Zhang Dongliang was a researcher at a research institute in City B. He had been staying at the institute since the outbreak of the apocalypse, when all the researchers there turned into zombies.
Because they had all eaten fish containing the zombie virus that day.
Only Zhang Dongliang had no appetite that day, no rice, and was shivering alone in the dormitory wrapped in a quilt in the sweltering summer heat.
Yes, he had a fever, a high fever, and a splitting headache.
When Zhang Dongliang, who had been burning up and was in a coma, woke up again, he heard the sound of a hand pounding on the door, the hissing sound of fingernails scratching the steel door, and the roar of an unknown creature.
Zhang Dongliang felt incredibly energetic and physically strong. He didn't open the door rashly. Through the peephole, he saw a pair of lead-gray eyes and a gaping maw.
Zhang Dongliang was immediately stunned and the first thing he did was to take out his phone from his pocket.
As soon as I turned on my phone, all sorts of messages popped up, and the constant phone notification sounds drove the zombie outside the door even crazier.
"Bang, bang, bang." The zombie pounded on the door, causing the steel door to shake violently.
Cold sweat poured down Zhang Dongliang's forehead as he frantically pressed the volume down button, completely at a loss for what to do.
He forced himself to calm down, and suddenly a cold feeling swept over him, clearing up Zhang Dongliang's previously tangled thoughts.
He pushed all the movable items in the dormitory, such as stools, wardrobes, and beds, to the door.
Then he leaned heavily against the wardrobe, opened his phone again, and checked the message that had just popped up. The more he looked, the wider Zhang Dongliang's eyes widened.
"A deranged patient at a hospital in City A is biting people!"
"An extremely heinous assault has occurred in City B!"
"An unknown virus has emerged, and it is highly contagious." Upon seeing this news, Zhang Dongliang, himself a researcher in virology, felt a surge of excitement.
Zhang Dongliang suppressed his burning desire, swiping his fingers across the screen as he continued reading the messages.
Experts are urging people not to eat seafood.
"Everyone should stay home and not go out."
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Upon seeing the latest news, Zhang Dongliang's initial enthusiasm quickly turned to disappointment.
"The zombies are coming, the end of the world is coming, humanity is in danger."
He climbed onto the defensive fortress he had just built, and once again peered through the peephole at the abnormal human outside.
Lead-gray eyes, unfocused pupils, deathly pale skin, dark red blood, and animal roars.
As Zhang Dongliang compared the descriptions of zombies on his phone, his anxiety finally subsided.
He stayed in the dormitory for three whole days, surviving entirely on the food stored there. After three days, he ran out of food and had to go out to find something to eat. Fortunately, the zombie outside the door was gone.
Based on a post-apocalyptic survival guide he found online, Zhang Dongliang wrapped himself up tightly and went to the research institute to find supplies.
The researchers at the B City Research Institute are all workaholics, sometimes working through the night on experiments. They don't go out often, and when they do, they always stock up on food.
For the researchers at the B City Research Institute, instant noodles and fast food are essential foods. A little luxury is takeout, but it's all fast food, because they really love spending time in the lab doing research and wish they could spend all their time on it.
Therefore, the research institute in City B doesn't have many other things, but it has a lot of instant noodles and other fast food.
Zhang Dongliang survived for ten days in the research institute where he was the only survivor. During those ten days, he used his intelligence and a mysterious power within him to evade the pursuit of the research institute's zombies. Zhang Dongliang, who was not out of touch with the world, learned from the internet that the power within him was called a superpower.
Zhang Dongliang didn't know what his superpower was called, because his superpower was different from those of the others.
The superpowers that people on the internet have revealed are all named after the five elements, but the color of his superpower is neither gold, green, blue, or red, nor earthy yellow, but gray.
Zhang Dongliang discovered that his gray superpower had a calming effect. Whenever he thought of calm, his mind would quickly calm down. This gray superpower not only worked on himself, but also on his zombie colleagues who went berserk when they saw him.
The zombies, who would normally start moving at full speed upon seeing him, would slow down when he unleashed his gray superpower. The slowed pace lasted only two seconds, but those two seconds were enough for Zhang Dongliang to escape the zombies' pursuit.
Zhang Dongliang did not go to meet up with the survivors in City B because he was socially anxious and felt suffocated in crowds.
On the tenth day after the apocalypse began, Zhang Dongliang saw a living person for the first time: Lu Ben.
The two teamed up on the third day after they met.
It was Lu Ben who first sent the team request, because Lu Ben discovered that the gray superpower that Zhang Dongliang emitted when he was hiding from zombies could effectively calm his increasingly irritable temper.
During these ten days, Lu Ben was not unaware of the changes in his mentality. He tried to make changes, but all the changes were no match for killing. Only killing could vent his anger.
So he killed all the fish in City B, and then he started killing zombies.
Zhang Dongliang originally wanted to refuse Lu Ben's invitation to join his team, because the moment he saw Lu Ben, he knew that the man in front of him was very strong and had a very bad temper. His super-strong perception told him that he should never provoke this strangely dressed middle-aged man in front of him, because that man had seen blood!
After an afternoon of analysis and calculation, Zhang Dongliang compromised. His analysis told him that he could not survive on his own in the future.
Zhang Dongliang and Lu Ben, who had formed a team, were originally wandering in City B, using the research institute as their shelter. They stayed in City B for several months until the arrival of the extreme cold weather. Suddenly, a large-scale zombie outbreak occurred in City B. Zhang Dongliang had neither the time nor the ability to take the research equipment out of the research institute. At the last moment of his escape, he locked the important data in the research institute in a safe.
Threatened by the zombie horde, Zhang Dongliang and Lu Ben arrived in City A, where a zombie horde had already broken out. Upon arriving in City A, they discovered that there were far fewer zombies than in City B, almost a third fewer.
Lu Ben and Zhang Dongliang settled down in a supermarket after arriving in City A.
There were no supplies or zombies in the supermarket. The two were very surprised as to who had taken all the supplies and killed all the zombies.
Curiosity aside, the two's most important task now is to collect food and winter supplies that Zhang Dongliang needs.
The deeper they went into City A, the stranger it seemed. The supermarkets were empty, the convenience stores were empty, the shops were empty, and even the zombies were gone.
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