The old world is gone, I am the fire. Burn away the darkness and rebuild the universe.
On July 1, 2025, the "Great Purification" came. Zombies swept the world, and human civilization collapsed overnight.
Zhang Yi, an ordinary person who was betrayed and died after struggling in the apocalypse for seven years, was reborn and returned to the day before the disaster struck. This time, he no longer trusts anyone - he hoards supplies, seizes grain depots, and survives alone.
But fate did not give him the chance to walk alone.
When the first group of survivors knelt in front of him, when the system prompted "The fire of civilization has been activated", and when he had to raise weapons again and again to protect others, Zhang Yi found that he was being pushed to a position he had never imagined - not a hero, not a leader, but a god.
Some people died for him, some were crazy for him. A word he never said was enshrined as a holy word, and an identity he didn't want was carved into everyone's bones.
"The old world is gone, I am the fire, I use blood as fuel, and I take death as glory."
When the fanatical believers shouted this slogan and rushed towards the corpse tide, and when the entire base knelt down and shouted "The fire is immortal", Zhang Yi finally understood——
In the apocalypse, the most terrifying thing is not zombies or hunger, but the human heart's hunger for hope.
And he is the chosen one.
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