Chapter One: The Apocalypse

The Scarlet Plague spread, and the world collapsed. Two years later, Lin Zhou lived alone in a wooden cabin deep in the mountains, struggling to survive in the brutal apocalypse alongside zombies and mutated beasts. He thought he was the last survivor, until one day, while searching the ruins for supplies, he heard a human voice he had not heard in ages: “Don't shoot! I'm human.” From then on, a crack quietly opened in his lonely world, and another kind of hope slowly seeped in. But he did not yet know that behind this hope lay a deeper truth and an even greater danger.