The protagonist is an evil Daoist, the campus belle is a zombie mecha, and players are raised like livestock.
When alien players descend on Earth, Lin Xiu becomes the big boss of the Fallen.
The campus belle in his class is a player’s vehicle (game character)!
They want to farm this big boss, namely me!
To keep from getting farmed by the players, Lin Xiu has no choice but to start raising them instead.
He offers them all kinds of services to help them grow stronger, including upgrades, card draws, and blind boxes.
Meanwhile, Lin Xiu uses corpse-driving talismans to secretly raise his zombies, advancing them from purple stiff corpses to white stiff corpses, black stiff corpses, green stiff corpses, hairy stiff corpses, flying stiff corpses, and incorruptible bones, until one devours the divine beast Hou and evolves into a Ba!
Don’t ask why talismans can drive zombies. The answer is simple:
From a sci-fi perspective, zombies are corpses infected by a virus.
From a fantasy perspective, zombies are corpses possessed after evil spirits and resentful ghosts invade them.
In essence, there’s no real difference.
The final say belongs to the game company behind Earth Apocalypse Online.
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Alien players: Sure, Earth was turned into a game for us to play, but we brought civilization to the planet. Intelligent carbon-based life should be thanking us.
Humans: You are the great Awakened, the saviors who rescued the world, unknowable ancient gods of unsurpassed beauty. We will gladly sacrifice everything to the Awakened, if only they will end the apocalypse.
The Fallen: They are the Fourth Catastrophe, the players. When I told my fellow humans that the source of all this disaster was nothing but a game played by alien players, they turned around and treated us as quest clues, selling us to those same players. Do you understand that kind of despair?
(This book’s early chapters focus on the campus belle raising zombies. The player-farming storyline will take a little while to get going.)
Wasteland Pawnshop: Starting by Making Level-One Bullets
Nightmare Levels: I Can Remake the Mysteries
I Work as an Anomaly at the Anomaly Management Bureau
The Ultimate Path
In the Americas, From Security Guard to Call of Duty
I Create Strange Wonders at the End of the World
The Cataclysm Beneath the Earth: Surviving by Collecting Cards
A Literary Master in Ancient Greece
League of Legends: Being an Honest Support Is Boring, Isn't It?
Cultivation Refuge
The World's Ending! If You Don't Go Mad Now, It'll Be Too Late!
Lord of the Universe: Starting at a Mining Star Outpost
After reading six chapters, here are my thoughts on Shennong.
He's definitely an experienced author, and his writing is excellent, but be careful he might be an old eunuch who never finishes his work. These days, when I read exceptionally good books published by top-tier accounts, I'm always afraid they might be abandoned. Author, please tell me! Even if you are a eunuch, you must be completely emaciated and reborn!
The protagonist himself won't save people, but perhaps he can secretly spread a spark of the Fallen? After all, the player faction is always the player faction, and NPCs are always NPCs; it's just a matter of gains and losses in a game. The biggest boss among the Fallen must be other Fallen beings, right?
I've been focusing on supporting characters, but there's been no progress on the main storyline. I'm already fed up with it.
Anti-Fourth Natural Disaster
Without depicting the black and white of human nature, you can feel that the protagonist is truly desperate.
This book title is hilarious! A different title would have doubled its popularity. I was put off by the title several times, and only clicked on it because of the comments.
It is edible, but a certain level of toxin resistance is required.
As of now, only a little over 24 hours have passed in Chapter 65. Whether it will finish on the third day before it goes on sale is questionable. Because only 24 hours have passed, the plot hasn't progressed much, and the female supporting character Qing Xiuyu takes up a lot of space when the protagonist doesn't have much screen time, making the protagonist feel insignificant.
The initial setup was good; the school beauty zombie was intriguing, and the subsequent developments that readers imagined were exciting. However, once the player was introduced, the writing became dull and uninteresting, and the extended storyline was unsatisfying.
Reading Notes
The writing is decent, the plot development is good, and it captures the various exciting moments and the protagonist's ruthlessness. However, there's a bit too much unnecessary screen time for supporting characters in the early stages, but that's understandable given the character development. Just one suggestion. The character You Qingkong is a complete failure.
Both have advantages and disadvantages; you should consider them carefully.
First, let's talk about the advantages. The protagonist is a ruthless person with a fiery temper, showing no mercy whatsoever, regardless of gender. Sometimes, some plot twists made me think, "Huh? Is this even possible?" The characters are also unlike the brainless characters in typical post-apocalyptic novels.
I initially thought it was a pure action novel, but it turned out to be a semi-dark story, which is fantastic. The author could totally change the title; this book would definitely be a hit.