A Thousand Ways to Survive the Apocalypse in a Shape-Shifting Safe House

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Content warning: There is a male lead, but he's just a background character.

As a senior in college who graduated in Year XX, Meng Yuwei was on her way to the library to revise her thesis when a "pie" fell from the sky and hit her. To her surprise, she learned that the world would end in a week.

"Congratulations, lucky one. Your golden finger has arrived."

A notification sounded. The next second, Meng Yuwei was inside the pie, where she gained a safe house of her own.

"Survival should be comfortable. If the basics don't cut it, then neither should basic supplies. My stockpiling budget is basic, so why should my golden finger be basic?"

Though Meng Yuwei was an ordinary college student without tens of millions in savings, she had a safe house! From then on, she spent her days completing quests in exchange for more space and supplies. With a huge safe house and enough supplies to last ten years, she made it through the apocalypse.

Just as she was planning to turn her safe house into a luxurious mansion and live happily in the new world, Meng Yuwei received some bad news: she had to survive three more survival games before she could truly have her mansion in the new world.

For the sake of a better life, Meng Yuwei began working hard in the survival games.

Fortunately, her safe house stayed with her the whole time:

In the road survival game, while everyone else was still driving tricycles, her safe house had already become an RV.

In the ocean survival game, while everyone else was still on little wooden rafts, her safe house had become a cruise ship.

In the cloud-island survival game, while everyone else had islands just a few square meters in size, her safe house had become an airship among the clouds.

With her safe house, Meng Yuwei made it through three survival games on land, sea, and air. In the new world, she acquired a huge 500-square-meter house, built all kinds of supporting facilities, and nurtured the seeds of a new civilization.

[Upcoming: Daily Life as a Temp in a Creepy Game. Please bookmark!]

"What can your major do for you if you get robbed?"

During a break from submitting resumes for fall recruitment, Lu Nanwei came across this question.

While filling out applications for major companies and praying her resume would pass the initial screening, she couldn't help thinking about the answer. She didn't notice that the company name at the top of the page had changed: the logo of the creepy game, a black skull weeping bloody tears, was smiling at her from the top left corner.

And so, before she had even graduated, Lu Nanwei landed her first full-time job: an undercover temp at a creepy game.

She wasn't sure how she'd gotten the job without going through four rounds of interviews, but the awful job market had worn her down so badly that she was almost ready to make a living selling milk tea. So Lu Nanwei showed up at the office on time. But the person waiting for her wasn't a mentor. It was a terrifying set of rules.

The games were fraught with danger. Lu Nanwei finally realized that applied statistics might not help her if she got robbed, but in a game, all the knowledge she'd learned and the experience she'd gained in modeling competitions were her greatest golden fingers:

Talent 1: Probability Foresight

Talent 2: Event (Data) Analysis

While everyone else was thinking about how to escape the monsters, complete the game missions, and stay alive, Lu Nanwei had only one thought: "Can I list this game as an internship project on my resume? Could it help me get a job at a major internet company?"

As it turned out, that was unnecessary. By the time Lu Nanwei successfully cleared the creepy game, the rewards from the game had already taken her to the top of the world. She even started her own creepy game "company," offering internship credit to college and graduate students who had wandered into the game by mistake. To the other players, she was a rare, kindhearted boss.

Beginner's game: Office Rules

Game 1: The Invisible Person

Game 2: Flowers and Sin

Game 3: The Blood-Red Wedding

Game 4: Eight-Bone Evil-Subduing Formation

Game 5: If You're Strong, Make It to Floor 100

Theme: Stay positive and keep moving forward, even in adversity