Chapter 4

"Waking up from a sleep, the world has turned upside down... But why is it so quiet?"

Zhang Su's brows were tightly locked, his eyes scanning everywhere. Compared to chaos, the current silence was even more terrifying. With such a serious event happening, how could there be no movement from emergency vehicles?

Police cars, ambulances, fire trucks—where did they all go?

Too abnormal!

*Ping-pong. *

Just as Zhang Su was looking out at the distant street, a floor-to-ceiling window on the opposite Building 4 shattered, and three figures fell from the air, followed by shrill screams!

The speed of the fall was fast. Zhang Su could only roughly tell that among the three, there was a child, and the others looked like an elderly couple.

Because trees blocked the view, he couldn't see the three hit the ground, but the dull *thud-thud* sounds of the impact could be faintly heard. Zhang Su couldn't help but twitch his mouth.

"Help, damn it, get away, you lunatic..."

Before Zhang Su could recover from the shock of the fall, faint cries for help came from afar. He saw the zombies that had been wandering slowly earlier moving quickly; their seemingly stiff bodies were actually quite fast, chasing a young man who wasn't wearing shoes.

"Run..."

Zhang Su couldn't help but break into a cold sweat for the young man.

As if hearing Zhang Su's encouragement, the young man ran wildly and soon disappeared around the corner with a group of zombies, his fate unknown!

"Help... is there anyone to save me? Honey, no, don't!"

Zhang Su pressed his face against the glass, wanting to see the young man's situation, when a cry for help exploded right nearby, incomparably shrill.

He could tell the owner of this voice was the delicate young woman from downstairs. On normal days, he could always see her walking a Samoyed around the complex; she seemed to have no job and lived a carefree, comfortable life.

"Save... ah, uh..."

The call for help turned into a scream. Soon, only faint chewing sounds remained. From beginning to end, he hadn't heard any dog barking; perhaps it had died earlier.

Just as he was about to withdraw his gaze, Zhang Su's peripheral vision caught two twisted figures crawling out from behind the large tree that had blocked the view of the fall earlier. Looking closely, it was the elderly couple who had just fallen!

"Hell... have we arrived in hell?"

Don't know when, Zheng Xinyu had already come to Zhang Su's side, her eyes filled with tears as she looked at the scene outside the window.

She didn't know what hell looked like. The scenes before her were the most terrifying and bloody things she had ever seen, but if she were allowed to see the current hospitals, boarding schools, and factories, she would understand how shallow her definition of hell was!

"What the hell is going on!?"

After being forced to "boot up" and then suffering such a strong shock, Zhang Su had no time to think properly. He slumped on the ground, pulling his hair and muttering: "Crazy, it must be crazy, everything is fucking crazy!"

Of course, it wasn't he who was crazy, but this world.

But if the whole world except him was crazy, then who was the truly crazy one?

"This life script is wrong!"

Zhang Su roared in his heart.

His original life was quite good, with a house, property, and a small car that satisfied his daily work!

Not to mention no debt, he had an income of over ten thousand a month, changed girlfriends twice a year, ate what he wanted, drank what he wanted—comfortable, carefree, and unrestrained.

He had no plans to get married, let alone plans to have children. He planned to start a travel career at thirty, experiencing different customs and cultures at home and abroad.

Yet all of this, after waking up, had vanished like a bubble.

"The doomsday script shouldn't belong to me!"

Zhang Su locked his brows, feeling very irritable, and also had a sense of desolation for the future.

"Brother Su, don't be like this, Brother Su..."

Zheng Xinyu felt very heartbroken seeing Zhang Su's appearance. It turned out that a tall, sturdy man also had a helpless side.

She squatted down and hugged Zhang Su's shoulder, not saying anything, giving comfort in a gentle way.

After calming his emotions for a while, Zhang Su took a deep breath and asked in a low voice: "How is it? Any news?"

"No, no internet!"

Zheng Xinyu pulled back her arm and squatted obediently to the side, not wanting to hit Zhang Su again at this time, but it was the truth.

"No internet?!"

Zhang Su let go of his hair and asked back. The unbelievable news made his brows lock even tighter.

Before Zheng Xinyu could give an answer, he walked quickly back to his bedroom and picked up his phone. The signal that used to be full was now down to one bar, like a candle flickering in the wind, sometimes there, sometimes gone, sometimes bright, sometimes dim.

He tried to make a call, but couldn't get through, let alone get on the internet!

"Wired internet!"

Thinking of this, Zhang Su hurriedly opened his computer, but the red cross in the bottom right corner made his heart sink again.

"I've checked, the computer can't get on the internet either..."

Zheng Xinyu walked into Zhang Su's bedroom and said in a low voice, her tone full of helplessness.

For modern people who have long been accustomed to using the internet to gather news, the blow of having no internet was very heavy, almost equivalent to covering their eyes and plugging their ears!

Zhang Su didn't know what kind of situation would cause a city's communication and internet to paralyze, but he knew this situation was terrible, extremely terrible!

To put it without exaggeration, nowadays the internet is absolutely one of the lifeblood of a city, or even a country. If communication and the internet were cut off, the consequences would be unimaginable!

Zhang Su couldn't even figure out what kind of situation could destroy a city's communication network in such a short time!

Fiddling with his phone with some impatience, there was no improvement at all. Zhang Su threw his phone on the bed, put on a piece of clothing, and slowed his speech: "Forget about the news reports, let's sort things out first. Xinyu, when did you wake up?"

"I just woke up when I called you, I didn't even brush my teeth..."

Zheng Xinyu felt much more settled seeing Zhang Su gradually stabilizing his emotions.

"Good. Judging from the current situation, the entire Shengqin Garden is definitely finished!"

Zhang Su paused for a moment and continued: "Usually at this time, Ocean Avenue is very lively. Just now, I only saw one car pass by. Most importantly, I didn't hear any police sirens at all. With such a big thing happening, no sirens, plus the internet paralysis, I think..."

Speaking of this, Zhang Su stood up, picked up a cigarette from the table, lit it, and said in a low voice: "I think the entire Qincheng has a problem!"

He didn't use the heavy word "fallen," probably because he didn't want to admit this fact in his heart.

"This... don't scare me."

After hearing Zhang Su's analysis, Zheng Xinyu raised her hand to cover her mouth gently, hot tears in her eyes.

Even a large-scale epidemic would be enough to make people feel uneasy, let alone the fact that the peers around them had inexplicably mutated into man-eating monsters—how could one not feel panic?

How Zheng Xinyu wished that only Shengqin Garden had suffered a catastrophe, and that soon the army or special police would come to suppress everything, or at the very least, police would come to rescue the survivors. But after hearing Zhang Su's analysis, her heart sank to the bottom.

To avoid any dear readers raising questions, I'll explain in advance: some situations definitely can't be explained for a while. You can rationalize it yourself, or treat it as the initial setting of the story. Hehe, that makes it very reasonable.

(End of chapter)