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.
"Ah---" Lu Wan was screaming.
"Shut up! These bitches!" Ye Tianlong was ferocious and beat her head against a wall heavily.----Bang!
The scream suddenly stopped.
Bang! A scarlet blood was flowing along the white wall.
It was too fast that Lu Wan died before others having any response.
"Fuck! This bitch! Why don’t you tell me! Bitch!" Ye Tianlong still did not stop and he kept knocking her head against the wall, making banging noises. The wet and warm blood was now puddled on the ground.
The beautiful face was gone and only a badly mutilated figure remained. She looked even more terrible than a zombie. Ye Tianlong stopped venting his anger until the head of Lu Wan was not in a shape of a human. He had been suppressing his anger for a long time and Lu Wan just happened to be there at the moment. He still seemed to be angry so he carried the body of Lu Wan and threw it down the stairs.
Bang Bang Bang---
Lu Wan was thrown heavily and she rolled down with heavy noises, fresh blood splashing everywhere.
This was only the fourth day of eschatology and the ugliness of human nature had been revealed!
Chen Shaoye, looking at the scene, was pale with fright, so he stuck his head downwards. He only took a sleep but why did the people here change so much?
The mother and the daughter had guns and they seemed to be ferocious and fierce.
The one that he used to think as a good man, Ye Tianlong, changed to someone brutal without any human feelings.
He even, even killed the woman!
And the reason was so preposterous!
She was a human being, not a zombie!
What kind of world was it now? He must be blinded when he trusted such a man!
Bang! Crash---
Suddenly, a heart-clenching sound came from down the stairs.
It seemed to be a signal or the omen for humanity’s despair. They could feel the terror of death.
"Shit! They break through the window!" Chu Han came to the stairs and the ax was still held tightly. Meanwhile, he spoke to the others, "Fatty Chen, you stand on my left to deal with what I miss and Shang Jiuti stand in the rear to shoot. Others just take whatever you can as weapons!"
Chu Han distributed tasks for the very first time. Chen Shaoye, although he was coward, was more scared of Chu Han than the zombies since the man was so calm and rational in dealing with stuff like this. Hence, he even doubted whether Chu Han was a robot or not.
As for Shang Jiuti, she stood in place and loaded the gun with a click. The wide range of movements made her clothes tremble. A strand of black hair fell from her forehead to her cheek. People could not help but raise their head to look at her exposed white swan-like attractive neck.
Ye Tianlong licked his lips and stared at Shang Jiuti. Next, he stared at the back of Chu Han dismally. How dare he to rob his position? He should be the one to assign people with things as a leader!
Others were just escaping and running. They were in a total panic and someone even ran to their rooms and locked the doors. Zhang Ziyu and Gu Xiaotong looked at each other and stood behind Chu Han invariably. They were afraid of zombies, but they were also frightened by Ye Tianlong. Only Chu Han could help them out from their predicament.
"How about me? What should I do?" Eighteen asked hastily.
"You?" The zombies on the floor had found the stairs and Chu Han looked at her. There were brightness and expectation in the eyes of this girl. He nodded at Ye Tianlong and his guys casually.
"You keep an eye on those people. If someone tried to have a sneak attack on us, kill them!"
"Alright!" Eighteen suddenly became energetic and her tender face was in high spirits.
Although Chu Han only asked the girl to do something casually, she was still happy. She loaded her gun with a click and aimed at Ye Tianlong. She did learn a lesson from earlier as she did not aim at the head, but the chest. The chest was wider and it was easy to aim.
Ye Tianlong and his men retreated. Shit! This girl was so vicious!
"Raise your weapon," Eighteen shouted delicately. She was so arrogant since the gun was in her hands and it was aimed at Ye Tianlong. There was tenderness in the voice, "You, you guys just stand on both sides. You will be aimed at if you’re lazy!"
The staircase was wide and it could not be defended by Chu Han and the other two. Eighteen showed no mercy to Ye Tianlong and his men and she ordered them to stand on both sides of stairs.
No one dared disobey her and just did what she said. Chu Han was the person in the center and he would be the first to be bitten by zombies.
He! Ye Tianlong sneered. They were so foolish. He would throw these escaping people into the zombie horde as a human shield so he could get some time to run away.
Roaring---!
The successive roaring became closer. The first zombie had found the stairs and the second and third one were following in a line.
The zombies were different from the ones during the beginning of outburst. Their rotten meat became worse and there would be a thick smell from far. The loose dark meat seemed like a pulpy minced meat. With the substantial walking, some of them just fell to the ground like a lump of shit.
Nobody knew the reason for the global darkness nor how human being transforming into zombies.
However, zombies were different from animals and humans. At the moment of infection, their bodies were changed. The bones were softened and the muscles and organs became rotten. These showed that they were weaker than human beings in all aspect, but this won’t last forever.
They were metabolized rather than degenerate. The first batch of zombies would metabolize what belonged to human beings variations would slowly appear.
They would become stronger and gradually advanced, but there was one thing that would never change.
Fresh blood would have the greatest temptation to them.
They found the dead body of Lu Wan down the stairs and lots of zombies rushed at it. They laid on the fresh meat, biting eagerly. Their fingernails and teeth were so sharp that they rapidly tore through the clothes covering the body.
A zombie bit the body of Lu Wan and tore the meat fiercely and swallowed at one mouth. The fresh blood kept stimulating the nerves of the zombies. They bit the meat with indifference, pulling out the intestines from the body and putting it in their mouths just like eating noodles.
There were more and more zombies gathering around Lu Wan’s body. They bit each and every part of her body, not leaving a place untouched.
The scenery was so scary and terrifying. Chu Han was also scared even though he had experienced countless things.
As for Ye Tianlong and the others, although they would sometimes kill rebels and threw them to zombies, they had not observed zombies feasting on the bodies at a short distance.
Chen Shaoye took his axe and the fat body could not help but quiver in fear.
Shang Jiuti and Eighteen’s hands with guns were loosely holding on. They could not control the inner fear no matter how powerful they pretended they were.
Chu Han held his axe tightly as this zombie horde was not a kidding.