Her neck was bitten painfully, and in a state of panic, she pushed her husband out of instinct for survival.

"Dear citizens, if you find that someone in your family suddenly exhibits the following symptoms: bluish-black and rotting skin, protruding eyes, erosion around the eyes, and an unusually foul odor from their mouth, please isolate them immediately and, if necessary, restrict their movement with ropes. If they are being attacked, these patients will initially move slowly; to ensure your safety, you can strike their head with a wooden stick."

"If you encounter any difficulties, or unfortunately get bitten or scratched, please note that this type of illness is highly contagious. You can call the following hotline: ****, and the relevant departments will contact you and provide assistance as soon as possible."

After the broadcast played several times, Ms. Wang came to her senses. She was in the kitchen, and when she reached out, she touched the rolling pin and hit her husband hard on the head. Instinctively, she kicked him hard afterward.

She barely escaped his jaws, but seeing that her husband seemed oblivious to the pain, baring his blood-stained teeth and charging towards her again, she panicked.

"Mom, when are we eating?"

The sound of her youngest daughter's voice brought her back to her senses, a maternal instinct. She couldn't let her husband leave the kitchen, so she quickly ran outside. Her husband initially wanted to follow, but his movements were slower than most, and he didn't immediately catch up.

She finally breathed a sigh of relief after locking the door.

"Mommy, why has your neck turned black?" came the little girl's innocent voice.

Mr. Wang panicked. When he looked down, he saw that his arm had turned bluish-black. The radio said it was contagious, but this was happening way too fast! Wasn't this just like that zombie virus in the movies?

The emergency response instructions were still being broadcast over the loudspeaker, so she immediately dialed the hotline. She was understandably panicked by the sudden turn of events, but the hotline operator quickly reassured her. After confirming her location, the operator added, "If you have contracted the virus and have children or elderly relatives at home, to ensure their safety, please follow these steps..."

"Mom!!! Look downstairs!" the daughter suddenly shouted.

Ms. Wang leaned over and looked out the floor-to-ceiling window. Because it was summer, it got light very quickly. She saw that the cars on the road were driving smoothly, but suddenly stopped, followed by screams.

The pedestrians on the street were walking normally, but in the next second their limbs twisted, and they developed the same symptoms as her husband.

Mr. Wang was terrified and quickly hugged his daughter into his arms, but the next moment, seeing his own blackened arm, he quickly pushed her away.

After Wang made the call, rescuers from a nearby checkpoint arrived quickly.

Just as Wang's parents-in-law tied up their daughter-in-law, they heard a knock at the door. Opening it, they saw a man in a green military uniform, and the two elderly people immediately breathed a sigh of relief: "Comrade, what's going on? Why is someone biting downstairs? My son—"

"Sir, please wait a moment while our medical staff check on the situation." This stopped the elderly man from asking further questions, and soon medical staff went to check on Wang, who was tied to a chair.

Her arms were already bluish-black, and saliva was drooling from her mouth.

A gloved medical worker pried open her eyelids, shook them, and quickly administered the vaccine. Two armed men then opened the kitchen door, and screams erupted from inside.

The man's skin was completely ulcerated, and his eyeballs had fallen out of their sockets.

The two elderly people were so frightened that their legs went weak. The researchers shook their heads upon seeing this and quickly made a note of it: those directly infected after the apocalypse mutate extremely quickly, and the cure rate is low...

One morning, many households in the Beijing residential community experienced the same situation as Wang, with their hotline phones almost ringing off the hook.

Countless soldiers in protective suits and medical staff in white coats, carrying weapons or stretchers, went to various communities.

"We made so many preparations beforehand, I thought even if there was a zombie virus, it wouldn't be this serious..." said a frontline worker. "How come there are still so many people? Were our preparations even effective?"

In just a few hours, the number of recorded infections has exceeded a thousand, not to mention those that have not been recorded.

Some people were infected through bites or scratches, while others were inexplicably infected while walking on the street, even those who had never been in contact with the meteorite source. Given the explosive nature of this virus and its high transmissibility and lethality, can we really weather this storm?

His colleague patted him on the shoulder: "How could it be useless? What we're doing now is useful. This virus is so infectious; if it weren't for early prevention and control measures, it would already be a mountain of corpses by now."

"Our research institute is studying vaccines, Commander Zhang and his team are preparing for epidemic prevention and control, and the logistics department and medical department are working together. It will definitely be useful."

"Let's go, we just received another call for help."

"Let's go!" After complaining, the staff immediately cheered up and headed to the next aid station.

...

Zhou Yunan developed a high fever in the middle of the night, and when he woke up, just as Lin Rou had said, he had awakened a fire-type ability.

Amid the global zombie virus outbreak, the research institute was not spared either. Several researchers and soldiers mutated on the spot, causing a minor disturbance. Zhou Yunan took advantage of this opportunity to escape.

Next to the research institute was a factory. After Zhou Yunan burned a researcher and fled, he saw about a dozen people in factory uniforms with strange walking postures walking towards him.

Only when he got closer did he see the highly corrupt faces of those people.

Zhou Yunan immediately realized that these were zombies!

Knowing that the end of the world is coming is one thing, but actually facing it alone is quite another.

Zhou Yunan was using fire-based abilities for the first time, and he wasn't very skilled at it. As one of the zombies got closer and closer to him, a wind blade struck, and the zombie fell to the ground.

Lin Rou got out of the SUV next to her and skillfully used the bag to pierce the zombie's head and dig out the crystal core.

"Ugh!" Zhou Yunan's first reaction was to vomit.

"What's disgusting?" Lin Rou pinched the crystal core: "This thing is the real treasure of the apocalypse. If you want to become stronger, you can't live without it."

Zhou Yunan also realized that Lin Rou had shown him her wind-based abilities before, and that cutting a strand of hair was enough.

Now it can actually be as good as a steel knife?

She leveled up? By digging things out of the zombies' brains.

"Let's leave here first," Lin Rou said coldly. Sure enough, she had already gotten used to the bloody smell of the apocalypse... Now was the time when she was truly in her element.

Zhou Yunan glanced at her and quickly got into the SUV.

Lin Rou drove the car all the way to the outskirts of the city, to Zhou Yunan's newly established secret base under the guise of building a supermarket.