"Bang! Bang bang!" The terrifying pounding shook the entire dorm, causing all the zombies in the dormitory to roar frantically...

Jiang Yi leaned against the dormitory door, battered by zombies, his face ashen. He poured all his strength into holding the wooden door shut...

"Damn it! Damn it all!" Jiang Yi roared in fury as he braced himself against the door, his mind reeling. He never expected that a routine search mission would lead to betrayal from his own comrades!

At this moment, his mind was still replaying the scene from just minutes ago, the impact against his back as he encountered the zombie for the first time!

Jiang Yi, who had fallen to the ground, looked in terror at the mocking sneer on his 'companion's' face and how they had without hesitation abandoned him in front of the zombies, disappearing down the hallway without looking back...

He glanced at his arm, now stained red. Though he had managed to escape the clutches of several 'beautiful' zombies before they could tear him limb from limb and ran into an empty dormitory, it couldn't change the fact that two deep gashes marred his flesh, courtesy of their pitch-black nails.

The fresh stimulation, the zombies just a door away, grew increasingly excited. They relentlessly rammed against the already fragile wooden door, oblivious to fatigue...

Panic and exhaustion caused Jiang Yi's strength to dwindle. Straining every last ounce of energy, Jiang Yi finally managed to slam the door shut just before the zombie broke through. He slumped against the wooden door, a bitter smile on his face as he watched the inky black blood dripping from his fingertips.

"Damn apocalypse, why did it become like this…" Ginger Yi, who felt a chill despite her denial, couldn't help but shiver.

This whole terrifying ordeal began ten days ago. It was a perfectly ordinary, sunny day.

Because Jiang Yi stayed up all night with his roommate the previous day and didn't wake up in time, he stood up Chen Jiazi, a classmate of his, for their shopping date. He wasn't woken up until noon by a drenched friend pulling him out of bed!

At that moment, he realized that Longcheng, which should have been a clear blue sky, was unexpectedly struck by a sudden downpour without a single cloud.

This rain came down so suddenly. Later, I heard from alumni and online news that this unusual rainfall was like a giant showerhead positioned above the entire Earth, giving the spinning planet a thorough wash!

Across the globe, even major deserts fell within the range of this sudden downpour. Although the rain arrived unexpectedly, it did not cause much trouble for people. After all, it was fleeting, and didn't even have time to properly soak the ground...

It came as a surprise to people walking under the sky, who got a free cold shower.

Thus, angered by Chen Jiazi, Jiang Yi had to flatter her and agree to several unequal treaties to appease her anger...

That's all there is to it, I guess. Besides giving people online a new topic to discuss...

But what Jiang Yi couldn't have imagined was that Chen Jiazi actually had a fever the next day!

It's not just Chen Jiazi, nearly one-third of the students at Long Province University have come down with a fever.

And as the internet spread, everyone realized that this fever was worldwide! By the time Jiang Yi wanted to take Chen Jiazi to the hospital, he discovered that hospitals were already full of feverish patients and refused to accept any more...

At this moment, the power of a great nation came into play. Almost immediately, various disease control documents were swiftly issued from the capital. All medical resources were mobilized to their maximum capacity...

Luckily, the test results weren't too alarming. All the patients with fever were just experiencing immune resistance caused by common flu viruses.

Most flu patients, except for a group of particularly severe cases, can even recover at home by resting.

I took some medicine for the flu and recovered in about three days.

The strangest thing was that all the patients with the plague were people who had been caught in the rain that day! And none of those, like Jiang Yi, who hadn't been caught in the rain, even got infected, not even when they were close to the plague patients!

This discovery undoubtedly reassured people around the world. However, what followed was widespread curiosity about the strange rain. Unfortunately, because the rain came on too quickly and disappeared just as fast,

When people want to analyze it, there are basically no samples available. All we know is that the rainwater has extremely strong acidity! It's a once-in-a-century level of acid rain...

On the internet, suspicions are rife! Some say it's a biological weapon secretly used by a country in Western Europe.

There are also those who say that it was a retaliatory act by a certain terrorist organization against humanity, and even some terrorist leaders have publicly taken responsibility for this incident!

Jiang Yi didn't care much about these things. He almost seemed indifferent as he took care of Chen Jiazi for three days and three nights, tirelessly attending to her even though she had a fever. Instead, Jiang Yi looked exhausted and had lost a lot of weight.

Just when the situation was showing signs of improvement, the world suddenly witnessed a large number of critically ill patients in hospitals dying!

This kind of death was so sudden. Patients who were breathing steadily just moments ago died all at once! Even the doctors didn't have time to try and save them…… This was undoubtedly a huge disaster!

Preliminary statistics show that on just that day, the death toll in Long Province reached a terrifying several million people!

The sudden change caught even powerful nations off guard, and the world plunged into extreme panic! Nearly every industry was in a slump. The surviving people frantically hoarded everything they could buy, even resorting to brawls and riots for resources.

As for other countries, Jiang Yi wasn't sure, but thankfully, China's response was very timely. Not only did they quickly reassure the people and implement various countermeasures, they managed to barely control the situation in China...

But apparently, this is just the beginning. Before even a chance to catch their breath, something terrifying happens again, and this time, it leaves every powerful force helpless!

Zombies are out…

Nearly 10% of the world's population dies from the flu. These corpses, however, rise within 12 hours of death and immediately attack living humans!

The world has been plunged into a terrifying apocalypse with no chance for anyone to react.

Jiang Yi was undoubtedly lucky. Because his friend's illness had improved, the two of them went to the cafeteria for a meal. Because of the zombie outbreak, they were trapped in the cafeteria and managed to avoid the initial wave of zombies.

The cafeteria had a large supply of food. In addition to those who were already there, in the following days all surviving students from the rest of the school gathered here as well...

At this moment, to the astonishment of all survivors, they discovered that someone had actually awakened a superpower!

Yes, it's like the powerful abilities in post-apocalyptic novels!

The entire dining hall, with a capacity of under a thousand people, had over a hundred people who possessed strange abilities!

However, unlike what most people imagine, most mutants only possess powers like superhuman strength or incredible speed. Only a handful have abilities that are truly unnatural!

What made Jiang Yixing excited was that his friend Chen Jiazi actually possessed the water element ability, able to create fresh and clean water out of thin air!

This ability made Chen Jiazi stand out from the crowd! It also gave her boyfriend, Jiang Yi, some perks...

Thinking of this, Jiang Yi endured the pain in his arm and took out a quail egg-sized crystal from his pocket, his face as dark as water!

This is a pearl so white it shines, yet it comes from the brain of a zombie!

With the emergence of superpowered individuals, brilliant college students naturally started wondering if zombies' heads might also contain those energy cores found in novels that people could absorb!

At the beginning, those who were bold broke open several corpses but found that there was no such thing as a crystal core. Gradually, they stopped fantasizing about it.

The result came just a few days ago, as another group of surviving students broke into the cafeteria, attracting zombies. After a fierce battle, when Jiang Yi, who was incapable of fighting, was moving a corpse, he found this crystal nucleus dropped from the head of a smashed zombie!

Jiang Yi wasn't a fool. Under the radar, he hid himself away, and even Chen Jiazi, for some reason, didn't know that her boyfriend was secretly holding onto a precious corpse nucleus in his possession!

Despite the deafening crash behind him, Jiang Yi observed the corpse core in his hand, his face contorting with dismay. As more and more survivors gathered in the cafeteria, the corpse core had been discovered by the crowd, and even methods of using it had been figured out!

A zombified corpse's energy source is its core. Ordinary zombies do not possess a core, only first-stage evolved zombies have one! Therefore, even after ten days of the apocalypse, the survivors in the entire canteen obtained less than ten cores.

As for its effect, it's quite simple: it enhances the abilities of those who wield it!

And as an ordinary person, consuming a corpse core will only result in death and then decay!

Jiang Yi originally wanted to wash this corpse core clean and give it to Chen Jiazi, but in the end, he didn't send it out.

By now, feeling the numb in his arms, Jiang Yi chuckled bitterly, but a fierce glint flashed in his eyes: "Shen Tong, Wang Hai! Don't let me live to see you two, otherwise, I will definitely dismember you both into ten thousand pieces, preventing you from even becoming corpses!" After uttering the most venomous hatred in his heart, Jiang Yi raised his head resolutely and swallowed the corpse nucleus in his hand...

The original solid corpse nucleus actually dissolved instantly! A crystal-clear abdomen, and then Jiang Yi felt a wave of heat throughout his body. This heat flow emanated from his abdomen and flowed toward him along some strange current.

Jiang Yi's heart felt a sudden surge of ease, and in the next moment, the heat flow melted away the terrifying heat wave! A powerful energy instantly erupted, tearing through Jiang Yi like ripping cloth, causing his skin to tear apart.

"Ah!" Jiang Yi lay on the ground, rolling frantically in pain! The pain on his skin was bearable, but what he couldn't bear was the agonizing pain that felt like countless sharp blades piercing through his flesh and veins...