A loud "bang" suddenly rang out outside the window, followed by a powerful explosion.

Jiang Wu snapped out of his daze, walked to the window, and peeked through a corner of the curtain.

A few dozen meters away on the road, two cars collided, presumably due to an explosion in their fuel tanks.

The rising flames shone exceptionally brightly in the night.

Someone tried to put out the fire, and then a car sped past from the direction of the city.

A person who couldn't dodge in time was sent flying.

Even though this is already in the suburbs, chaos still broke out on the provincial highway.

"Help!"

The sounds of crying and wailing, along with desperate cries for help, came from somewhere.

It seemed especially eerie late at night.

Jiang Wu frowned and closed the window tightly.

Then they drew the curtains, shutting out everything from the outside.

The thermally broken aluminum windows have excellent sound insulation, and the room became very quiet.

A dozen minutes later, the sound of banging on the door suddenly rang out again.

"Xiao Jiang! Xiao Jiang! Help me! Your aunt has suddenly fainted! Can you help me get her to the hospital?"

It was the landlord's voice.

The landlord, who was almost 60 years old, seemed to be using all his strength.

Even through the front door and the master bedroom door, Jiang Wu could still hear the elderly landlord frantically banging on the door and shouting, as well as the anxiety in his voice.

He truly loves his wife.

Jiang Wu tiptoed to the front door and looked outside through the peephole.

In the dim light, dark red blood was already oozing from the landlord's nostrils, whose hair was gray.

His eyes seemed to still have blood and tears in them, making him look extremely eerie.

Jiang Wu sighed, letting the landlord continue banging on the door and yelling.

Not long after, the landlord's voice became weak and feeble, and he eventually collapsed.

Jiang Wu stopped looking through the peephole and instead leaned against the security door, slowly sliding down to sit on the ground.

He felt a little unwell.

Jiang Wu has never really liked interacting with outsiders since he was a child.

Alone and solitary.

Aside from talking a lot with her adoptive parents and Su Ziyu, the landlord was someone she interacted with the most.

Despite having mentally prepared for the apocalypse, Jiang Wu still felt a little sad watching his landlord get into trouble.

But he was truly powerless to do anything about it.

After sitting on the floor in a daze for more than ten minutes, Jiang Wu got up and drew all the curtains in the living room and other rooms.

Then I turned off or silenced all the electrical appliances that made noise.

Finally, I checked all the security windows and the front door again.

After ensuring everything was in order, Jiang Wu carried two sharpened steel bars back to the master bedroom.

Seeing Su Ziyu's concerned expression, Jiang Wu said, "I'm turning off the lights. Let's go to sleep; it's late."

Su Ziyu glanced at the steel spear Jiang Wu was carrying and nodded obediently.

Without asking anything or saying anything, he simply closed his eyes.

She listens to Jiang Wu very much.

Jiang Wu turned off all the lights in the room, moved a chair to the window, hugged a steel spear, and gazed intently at the night outside.

10 PM.

Su Ziyu has already fallen asleep.

The group chat on the phone was already buzzing with excitement.

My WeChat Moments are full of posts from crazy people biting everyone.

Major portal websites also published news about the madman biting everyone he saw, and this type of news dominated all the trending lists.

Douyin is also full of live recordings and broadcasts of madmen biting people everywhere.

Jiang Wu could only marvel at how incredibly hardworking internet celebrities and journalists are.

They're risking their lives to do news this late at night.

At 10:30 p.m., the videos and live streams on Douyin became increasingly bloody.

Everyone who posted the information became extremely panicked, a stark contrast to their casual, spectator mentality just over an hour ago.

At this moment, Jiang Wu was just in the bathroom, listening to Douyin while sharpening the few unsharpened machetes.

"Ho ho ho..."

The sound of sharpening knives was unusually eerie in the bathroom.

At 11 PM, the government issued an official notice: an unknown virus has struck the entire country; everyone is urged to keep doors and windows closed, await assistance, and refrain from going out!

For the first time ever, the government's announcement used three exclamation marks.

In the bedroom of his self-built house, Jiang Wu put down his phone.

His eyes were fixed blankly on a bright street lamp a few dozen meters away from the window.

There, blood stained the road, and several zombies were frantically gnawing at an unlucky guy who had just escaped from a room.

Yes, Jiang Wu confirmed once again that they were zombies.

Just like the zombies in the movies, they chase and bite any living person they see.

They seem to have no sense of pain; even if their leg is broken by a car, they will crawl to chase after those who are still alive.

Under the cold moonlight, Jiang Wu's face was deathly pale.

Disgust, fear, terror...

He thought he could calmly face the fact that zombies bite people, after all, he had watched far too many movies and TV shows like that.

But when Jiang Wu actually saw this scene, he realized he was wrong.

That's completely wrong.

What's shown in TV shows and movies is, after all, fiction.

But what I'm seeing now is real.

This kind of stimulation far surpasses the visual impact of movies and TV shows.

When he saw a zombie suddenly pull out a long, thin piece of something and stuff it into its mouth, Jiang Wu could no longer control himself.

He rushed to the bathroom in the master bedroom and vomited violently.

This vomiting lasted for several minutes.

When his mouth tasted bitter and he could no longer spit out anything, Jiang Wu wiped his mouth and slowly stood up, leaning on the sink for support.

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