"Ugh, this weather is so cold! It's bad enough that we don't even have anything to eat."

In room 402, a burly man was huddled in his blankets, shivering from the cold. After seven days of heavy rain and four days of heavy snow, everyone's food supplies were running low.

They basically lived on a tight budget, but his situation was slightly worse. If the heavy snow didn't stop, he would have no choice but to eat his seven wolves.

"No, I need to go ask them for some food."

The big man glared and stood up abruptly; he was simply too hungry to stand it anymore.

All I saw was him get up, put on his coat, and walk outside. Even though he was wearing four or five coats, gusts of cold wind still kept hitting his thin body, making him shiver with cold.

But there was no other way. In order to survive, he had to swallow his pride and ask his neighbors for some food.

Soon Liu Jinxi pushed open the front door of his house and came to the corridor. The windows and other doors in the corridor had been closed long ago, otherwise the heavy snow would have buried them.

Even so, the windows and such have long been locked and can no longer be opened.

The moment Liu Jinxi stepped out of the corridor, he sensed a different scent in the air.

What's the problem?

A sudden feeling of unease welled up inside Liu Jinxi, but at that moment, his damned curiosity made him start searching for the source of the smell.

"The smell came from Zhou Xun's house?"

Zhou Xun is a man's name. When the two of them moved in, Liu Jinxi even went over for a meal.

The impression was naturally deep.

"Could they both be dead?"

Liu Jinxi couldn't help but think of this possibility. It would be the best-case scenario if both of them died, but now it was the worst-case scenario.

"No, I need to go in and take a look."

Liu Jinxi quickly made up his mind. Standing some distance from the door, he took a deep breath and then suddenly rushed towards the door, kicking it open with a powerful kick.

Although Liu Jinxi was starving and not very strong, the gate of Zhou Xun's house had long been weakened by the extreme cold, and naturally could not withstand a full-force kick from a grown man.

The noise of Liu Jinxi kicking open the door also attracted the attention of many residents in Building 5.

"Has someone already started robbing us?"

"Hiss, it's really dangerous outside. Let's block the gate."

"I wonder which unlucky family got robbed."

Most people assumed it was a robbery and felt a pang of pity. They then blocked their own front doors, fearing that one day their doors might be kicked open and they would be in danger.

As soon as Liu Jinxi kicked open the door, a stench hit him, making him feel uneasy.

"Zhou Xun, Zhou Xueru, where are you?"

Liu Jinxi could only shout loudly, but then he heard a noise coming from the kitchen. The sound was similar to that of some kind of animal.

At this moment, Liu Jinxi was like a foolish supporting character in a horror movie; instead of running away immediately, he cautiously approached the kitchen.

Soon Liu Jinxi arrived at the kitchen door, but it was already six o'clock in the evening, and their floor was covered by heavy snow, so Liu Jinxi could only see something wriggling, but could not see it clearly.

So Liu Jinxi called out cautiously.

"Zhou Xun, is that you?"

Before Liu Jinxi could react, it was already seven o'clock.

With a whoosh, the kitchen lights came on as power was restored.

At this moment, Liu Jinxi was so frightened by the ball of something that he couldn't help but take a few steps back.

In Liu Jinxi's eyes, a corpse was on the kitchen floor, covered with lividity. Through the pale face, Liu Jinxi recognized the person as Zhou Xueru.

"Zhou Xueru is here, but where is Zhou Xun?"

Liu Jinxi thought with some fear, and as he was about to turn around and leave, he didn't realize that a figure had appeared behind him at some point.

The other person was covered in white hair and had fingernails all over their fingers.

Even in this state, Liu Jinxi still recognized the other person.

"Zhou Xun!"

As soon as Liu Jinxi finished speaking, Zhou Xun let out a miserable and strange sound, and pounced on Liu Jinxi like a madman.

"Zhou Xun, have you gone mad?"

Liu Jinxi's eyes widened involuntarily, but he wasn't so scared that he stood there dumbfounded.

In this form, Zhou Xun was extremely fast and quickly rushed in front of Liu Jinxi, scratching him with his claws. At this moment, Liu Jinxi also saw the bloodstains left at the corner of Zhou Xun's mouth, and a thought immediately made the hairs on Liu Jinxi's body stand on end.

But now is not the time to consider that.

Liu Jinxi kicked Zhou Xun away with one kick, then turned around and ran desperately towards his home.

Finally, Liu Jinxi managed to close the door before Zhou Xun caught up with him. Hearing Zhou Xun frantically banging on the door from the outside, Liu Jinxi quickly moved everything he could see to block the door. The banging stopped two and a half minutes later.

Liu Jinxi breathed a sigh of relief, but the wound on his hand was still bleeding profusely. Seeing this, Liu Jinxi quickly took out a towel and wrapped it around his hand.

That stopped the bleeding.

After doing all this, Liu Jinxi opened the household head group and posted a message.

"Something terrible has happened! Everyone, don't go out! Zhou Xun has turned into a monster and has already killed Zhou Xueru! Remember, remember, don't go out!"

As soon as Liu Jinxi sent out the message, he received a lot of replies.

"Liu Jinxi, you're not joking, are you?"

"The apocalypse is bad enough, but now monsters are appearing?"

"Are you talking about a story? Even novels wouldn't dare say that."

"Do you believe it? Zhou Xun and Zhou Xueru are so loving. Liu Jinxi, you single dog, you're just spreading rumors and slandering them because you're envious of them, right?"

"@Zhou Xun Zhou Xueru, come out and clarify, there's a single person slandering you."

Soon, people in the group started tagging Zhou Xu and Zhou Xueru, but they didn't get a reply from Zhou Xueru and Zhou Xun for a long time.

Fear suddenly gripped everyone's hearts. In this apocalyptic and monster-infested environment, could they really survive?

"But don't worry, as long as we close the doors and windows, the monsters shouldn't be able to get in."

Liu Jinxi comforted everyone in the residents' group chat, which improved their mood a bit. However, soon after, a resident on the tenth floor said that he heard the sound of glass breaking and didn't know what had happened.