Chapter 89 Final Trial Past Memories
At eight o'clock in the evening, according to the system, all the cities outside should be unified on the same continent. If you have time, you may be able to see other cities by walking in one direction.
After a rumbling sound, the system announced the news to all survivors. I wondered why this had to be done at night, not with the morning announcement. Was it to prevent premature conflict between cities?
Late at night, no one wanted to venture out to other cities to verify the news, so after this brief incident, everyone continued to busy themselves with packing. Yu Luowei was basically ready—essentially, packing all her food and drinks into her space and pet space. She'd also wanted to take the system's universal toilet with her; it consumed no electricity or water and was handled promptly, but unfortunately, it was fixed to the shelter floor and couldn't be moved.
She collected her thoughts and took a look. She realized that she couldn't add any more resource-rich environments to North City now. All the goods in the points mall had been cleared out. She went to rest directly and was now lying on the bed reminiscing about the zombie world.
After awakening her psychic powers, even though these events had happened over twenty years earlier, they were still as vivid as if they had happened yesterday: in her memory, the zombie outbreak had suddenly occurred one day. It was during the National Day holiday, and she had driven home from work to rest. However, her father, the senior class teacher, was at school supervising students, and had been separated from Yu Luowei and her mother when the zombie outbreak occurred.
Their home was located on the fifth floor of a modest residential complex in an 18th-tier city. Because it wasn't high enough, there was no elevator. The house was quite large, and because of her father's work and Yu Luowei's hobbies, there was a large bookcase filled with books.
Yu Luowei was on her way back from the supermarket when she noticed the traffic jam, caused by a rear-end collision, suddenly transform into a real-life "snatch" of a fast-paced street race. She was terrified. Luckily, she was already downstairs from her apartment. She immediately rushed into the underground garage, ignoring the large dent in the front of her car, and ran home with the same confidence she'd achieved in the 800-meter race on the high school entrance exam.
Fortunately, her mother was cooking at home at the time and didn't encounter any strange situations. Seeing Yu Luowei so anxious, she hurried forward to ask what happened. Yu Luowei didn't answer the question immediately. She just asked her mother to fill the basins and buckets at home with water. She immediately called her father, but the call was disconnected.
Afterward, the zombie outbreak erupted, and the howling of zombies and the screams of terror from the neighbors continued to echo outside their home. Initially, because Yu Luowei was just an ordinary white-collar worker, and her daily work kept her in sub-healthy condition, Yu Luowei and her mother dared not stay home. While there was still internet, they called their father and all his colleagues, but the calls kept ringing for a long time with no one answering. So, starting the next afternoon, whenever the zombies started swarming for who knows how many times, they took down the books and temporarily moved the large bookshelf to the door.
But at that time, in Yu Luowei's heart, and perhaps in the hearts of many still alive, the zombies they saw outside were something that violated the law of conservation of energy and spread only by biting people. They should soon be eliminated by the government. Yu Luowei's family loved to stock up. Her parents stocked up on rice, flour, vegetables, and bottled water, while Yu Luowei stocked up on instant food, various snacks, and drinks. There was enough food in the house for the two of them to save for a month. Therefore, Yu Luowei and her mother always encouraged each other, hoping that the country would suddenly announce that all zombies had been eliminated, and they also looked forward to the day when they could hear their father's voice from outside.
However, with the complete contamination of the water source, the loss of electricity and internet, and the occasional loud explosions outside, the situation worsened, and Yu Luowei gradually began to doubt this idea. Until one night in the third week, Yu Luowei was listening to the noise outside in a dark room and couldn't help but think: If only I had clairvoyance, I could see what was happening outside. The next second, everything in the room appeared in Yu Luowei's mind as if the lights were on. He could even see the open door next door and the wandering zombies in the corridor. Yu Luowei realized in an instant that he had awakened his supernatural power.
At that moment, Yu Luowei's heart wasn't filled with joy, but fear. If he could awaken his superpowers, could others do the same? What about the zombies? Could the world return to normal as he'd imagined?
Although he had doubts, Yu Luowei had one thing very clear in his mind, that is, he could not hide like this any longer. No matter what would happen in the future, he should bravely attack now.
This thought intensified the next day. Early in the morning, her mother anxiously told Yu Luowei that she had suddenly discovered she could summon fire, albeit a tiny flame. Yu Luowei was delighted. At times like these, possessing superpowers gave her more hope for survival. She told her mother about her own clairvoyance (she wasn't sure it was psychic at the time), and then recounted the general setting of the novel about superpowers and zombies.
They both felt that their physical strength had improved after acquiring superpowers, the most significant sign of which was that Yu Luowei could now push an entire wooden bookshelf by herself. Therefore, after wielding a kitchen knife for a while at home, Yu Luowei suggested going out to take a look.
In the current situation, there are more and more zombies. Their building is not very tall, and more and more zombies are wandering around the community, posing a growing threat. My mother is aware of this and did not stop me. She just asked me to go with her, after all, I have super powers.
This time, they first stabbed a zombie in the neighbor's house with a kitchen knife tied to a mop handle. Then, using the same method and their mother's supernatural powers, they killed all the zombies in the hallway of their unit—all ordinary zombies without supernatural powers. The commotion was quite loud, but fortunately, their apartment complex had a door, a thick iron one. The first thing Yu Luowei did when she reached the first floor was to close it.
During this process, Yu Luowei's "perspective" ability also played a significant role. Not only did it prevent them from being attacked, but it also allowed them to see what was happening in other homes within the unit. There were too many zombies outside, making it impossible to go out right now. Yu Luowei turned her gaze to her neighbor's open door. It was autumn, so the heat wasn't so bad. The neighbor's house should have some undamaged items that could be used. Although she didn't know what had happened to the neighbor, in this situation, she couldn't care less about the morality of doing so.
Yu Luowei's spatial ability was discovered after finding something in a neighbor's house. They found a large sack of noodles, two bags of rice, a box of instant noodles, and two large, unopened bottles of water in the kitchen. Since they had no gas or electricity at the time, they usually heated their books to heat water, so they wanted to take the neighbor's magazines with them.
Seeing so many things, Yu Luowei couldn't help thinking in her heart when she picked up a bag of rice, "It would be great if I could think of having a standard space like in other novels." The next second, the rice disappeared from her hand, and Yu Luowei really had an extra space.
Initially, the space was only eight cubic meters. Before returning home, Yu Luowei, following the novels she had read, dug eight small, hard lumps out of the zombies' heads outside the door. After testing them and finding that both she and her mother could absorb them, she named them, as the novels usually do, "Crystal Cores."
Each person received four, and Mom's flame grew larger, while Yu Luowei's space also became 27 cubic meters—this information automatically emerged in Yu Luowei's mind after the change, without her having to actually measure it. Yu Luowei understood that this was the amount of the supernatural power upgrade simply because her "perspective" didn't change much.
Before they went out again, a long-awaited official announcement finally sounded outside. In short, the announcement was: the zombies had appeared suddenly, and some even possessed special abilities, making them difficult to completely eliminate. Officials had established several shelters and announced their locations. Survivors could go there on their own initiative, or hold out for a few days and wait for the official rescue team. They also hoped that survivors with special abilities would join the official team.
The terrifying speed at which the shelter was being built once again shocked Yu Luowei. After some discussion, the two decided to head to the shelter on their own initiative, potentially killing a few more zombies along the way to upgrade their abilities.
After loading all their useful supplies into the space, the two of them braved numerous obstacles and entered the underground garage, where they found Yu Luowei's car—thankfully, she'd parked close to home the previous time. After killing several zombie car owners and extracting the fuel from their tanks, they absorbed the crystal cores, which upgraded Yu Luowei's "clairvoyance" ability, and then drove to their father's school.
The entire high school has now become a purgatory. The school gate has been smashed down, the security room has been destroyed, and there are corpses in school uniforms all over the ground. A few zombies pass by from time to time.
Yu Luowei encountered her first zombie with special abilities here. It was a fire-type zombie. Its body was covered in flames and it could spit fire, like a small fire giant. There were also several ordinary zombies around it, which almost burned their car.
Next to the car and the zombies was a fish pond with water in it. While driving, Yu Luowei thought that it would be great if she could pour water from the fish pond onto the zombies to extinguish their flames. Then, a game-like map appeared in her mind, and one of the zombies was trembling as it walked towards the fish pond.
Realizing this wasn't just ordinary clairvoyance, Yu Luowei slowed down the car. While luring the zombie closer to the pond, she focused on controlling the zombie, causing it to pick up a school uniform and soak it in the water, then throw the soaked uniform onto the zombie. After repeating this process three or four times, the flames on the zombie subsided. Yu Luowei stopped the car, letting the controlled zombie walk ahead as a human shield while she and her mother dealt with the zombie.
This control ability greatly helped them explore the school. However, they still couldn't find their father in the school, but they found his car keys and some snacks in the teacher's office.
With no other options, the two headed for the shelter. Leaving a note on their father's desk and in the classroom, they abandoned their already damaged car, switched to their father's, and drove to the shelter.
Arriving at the shelter, the largest stadium in a provincial capital, the two learned about the zombie outbreak: At the time, approximately one-third of the world's population had suddenly become zombies. The rate was evenly distributed, affecting every region, not just the entire population. Even military camps, power plants, and operating factories were affected. These suddenly transformed zombies were almost all stronger than before, with no appetite for humans or corpses, only attacking them to infect them. Consequently, they quickly infected many who were unaware.
Furthermore, ordinary cold weapons were completely incapable of harming them. Yu Luowei and the others were effective because they both possessed supernatural powers. More specifically, Yu Luowei had unconsciously imbued her kitchen knife with her own spiritual power from the very beginning. Hot weapons were effective, but the damage was limited. As for larger weapons, they were also not very effective at the time. The zombies were very scattered, not spreading from a single city or region. Therefore, the authorities quickly established shelters to gather the survivors and then attack the remaining areas.
However, the authorities soon discovered that both the survivors and the zombies had superpowers, and that these superpowers could be upgraded and made stronger. In order to prevent the zombies from evolving to the point where they were not afraid of even thermal weapons, the authorities announced the shelter in advance and sped up the gathering of survivors, hoping to at least reduce the number of zombies before they evolved to become stronger.
Because they arrived early and both had special abilities, Yu Luowei and her mother were able to enter the gymnasium and occupy a fairly spacious area, where they could build a small room using colored steel plates. Those who arrived later could only live in tents outside the gymnasium.
The two of them had already discussed it. Mom would report the truth, while Yu Luowei would only report her "clairvoyance" ability. Because of Mom's age, Yu Luowei joined the official patrol team on her own and received a fixed salary.
But this didn't last long. When the authorities used planes loaded with bombs to bomb other cities without shelter (now renamed bases) (after two rounds of searches, most survivors had already taken shelter), the zombies had evolved to a very powerful state, and the bombing was very limited in effectiveness. Some zombies even released a circle of defense to destroy the dropped bombs. Even more destructive zombie animals also gradually appeared, especially zombie rats, which became the most common species to infect survivors in the later stages.
At this point, the world has completely become a showdown between superpowered beings and zombies. Ordinary firearms, unless modified with superpowers, are incapable of killing even the lowest level of zombies. Fortunately, there are no such things as zombie insects, otherwise the ubiquitous mosquitoes, flies, and cockroaches would have decimated the number of survivors.
The base also underwent a renovation, transforming from a gymnasium into a "city" built by gold and earth-type psychics. After joining the patrol, Yu Luowei discovered a bow and arrow during a search. With his psychic powers, he became an exceptional aimer and attacker, amassing a considerable amount of contribution points (the base's currency). He then moved with his mother to a new base, owning an 80-square-meter cabin on the fifth floor of the inner area.
However, during a subsequent zombie attack, the sheer number of zombies was so great that nearly every psychic was forced to fight, resulting in many casualties, including Yu Luowei's mother. The shelter was severely damaged and had to be relocated to the nearest base to merge with it. Later, Yu Luowei, outnumbered, died in another zombie wave.
Until her death, the authorities hadn't figured out the cause of the zombie outbreak, let alone an antidote. But now, Yu Luowei finally realized that it was impossible to figure it out, because the source was a dark energy from another world.
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