A Bone-Cleaving Knife from the Start

An electromagnetic solar storm sent human emotions into chaos, turning people into flesh-eating zombies.

Two-thirds of the world’s population mutated. But what was going on with the remaining third?

Bai Zhi started out with a cleaver, taking down one little zombie with every swing. The little zombies were fragile, so one chop was enough. Mutated creatures had hard shells, but that was fine: they could take two chops.

(No special powers, no saintly heroine, no angst.)