One Car from the Start: Building in the Apocalypse

[Before You Read: This is an apocalypse novel focused on infrastructure building, farming, business management, and tower defense. It's a feel-good power fantasy with plenty of original worldbuilding. If you like these elements, add it to your collection!]

[Tall, muscular beauty gong x bright-eyed, straightforward puppy shou]

Have you ever transmigrated?

Xie Qingrang: Thanks for asking. I just got here, and I don't know whose car I landed on.

Being an overworked office drone was bad enough. I never expected to close my eyes and wake up transmigrated into the apocalypse.

Surrounded by a horde of mutated monsters, Xie Qingrang gritted his teeth and accepted the Apocalypse System's binding, turning a car into a mobile fortress.

That's great, but why is it someone else's car?

And to make matters worse, the owner is a muscular woman who looks like she could beat up ten Xie Qingrangs.

Before he could listen to the System's empty promises, Mr. Xie was already being grabbed by the collar and pinned against the car by its owner.

Xie Qingrang: Help!

To get her car back, Jiang Heng gives in, and the two are forced to travel together.

Surely surviving the apocalypse means dodging mutated monsters, hiding from their packs, going hungry as often as you're full, and wandering around in search of food, right?

But...

Xie Qingrang: We're surrounded by mutated monsters!

System: Taming System unlocked. Go on, Host.

Xie Qingrang turns enemies into friends, makes pets of every mutated monster under the sun, and builds an army of mutated monsters brimming with fighting spirit.

Mutated monster army: Fearsome! Mighty!

Jiang Heng: The water here is contaminated. We can't grow food.

Xie Qingrang rummages through the System's tools, producing a clean water source and medicine to purify the soil.

From then on, golden waves ripple across vast fields of fertile land.

Everyone: Leader Xie, help us! There are bad guys over there!

Xie Qingrang frowns, and the hovering mobile fortress is instantly in position.

Base command center: Reporting to the leader, the strategic-class cruise laser cannon has locked onto the enemy target and is ready to fire!

The next book is Cat-Cat Brand Apocalypse Store. Please add it to your collection!!

[Theatrical human x sharp-clawed cat]

Damn it all, the moment Bai Jinxi opened her eyes, she'd transmigrated to this awful place. She'd barely managed to dodge the zombies and reach the safe house the System had mentioned when she discovered it was a storage room piled high with trash.

The System huffed. "Don't underestimate this storage room. It's the foundation of your rise to becoming the God of Stores!"

Bai Jinxi put up with it. For the sake of a better life in the future, she worked hard, tidying everything up and cleaning the place until it was spotless.

But as soon as she finished, a little cat paw strode right in without a care.

Bai Jinxi: "I just mopped that floor!"

The human and the cat stared at each other. The cat was pure white, with silky long fur and an elegant bearing.

It shook itself, sprang onto the counter, glanced sideways at Bai Jinxi, and licked its paw.

Bai Jinxi: ...

Stocking goods, organizing goods, and selling goods: learn these three things, and congratulations, you can open a store.

Bai Jinxi: Sure, sure. Why don't you mention that stocking up means scavenging the wasteland and searching dead people's pockets?

The System's task for Bai Jinxi is to search for supplies in this dangerous apocalyptic world, then put them on her shelves and sell them.

But Bai Jinxi looks at the cat lounging on the shelves, stretching its long legs... Taking care of a cat isn't part of the task, is it?

Bai Jinxi reaches out to pet it, but the cat bats her hand away with a paw.

It's fine. It's normal for a kitten to have a temper.

Bai Jinxi huffs and puffs as she hangs a crookedly lettered sign on the store: Cat-Cat Brand Apocalypse Store.

Now open for business!

During the days she runs the store, she has the cat for company. It may have a temper and refuse to let her get close, but that's okay.

The cat is mean, but Bai Jinxi is nice. She'll go to it herself.

But one day, the cat stops holding back. It raises its tail and curls it around her leg, arching its body and rubbing against her over and over...

Bai Jinxi anxiously asks the System: "Oh no, how do you get a female cat spayed in this world?"

The cat scratches Bai Jinxi's face with a paw and turns to leave.

At night, Bai Jinxi lies peacefully in bed. The cat has calmed down and is curled obediently in her arms. Apart from having a little trouble breathing, everything is fine.

Wait, why does she feel like she's getting heavier and heavier? Bai Jinxi jolts awake. The woman on top of her has startling white hair, and when Bai Jinxi reaches out, she feels furry ears.

Bai Jinxi: "Aaaah! Turn back!"

Cat: "?"

Before You Read:

1. The cat can turn into a human.

2. Apocalypse farming and store management. The overall tone is light and humorous, and it shouldn't get too heavy.

3. There's a golden finger, and it's a huge one.

Theme: Having enough food and clothing brings more happiness than mutual destruction.