Chapter 2 - The End of The World

Author: He Feng Yan

Translator: HeXie

Editor: Lkjfsday1, EPM

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[…the virus has been removed.]

[Environmental scanning finished. The current world has been completely infected with D virus. D virus will continue to evolve for 1 year and 6 months. Opening Doomsday Mercenary Mode; host's survival rate is less than 1%.]

[Warning, there are a large number of infected people approaching… 1500 meters ahead.]

[Converting beginner rewards, proceeding to wake up the host.]

[Your sister!]Wu Ye woke up with a jolt of electricity, back aching, almost as if he had been run over by a big truck several, no, dozens of times. Every fibre of his being felt sore. Slowly, he opened his eyes and found himself lying on the ground. The sky was misty and gloomy, shrouded in a thick haze that not even the sharpest, brightest or thinnest of the rays of sunshine could pierce through.

Where is this?

Wu Ye had just woken up and he was still confused. As he struggled to sit up, his hand seemed to touch something cold and sticky. He looked at it closely and exclaimed, "–Oh!" What his hand touched was a badly rotten arm. His hands was smeared with dead paste and the back of his hand also itched. He saw a few fat maggots crawling on top of his hand and a horrible stench hit his face.

"Shit, what–!" Wu Ye jumped away, retching and shook his hand as hard as he could, trying to throw them off, not wanting to deal with the nauseating mess. "This, what is this all about?" Wu Ye's eyes redden with obvious fear. He was a timid guy since he was a child. Only when he accompanied Wu Li to watch horror movies and played some horror games, did he develop enough courage to come out in the middle of the night alone.

Now though, when this happened, he realized that he was not brave at all; in fact, he was scared to death. He looked into the distance in horror and found that he was in a desolate wilderness covered in withered yellow grass. Amid the grass, lay a few mutilated bodies covered with maggots. Aside from that, he also saw a lot of bones; he could not tell if they belonged to animals or humans. Farther away, there were a few ramshackle houses that looked like farmhouses, and there were also some rusted cars parked on the country lanes.

Wu Ye's heart was beating frantically. It was hard to take in this view. "Where on earth is this place?" Wu Ye was not dull enough not to notice that there was something wrong. This place didn't look like China– China was a society ruled by law. Who would dare to throw corpses covered with maggots out in the open so arrogantly, and not get noticed?

[A large amount of infected people are approaching from the front. Host, please prepare to battle or escape as soon as possible!]

"Who, who's talking?" Wu Ye looked around and found that no one was around him. He listened attentively and found that there seemed to be some sound coming in the distance.

[This is last free warning for beginners: There are a large amount of infected people approaching, host, please prepare for battle or escape as soon as possible!]

Did the voice come from my body?

Wu Ye looked down at himself. He wore a light grey T-shirt, black casual pants, a cool limited edition sneakers, and his cell phone already nowhere to be found in his pockets. So, where did the voice come from?

What did it even mean by beginners? What was the warning? What did infected people mean, host…the host?!

There was a lingering rancid smell around him, his sticky hands, and the pain that came from all over his body, were telling Wu Ye that he was not dreaming.

Did he transmigrate to another world?

What was with 'host'? Was it the currently popular novel system?

Wu Ye has loved internet novels for ten years already, he was not unfamiliar with the current situation–just because he had read similar novels– but for god's sake, why did such unscientific things happen to him? His greatest dream is to live a happy life and be free rice worm! Even if he had to transmigrate, couldn't he transmigrate to somewhere similar to modern world or cultivation world? Why did he have to transmigrate to an apocalypse world?

Shit, there's a zombies ahead! Living corpses! A horde of zombies!

Wu Ye swore that those zombies are absolutely one thousand times more stimulating than the 3D zombies he saw in World War Zombies at the cinema!

Run! Don't get paralyzed with fear, RUN FASTER!

At this time, there was another mechanical electronic sound in his ear:[Mandatory Mission: Escape from the Zombies. Accepted by default.]

Wu Ye did not pay attention to what the voice was saying at all. He only rushed desperately away from the zombies. His legs, stimulated by adrenaline, completely surpassed human limits.

The zombies that probably didn't have adrenaline anymore, but still when they smelled food, they'd became one hundred times more powerful than someone who's taking X's medicine.

Death was on Wu Ye's heels as he heard the roar of the zombies behind getting closer and closer along with their particular stench becoming stronger. He had one thought in mind. He had to run, he absolutely could not fall and be surrounded by zombies.

In desperate situations, the more fearful a person is, their mind would either became sluggish or clear. Wu Ye finally knew that he belonged to the latter.

Looking at the zombies at the back, Wu Ye finally saw a glimmer of life. There was a farmhouse with small yard on the hillside ahead! There was also a large iron door that was half-open!

Wu Ye took a deep breath and rushed desperately towards the farmhouse.

However, there was someone behind him who rushed faster than him.

Yes, it is a human.

Wu Ye chased the man's back and ran as fast as he could. Obviously, the man's target was the same farmhouse. Right now, the situation is urgent, and Wu Ye couldn't think too much. He only know that he must keep up with the man. He must not let that man shut him out, otherwise, he would die.

Wu Ye almost gave up the strength to breath, still a few steps behind the man. Behind him, the zombies were only ten meters away, and he could almost them biting his throat any moment now.

Finally, the man rushed into the farmhouse. He turned around and started to close the door. Wu Ye wanted to rush in but at the last moment, he tripped over a stone under his feet and fell heavily on the ground.

It's over.

Wu Ye closed his eyes in despair.

Someone tugged his clothes, and a cold voice said to him, "Hurry up, do you want to die?"

Of course, Wu Ye didn't want to die. With the help of the man, he got up quickly and rushed into the yard. However, the fall just now had delayed him, and the zombies had flocked to him. Wu Ye felt his neck go cold, and the smell of zombies went straight to his mouth and nose. At that moment, he heard a sigh and saw that the man was actually blocking the zombies mouth with his own arm, shocking him.

In the moment of life and death, Wu Ye's potential burst through, he picked up the hoe that fell in front of him, turned around and slammed it on the head of a male zombie. The Zombie's head was smashed but it did not fall, only stunned as his mouth loosened and turned.

Wu Ye, with the man at the end of his strength in one hand and a hoe in the other, rushed into the small yard and fastened the large iron bolt behind the door. The zombies roared and hit the iron door frantically. Even if the door looked thick, but if the zombies kept hitting it like that, it would only be a matter of time before it gave in.

What should I do?

Before Wu Ye could find a way out of this tense situation, half of a female zombie unexpectedly crawled out of the house. Yes, it was only half of her body. The clothes that she had worn before she died had already broken to its last threads. Her intestines are exposed to the air and dragged along with what was left of her hair, spread messily behind her. Her face had been gnawed beyond recognition, with half of her gums exposed, she roared with excitement as she crawled towards Wu Ye.

Wu Ye had almost never fought with anyone in his life except for the dead bodies he had just smashed. He had never killed a chicken, let alone a man. Even if the zombies are no longer alive, they were once living humans. Even if their current appearance was like that of a ghost, that was still human face. Wu Ye's hand shook violently once that life and death moment passed.

Qin Wuhua didn't expect to save such a soft guy before he died. The outbreak of D virus had lasted for more than a year, and yet there were still fools who couldn't kill the zombies. He really did not know how this man survived, but seeing as he's dying anyway, what did it matter to him if this man could survive or not?

Wu Ye suddenly heard a bang and turned his head to see that the man who has just saved his life was lying on the ground. Only then did he discover that besides the injury the man got from saving him, there were still many other wounds on his body, some of which has already turned black with pus and blood.

Wu Ye's heart clenched. He gritted his teeth and stopped hesitating. He steadied the hoe in his hand and went to the dead woman before he smashed her head hard. He smashed it more than ten times until the dead woman's did not move anymore, not only to ensure his survival but also to vent. Wu Ye's eyelids hung over his eyes as he gasped for more air.

"Hey, are you alright?" Wu Ye went to Qin Wuhua and tried to help him up. Qin Wuhua shook his head gently and pushed Wu Ye's hand away.

This man is his life-saving benefactor, and Wu Ye still has some conscience with him. He wouldn't leave him alone if he could help it. Therefore, he ask, "You're badly hurt. Do you have a vaccine?" Viral vaccines are a very important item in 'Resident Evil'.

Qin Wuhua who has always been cold hearted, didn't expect to meet such a funny fellow before he died. Vaccine? If he had that thing, would he still be chased around by the zombies?

"Hey, don't close your eyes, you have to talk." Wu Ye is really anxious, not only because the man in front of him is his lifesaver, but also because he knows that he could not survive in this world of zombies alone. He didn't have food, weapons, or survival equipment, and the most deadly thing was that he did not even know where east and west are. Where could he run to?

If it's playing online games, there's no need to care for fallen NPCs. There were always replacements from the little geeks who are happy to play without even asking. Besides, in cyber games, losing their lives meant nothing as they could always be resurrected indefinitely. Now though, if the group of zombies outside rushed in, he estimated that he would not even have the chance to become a zombie. He would be eaten until nothing was left.

Qin Wuhua felt that his body was getting colder and his consciousness was fading away. He thought that it was not easy to see a person who sincerely does not want to die at the end of his life. From the age of sixteen, he had paid for the Li family, giving them the necessities that they needed for twelve years. In the end, he was abandoned as a waste. He was going to die, only, it was a pity that he did not know the state of the brothers who accompanied him in life and death. He did not know how many of them would survive after this time, but they were harmed by their own choice.

The things I owe to my brothers, I'll pay them back in the afterlife, so now let's help this person one last time, "…Kill me and throw me out. Go east. There's a base…" Qin Wuhua's voice grew faint, and before he could finish speaking, he had already fallen unconscious and fell to the ground