[Zombie Apocalypse] + [Wasteland World] + [No Saintly Protagonist] + [Single Protagonist] + [Swordsmanship] + [No System] + [Road Novel] + [Strategic Mind Games]
A special note: This novel has a slow pace and a lot of descriptive passages. At its heart, it is a road novel about how ordinary people survive in a world like this.
Let me stress again: the pace really is slow. I want to tell the dark truth behind this disaster from multiple perspectives, like a movie. So the pacing might not suit your taste, but I promise the novel will give you an experience that feels almost real.
A solemn disclaimer: The world and setting of this work are entirely fictional and do not refer to anything in reality.
This is a world ravaged by a virus.
In 2025, solar radiation caused global temperatures to rise, mutating plants and producing toxic spores. Nearly ninety percent of the world's population became infected with this new virus. It robs people of their reason, heightens their hearing, drastically weakens their sight, and makes them attack any object or creature that makes a sound indiscriminately. They also become extremely sensitive to temperature. Experts named them “zombies.” Scientific studies and practical investigations have proven that zombies cannot survive in extremely cold regions.
To survive, people around the world are forced to leave the cities and head for the only safe place on Earth: Canada, a country perpetually frozen and known as the “Land of Extreme Cold.”
Zhang Mu, a biology master's graduate who teaches swordsmanship at a martial arts school, is forced to take up the weapon he knows best and carry on the will of the one he loves. Amid a tangled web of competing factions, he makes his way toward the safe zone, uncovering the dark truth behind the outbreak as he goes.
