know about. If you want to criticize someone, criticize the author. I'm a bad writer, and my ability isn't up to the task.]

[The wider setting is introduced fairly late.]

[Why should a strong female lead have to grow old alone?] [The road ahead will be perilous, so I want her to have a male lead by her side. If the heroine falls, he should die with her.]

---- Upcoming Story ----

At the end of the apocalypse, after hunger had tormented her to the very last moment, Yun Shen breathed her last. When she opened her eyes again, she found herself on a desolate, scorching wasteland.

Compared to the chaos of the apocalypse, this place was desolate enough to make anyone despair.

"At least give me something to eat!" Dying of hunger had been agonizing. Wiping away sweat, Yun Shen cursed the heavens for being so cruel.

"At least in the apocalypse I could find some tree bark to chew on. There's not even a blade of grass here!"

"If you're going to give me another chance, at least drop me in a city! Fine, I'll build one myself if I have to."

[Notification: Wasteland Paradise program installed.]

Yun Shen didn't know if her swearing had done the trick, or if the heavens had felt guilty. Either way, a System dropped out of the sky.

[Newbie mission: Choose a location to build your paradise.]

[Reward: Three days of meals included.]

Three days! A full three days of food. Yun Shen bound herself to the System on the spot and set out to find a suitable location.

She hadn't realized until she started looking that this land was covered in scorching heat all year round. Even in the few small cities, only the upper classes could live in houses that kept out the heat.

There were no plants, and water had become a precious resource. Even recycled, filtered water was rationed each day.

Food was painfully scarce, too. Fungi grown underground were people's staple food. If they managed to dig up insects underground, no matter what kind, as long as they weren't poisonous, they counted as a bonus meal!

Having died in one "fire pit" only to end up in another, a real fire pit, Yun Shen swallowed her saliva and could only hope for the System's rewards.

A small paradise suddenly appeared on the scorching wasteland.

At first, people assumed it was some big shot's private estate. Only later did they discover that not only was the temperature comfortable there, but plants could also grow.

Plants! What an obscure word. They were things that only existed in history books, and yet here they were, for real.

Yun Shen's little paradise soon welcomed its first rush of customers.

They marveled as they ran their hands over the garden lawn and scrambled to lie beside the fountain, just to drink a mouthful of cool, fresh water.

Before long, rumors spread about a remarkable place on the Siling Plains.

Some people refused to believe it, but traveled thousands of miles to see for themselves. Then they didn't want to leave.

To let more people live in the paradise, and to get the System to provide meals (underline that part), Yun Shen began diligently completing missions.

The paradise's amenities grew more and more varied:

Green gardens, oxygen-bar residential areas, rose fields.

There was even a small vegetable patch, where the vegetables were so precious that she felt she deserved to die just for touching them.

The locals tried every trick in the book to get a residence permit for the paradise.

Flattering the owner was the least of it. The honey trap meant Yun Shen ran into a pair of pecs every five steps and a flirtatious wink every ten.

Then people who visited the paradise regularly noticed that the chronic illnesses caused by the scorching wasteland were beginning to improve. The whole continent went wild.

The word "paradise" was far too modest. This was clearly salvation granted to them by the heavens!

Yun Shen had only wanted enough to eat. Then, without even realizing it, she had built an entire city.

The locals, now in better health, began rebuilding their homes.

And a man quietly became part of her life, too.

Yun Shen rubbed her chin. "Why does this feel like I've built a paradise just for myself?"

A heroine who only wants to eat and gets things done * a handsome male lead who tries to use his charms, only to give himself away

P.S. The male lead isn't very attractive early on. Once his body recovers, he'll be a great beauty.

Inspired by building a snowy mountain in the desert. 2024.11.20

Theme: Unity is strength