Chapter 1: A cat in the end times found a cub

The gray sky, like a dirty rag, covered the ruins of the city.

The air was filled with a strong stench of decay, mixed with rust and some indescribable fishy sweetness.

Occasionally, among the broken walls and ruins, one can see wandering figures with twisted postures.

Their movements were stiff, their skin was ulcerated, and they were making low growls in their throats.

From further away, you can sometimes hear heart-pounding roars or sharp neighs, which are mutant animals hunting.

In this corner of the doomsday scene where silence and danger are intertwined,

A snow-white domestic cat that is slightly larger than an ordinary domestic cat.

He was clinging to the cold, rough wall, moving cautiously.

Three days ago, Bai Li was just an ordinary human who had just graduated. The moment he opened his eyes, he became this white cat struggling to survive in the apocalypse.

These three days were the darkest and most exciting experience in her cat life.

I was so hungry that I could only search through the stinking garbage dump. Occasionally, if I was lucky, I could find half a pack of expired biscuits.

You also have to be careful not to be discovered by those rotten "neighbors".

What's even worse is that the animals and plants in this world seem to be mutating as well.

She had seen with her own eyes that one ear after another had become his uncle,

Bigger than her.

Fangs exposed, eyes scarlet,

She was so frightened that she crawled into the sewer to escape.

She herself seemed to be affected a little bit, her body became a little bigger, her speed was a little faster, and her strength was a little stronger.

But this tiny change, in the end times full of crises,

At most, it upgraded her from "one bite and it's gone" to "may need two bites".

"Oh my god! Others travel through time for vacation, but I travel through time for extreme survival! And it's a cat version!"

Bai Li wailed in her heart, her ears pricked up alertly, her pink nose twitching constantly.

Catching any hint of danger or food in the air.

Her stomach was growling with hunger.

It felt like a small hand was scratching inside frantically.

Just when she was desperately wondering if she would be hungry again today,

An emotionless mechanical voice suddenly sounded in her mind.

[Ding! A strong will to survive has been detected, meeting the binding conditions. 'The Strongest Selection System of the Apocalypse' activated for binding! Host: Bai Li (mutated white cat hatchling).]

Bai Li: “???”

System? Goldfinger!

But in this damn place, this is a life-saving straw!

[Starving to death, looking for food that is safe to eat.]

Please start your selection.

[Option 1: Eat the mutated moss in the corner of the wall five meters ahead (Risk: Slight hallucination, Reward: Slight poison resistance +1)]

[Option 2: Sneak into the half-collapsed small supermarket 30 meters to the right and search (Risk: Possible encounter with wandering zombies or mutant creatures, Reward: Basic Agility +1)]

[Option 3: Attempt to hunt a lone mutant sparrow nearby (Risk: Extremely high, sparrows are extremely fast and may carry viruses. Reward: Primary Dynamic Vision +1)]

Bai Li looked at the virtual light screen that appeared in front of her, which only she could see, and her white cat face wrinkled.

Option 1, eating moss? Sounds unappetizing!

Option three, catch sparrows? Those things are very fierce now, and she can't stand a peck from them!

Option two, the small supermarket... although it's dangerous, what if there are canned goods or something? Agility is also a great escape skill!

"Let's fight! Choose two!"

[Congratulations on choosing 2, Reward: Agility +1]

Bai Li vaguely felt that his speed had increased a little.

She gritted her teeth.

Suppress the fear in your heart,

Like a white shadow, sticking to the wall, using the ruins as cover,

He swiftly ran to the small supermarket with a crooked sign and broken windows.

The supermarket was in a mess, with shelves collapsed and goods scattered all over the floor.

There were also traces of dried, black blood.

A strong smell of mold and decay hit me in the face.

Bai Li's heart was in her throat.

He took every step carefully, afraid of disturbing anything.

She quickly searched for any food that might still be of value.

Empty! Empty! Still empty!

Most of the packaging was torn.

The contents were either looted or spoiled.

"No way... not even a sausage left?"

Bai Li desperately scratched at a collapsed shelf with her claws.

The claws scraped across the cold metal, making a slight sound.

At this moment,

A very faint, intermittent sound,

Penetrating the silence of the supermarket,

Coming from deeper inside.

"Woo...wah...woo...burp..."

It wasn't the roar of a zombie, nor the roar of an animal... it was crying! A baby crying!

The voice was hoarse and weak, as if he would die in the next second.

Bai Li's body trembled!

Are there still living babies in the apocalypse?

In a place like this?

A strong curiosity and a trace of indescribable pity,

Overwhelmed the fear.

She followed the faint, almost inaudible cry,

Holding my breath, I walked through the messy aisle.

It finally stopped at the door of a small, cluttered staff lounge.

The iron gate is locked,

There were bloody scratches on it.

The crying sound came from inside.

Bai Li looked inside through the gap.

The scene inside made her heart tighten.

The room was small and dimly lit.

In the corner,

A worn-out cardboard box served as a crude cradle.

There were a few dirty adult clothes in the cardboard box.

A tiny baby was lying on it.

The baby looked only a few months old. His face was thin and shapeless, pale and bloodless, and his lips were chapped and cracked.

The thin swaddling clothes he was wearing were also extremely dirty.

You can even see suspicious lumps of stains.

He closed his eyes, his mouth opening and closing weakly.

She whimpered even thinner than a kitten,

The small body rises and falls weakly with crying,

It seemed like he would stop breathing at any moment.

A huge feeling of sadness and despair came over me.

This baby,

It's like being completely abandoned by the whole world.

Waiting for death to come in silence.

Or maybe his parents locked him up so that he could say goodbye to the world later.

Deep within the baby's remaining consciousness, there was a dead darkness.

“…Is it over…?”

"I... the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor Ling Xiao... have ended up like this... reborn into this frail mortal body, trapped in this filthy wasteland... unable even to get a sip of water... How ironic... how... humiliating..."

Ling Xiao was once the Nine Heavens Immortal Emperor.

In the battle between the alien forces, he was stabbed to death by his most beloved disciple.

At the moment of death, he used all his cultivation to launch a fatal skill.

When he opened his eyes again, he found that he was not dead.

He was reborn or traveled through time.

But after rebirth,

Ling Xiao felt that he might as well be dead.

He found himself a powerless baby.

And this is an apocalyptic world.

Not to mention dealing with zombies, mutant plants and animals,

Can't even commit suicide.

I can only watch my life slip away.

“It’s so frustrating!”

Endless weakness and coldness enveloped him.

The shadow of death is so clear.

Suddenly,

He heard some movement.

“Someone!”

"Hurry up and save me!"

Ling Xiao was overjoyed.

But soon he felt that the sound was wrong.

That was the sound of claws scratching the door,

How can humans have claws!

This is a mutant animal!

Ling Xiao was so frightened that he dared not breathe.

Soon, there was no movement outside.

Ling Xiao guessed that the mutant animals outside had disappeared somewhere.

I breathed a sigh of relief.

Suddenly, he felt something in his heart.

I'm above you!

A glance,

A white cat head with bared teeth and a fierce look stared at him from the window at the top of the wall.

Ling Xiao's breathing suddenly stopped.

"It's not working! Oh my God! What am I going to do?"