Though this body was slender, it was very young, and its skin was pale white, like a blank sheet of paper due to a lack of sunlight.
Tong Sui looked down at his palms.
He could still feel the remaining warmth and firmness on them.
Just then, a strange noise suddenly echoed from outside the silent room.
It sounded like heavy footsteps dragging along the floor, accompanied by a bizarre “hiss-hiss” sound.
The footsteps stopped at the doorway of the room.
Tong Sui held his breath, his gaze fixed on the door, which was barricaded by heavy objects, seemingly to prevent whatever was outside from entering.
“Bang bang!!”
The door shook violently from being slammed several times.
A rickety shelf on a cabinet that was propping against the door teetered dangerously, and just as it was about to fall, Tong Sui reached out and caught it.
He pressed against the door.
The entity outside continued to persistently batter it.
He wondered how many more times the fragile wooden door could withstand such a violent assault.
The system chimed in: [Do you wish to receive information from this world?]
“Receive.”
The system responded: [Starting transmission of information from this world.]
[This is a rebirth revenge novel set in a post-apocalyptic world.
After the apocalypse, a group of people turned into wandering zombies. One bite or scratch could infect others, and plants and animals mutated to varying degrees.
In contrast, a small group of survivors evolved into superpowered beings after experiencing high fevers, each possessing different elemental roots.
These survivors formed safe zones and struggled to survive in the midst of the apocalypse.]
[The protagonist, after suffering a tragic death, is reborn into the day before the apocalypse with spatial powers, collecting materials in abundance.
Once the apocalypse arrives, he utilizes his past life experiences to slay zombies, absorbing their crystal cores to quickly level up. He chooses the largest safety zone in North China.
As a result, he rapidly levels up from anonymity to becoming the captain of a team, establishing his foothold and attracting the head of the safety zone, who is also the protagonist’s partner.
After falling in love, they navigate through the apocalypse together until a cure for the zombies is developed, allowing them to live happily ever after.]
[The current antagonist, Jiang Hua, is a ruthless mercenary.
Hired a year before the apocalypse, he came from overseas to protect the protagonist, becoming the strongest combatant with lightning elemental powers when the apocalypse began.
During a subsequent zombie tide, he got infected but retained part of his consciousness, becoming the first sentient zombie.
His emergence nearly wiped out all human safe zones.
Ultimately, he was captured by researchers in a base, undergoing countless experiments until a cure was finally developed.]
[Your identity is that of a self-promoting researcher.
As an ordinary person without powers, you are timid and indulgent, seeking to improve your status at the base by leveraging your parents’ academic status, sneaking into a small safety base’s laboratory.
However, two months after the apocalypse, you were discovered to be incompetent and expelled from the base.]
[Your task is still to save this antagonist.]
A photograph appeared in the void.
Tong Sui’s eyes brightened; the zombies outside were still pounding on the door, and he suppressed himself to remain silent.
The system murmured: [……]
If the first occurrence was a coincidence, the second could definitely not be explained as such.
It sought guidance from above.
The response received was that everything in this world was normal.
As a base-level program, the system noted that its previous hosts had never succeeded in any world, so it could only regard this phenomenon as usual.
The man in the photo had pronounced cheekbones, and his narrow, cold eyes did not resemble an ordinary Chinese person completely. His hair was a light ash-brown, and his eyes were a blue like crystal.
His features evoked both Western sharpness and Eastern softness.
Even with these minute differences, Tong Sui felt he knew this person intimately.
However, the incessant noises at the door gave him little time to recall the past.
He had to distract whatever was outside first.
As Tong Sui absorbed the world’s information, he also gained most of the original owner’s memories.
Zombies had poorer eyesight compared to their hearing.
He spotted an iron rod in the corner of the storage room and slowly moved towards it.
When the zombie broke through the door, the dark environment of the room made him pause, and it continued to produce that discomforting “hiss-hiss” sound.
Tong Sui lifted the iron rod behind it and struck it hard on the head.
With a squelch, the curved end of the rod embedded itself into its brain, making a thick, wet sound.
Tong Sui felt his hair stand on end.
Though mutated zombies could no longer be truly called human, they were once living people, retaining human-like shapes.
The system couldn’t help but comment: [This world is just too disgusting.]
Holding the iron rod, Tong Sui stirred it in the zombie’s brain, and the disturbing sound resonated eerily in the silence.
A strong stench of decay made him feel nauseous.
Suddenly, the iron rod hit something hard.
He pried it out.
A stained crystal core faintly glimmered in the darkness. Such a grotesque thing had birthed such a beautiful crystal.
Tong Sui found a piece of cloth to wrap the crystal core in.
He washed it under water, rinsing off the filth.
The translucent crystal was only the size of a fingernail.
This was the most basic crystal core and one of the currencies after the apocalypse.
Superpowered beings could absorb crystal cores to enhance their abilities.
Tong Sui tried it out.
The crystal core in his palm showed no change.
He was currently just an ordinary person without powers, already expelled from the base upon which he relied for survival.
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