Chen Du, 34, former manager of a suburban farmers' market.
He's not a scientist or a soldier, and he has no special skills. He's just an ordinary man who spent ten years working at a market in a small county town. What he's good at is settling disputes between vendors, spotting water-injected pork, and calculating stall rent.
When the apocalypse struck, he was unloading goods at the market's back entrance.
Personality: Practical, cautious, principled but not self-righteous, and good at observing supply and demand on a small scale.
His greatest strength: He has an almost instinctive sense for how goods circulate. In the old world, he knew which village sold the cheapest tomatoes. In the new world, he can tell at a glance which ruin might hold something survivors need most.
[No Zombies] [No System] [No Golden Finger]
A fungus later dubbed Rust Disease infects 90% of the world's grain crops in just three months. Wheat, rice, corn: every staple humanity relies on withers before it can head, its stalks covered in rust-colored markings.
The food supply chain collapses.
Cities lose their supplies in three days, descend into chaos in a week, and become steel tombs a month later.
