Highway Survival, but It’s the Fourth Calamity

The player recently picked up a game called Road Survival. The gameplay is simple.

At the start, players draw a talent. Each gets a vehicle, gathers supplies, slays strange beasts, and builds their own utopia in a harsh environment, becoming humanity's last hope.

A player who never reads the story: Skip!

Unaware that she has actually transmigrated into the game, the player skips the opening introduction and draws a talent.

[Talent: Fragile College Student: I'm fragile in every way, but you can't kill me.]

Player: How nasty!

[Beginner Scenario: Desert Wilderness

You have brought your personal belongings into the game. Unfortunately, you were eating at the time. You have obtained the equipment [Secondhand Bamboo Chopsticks]. Open the treasure chest to obtain your first vehicle...]

After being poked with chopsticks for three hours, the beginner scenario's boss finally collapses.

The player, opening the boss's treasure chest: What did the System just say? Never mind, it doesn't matter.

The player obtains the server's one and only rare vehicle: Village Chief of the Beginner's Village.

[Special Scenario: Peach Blossom Utopia

Congratulations on being the first player on the server to clear the beginner scenario! You have received a bonus scenario. Please gather supplies within 24 hours. Please note...]

The player, who just defeated the scenario boss and snatched the scenario key: Damn System, you talk too much.

The player obtains the server's one and only rare backpack: Peach Blossom Utopia.

The player enters a scenario. The player starts gathering resources.

The player explores the entire map and discovers a special mine scenario.

The player leaves nothing behind and digs up every last mineral.

The player discovers that her vehicle is trying to escape. The player knocks it out!

She skips the entire story, searches every chest, attacks anything with a health bar, and doesn't even spare the ants she passes. She kills her way from the beginner scenario to the finish line, leaving nothing behind and clearing out every scenario she enters.

That's the spirit! That's satisfying!

The high-dimensional beings holding an emergency meeting: ...

Make it harder for her! Raise the difficulty now! We can't keep playing like this if we don't!

The player, who notices the difficulty has gone up (confused, then ecstatic): I finally made it out of the beginner's village! Yay!

No wonder the game was so easy before. I hadn't even left the beginner's village yet. (cheerfully)

One morning, the world wakes up to find everything turned upside down.

Countless people have entered a game called Road Survival. Each starts with one vehicle and can only move forward, never backward. All supplies come from resource crates that appear along the road.

Survival has become incredibly difficult. Supplies are scarce and precious, and even humans have begun killing one another.

Until one player like a force of nature appears.

[Congratulations to player [Xiao Ming] for clearing the beginner scenario. The beginner scenario is no longer available and has been closed.]

[Congratulations to player [Xiao Ming] for clearing the bonus scenario. The bonus scenario is no longer available and has been closed.]

[Player [Xiao Ming] has eliminated all hostile NPCs in the current scenario. The game is undergoing emergency maintenance. You may log in again in 24 hours.]

The players who are suddenly kicked out of the game and given a chance to restock: ...

Huh???

Before you read:

Xiao Ming isn't her real name, just her game ID.

A pure fun, apocalyptic-game story. It's just for laughs and may not suit readers with above-average moral standards.

Theme: Courage is humanity's anthem.