Chapter 1: Welcome to the Survival Realm

"What the hell!"

Lin Yifan looked at his broken Thatched Hut, where rain poured outside and drizzled inside, and felt like crying but had no tears.

He had transmigrated!

No, wait — it wasn't just him who had transmigrated!

It was everyone on Earth Star — all of them had transmigrated!

Because right now, a transparent Light Screen was glowing right in front of him.

A long string of text information appeared on the Light Screen:

【Friends of Earth Star, welcome to the Gamma galaxy's 'Survival Realm.'】

【Your homeland — Earth Star — has already been destroyed. It used its last strength to send you here, seeking one final chance of survival for you. Please cherish it.】

Basic Rules of the Survival World:

【First: Nights here are very dangerous. You can only be relatively safe by staying inside a Safe House with a lit bonfire.】

【Second: Daytime here is relatively safe. You may go out during the day to search for supplies, but daylight hours are short. Please cherish your daytime.】

【Third: Resource Chests of various levels will randomly refresh in the wilderness. Opening a Resource Chest can yield all kinds of precious resources. Please search hard — it is the key to whether you can live a high-quality life. (Resource Chest levels from low to high: White, Green, Blue, Purple, Red, Gold, Prismatic Supreme)】

【Fourth: Although the Survival Realm is full of crises, within those crises there are also rewards. This galaxy grants every survival being one chance at a Talent Awakening — it's time to gamble on your luck! Hope you're the lucky ones.】

【Besides Talents, if you're lucky enough you may also find some precious items that enhance your Life Tier, allowing you to break through to higher Life Tiers, possess greater power and longer lifespans. Becoming a Super Saiyan is not just a dream!】

【Fifth: The Light Screen before you is connected to your brain. You can control it with your thoughts. Besides displaying various information, the Light Screen can also be used to appraise items in this world (special items excluded). The Light Screen will also send recent disaster alerts and weather forecasts. Please check it in time.】

……

Lin Yifan looked at the information before him and let out a soft sigh.

Since I'm here, I might as well settle in!

No matter what, he had to survive.

Right now, he was immensely grateful that he was an orphan with no parents.

At least this way, he didn't have to worry about his loved ones' safety — he only needed to consider his own survival.

Though he did have a girlfriend — he just didn't know where she was now.

He hoped she could stay alive and well!

After briefly collecting himself, Lin Yifan used his thoughts to flip the Light Screen before him to the next page.

【Auction House】 【Ranking List】 【Friends】 【Private Chat】 【Chat Channel】

A string of menu options arranged from top to bottom — at a glance, it looked just like a game screen, clear at a single look.

Lin Yifan clicked through them one by one. He found the Ranking List couldn't be opened yet, but the Auction House could — though there were no goods inside yet.

Friends and Private Chat naturally went without saying; he skipped them straight away, then opened the Chat Channel.

The channel was open, and in the upper-left corner of the channel, Lin Yifan saw a string of eye-catching numbers.

Human Race — District 【#】 — Population

Seeing this string of numbers, Lin Yifan immediately raised his eyebrows.

He'd seen the news a couple of days ago — the total world population of Earth Star was about 8.2 billion.

100,000 people per District meant over 80,000 Districts.

It seemed the District he was in was ranked fairly high.

It was just those four words — "Human Race" — at the front that he didn't quite understand.

Could it be that this Survival Realm had other races too?

But he didn't dwell on it further. Right now, even figuring out how to survive was still a problem — what was the use of thinking so much?

His gaze moved downward, and immediately, a flood of information began scrolling.

"Oh my god! What on earth is going on? We've all transmigrated?"

"It's so cold, so dark, so scary here. I want to go home. Who can send me home? I'll give them a hundred million!"

"Idiot upstairs, confirmed! Earth Star is gone — where are you going to go back to?"

"Who's lending me a set of clothes first? I was just in the middle of a battle with a young model, and in the blink of an eye, not only is the model gone, I'm bare-assed too. This hut is drafty everywhere — the wind's blowing my balls cold."

"Help, help! There's a Wild Boar outside ramming my Thatched Hut — the roof is falling in…"

"Holy shit, beasts actually attack Safe Houses?"

"I'm done for, done for! My broken Thatched Hut is drafty everywhere and was barely holding up to begin with. If a Wild Boar comes at it now…"

"There's a Wild Boar here too — it smashed through my Thatched Hut, and it's charging in…"

……

Seeing this, Lin Yifan's heart jolted.

Because just one second later, the population count at the top of the channel changed.

Someone had gone offline!

Why would they go offline?

Everyone understood in their hearts — the person who went offline was dead!

Lin Yifan stared at that abruptly cut-off chat record and instantly felt a chill run through his body.

Beasts actually attacked Safe Houses on Day 1!

If a Wild Boar came to his place right now…

How long could his broken Thatched Hut hold?

A question mark rose unbidden in Lin Yifan's mind.

He hurriedly looked up at the Thatched Hut.

Immediately, a string of information appeared within the Light Screen.

【Swaying Thatched Hut (5 sqm)】

Grade: Level 1

Overall Assessment: "Your Shelter is already broken and battered, liable to collapse and be destroyed at any moment. Please upgrade as soon as possible, or you will face a life-threatening crisis!"

Next Level: 【Rough Wooden Hut (Level 2)】

Upgrade Condition:

【Black Iron Grade Wooden Hut Blueprint 1/0】

【Wood 80/0】

【Stone 80/0】

【Dirt 50/0】

(Friendly reminder: If you can find a better-quality Safe House Blueprint, you may also build according to that superior blueprint, and in this way you will obtain a better-quality safe house!)

After reading the information, his brow furrowed slightly.

The quality of the Thatched Hut was not beyond his expectations.

He had to upgrade the Safe House as soon as possible, otherwise he really wouldn't feel a shred of safety.

But right now, he had no mind to think about these things.

Because what was most important to him now was awakening his talent!

At the flick of his意念, his character information immediately appeared on the Light Screen before him.

Name: Lin Yifan

Age: 23

Life Tier: Subhealthy Human

Talent: Unawakened (Can Awaken)

Strength: 8

Agility: 10

Physical Stamina: 7

Intelligence: 9

Remaining Attribute Points: 0

Lin Yifan's attention settled on the Talent column.

After taking a deep breath, he pressed his palms together and began to pray to the Heavenly Gods and Buddhas:

"All Daoist Patriarchs, Buddha, and God above, bless me with a top-grade talent!"

After praying earnestly, he gave a soft cry:

"Talent Awaken!"

Although operating the Light Screen only required意念, at this moment he still believed more in the power of his voice.

The moment his voice fell, the Talent column began rapidly shuffling through various symbols.

These symbols looked like text, but he didn't recognize them!

But Chinese characters also flashed by, and he could recognize those!

Through those few Chinese characters, he finally realized that awakening a talent was actually a lottery among countless talents.

After the text jumped for quite a while, it finally stopped on a string of characters resembling pictographs.

"What is this?" Lin Yifan stared at this string of mysterious characters, his face blank with bewilderment.

But after a moment, that string of mysterious characters slowly transformed into a string of Chinese characters.

【Random Buff, Daily Draw!】(Can Draw)

【You may draw once per day, and can obtain various buffs with different effects. The draw refreshes at 12:00 AM every day. Whether you are the luckiest of the lucky or a Non-lucky, it all depends on your face!】

Lin Yifan stared at this talent, his face somewhat bewildered.

What on earth is this talent for?

A daily draw for a buff?

But what exactly is a buff?

Lin Yifan frowned, hesitated for a moment, then said with意念:

"Draw!"

【Draw Success! Today's Buff: Item Upgrade (Uses 5/5)】

【Item Upgrade: Can raise an item's quality by one tier from its current grade.】

Lin Yifan's eyes instantly lit up!

He had actually been a little disappointed, after all his talent's description was really rather abstract.

His understanding of "buff" still came from when he played Honor of Kings before transmigrating — those two red and blue buffs hiding in the jungle that refreshed every two minutes.

He had originally assumed that his daily-buff-draw talent would also draw this kind of red and blue buff.

He hadn't expected it to be such a buggy buff.

Item Upgrade!

Even with only 5 chances, it was enough to let him trade his bird gun for a cannon in a short time.

Moreover, he could draw a buff once every day, which meant he possessed a talent that would never be fixed.

A talent where — anything is possible.

Lin Yifan's excited heart was pounding so fast it took quite a while before it finally steadied.

Then he resolutely raised his head, focused all his attention on the Thatched Hut, and said firmly:

"Upgrade Thatched Hut!"