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Apocalypse Meltdown

One day, darkness enshrouded the world. According to the Meltdown theory, Earth’s magnetic field faced a change, and along with it, natural laws changed too. Though some laws related to physics could still be applied, a lot of scientific theories and laws had been overturned, prompting everyone to re-discover their underlying principles. Humanity’s scientific foundation was not the only one which faced changes; the field of genetics had transformed too. One of the biggest disasters brought by the magnetic field’s change was the zombification of more than 80% of the world’s population. After years of struggling, a few lucky survivors would evolve and awaken a hibernating power hidden in them. Chu Han was never that lucky… While holding on against the first wave, humans weren't the only ones getting stronger. Soon, phase-1 zombies evolved into phase-2 then phase-3 and so on. Ten years after the mysterious meltdown, the world dominated by humans changed hands. Zombies were the new overlords, and humanity was facing extinction. One day, Chu Han`s consciousness returned ten years before the end of the worlds. A loud noise awakened him in Minqiu University’s dormitory. With only one day to prepare before the Apocalypse’s outburst, he slowly realized that he had been reincarnated! Chu Han’s sudden reincarnation brought an unexpected power, which he hadn’t in his previous hellish world. To be more precise it wasn’t a power, but a system! The Meltdown System! Despite losing his monstrous strength gained through years of harsh training, Chu Han was confronted as the Meltdown System could grant him talents in exchange for credits, which he could get with every zombie he killed. This is a story about a world on the edge of ruins, the Meltdown System, and Chu Han, trying his best to save the people he could not save before.

Twenty-Two Knife Flow · Sci-fi
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296 Chs

Just Die Here

Translator: Sky_ Editor: Valvrave

Looking at the palm, it looked like an adult man's. It was a trace left behind due to pressing all the time against the mirror and the steam revealed the uneven lines, letting the people see them. 

Shang Jiuti was still scared, her face was really white, and mechanically walking toward Chu Han's side. She never looked back but suddenly Chu Han extended his hand, tightly grabbing and pulling her to his side.

The moment that Shang Jiuti’s back wasn't facing the mirror anymore, there was a slight unlocking sound.

"Ah ah ah!" Chen Shaoye was scared and screamed.

The usually emotionless and silent Bai Yun'er looked at his eyes, revealing a rare emotion, that of despise. 

Shang Jiuti was too scared, she wanted to leave the place as soon as possible. Another sound came from the mirror, that of gears slowly moving.

"Relax, everything is gonna be fine." Chu Han narrowed his eyes and emitted killing intent staring at the mirror.

Shang Jiuti’s beautiful face became paler as she stared at Chu Han, his arm was still tightly gripping her hand.

Seeing how nevous Shang Jiuti was, Chu Han loosened his grip on her hand and pulled her to his chest. Meanwhile, with his other hand he threw his axe, which started rotating at a high speed.

Suddenly, the mirror broke apart and then-

'Ding! Ding! Ding!'

One nail after the other flew toward the incoming rotating axe, the whole action lasted for two seconds.

When the sound from the nails came to a stop, on the ground, one meter away from Chu Han, had been filled with nails. The sharp nails seemed that they could pierce through bones...

Shang Jiuti, who was being hugged by Chu Han, was shaking and she was extremely grateful to Chu Han. If Chu Han had not pulled her, she would resemble a hedgehog from all the nails. Glancing at the ground she was terrified. As she was really close to Chu Han's face she looked at it and couldn't help but ponder how was it possible that his reaction speed could be so fast!?

Chen Shaoye was speechless, he looked at the mirror that had suddenly opened like a door. After that he came to his senses and stared at the nails on the ground. His respect to Chu Han had increased yet again. Was his boss a God? How could he have blocked so many nails with the rotating axe? 

Bai Yun'er was fixing her hair on her shoulder. If one looked closely, they would see two nails inserted in the wall behind her.

With the mirror opening everyone could see inside. Chen Shoaye even vomited from the scene.

There was a very small house without any windows, it was concealed. The mirror on the wall should have been installed later. It looked like the house's door and a simple machine hung high behind the door. That machine was what had released those nails. It was a death trap, just looking at it they could judge that it had been modified lots of times in order to increase its lethality.

However, what was really shocking was not the death trap but what was inside the concealed house. What they saw could only be described as a scene from Hell. On the ground there were countless scattered bones, scarlet minced meat mixed with fat or even chuncks of half-eaten rotting meat. What was worse were the several severed human heads, they were heavily difigured from all the bite marks and missing parts...

The thick smell of blood mixed with the filths in the intestines could penetrate one's nostrills and make them feel nauseous. It should be mentioned that not all the bodies were rotting, there were some fresh ones that were not full with bite marks. 

After they took their eyes from the hellish scene they looked at the house's corner, there was a zombie in an iron cage.

'Grr-' 

'Clang! Clang! Clang!'

A half bitten arm heavily landed on the ground and the zombie violently shook its cage, roaring at them.

They had complicated expressions on their faces. The zombie was not even 10 years old! It was probably the deceased man's child.

"Was the middle-aged man the zombie's father?" Shang Jiuti quietly said.

They couldn't help it but think about the middle-aged man that Chu Han had killed before. There was only a reason why a human would keep a zombie captive, they would somehow be related.

Chu Han'd eyes became cold. The son had turned into a zombie and its father had crossed the moral bottom line; he forsook his humanity in order to hunt for 'food' and feed it. Let's not forget that he turned into a cannibal...

It would be a touching story if they lived in a peaceful world, a father caring about his son even after he turned... 

Chu Han cruelly smirked and thought, 'Great! This is the apocalypse that I know!' 

"Will we kill it?" Bai Yuner's light and cold voice reached Chu Han's ears, "It is going to evolve."

Chu Han looked at her. How did she know that the zombie was going to evolve? Besides, she had also mentioned that the human genes could change, how could she know it?

Not answering to Bai Yuner, Chu Han’s casted his eyes on the zombie's body, it was going to evolve. The more human meat a zombie could eat, the faster it would evolve. It was unknown how long it had lived in the house and how much human meat it had eaten.

However, it was in the cage and its body was so small, the zombie's power should be limited, even though it going to evolve.

"Fatty Chen," Chu Han shouted, "Can you kill it?’

"Ah?" Chen Shaoye was shocked and looked at the tyrannical zombie in the cage. Its teeth were sharper than other common zombies and its claws were so long and sharp, creating a sour sound scratching the cage. It was the same as a tyrannical beast, ready to attack at any moment.

Chen Shaoye suddenly cried without any tears, "Boss, it, it, it is the scariest zombie that we have met?"

"No." Chu Han said, "It is only equal to fighting thirty common zombies together."

"Thirty? Fighting together?!" Chen Shaoye had a solemn face, "Boss, I am not like you. I can only fight against ten zombies at the same time. I could fight against thirty zombies but only if the zombies come one by one and I have the geographical advantage."

After being with Chu Han for so long, Chen Shaoye liked to fight holding the geographical advantage, as nothing would hinder him.

Chu Han expressionally looked at him, "If you don't fight with it I'll ditch you here. If you kill it then you'll be my partner forever; other, you will-"

Chu Han't voice came to a stop and he emitted a thick killing intent before continuing, "You will just die here."

His cold words accompanied with the killing intent made it look like the house's temperature was rapidly dropping. Shang Jiuti was speechles, as she was looking at Chu Han she felt that this her first time meeting the man. How could he say something like that?

Chen Shaoye was so scared that his back was sweating, but as his loyalty had reached 100% he did not dare complain. He was just scared. Bai Yun'er, standing behind everyone, slightly narrowed her eyes and faintly smiled as she was looking at Chu Han's face.

Chu Han opened the cage and picked up the zombie. The zombie that looked so terrible was so powerless in his hand, "What I want you to do is limitation fighting. Remember, you should not be scratched or bitten by it."

Hello, everyone! I'm Valvrave, an editor temporarily helping with the novel as PoultryGodDoggy is sick and needs to rest. I want to apologise in advance if there are any mistakes, as I am new with this novel. Feel free to point out mistakes or improvements about the translation in the comment section, I'll respond as soon as possible ^_^ Have a good day xD

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