Doomsday Survival Game

Welcome to the Doomsday Survival Game. As you can see, everyone, you have 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 points:

1. Disasters refresh periodically. Seven days before each refresh, all survivors will receive a notice.

2. Do not put down your safe house recklessly. Find a suitable place to set it up; this will greatly increase your chances of survival.

3. Danger and opportunity coexist. There may be survival supplies in the wilderness, but there may also be dangerous Mutated Creatures. Defeating Mutated Creatures comes with surprises.

4. Search for as many survival supplies as possible. This is your surest way to survive.

5. Once a safe house has been placed, it cannot be moved. When placing it for the first time, you will have the option to choose between aboveground and underground.

6. If you happen to encounter another human, congratulations. Perhaps you can form an alliance, trade, or plunder the supplies they worked so hard to accumulate.

7. Focusing your attention can open the Game Panel. More functions await your exploration.

8. There is no need to worry about the elderly and children. They will be deployed much later than you, and relatives will be prioritized for deployment together. Have fun, everyone.

An endless wilderness stretched out before them.

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

Tiny black words floated across the paper on the first page. When he turned to the second page, they suddenly burst into a dazzling radiance.

By the time the light faded, the book had vanished. In its place was a glowing Tortoise Shell.

"The Doomsday Survival Game?"

As he watched the azure screen before him sway and move with his gaze, Su Mo quickly accepted the reality.

On December 22, 2022, no one had expected the Mayans' prophecy to be delayed by ten years before suddenly arriving.

A solar flare erupted, an asteroid struck Earth, and at the instant Su Mo watched the overwhelming flames descend, he passed out.

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

Safe House: 1. Choose to place it aboveground to create a 120-square-meter wooden house. Disaster resistance: extremely weak. Development potential: excellent.

2. Choose to place it underground to create an underground cavern 4 meters high and 100 square meters in area. Disaster resistance: weak. Development potential: poor.

Su Mo picked up the Tortoise Shell in his hand. As he examined it carefully, two lines of pitch-black text appeared.

He glanced at the wilderness beside him and abandoned the thought of placing it immediately. Then, recalling the earlier prompt, Su Mo focused his mind and summoned the Game Panel.

Its functions were similar to those in a game.

The panel contained various options.

Chat, Trade, Crafting, and Items. In the upper-right corner of the panel was an icon displaying the number of days.

5 days.

When Su Mo focused his mind on the number of days, a prompt appeared.

Countdown until the next disaster event erupts: 5 days

Disaster Event (Beginner Protection): Acid Rain

"Acid rain is coming in five days? Good thing I didn't choose a location for my base right away."

Su Mo's expression grew slightly solemn, and his gaze shifted to the chat button.

The page changed.

Two brand-new buttons appeared.

They were the World Channel and the Area Channel.

He entered the World Channel first.

"Wasn't I in a shelter? How did I suddenly end up in this hellhole?"

"There's a lion next to me! Help, it's watching me!"

"The end of humanity is here! Hahaha, everyone's going to die!"

"Do you all only have one safe house that can be placed?"

One message after another slid past.

Su Mo noticed the little loudspeaker icon beside the send button.

A number 1 followed it. Little Loudspeaker: During the early stages of the game, you can only post one message in the World Channel each day. After surviving each disaster, your daily number of loudspeakers increases by 1. If you want to chat freely, you can enter the Area Channel.

"Is this meant to stop players from banding together? Or to restrict national power?"

Su Mo shifted his gaze away.

Based on the information available, everyone had been trapped in the wilderness. There was no difference at the start; everyone began with a safe house.

"With only one message a day, even a national government would have no way to gather enough people to develop in this environment. Besides, who knows how large this place is?"

Su Mo exited the World Channel.

Then he entered the Area Channel and took a look.

It was much like a QQ chat group, with 1,000 members displayed under the member list.

Everyone's avatar in the chat group was a real photograph, while their nicknames consisted of their name and height.

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

"Whatever you do, don't place an underground safe house! Damn it, I'm screwed. There's no lighting, no ventilation, and no drainage. Once the acid rain comes, staying inside will be like sitting in a tomb!"

"Don't give up, everyone. Open the Crafting page. MC players are ecstatic. Prioritize finding high ground to place your safe house."

"Out of all the places where people across the world were deployed, not a single person has a water source nearby? That's ridiculous!"

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

The first wave of the Survival Game had filtered out the elderly and children. Those remaining were all young or middle-aged adults. Aside from one or two people who had never experienced hardship since childhood, most had reacted immediately and begun saving themselves.

There were still some reckless people, however, who had placed their safe houses out of curiosity and were now trapped where they stood.

Afterward, Su Mo checked the Trade function.

The trading platform allowed players to exchange items for other items.

The trading rules were fair and unrestricted, and items could also be sent to designated players as gifts.

An auction function had also developed within the Trade function.

It charged no intermediary fee.

"Open the Crafting page."

Su Mo looked toward another function.

Whoosh! An entire page appeared.

Wooden Plank: Wood 0/1

Wooden Chest: 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. Every item and piece of equipment required different materials to craft.

Clearly, gathering and crafting materials were especially important in the Survival Game.

He turned his attention to the final function—Items.

After storing the safe house in the Items tab and then retrieving it into his hand with a thought, Su Mo had gained a general understanding of the game's basic functions.

"I need to choose a location for the safe house quickly."

The sun had already reached the very center of the sky. Su Mo's heart tightened, and he hurriedly looked around.

Across the boundless Great Plains grew waist-high, unknown trees everywhere. A sparse layer of grass covered the ground, making the place seem somewhat less desolate.

As far as the eye could see, there was no trace of a river or lake.

"I can only choose high ground."

He walked onward from his starting point, occasionally lying on the ground to examine the changes in elevation.

In the end, Su Mo selected a small sand dune.

After taking out the safe house Tortoise Shell, the options appeared once again.

Aboveground or underground.

The first choice was an aboveground wooden house. This should be the more conventional option: it could safely get him through the early beginner disaster, while also saving him from having to worry too much about later development.

As long as he continued expanding onto the land beside the safe house, it might eventually develop into a city.

The second choice was underground. Choosing this option offered a natural advantage in safety. For example, during disasters such as beast tides or extreme cold, it would inherently provide some protection. Disasters that would be extremely difficult to survive aboveground might be easily avoided underground.

However, before the first disaster, acid rain, arrived, if he could not build adequate drainage underground, it would likely become a disaster in itself.

Su Mo thought for a long while.

If the keyword for the first option was development potential,

then the keyword for the second option was stability and safety.

In most situations, the key to surviving an apocalypse was to gain one step early and stay ahead at every step. If he fell behind at the beginning, there would be no time to develop before the later disasters arrived.

"Acid rain. High-ground development potential is extremely important."

"So, I choose..."

Su Mo shook his head as he toyed with the Tortoise Shell in his hand, then chose the second option without hesitation.

You have selected the underground shelter. Generating terrain.

The Tortoise Shell burst into red light, leapt from his hand, and landed on the ground.

As the light gradually intensified, the stones on the sand dune slowly melted away. In their place, the terrain underwent a drastic transformation.

The slightly elevated ground grew steep, as if a small hillock had bulged upward.

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

Congratulations. The underground shelter has been generated. The current shelter's attributes can be viewed in the panel.

"Ding! The host has been detected to possess a complete shelter. Would you like to bind the Doomsday Survival System?"