"Mission complete."
Task evaluation result: Excellent+.
Tasker: Jin Shu.
Proceed to the next task? Yes.
Mission in progress...
1, 2, 3, Mission started successfully, mission participant Jin Shu successfully loaded.
The system successfully loaded after 48 hours.
Current time-to-flow ratio: 1:1; system will be operational for 48 hours.
After the familiar notification tone, before Jin Shu could even open her eyes, her consciousness floated in mid-air like a kite drifting in the wind.
Arno's voice rang out.
"You did a great job with your mission in the last world. Choosing you was the best decision I ever made. Keep up the good work in the next world."
As his voice faded, Jin Shu's consciousness plummeted from mid-air.
"Bang--!"
Her body fell heavily to the ground, followed by a wave of dizziness and excruciating pain all over her body, as if she had been beaten.
"You selfish and greedy Dong XZ, you've hoarded so many good things and only think about pocketing them all! Everyone else is working so hard out there, but you just stand by and watch, ignoring our lives! People like you don't deserve to live!"
"Get out! This kind of person doesn't deserve to live in our apartment! Raise your hand if you support Jin Shu getting out!"
A group of people raised their hands.
Jin Shu opened her eyes and found herself slumped in front of an apartment building. Inside the glass doors of the building stood a group of indignant people.
The man in the lead, wearing gold-rimmed glasses, stared coldly at her. For some reason, Jin Shu felt a sharp pain in her heart. This feeling was not unfamiliar; it was the pain of being betrayed.
There was a girl beside the man. The two of them were side by side, holding hands in a place where they were not easily seen. They had identical silent expressions, and the way they looked at her was like that of a stray dog on the street.
Jin Shu wasn't the only one thrown out.
Another couple pounded on the glass door and shouted angrily.
"Why?! This is my home too! Why are you kicking us out?!"
"Open the door!! Please!! Open the door!!"
The woman, wailing loudly, would occasionally glance at the door in terror, as if something terrifying was slowly approaching. Despite being beaten and covered in bruises, she still desperately and urgently pounded on the door.
Unfortunately, everyone inside the door looked at them indifferently, and finally the man in the lead spoke up.
"Your selfishness has harmed everyone's interests in this critical moment. Let's leave before it gets dark."
After saying that, he raised the gun in his hand and pointed the muzzle at the woman's head.
The woman's crying stopped abruptly. She took two steps back in terror, then left, supporting the man in despair.
Jin Shu didn't say a word from beginning to end.
She hadn't quite grasped the situation yet. Her gaze swept across the city, which resembled a ravine after a flood, with water stains and mud remaining everywhere.
The ground beneath them was covered with a thick layer of black moss-like vegetation, and the surrounding buildings were all covered by this plant. Cars on the street were parked haphazardly, dilapidated and looked like they had been abandoned for a long time.
Just then, it started to rain, and the rain stung her skin. Jin Shu looked at the murky black water on her arm, got up without a word, and walked to the foot of a dilapidated and abandoned apartment building across the street.
The rain was getting heavier, and some kind of creature was slowly wriggling in the dark moss on the ground. Jin Shu had a bad feeling and turned to go upstairs.
The abandoned apartment was completely empty, and everywhere you looked you could see how panicked the people who left had been.
Jin Shu climbed all the way to the top floor and stood at the window in the corridor, looking outside. She noticed that the black water was rising rapidly, and before she knew it, it had already risen to the second floor.
"Memory transfer in progress, please receive."
The original owner's memories have been transferred over.
As the apocalypse approached, after warnings of extreme cold and heat, mysterious black rain fell from the sky. The corrosive nature of the black rain instantly destroyed all crops and vegetation, and no one dared to go out casually anymore.
Soon, a series of natural disasters caused people who had initially held hope to gradually lose hope in the world.
Earthquakes, floods, polar nights and polar days, a mysterious virus begins to spread, and mutated plants and animals desperately crave human flesh and blood.
The original owner, Jin Shu, was a severe hoarder and a coward. Before the apocalypse, she guarded her rooftop apartment, which was filled with all kinds of food.
The apocalypse didn't come suddenly. When the temperature soared to 40 degrees Celsius, the original owner, who already had some anxiety, became even more worried and started hoarding supplies more frequently.
During this time, many people in the apartment noticed her behavior and mocked her for being overly anxious and delusional.
As a result, the temperature soared to 60 degrees Celsius, making it impossible to live outdoors. Ten days later, it plummeted to minus 40 degrees Celsius, accompanied by a terrible earthquake. When the city center was swallowed up by cracks in an instant, people began to panic.
Just when everyone realized they needed to stock up, the temperature suddenly rose, from minus forty degrees Celsius to the teens overnight. Before everyone could even breathe a sigh of relief, black rain came down and continued for more than a month. The city's drainage system was completely paralyzed, and residential buildings from the sixth floor down were flooded. Many people who went out to search for supplies never returned.
The virus multiplied in the black water, and humans began to die on a large scale.
Only then did everyone realize that the end times had come.
The shortage of supplies caused panic. First, the city's water supply was cut off, then the electricity, and finally the city was plunged into darkness. The polar night, with torrential rain, arrived, and the order that humanity had established for thousands of years collapsed at this moment. Conflict broke out, and human nature was revealed.
A man in the apartment spontaneously rallied the residents to save themselves. He was skilled in survival techniques, had excellent medical skills, and was adept at interpersonal communication. At his suggestion, everyone in the apartment decided to move to the top floor together.
All resources were shared, distribution was based on labor, and people actively sought survival.
The man is the male protagonist of this story, Lu Ling, a doctor at a top-tier hospital, a calm and collected ruler.
The original owner, who already lived on the top floor, naturally disagreed.
She had lived alone since childhood, and even in such harsh conditions, she was still able to have three meals a day. Her home was full of supplies, so naturally she was unwilling to join a communal living arrangement.
Another resident on the top floor, like her, lives alone.
The other party was a young woman. Three months before the apocalypse, she began to reinforce the doors and windows. Two months before the apocalypse, she claimed that her house was being renovated, and she was constantly banging and hammering inside. A month before the apocalypse, she began to stay indoors.
After the apocalypse, everyone in the apartment rushed to the top floor.
They forced the top-floor residents to join the communal living arrangement.
The girl in the building across the street was persuaded by the male protagonist and agreed to accept him and several other highly educated individuals.
The original owner was then forced to accept the remaining dozen or so people.
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