"Apocalypse rules? It's been more than three years since the descent? Collect resources during the day, build mechanisms, and resist monster attacks at night?"
"Huh? What is this?"
"I'm just a useless person! I don't even want to save a million; saving two hundred thousand and I just want to lie flat!"
"And now you let me transmigrate into another useless person and expect me to struggle and survive day and night on this hopeless apocalyptic wasteland?"
"Ridiculous!"
In a single building with cracked and mottled walls, a skinny young man lay slumped on a broken sofa, staring blankly at the ceiling, looking extremely pitiful.
Su Lin's greatest wish in life was to lie flat, play some games, eat, and do nothing at all.
As a result, after working hard for four years and saving up two hundred thousand, he didn't have time to spend any of it before he transmigrated here, faced with such a huge apocalypse crisis.
What's worse is that the original owner of this house, his predecessor's parents, died, leaving the predecessor to inherit the house, but the original mechanism defense system was reset to zero.
The predecessor refused to fight, choosing instead to rot and wait for death.
Now that he's transmigrated here, he has to fight again?!
Su Lin was tearful.
If there's any good news after transmigration.
It's probably that the predecessor had a pretty fiancée.
She was a girl rescued by Mr. Su and Mrs. Su in the early days of the apocalypse, raised to be a child bride prepared for the predecessor.
For Su Lin, who has been single as long as his age, this temptation was not small.
"Boom! Boom!"
Just as Su Lin was searching through memories of his fiancée's beauty to numb himself, the heavy iron door was knocked on, the sound dull.
Su Lin staggered up, his stomach growling with each move, almost matching the volume of the knocking.
During the predecessor's rot-and-wait-for-death phase, he was coaxed by a dishonest friend into selling off the family's last food supply for a meal of booze and meat, a farewell feast, and now he had been hungry for two days, rendering Su Lin devoid of strength as well.
He slowly dragged his legs to the door, struggling to open seven or eight door bolts. The door hinges groaned piercingly as the iron door finally swung open.
The impatient person outside questioned harshly: "Su Lin, what the hell are you doing? It took forever to open the door!"
Another person chuckled to smooth things over: "Alright, alright, we're all villagers, say no more."
Su Lin lazily lifted his eyes to glance at the two: one fierce and mean, the other gentle and well-dressed.
After just a glance, he lowered his eyelids, speaking with his stomach providing accompaniment:
"(Gru~) What's the (gru~) matter (gru~)?"
Saying four words, his stomach growled three times.
Su Lin immediately felt even weaker, not bothering to lift his head, entering energy-saving mode.
Gru——
The fierce person at the door heard this "duet" and laughed in anger.
Indeed, the laziest punk in the neighborhood, always idle, doing nothing but absurd things, completely spoiled by the Su Family couple! While others struggled desperately during the first year of the apocalypse, it's already the third year for Su Lin, and after his parents' departure, he can't even have a meal.
Purely a waste!
He snorted contemptuously, too lazy to talk:
"No nonsense with you! Just one thing! Submit your contribution to the village today. Otherwise, we'll revoke Su Tongxi's tenant status and give her to another man! Anyway, you want to rot and wait for death, don't waste precious resources!"
Alright. Now even the only good news is ruined, the beautiful fiancée is about to be taken away.
Damn.
After delivering the message, the two immediately turned and left.
Leaving Su Lin to sigh as he closed the door properly again, and stagger back to the sofa.
He was worried: The predecessor was a lost cause, and I got dragged down. Did I transmigrate just to suffer this? What am I supposed to do next?
Where's the cheat code for transmigrators? Save me, cheat code!
If I don't go gather resources now, not only will the soon-to-be-my-wife fly away, but by tonight, when monsters rush in, can this crappy safe house hold for ten minutes?
While racking his brains, there was sudden movement upstairs.
A small head timidly peeked out from the staircase, and upon seeing only Su Lin, seemed to breathe a sigh of relief, then happily came downstairs holding a bowl of mottled rice porridge.
The rice porridge had no distinct aroma, but the bland heat entering Su Lin's nostrils made him feel like he smelled a feast fit for an emperor.
Gru——————
This time, the rumbling was exceptionally long.
Su Tongxi heard it, quickly running over.
The movement made the thin dress she wore, which was obviously too small, wrap tightly around her body, shaking vigorously.
Small body, big-on-the-inside.
"Brother Kirin, eat quickly!"
No more words were necessary; Su Lin was "alive" just from the smell, his eyes wide open.
Taking the bowl, he poured it directly down his throat regardless of the heat.
With the bowl of rice porridge swallowed, and the bottom licked clean, Su Lin instantly felt comfortable, feeling warmth in his corpse.
With hunger suppressed, he finally had the chance to take a closer look at his cheap fiancée.
On a cute but thin little round face, pure almond eyes blinked at him, a gaze filled with both happiness and worry.
Indeed quite pretty, the type sweetly pure, with a JK style that wouldn't look out of place, and of the early-developing variety.
Su Tongxi took the empty bowl, looking at the clean bottom like it was washed, instinctively licking her dry lips, raising her head with hope in her eyes:
"Brother Kirin, I, I can't afford to buy delicious braised pork, but, but I will also work hard, make a lot, a lot of bullets to earn money to support you... So… can you go outside every month to find a little bit of resources..."
Her small hand made a gesture that would anger South Korean men.
"...Don't send me away…" Her almond eyes were full of pleading.
"Braised pork?"
The predecessor's memory instantly recalled that aroma, and though just full, his stomach growled again.
The predecessor sold off the family's food supply for braised pork as a farewell feast.
As for Su Tongxi's fate, the predecessor never considered it, and naturally, she didn't get any braised pork.
The rice porridge I just ate was probably the last bit of food Su Tongxi traded for with her hard work crafting bullets on the construction stage these past two days.
Damn! It's bad enough being a waste, but such a scumbag too? I wouldn't even do that!
Su Lin complained in his heart.
Looking again at Su Tongxi's dry lips, he was more certain that the rice porridge was indeed the last of the stock.
The predecessor rotted and starved for two days, and Su Tongxi also starved for two days.
If no solution is found, either the fiancée gets taken or I starve to death;
Or we starve to death together…
Just feeling like splitting a headache, suddenly Su Lin's forehead felt hot, and three silver-white entries appeared prominently in his mind:
[Lie Flat!: You cannot explore outside in the next 3 years. After that, gain 30 Gold Coins.]
[—If alive not for peace, no peace for the dead either, so lie flat!]
[King of the Garbage Can: Probability of collecting low-level items increased tenfold, and power, effects of tools, buildings made from low-level materials increased tenfold.]
[—Scour the universe's garbage cans, you are King of the Garbage Can! Remember, there are no garbage items, only garbage wanderers!]
[100 Push-ups: Do 100 standard push-ups every day to gain 35% damage reduction.]
[—Not doing push-ups gets me beaten, doing them still gets me beaten, why do them at all?]
A feeling from the abyss tells him: choose one every week.
Su Lin widened his eyes in disbelief—Isn't this the three-choice Hextech trait from the game?!
I didn't quit?!"