Doomsday Survival Game

[Welcome to the Doomsday Survival Game. As you can see, everyone has arrived in an unfamiliar place]

[Survival is your only goal. If you want to live as long as possible, be sure to remember the following key points:]

[1. Disasters refresh periodically. All survivors will receive a warning seven days before the refresh]

[2. Do not casually place your Shelter. Finding a suitable place to settle down will increase your chances of survival by a level]

[3. Danger and opportunity coexist. There may be survival supplies in the wild, as well as dangerous mutated creatures. There will be surprises if you defeat the mutated creatures]

[4. Search for as many survival supplies as possible. This is the winning formula for you to survive]

[5. Once the Shelter is placed, it cannot be moved. When placing it for the first time, you will have the right to choose above or below ground]

[6. If you accidentally encounter others of your kind, congratulations. Perhaps you can form an alliance, trade, or even plunder the resources they have worked so hard to accumulate]

[7. Concentrating your attention will open the game panel. More features await your exploration]

[8. No need to worry about the elderly and children. Their deployment time will be much later than yours, and priority will be given to relatives during deployment. We wish you all a pleasant game]

A vast and boundless wilderness.

Su Mo frowned slightly as he looked at the survival manual in his hand.

The small black characters floated on the first page of the paper. When he turned to the second page, a burst of dazzling light suddenly erupted.

When the light disappeared, the book was gone, replaced by a tortoise shell that released light.

"Doomsday Survival Game?"

Watching the azure screen in front of him sway with his vision, Su Mo quickly accepted the reality.

On December 22, 2022, no one expected the Mayan prophecy to suddenly arrive after a ten-year delay.

Solar flares erupted, and an asteroid hit the Earth. Su Mo fainted the moment he watched the raging flames fall.

When he woke up, he had arrived in this place.

[Shelter]: 1. Choose to place it above ground to form a 120 square meter wooden house with extremely weak disaster resistance and excellent development potential.

2. Choose to place it underground to form a 4m high, 100 square meter underground pit with weak disaster resistance and poor development potential.

Picking up the tortoise shell in his hand, two lines of black characters appeared as Su Mo examined it carefully.

After looking at the wilderness next to him and dismissing the idea of placing it immediately, Su Mo remembered the previous prompt and summoned the game panel with a thought.

Similar to the game function.

There were different options on the panel.

[Chat], [Trade], [Crafting], [Items]. In the upper right corner of the panel was an icon for the number of days.

5 days.

When Su Mo focused his attention on the number of days, a line of prompts popped up.

[Countdown to the next disaster event: 5 days]

[Disaster Event (Newbie Protection): Acid Rain]

"There are only five days until the Acid Rain comes? It's a good thing I didn't choose to place the base right away."

Su Mo's face became a little solemn, and his gaze turned to the chat button.

The page changed.

Two new buttons appeared.

They were [World Channel] and [Area Channel].

First, enter the World Channel.

"Wasn't I in a shelter? How did I suddenly run to this ghostly place?"

"There's a lion next to me, help, I'm being targeted by it!"

"The end of mankind is here, haha, everyone is going to die!"

"Do you guys also only have one Shelter that you can place?"

Lines of dialogue scrolled past.

Su Mo noticed the small speaker icon next to the send button.

It was followed by the number 1.

[Small Speaker: In the early game, you can only post one message per day on the World Channel. Each time you survive a disaster, the number of daily speakers +1. To chat freely, enter the Area Channel]

"Restricting players from grouping up? Or restricting national power?"

Su Mo looked away.

Based on the currently known information, everyone was trapped in the wilderness, starting with nothing different, all with a Shelter to start.

"One message a day, even a national machine can't gather enough people to develop in this environment. Besides, who knows how big this place is?"

Su Mo exited the World Channel.

He entered the Area Channel and took a look.

It was similar to a QQ chat group, with 1000 displayed in the members section.

Everyone in the chat group had real photos as their avatars, and their nicknames were their names + height.

"Is the wilderness the only terrain? Does anyone have a water source nearby? I'm about to die of thirst."

"Don't place your Shelter underground, damn it, it's a trap. No lighting, no ventilation, no drainage. Staying inside during Acid Rain is a grave."

"Don't give up, everyone. Open the crafting page. MC players rejoice! Prioritize placing your Shelter on high ground."

"Of all the places everyone in the world was dropped, not a single person has a water source nearby? Outrageous!"

After silently observing for a few minutes and gathering some useful information, Su Mo chose to exit.

The survival game's first wave eliminated the elderly and children. The remaining were all young and middle-aged adults. Excluding one or two who had never experienced setbacks, most people reacted immediately and began to save themselves.

However, there were still some rash people who curiously placed their Shelters, causing them to be trapped in place.

Afterward, Su Mo checked the trading function.

The trading platform provided players with a way to exchange items.

The trading rules were fair and free, and items could also be designated to be given to other players.

An auction function was also derived from the trading function.

No intermediary fees were charged.

"Open the crafting page."

Su Mo looked at another function.

Swish! A full page appeared.

[Wooden Board: Wood 0/1]
[Wooden Box: Wood 0/4]
[Charcoal: Wood 0/1, Fire Source]
[Ordinary Iron Shovel: Wood 0/2, Iron Block 0/2]

There were dozens of basic supplies, and each item and piece of equipment required different materials to synthesize.

Clearly, collecting and crafting materials was especially important in the survival game.

Turning his attention to the last function - Items.

As the Shelter in his hand was stored in the inventory, and then returned to his hand with a thought, Su Mo had a general understanding of the game's basic functions.

"I have to quickly choose a location for the Shelter."

Seeing that the sun was directly overhead, Su Mo's heart tightened, and he quickly looked around.

On the endless plain, there were unknown trees everywhere, about half a person tall, with some weeds scattered on the ground, making it seem not so desolate.

As far as the eye could see, there was no trace of rivers or lakes.

"I can only choose a high ground to place it."

He walked along the birthplace, occasionally lying on the ground to observe the undulations of the terrain.

Ultimately, Su Mo chose a small sand dune.

After taking out the Shelter's tortoise shell, the options reappeared.

Above ground or underground.

The first choice was an above-ground wooden house. This option should be relatively conventional, allowing one to safely survive the early novice disasters without worrying too much about subsequent development.

As long as one can continuously expand on the land next to the Shelter, who knows, it might even develop into a city later on.

The second choice was underground. Choosing this option would have natural security advantages. For example, when disasters like beast tides or cold weather occur, it would naturally have a certain degree of protection. Disasters that are extremely difficult to survive above ground might be easily avoided underground.

However, before the first disaster, Acid Rain, arrives, if sufficient drainage facilities cannot be built underground, it would probably become a disaster.

Su Mo thought for a long time.

If the keyword for the first option was development potential.

Then, the keyword for the second option was stability and security.

In most cases, in this kind of doomsday world, what matters is being one step ahead, and every step after that will be faster. If you fall behind at the beginning, there won't be enough time to develop for the subsequent disasters.

"Acid Rain... the development potential of high ground is extremely important."

"So, I choose..."

Su Mo shook his head, playing with the tortoise shell in his hand, and chose the second option without hesitation.

[You have selected to generate an underground shelter. Terrain is being generated.]

The tortoise shell burst out with red light, jumped out of his hand, and landed on the ground.

As the light gradually intensified, the stones on the original sand dune were slowly melted, replaced by a great change in the terrain.

The originally slightly higher terrain became steep, like a small hill bulging up.

As the red light gradually disappeared, a wooden door embedded in the ground formed before Su Mo's eyes.

[Congratulations, the underground shelter has been generated. The current shelter attributes can be viewed in the panel.]

"Ding! It has been detected that the host already has a complete shelter. Do you want to bind the Doomsday Survival System?"