An Unconventional Daily Life of Survival in the Apocalypse

He Xi and her four college roommates were selected by a minigame called [The Apocalypse Is Here: Which Level Will You Die On?] to become beta testers.

After the game invaded reality, the five of them were sent to different apocalyptic worlds. The only way to leave the game was to survive in nine different apocalyptic worlds and obtain each world's [Illustrated Guide].

He Xi: Got it, a nine-square puzzle!

Game: All apocalyptic worlds in this game are unconventional. Their rules cannot be inferred from familiar apocalypse tropes. Players, please be careful.

He Xi: ? What does “unconventional apocalypse” mean?

But before she could think it over, she and her four roommates were thrown into their respective apocalyptic worlds.

He Xi arrived in a “doomsday” world in the clouds. Everyone's safe houses floated in the sky. The sunlight was harsh, resources were scarce, and she could barely imagine what any of this had to do with an “apocalypse.”

And every “apocalypse” she visited after that was unlike the usual idea of an apocalyptic world.

Zombies, extreme cold, plague, famine... At most, these were minor features in a few individual worlds.

Instead, she drank clouds from the sky, attended a mysterious ritual performed by strange creatures beneath the polar night, witnessed a lavish banquet amid fields of starving corpses, saw the Tyndall effect in a tropical rainforest, spoke with aliens, entered a dream within a dream, and became data, then a fossil...

Every time she entered a new world, she thought it had nothing to do with the apocalypse.

But when she finally obtained the last Illustrated Guide, the truth about the apocalypse slapped her right in the face.

He Xi: My face really hurts.

Roommates: It doesn't hurt, it doesn't hurt. Here, let us blow on it for you~

Yes. Besides collecting Illustrated Guides to unconventional apocalypses, He Xi's top priority was also to collect her roommates!

While others panicked, cowered in fear, and struggled to survive,

He Xi stockpiled supplies, fought, and survived against all odds.

She would wring every bit of value from these worlds, grow strong enough to tear through their barriers, find the people she cared about, and uncover the truth behind these so-called [Apocalyptic Worlds].

[City in the Sky] (in progress)

The sun beats down, safe houses float among the clouds, and resources are wrapped in bubbles along the horizon.

As she travels through a dark city of reflections, how will she break through?

[Winter's Dark Night] [The Everlasting Feast of Hunger] [New Life in Rotting Wood] [Visitors from Beyond the Stars] [Dream Within a Dream] [Pixel World] [Age of Ashes] (Loading)

A few tips:

1. The heroine is fairly independent and good at analyzing and studying new things. There will be plenty of scenes where she analyzes the apocalyptic worlds and experiments with their elements. She has a lot of inner thoughts and may seem cold to strangers, but she's actually warm-hearted. She's ruthless toward anyone who has hurt or tried to hurt her, but fiercely protective of her friends and roommates. She knows who she loves and hates.

2. The heroine starts out as a lone wolf. She briefly teams up with different people in different worlds, but won't have a permanent team until the middle and later parts, when she reunites with her roommates. Her roommates will then be her regular teammates. The heroine is the strongest. Her other three roommates each have their own roles. Some are dependable, while others still need to grow, but they're all wonderful girls, so the heroine will dote on them, and so will the author (while also letting them grow little by little).

3. The main story follows the girls' adventures, but there will also be men in these apocalyptic worlds. I'll try to portray good and bad men and women of all ages. The heroine will have a love interest (a supporting, devoted male lead), and one roommate will have a secondary couple. My personal preference is for men to be strong and women to be even stronger. I love seeing men who are considered powerful by conventional standards obediently listen to the heroine and genuinely admire her, but the men won't join the protagonist's team.

Theme: Unity is strength