Bai Yuan accidentally transmigrated into a gacha game he'd played years ago, one about capturing pets, farming, and building a base.
His card permissions and skill slots were locked, but fortunately, the game's System and his inventory space still worked.
The game had entered a brand-new version: a post-apocalyptic wasteland struck by natural disasters. An alien pollution had descended upon the world, causing countless plants and animals to mutate.
The surviving humans had established several safe settlements, keeping the mutated and monsters confined to polluted zones.
Food was running out. Most people could only survive on nutrient solution, and every day, someone would fly into a rage and become feral.
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Bai Yuan found his old little base in the deepest part of a polluted zone. It had become a place of exile for mutated beasts and rampaging humans.
With a head growing out of his liver, Bai Yuan looked at the feral people, their claws and tails grown long, their natures savage and brutal, and slowly broke into an evil smile.
They're just furry troublemakers, aren't they? Free labor. I'll gladly take them!
What's this, a fire-breathing Crimson Flame Fox?
Bai Yuan pulled out a capture ball. Gladly accepted. One seat in the kitchen for you.
A Scissorhorn Demon Goat and a Steelspike Boar?
I'll gladly take them all. Go tell that to my wool coat and cumin chili seasoning.
Just as Bai Yuan was hard at work at the base, the Snow Abyss Lord, the leader who had once ruled this place, returned.
The mighty Snow Wolf King Mu Ye radiated a cold, ferocious aura. His dark golden eyes fixed on Bai Yuan with ill intent.
"So you're the intruder? Anyone who dares trespass on this territory becomes food."
Bai Yuan: What are you blabbering about? The base doesn't keep wolves who don't pull their weight.
Then Mu Ye returned to human form, revealing a silver-haired, rebellious, handsome face.
Wait, why does he look a little like that SSR Bai Yuan had worked so hard to level up and spend money on?
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Clearing land and farming, raising livestock, refining alchemy in the workshop: Bai Yuan's little base gradually grew until it became the infamous "sweatshop" of the entire polluted zone.
The leaders of other human settlements were stunned to discover that the polluted, mutated beast-people had recovered from their rampages and were living just fine in the deepest part of the polluted zone.
They say the crops and food that come from there can suppress pollution!
As the big shots and crowds from other bases flocked to him, Bai Yuan found himself surrounded by more and more people.
Mu Ye crept around in the shadows, nudging the other furry ones away, and gritted his teeth. "You were the one who abandoned me for so long! I'll never forgive you!"
Bai Yuan tugged on his wolf ears. "Then stop tugging at my pant leg."
The snow wolf flicked his ears and let out a ferocious, threatening howl. "Awooo~"
Bai Yuan smiled. Why are you howling? Aren't those ears and that tail there for me to pet?
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A farming, food, and base-building story
An unscrupulous, tireless top with a five-element deficiency x a bottom who's sometimes rebellious and savage, sometimes a puppy that goes "Awooo"
Theme: Praise hard work, courage, and solidarity, and build a better home together