The Otherworldly Construction Bureau

Xu Chengan, a construction foreman, drops dead over his eighth set of blueprints. When he opens his eyes, he has become a crystal in the ruins of a wasteland in another world: the Heart of the Ruins. With him are a System that can only recite regulations in a pompous bureaucratic tone, called the Construction Bureau, and eighty-seven points of starting capital. Others are reborn through devouring, naming, or bloodlines. He does it by paying wages. He gives clay men employee badges, signs contracts with wolves, and teaches goblins, “If someone gets hurt, they eat first.” Scaring people is a service, charging admission is revenue, and setting rules is infrastructure. From a ruined site that has been bankrupt for three hundred years to the Seventh Lamp, coveted by the government, the church, and the black market alike... Xu Chengan says, “Inspect it first, then sign off. This job is doable.”