Apocalypse: the Most Ruthless Person

It’s like an invisible giant hand in the sky has covered the Earth with a dark, woolly blanket...

This kind of extreme weather has never happened before. Even in the hottest summers, the weather wouldn’t change so fast. Everyone was dumbfounded—this wasn’t supposed to be Earth’s weather!

”Brother, this, this is a disaster...”

Zhao Dezhu’s expression was extremely serious. One moment the sun was shining bright, and the next moment it was dark as night. His face was ashen, and in the face of the might of heaven, an unusual fear appeared in his eyes, as memories of the initial outbreak of the disaster flooded his mind.

”It hasn’t rained for a long time now. It used to be cloudy often, but this time it seems it’s really going to happen!”

Zhang Su gripped the handle of his knife tightly and looked up at the rolling black clouds, feeling equally heavy-hearted. No normal person could remain unaffected in the face of disaster.

”There’s a saying that rain could make zombies stronger, is that really true?”

Yang Xinqi was also looking at the sky. He hadn’t experienced the last two bouts of rain closely, so he was skeptical about the hearsay of zombies becoming stronger.

”That’s right!”

Seeing that many from the Automobile Park Branch were looking at him with confused eyes, Zhang Su nodded gravely and explained: ”After the disaster broke out, there have been two instances of rainfall. The first was a torrential rain shortly after the outbreak of zombification, and the most direct change was that it made zombies faster and stronger.

The second time it snowed. Although the snow wasn’t heavy, mutated zombies appeared after that, and the zombies’ athletic abilities were also enhanced. It’s just that with the temperature drop, the enhancement wasn’t so obvious; you’ll feel the difference once the temperature rises!

”Damn, so the news I heard at the Survivor Alliance was true. I thought someone was just making stuff up!”

Liu Yao saw the weather change and quickly ran back to the crowd to catch the news.

The tangled love triangle stopped their bickering because of the suddenly darkened sky, and matters of the heart seemed less important in the apocalypse, so they could be set aside...

”We have little rain in Qin City. If zombies get stronger with rain, wouldn’t the rainy places in the south be in big trouble?”

Yang Xinqi asked curiously.

”Jeez, Old Yang, you still have the leisure to worry about others? Whether they live or die, it’s none of our business!”

Liu Yao was dismissive of Yang Xinqi’s concern for others.

Zhang Su waved his hand to stop the argument, saying in a serious tone: ”With communication breakdowns, we can’t know the situation in other cities, but researchers speculate that the global climate might have strangely synchronized. This is probably all controlled by that unseen hand behind the human zombification!”

”This... damn, that’s very possible!” Liu Yao raised his hands in agreement with the view on global climate unification.

Yang Xinqi sighed and said, ”Let’s hope that’s the case. Otherwise, people in the rainy areas are all doomed, and human civilization wouldn’t be far from extinction.”

”Old Yang is right!”

Zhang Su saw that Liu Yao seemed about to retort to Yang Xinqi and immediately agreed: ”When the lips are gone, teeth will be cold. Although infighting among humans is unavoidable, if the human population truly falls below a certain critical point, our civilization would be at its end. We can’t change this, but none of us wants to see that day...”

The crowd fell silent. Deep down, everyone was barely managing their own survival. It wasn’t just other cities’ survivors; even the life and death of survivors in other camps were beyond them. But as survivors dwindled, eventually, Death God’s scythe would inevitably come for them!