All Chapters of Apocalypse Rebirth: My Infinite Space System: Chapter 21 - Chapter 30

The silence inside Villa No. 1’s dining room was heavy, broken only by the faint, rhythmic hum of the Bio-Filter running on the roof.Mira sat at the head of the dark mahogany table, her chin resting on her laced fingers, staring blankly up at the ceiling. Her knuckles were still stained faint black from the raptor’s blood. Her left flank twitched once—a phantom itch from where her ribs had re-knitted themselves under the system fluid.An E-Rank avian on Day Two.She closed her eyes, letting out a long, slow breath through her nose. Her chest expanded against the tight nanofiber of her tactical suit.In her previous life, the virus didn't mutate local fauna into hyper-aggressive E-Ranks until mid-September. Yet here she was, forty-eight hours in, already putting down three Stalkers and a giant winged raptor right outside her balcony.The virus isn't just spreading, she thought, her fingers tightening into a fist against the wood. It's evolving ahead of schedule. Which means the D-Rank

The deafening rumble of the blast echoed through the shattered courtyard, sending a thick cloud of dust and pulverized concrete rolling over the crowd.Silence descended upon the crater.The dozens of scavengers, gang members, and armed survivors stood frozen, their eyes locked onto the scorched ground where the young girl had been standing. The blinding pillar of light had collapsed, leaving behind only swirling grey smoke and the sharp, metallic tang of ozone.The scarred leader stared into the haze for two long seconds before a wide, yellow-toothed grin split his face."Hahaha!" the scarred guy roared, throwing his head back as his laugh echoed against the ruined walls of the Vance estate. "I knew it! I fucking knew it! Look at that, boys! The damn thing blew her to pieces!"Beside him, his enforcers let out collective sighs of relief, snickering as they wiped cold sweat from their foreheads."Boss was right on the money," one of the men sneered, tossing his rusted crowbar from han

She tried to search her past-life memories, but before she could dig up the name, a deafening, industrial rumble erupted from the center of the crater!HUMMMMMMMMM!The twenty-foot obsidian monolith shuddered violently. The glowing golden runes along its border shifted into a dark, blood-red hue as the central mechanism spun to life![SYSTEM EVENT CONVERSION][CURRENT TIER: D-RANK WHEEL OF FORTUNE]Mira’s eyebrows furrowed tight. 'Huh? A D-Rank...? Wasn't this an S-Rank Wheel of Fortune just a minute ago? What's going on... do D-Ranks drop insane treasures now, or did the input lower the tier?'The massive dial began to spin at a dizzying speed, blurring the slots into a wheel of gold, silver, red, and blue—until the needle slowly began to lose momentum.CLICK. CLICK. CLICK.The dial crept past the gold slot. It skipped past the silver slot.THUD.The needle locked dead center into a pitch-black slot that held no light at all.Silence. Total, absolute silence fell over the courtyard.

The cold mountain air felt heavy against Mira’s skin as she stood in the blood-soaked courtyard, her heavy iron crowbar held loosely at her side.Black, foul-smelling fluids from the cleared horde soaked the gravel beneath her boots, giving off a sharp metallic stench in the freezing night breeze. The steaming wreckage of the SUV groaned as its shattered radiator hissed hot mist into the fog, but Mira didn't move an inch. Her gaze remained pinned on the high stone wall where the three tactical figures stood.They weren't mindless dead. They weren't moving with the clumsy, dragging gait of the infected. They stood with the relaxed, disciplined posture of men who were used to holding loaded weapons in hostile territory.The man in the center—the one who had spoken—leaned against the concrete coping, tapping his gloved fingers casually against the stock of a dark assault rifle. His two partners stayed slightly behind him, their boots spread in a stable stance, eyes scanning the driveway,

The silence inside Villa No. 1 did not fade out gently. It split in half.Down in the concrete foundation, deep beneath the reinforced lower workshop, a low, mechanical groaning vibrated straight up through the floorboards. The steel bedframe shuddered. On the metal workbench three rooms over, a heavy industrial socket set clattered against the iron top before tumbling off the edge, dropping four feet into the dark and bouncing off the stone with a series of sharp, echoing rings.Mira’s eyes snapped open in the pitch black.She didn't blink. She didn't rub her face or take a second to orient her breathing. The moment the second shockwave hit the mountain frame, her right hand swept sideways across the floor, her calloused fingers wrapping tight around the cold, textured grip of her carbon steel crowbar. She rolled off the mattress in a low, coiled crouch, her boots hitting the concrete hard as her knees absorbed the violent, sideways shudder of the room.RUMBLE—!The floor rose two in