After receiving the newbie gift pack, Li Yao felt a throbbing headache and waves of dizziness washed over her. She immediately called out to the system: [6384, what...what's going on?]
System response: [Ding, host, spatial energy is binding to you. Please be patient. After binding to the space, your mental strength will be greatly enhanced.]
Upon hearing this, Li Yao could only try her best to distract herself to relieve the soreness and pain. After about ten minutes, Li Yao suddenly felt her mind clear. She seemed to be able to hear sounds from a great distance and sense the fine dust in the air. This feeling was amazing.
Then Li Yao sensed the space in her brain and focused her attention to "look". It was an infinitely large area with no height limit. Li Yao picked up the gold bar next to her and thought "deposit" in her mind. The gold bar appeared in the space.
Li Yao subconsciously tried to categorize them, so she stacked the gold bars into cubes close to the ground. System: [Ding, congratulations to the host for developing the spatial cutting skill. Infinite Space will automatically isolate and categorize items according to their volume. Please keep up the good work, host.]
Li Yao was startled by her host's sudden voice, then overjoyed. She then put all the jewelry, property deeds, Desert Eagle, and other items from the safe into it, and the space automatically formed a storage compartment like an air wall.
Li Yao looked at the bullets in her hand, then thought of the game's inventory, and summoned the system, saying, "[6834, convert the infinite space display to a game inventory style grid with the same folding limit]."
System: [Ding, spatial laws have been constructed based on the host's consciousness and language pattern, and the form of infinite space will soon be changed], and then a panel similar to a game backpack appeared in front of Li Yao, with some items and names listed in the top row.
Then Li Yao used her consciousness to "look" at her spiritual spring space, thinking "go in". Li Yao appeared next to the spiritual spring in the space. It was a small pond about 0.5 meters square formed by a small spring. According to the laws of spiritual springs, it should be able to cleanse the marrow and refine the essence.
So Li Yao left the space, went to the bedroom, took out a new set of pajamas, took off her clothes, and went into the bathroom. Li Yao used a water glass that she had casually picked up on the table, scooped up a cup, and drank it. Then she felt a burning pain coming from her body.
Black grime began to appear on her body, and a foul odor wafted over. Li Yao quickly started showering. She washed herself after getting dirty, and then got dirty again. After four hours of this and several trips to the bathroom, she finally finished her cleansing process.
Looking at her flawless face in the mirror, with not a single pore visible, jet-black hair, and rosy lips, Li Yao was absolutely thrilled—a true manga heroine. Upon re-entering the Spirit Spring space, Li Yao saw the boundless plain and thought it would be better to turn it into farmland and orchards. After all, no matter how much she stockpiled, it would all run out in a day. A sustainable development approach would be better; she could even develop the mountains and lakes. After all, the apocalypse was approaching, and packing everything she could before it happened was a massive undertaking.
Yes, the end times are coming, in July 2042, exactly one year from now.
Li Yao's original self struggled for three years in the apocalypse. Li Yao also had that terrible memory. In the beginning, it was just a natural disaster, with frequent floods, droughts and torrential rains. H City, where Li Yao lived, was a first-tier city. In the early stages, the country responded quickly and was always in the process of disaster relief and rescue. The disaster relief lasted for two whole months.
Then, on July 1, 1942, the city was suddenly enveloped in thick fog. For a whole month, the fog was so thick that people and animals could not be distinguished at a distance of 3 meters. Many people thought that as long as it didn't rain, it was safe. They assumed that the fog was water vapor released from the high temperatures after a rainstorm in the densely populated city, and they didn't pay much attention to it. People started walking out in large numbers to buy supplies.
Li Yao also went out, but she was only gone for a short time. She felt uneasy looking at the fog. Soon after, many people online reported that they developed fever, cough, or even body aches after returning from their trips. Initially, Li Yao only felt a severe sore throat and a slight fever, which were similar to cold symptoms. She took some medicine she had at home and slept for a couple of days before feeling better.
But for many others, the medication was no longer effective because they had been in the fog for too long. Then someone posted a video online: a zombie-like man was seen trembling as he chased a woman in his living room. His eyes were grayish-white, his skin was ulcerating, and he moved slowly, shakily staggering every few steps as if about to collapse, making "hoarse" sounds.
The video, filmed through a window, was very shaky and only 15 seconds long. Later, more and more of these videos began to flood the internet. Due to the fog, the military and police were unable to conduct large-scale rescue operations, and many of the armed personnel involved in the rescue began to mutate. Subsequently, the city began to fall.
By August, the fog had lifted, and many zombies roamed the city. They no longer trembled; they could jog or even jump, just like in the movies. They were attracted by sounds and the smell of human blood, and anyone bitten would become infected.
The network was down, and the government began broadcasting safety precautions on television and mobile phones. They also started building a safety base. The villa area where Li Yao lived was requisitioned as an expansion area for the base. She used her own money and real estate to exchange for points and a permanent residence right.
The government arranged for these conscripts to live in a building in Zone 2, which is in the middle of the area. Zone 1 is for ordinary people who moved in from elsewhere. They exchanged goods for points and used the points to rent houses. Zone 3 is a villa area where high-ranking government research personnel live.
Li Yao exchanged all the gold left by her parents for points, which she used to buy food every day. She was also robbed. She covered herself up with black concealer to look like a refugee, cut her hair like a dog chewed it, and wore men's clothing, but she still couldn't change the fact that she was a human being.
She had been dragged into alleys and robbed, humiliated and bullied, seen women who couldn't make ends meet exchanging food naked on the street, seen helpless children begging on the ground like dogs only to be stuffed into sacks, and seen all sorts of people who became less than human in order to get food.
Betrayal, self-interest, and conflict were everywhere. Every day at the base, Li Yao struggled to survive. She was all alone; she was the only person her parents had left behind. But she was nearing her breaking point. She was beaten and bruised, her clothes were stripped off and stolen, and in the end, Li Yao died at the hands of several beasts.
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