H City.
"Has Ming reached level 20?"
Daniel withdrew his knife from the chest of the man kneeling before him, collected the cards that had dropped, wiped the blood off his twin blades on the deceased, and muttered "poor soul" before sitting down to wait.
Moments later, the deceased mutated into a zombie and was slain by him in one stroke. He collected the cards that dropped again. With his back to the sun, he looked at his own shadow with the twin blades in his hand, laughed, and said, "I'm going to catch up with you."
After that, Daniel sheathed his twin blades and strolled along the street strewn with corpses.
The apocalypse had ignited his dream of becoming a strong man.
...
In the ruins, two men lay on the ground, each with an ice spike in their chest, reflecting a faint blue glow under the sunlight.