Zero Selection

ZERO SELECTION **Death was just the tutorial. Now, the real game begins.** One moment, Alex was being crushed by machinery in a factory accident. The next, he woke up in a wooden barracks, his body restored to a perfect twenty-five-year-old prime. No pain. No scars. Just a floating blue interface and a glowing timer above his head. Welcome to the **Bright Forest**. The rules are brutal in their simplicity:* **Everyone starts at Level 1.*** **Everyone has the same base stats.*** **Everyone has ten minutes to run before the safe zone turns into a slaughterhouse.** There are no "Chosen Ones" here. No cheat skills. No divine artifacts gifted at the start. The System provides equality, but human nature ensures chaos. While some are paralyzed by fear and others surrender to their darkest violent instincts, Alex falls back on the only thing he knows: cold, mechanical logic. He isn’t a soldier. He isn’t a hero. He is a mechanic who knows that every complex system has a pattern. Armed with nothing but a rusty iron bar torn from a bedframe and a mind stripped of panic, Alex steps into the forest. In a world where Natural Selection has been gamified, it is not the strongest who survive, nor the most intelligent... It is those who adapt. **What to expect:*** **Rational Protagonist:** A calm, analytical MC who uses his brain.* **Crunchy LitRPG:** Stats, levels, loot, and skill progression that matters.* **Survival & Crafting:** Scavenging resources and improvising weapons.* **No Harem / No OP Start:** The MC works for every point of experience.