In the empty warehouse, a middle-aged man wakes up in a daze.

He had been working overtime for almost a month, and today was a rare day off. In the morning, his wife suggested going to a warehouse supermarket near their home to buy some daily necessities, so the two of them drove out.

The man reached out, trying to grab something for support to stand up, but found nothing.

He opened his eyes in confusion, only to find himself in complete darkness. He quickly turned on his phone to illuminate the surroundings, only to find himself in an empty space with many other people sitting there, trying to catch their breath.

The phone's light flickered on and off, and his wife lay unconscious beside him, face down.

Without thinking about why the supermarket shelves and goods had vanished into thin air, the man reached out to push his wife.

"Wife, wife, wake up..." The man moved over and tried to help his wife up.

The woman's face, shrouded in darkness, suddenly opened her eyes, the eyeballs shrinking into tiny black dots.

She sat up stiffly as the man pulled her body, her husband's urgent calls turning into a noisy buzzing in her ears.

A violent force surged through his body, causing his blood vessels to swell and his veins to bulge, spreading throughout his entire body.

She suddenly felt an intense, gnawing hunger, and when she opened her mouth, the sounds coming from her throat were no longer those of a human.

"Ho, ho, ho..." She needs food, food...

The man beside her was still calling her name urgently, but she could no longer hear him; the fresh and delicious prey was right beside her.

Sharp canines grew rapidly from her mouth, and hard nails sprouted from her ten fingers. She turned around and pounced on her husband beside her, eagerly biting off a large chunk of flesh from his neck.

"ah!……"

Blood splattered all over the floor, and as if some switch had been turned on, screams echoed throughout the supermarket.

In the darkness, people were in complete chaos, frantically searching for an exit like headless flies. They ran in panic, only to be pounced on and bitten by creatures that seemed to be either human or ghosts. They tripped over people at their feet, pulling along a group of people who fell one after another. They struggled to their feet and fled in the direction of the crowd, only to be grabbed by the arm and torn apart by someone else...

In just a few minutes, the whole world has been turned upside down.

The city was filled with the howls of zombies, the cries of people, screams, and the loud crashes of vehicles colliding.

Some people have already picked up the weapons at hand to fight back against those inhuman monsters, while others have hidden themselves in undiscovered corners, praying for the protection of the gods they believe in.

Inside the cold chain factory, the bald, fat man who had been tied to a handcart by Lin Xuan opened his eyes to find himself surrounded by flies.

He tried to shoo away the flies in front of him, only to find himself tied up. He struggled like a fish on a chopping board, his fat body thrashing about, letting out a pig-like scream.

"Ah! Who did this? Untie me right now! Someone come quick..."

His response was the howling of zombies.

Not far from him, a gaunt old man crawled toward him in a bizarre manner.

This older man was an employee in his company's packaging team.

People his age can't find work elsewhere. He's taken in this job out of kindness, and he should be grateful for the meager wages. But this old man dares to haggle with him. He's decided to get rid of this old man in the next few days.

"ah……"

The obese bald man watched helplessly as the old man he once looked down upon tore open his stomach with sharp fingernails and frantically gnawed at his fat internal organs like a wild beast.

A few minutes later, he died with his eyes wide open in terror, his body covered with zombies that devoured his flesh and blood.

Downstairs in Linxuan Residential Complex, there was also a gruesome scene.

The unruly kids who used to run wild everywhere have become a truly terrifying presence.

They moved with incredible speed, chasing after the fleeing crowd. Once they locked onto a target, they would pounce on them, grabbing onto their bodies and tearing at their heads and faces indiscriminately.

"Jun Jun, it's Grandma! Why are you biting Grandma? Let go..."

"Mommy, I want Mommy... Waaaaaah..."

Amidst the chaotic screams, cries for help, and zombie howls downstairs, Lin Xuan calmly returned to the rooftop. She stood beside the iron gate whose lock had been broken, gazing at the sky.

It's 7 a.m., and the sky is still the same, thickly obscured by a gray, hazy layer of clouds.

Half an hour later, several muffled claps of thunder sounded in the sky, lightning flashed through the gray clouds, and a rain of stones tore through the sky and pelted down.

Lin Xuan quickly hid back in the stairwell, closing the large iron gate but leaving only a crack to observe the outside.

The stones, about the size of ping-pong balls, smashed the edges of the cardboard boxes and foam boxes placed on the roof, leaving them in a terrible state.

After a while, a layer of sparkling crystals accumulated at the bottom of each cardboard box, and the crystal rain stopped abruptly about fifteen minutes later.

Lin Xuan quickly opened the iron gate, squatted down, grabbed the plastic sheet spread on the ground, concentrated and pulled it all together, including the boxes covered by it, into a separate corner of the underground warehouse.

Looking at the crystals scattered along the edge of the rooftop, they are rapidly decomposing, atomizing, and dissipating into the air.

Lin Xuan checked the crystals in her storage space; they were still lying at the bottom of their respective boxes, unchanged.

After waiting for another ten minutes or so, the crystal in the space still hadn't disappeared.

It's done! Lin Xuan clenched her fist in delight. She needed to hurry home to experiment with these crystals.

On the streets of City C, Xia Feng was running wildly through the chaotic streets.

He gripped a wooden stick he'd picked up by the roadside, swung it with great force, and the zombie that lunged at him had its head knocked sideways and fell to the ground.

He turned around and kicked away another zombie that was trying to sneak up on him, then dodged a rock that was falling straight at him.

His burly body fought its way through the crowd until he squeezed into a small supermarket by the roadside.

He knocked down a zombie wandering in the supermarket with a stick, quickly closed the door, moved the freezer next to the checkout counter to block the door, and then sat down on the ground, panting heavily.

His gaze shifted to the ground beside him, where two tennis ball-sized crystal stones, gleaming with a strange light, caught his attention. Without thinking twice, he picked up the stones with one hand.

The two stones adhered to his palms like magnets. Xia Feng felt two forces, like needles, piercing his veins and flowing rapidly through his body like water, eventually converging at his heart.

Xia Feng entered a very wonderful state at this moment.

He could clearly feel the flow of his body's meridians, and an invisible force enveloped and propelled his blood to circulate rapidly throughout his body.

He felt a slight warmth throughout his body; some kind of power was awakening within him, and he could clearly feel this process.

His body crackled with electricity one moment, and air currents pushed outwards from him the next. The shelves were cut by the wind blades and tilted to one side, spilling packaged food all over the floor.