جميع فصول : الفصل -الفصل 10

The plastic grocery bag slipped from my cold fingers, hitting the floorboards of the abandoned suburban home with a soft thud. A jar of preserved peaches rolled out, coming to a rest beside a pair of discarded shoes. But I didn't care about the food. I couldn't move. I couldn't breathe. My eyes were locked onto the couch across the dimly lit living room.Ethan Hayes was kissing Clara Brooks.His hand was pinned in her hair, pulling her close, while her arms were wrapped tightly around his neck. They were so lost in each other that neither of them noticed the sound of the front door closing or the jar rolling across the floor.Five years of surviving the apocalypse together—five years of starving, running, fighting off undead monstrosities, and bleeding for each other—and this was what I came home to."Ethan?" My voice came out as a raspy, broken whisper.They broke apart instantly. Clara gasped, pulling her shirt down, but there was no panic in her eyes. Only a cold, calculating spark

I didn't waste a single second.Leaving my apartment building, I pulled up my online banking apps on my phone while riding in an taxi. Between my personal savings, my mother Vera Coleman's allowance transfers, and the inheritance my father had left me, I had roughly 150,000 yuan in liquid cash.It was a decent sum for a college student, but nowhere near enough to buy the sheer volume of supplies I needed.Useful for an ordinary student, but pocket change for an apocalyptic stockpile."Paper money is going to be trash in sixty-one hours anyway," I muttered, staring out the window at the bustling afternoon traffic. Sitting in the back of the cab, my fingers flew across my screen. I rapidly applied for every high-limit credit line, quick-loan app, and cash advance service available online. Thanks to my clean student record and high credit score, automated approvals flooded my inbox. Within two hours, my working cash jumped to 6 million yuan.Then I pulled out a black credit card I kept

On the morning of November 1st, with less than thirty-six hours remaining before the acid rain, I left the red-brick house to handle my largest logistics purchases.I drove to the Lyrdon Industrial Electronics Market on the outskirts of the city. Food was crucial, but power and tools were the lifeblood of long-term apocalyptic survival.I walked into a massive industrial supplier and met with the owner."I need fifteen heavy-duty solar generator units, ten high-capacity diesel generators, twenty portable power banks, and five thousand liters of refined diesel," I said, placing my corporate credit card on the counter. "I need it all packed in unmarked wooden crates and delivered to Guangzhou by this evening."The owner's eyes went wide. "Miss, that's a massive order! It'll cost nearly six hundred thousand yuan!""Process the card," I replied calmly.While the owner eagerly processed the transaction, his wife walked out from the back office holding a cute, chubby three-year-old girl wit

My rebirth wasn’t the genuinely terrifying factor here.The truly terrifying reality for them was that they didn't know the exact scope of my awakening. Because they had coordinated seamlessly to murder me in our past life, they operated under the arrogant assumption that I was a blank slate.I was the ultimate wild card sitting squarely in the middle of their well-laid plans.Inside the waiting car, silence hung heavy for a few long seconds after Simon delivered his analytical warning.“Abbott makes a valid point,” Jude chimed in quickly, eager to justify his compliance.My cell phone buzzed loudly in my hand. Glancing at the screen display, I saw Jude’s name flashing across it.Stay over? Of course, you can crash at my place, but I just finished a massive shopping run and haven’t made it back home yet.The exact moment the call came through asking if he could stay over, I instantly saw right through his transparent intentions. Jude was testing the waters, probing my current mental s

"Why? Do you have any idea how expensive my sports car is?" That was his brand-new sports car."Just let it go! That brat is always buying useless junk anyway," Daniel Hale huffed. He had even given Reid a beating a while back because of that car. The kid couldn’t even pass his driver’s test, yet he was already copying others and buying sports cars. It was enough to give him a heart attack."Are you sure you want to go out?" I unlocked my phone, and a shocking video popped up. In the downpour, people were fleeing frantically, their endless screams filling the streets. A closer look revealed they weren’t just trying to get out of the rain. Their screams were of agony, and their light-colored clothes were stained red. That red wasn’t just tinted rainwater—it was blood. Some people ran under the eaves, but the skin on their faces was already corroding. Clumps of hair fell out, exposing their scalps. They shrieked as they tore off their rain-soaked clothes, only to rip away their own fles