The Past

Li Mingyue was at her sister's home enjoying her weekend with Li Yuan and Little Bao when the apocalypse struck.

A scientist from Dangxi city was researching ways to acquire superhuman strength for the last few years. During his experiment, he injected a serum into a volunteer.

To his horror, the human turned into an undead nightmare instead of a superhuman. The newly turned low-level zombie killed the scientist immediately and started attacking the people in Dangxi city.

Before the authorities could control the situation, the zombies surrounded the entire city and eventually moved to the nearby cities.

The next day, the news of the catastrophe in Dangxi city of Xiushan province rapidly spread all over the country.

The government took immediate action and dispatched army squads to rescue the people in Xiushan province.

Xiushan is one of the southern provinces of the country. The plan was to use large buildings as shelters for civilians. To store food, weapons and other resources required for survival, they had to mobilize the forces in the east, west, north and central parts of the country. Moving the people to create a shelter in the south will be too risky.

The army squads had to guide the citizens to the newly established bases.

Yuping was one of the neighbouring cities of Dangxi in Xiushan province.

Li Mingyue and Li Yuan were relieved once they saw the news and waited for the troops. Unfortunately, Yuping was already invaded by zombies and the squad only managed to save some fortunate residents.

Li Mingyue, her sister and her nephew were not included in those fortunate people.

Li Yuan and her neighbours did not want to give up and formed a group to leave Yuping city and then decided to find the army squads.

The group of 30 people including Li Mingyue, Li Yuan and Little Bao used their vehicles.

Mingyue did not understand why the squads did not come to save them. The army squads had guns and they could easily deal with the walking dead.

Mingyue later realised that it would be impossible for only one army squad to kill the mob of zombies spread around the city.

It was the first time for Mingyue to see Li Yuan's skills in driving, running over the freaky corpses and narrowly escaping the mob of zombies.

She had a newfound respect for her sister and tightly hugged Little Bao on their shaky journey. They managed to leave the city in a few hours. Few members of their crew were missing.

They could not find the army troops even after passing many cities. The group decided to leave Xiushan province.

They stopped at a gas station to fill their tanks and collect the fuel. They also made a stop at a convenience store to collect food. It usually took around a day to cross Xiushan province.

The group took two breaks and more than halfway through their journey of about forty-eight hours, they could not use their vehicles due to lack of fuel. They decided to walk and with fewer zombies around, they did not think it would be a problem, right? Well, they were wrong.

Finally, after ten days, the group left with only eleven members managed to escape Xiushan province. The group then split and went their separate ways.

Li Mingyue, Li Yuan and Little Bao were now on their own.

Search for food, fight zombies, hide in a safe area, eat and sleep. This became their daily routine.

A month later, the low-level zombies spread all over the country. That's when things started to change.

Humans were gifted with superpowers. Li Mingyue was gifted with the power of light while Li Yuan acquired the power of fire. With this new added benefit, their days became less difficult and two months passed.

When they met a few survivors, they found out about the established shelters in the country.

The country had five bases in major cities. Longyan base and Yangjie base in the north, Zhushan base in the east, Hetian base in the west and Chenyang base in the centre.

Chenyang base was the nearest base to them and Li Yuan and Mingyue decided to go to Chenyang base.

At the same time, Low-level zombies also acquired new powers and evolved into first level zombies.

Months passed. Li Yuan had a breakthrough from low-grade to mid-grade. Mingyue, a low-grade light ability user, was now a decent fighter. Her skills in fighting with a dagger improved. Her healing ability was mainly useful to Li Yuan and Little Bao.

During their days of survival, they often came across mostly two or three first-level zombies or a mob of low-level zombies. It was indeed a tough fight with the added concern of protecting Little Bao for the two sisters. They managed to get out of these predicaments with less severe injuries.

Little Bao was a bright kid before the apocalypse. In the first few weeks, he was scared and confused. He did not know why his dad did not come.

After a few months, he understood that his mother and aunt had to fight those scary creatures to survive.

He decided to be a good boy and not ask for food when he was hungry. He often tried to cheer them up with his cutesy charms.

Li Yuan often wondered whether her husband, Zhang Wujin was safe.

Before the doomsday, Zhang Wujin was already on a business trip outside the country. She tried calling him but could not reach him on the phone.

Li Yuan hoped that she could meet him someday. Her only wish was for her family to be complete again.

Ten months into the apocalypse, the trio were attacked by a group of first-level zombies. Li Yuan sacrificed herself to protect Mingyue and Little Bao.