Jang Ji-woo wakes up from a nightmare. Fragments of pain still stabbed hard deep into his brain.

Zhang Zhiyu was reluctant to get up, his body sank deep into the bed, but the futon didn't seem to be as soft as before. It's hard to describe, like the skin of a giant octopus. The hot and humid cicada silk was so dry that it was unbearable to wrap around his body, like the tentacles of an octopus, and he began to feel suffocated.

But it's much better than a dream.

"Octopus." Zhang Zhiyu tried to lift his sore arm, and the muscles on his arm twitched violently. The prolonged lack of blood supply and the recirculation of blood brought him severe pain.

"At least the real octopus was there when I was born." Zhang Zhiyu stabilized his trembling hands, covered his cheeks, and slowly rubbed them, trying to awaken his numb nerves. He felt as if something important was missing from the house.

But what is that?

Octopus.

Waterseeds.

"Butler system." The artificial intelligence did not carry out the service in time, and there was only a faint ring of light blue light chains in the small closed container, and the crackling sound of static electricity quietly exploded.

The circular picture screen finally appeared directly in front of Zhang Zhiyu, between the coffin-like bed cover and his body. The light chain spreads outward, and the comfortable pale blue light condenses into a blue picture screen, which shines in the darkness.

The image of the nightmare suddenly appeared in front of me, and my brain immediately throbbed. He could even smell the foul smell in his nasal trachea.

Waterseeds.

Octopus.

Zhang Zhiyu began to wonder why the word "octopus" kept flashing in his mind, and why he compared expensive high-tech luxury goods to a coffin for the first time. He threw the futon that wrapped around him away, and with a piercing tearing sound, the originally tough man-made material was easily torn, leaving long strips of hollow holes in the supple surface.

The computer didn't make any sound, the blue light emitted by the picture screen flashed back and forth, and the layers of the shortcut screen kept moving, sometimes overlapping, sometimes returning to the original position.

"Turn on!" Zhang Zhiyu didn't want to do it himself, he roared and commanded the system, and then his throat made the first protest, and his tonsils twitched violently as the tearing pain came from his vocal cords.

The system was running at a terrible slow, and began to emit a noisy electronic noise, and soon, a large white progress bar covered the entire projection, and the progress was stuck at a damn zero.

Zhang Zhiyu* sighed and cleared his throat, the feeling of hangover still surrounding him. Zhang Zhiyu was worried, raised his sore arm, passed through the picture screen, and fumbled to grasp the metal handrail.

Zhang Zhiyu pressed the air into his aching lungs with all his strength, and the dead force slammed outward. The machine made a loud noise, opened an insignificant point, and even the light from the outside world could not penetrate it, and then it jammed, and actually scraped out several sparks. The system replaces the soft female voice with an ear-scraping noise, repeating four Chinese characters: inoperable.

"Fuck you. Get lost! Zhang Zhiyu was furious and did not think deeply about the cause of the system damage. Streams of blood rushed through his veins.

Zhang Zhiyu put on the imaging eyes and kicked the stuck metal bed cover with all his might. With a maddening noise, the bed cover finally disintegrated from the bed case, and metal shards flew everywhere with the impact of bullets, decorating the furnishings of Zhang Zhiyu's bedroom with more holes. The progress bar on the display board also rose to 100 percent and disappeared.

"I'm sorry, the system is damaged, some operations cannot be carried out, and you are inconvenienced, please understand." The voice of the system's artificial intelligence reverted to a gentle female voice, but it was very faint and still murmuring.

"Ugh." Zhang Zhiyu was very curious about why his strength suddenly rose so much. He pushed the lid that was still covering the case, and it took all his might to push it down.

Zhang Zhiyu stood up. The picture screen also moves to the center of the room and changes to the appropriate size.

Zhang Zhiyu discovered the reason why the bed cover could not be opened, the skylight in the center of the ceiling had been shattered, and a large piece of crystal clear glass smashed on the bed cover. In the face of that kind of extremely dense glass, it is already a miracle that the bed cover did not dent and crush Zhang Zhiyu. He groped his head.

Now it's reduced to pieces of varying sizes on the floor.

"Clothes." Zhang Zhiyu said viciously to the artificial intelligence, saying that the robot did not do the job it should do.

What ruined the house and the system?

The image on the CRT distorted with his words and kept shaking, and the system repeated again with a pitch-shifted voice, "The system is broken. Zhang Zhiyu shouted helplessly, "Withdraw the order." ”

Zhang Zhiyu carefully avoided the crystal carpet-like broken glass, and he accidentally saw the pistol in the glass cover of the wardrobe and frowned.

Guns and ammunition are not difficult to get by in China, and the government allows people outside the city to own weapons for self-defense, provided they have property to buy. After all, because of World War III, humanity will desperately leave the scorched earth full of radiation and dust storms in order to enter environmentally modified cities. And with the right mind, weapons can be obtained in the city at a low price.

Only the elite can afford the high prices in the new area.

Zhang Zhiyu's bedroom only put a pistol, a small number of ordinary bullets and a **. Deeply disturbed, he verified his identity and took out his pistol.

After all, there are loyal employees.

The loyalty of most employees skyrockets as money rises.

"Okay, tell me, what's left in the system?" Zhang Zhiyu turned his head to face the video screen, "List the charts." ”

After a few seconds of delay, the system projected a larger picture screen in front of Zhang Zhiyu's eyes. The display is divided into several small compartments, most of which are black, and the rest glow blue, adding up to more than 30 programs.

"The unverified person is approaching the bedroom." The computer sounds an alarm. When Zhang Zhiyu found that the defense system was all black, he couldn't help but touch the pistol.

"Show his image." Zhang Zhiyu pulled out his pistol, locked the door, and watched the progress bar move forward slowly.

"What's going on today?" He muttered to himself, looking at the sky, which was covered with a thin layer of gray clouds, which did not correspond to the blue sky that the villa had forcibly simulated.

The progress bar is ready, Zhang Zhiyu didn't have time to see what the bottom was, the dense bullets roared and pounced on the door, and the metal door made a huge vibration, and it could be seen that it couldn't last long. Zhang Zhiyu hid behind the bed, used as a cover, and to see what it was, he saw a deformed dinosaur-like human wearing a tattered security uniform and holding an ordinary gun was breaking down Zhang Zhiyu's door, saying that it was a human, but it was better to be a humanoid lizard.

"Damn, that gun has a fingerprint lock." Zhang Zhiyu muttered to himself and loudly ordered the computer to take out the electromagnetic bomb*. It's a progress bar again.

"! ! Zhang Zhiyu yelled, "It's just annoying me at this time!" He thought as he slammed his fist into the bed, smashing out several cracks. He jumped to his feet, jumped over the bed with ease, ran to the closet, and three bullets shattered the shield of the electromagnetic bomb*, and despite the glass shards, grabbed it* and burrowed into the closet. He closed the door, turned off the sensor light in the closet, and hid behind the drawer, which was also the storage cabinet for the pistol. Outside the door, the lizard seemed to hesitate when it heard the fire. It stopped firing for a moment, and a few seconds later kicked the door apart. After that it was all silence. Zhang Zhiyu held a gun and squatted in the closet with an expressionless face.

The octopus is one of the most unconventional creatures on the planet.

Suddenly, the gun opened fire again, and the bullet scorched the air with a hissing roar, and it hit the target, exploding, making a shattering sound. In an instant, Zhang Zhiyu felt that the bullet had penetrated the cabinet door, shot into his body, and exploded according to the design, leaving his own bones gone. When the roar of the bullets stopped, he realized that it was just a fantasy.

The octopus has a unique body structure, yet it has a long history on Earth. As long as there is a gap, the octopus can get out of it. Many octopuses can shrink into objects that are many times smaller than their size.

The lizard outside the door roared, a hoarse, tearing voice that made his eardrums ache. Zhang Zhiyu gently lowered the *, looked at the golden bullet that glowed in the middle gap, and gently put it back. "Waiting is the most painful." His father said such a sentence before his tragic death full of mystery, which is one of the words he said in Zhang Zhiyu's memory.

Octopuses have surprisingly high IQs, yet they are always at the bottom of the food chain.

The lizard outside kept picking up pieces of the object, and after a few seconds, it smashed it back with a roar. Zhang Zhiyu became impatient, put down his arm to keep aiming, and at the same time made a sound when he touched the ground.

Some scholars have argued that octopuses do not belong to the earth and did not evolve naturally.

Outside, the lizard gasped, and its heavy steps could be heard. Zhang Zhiyu hurriedly lay down, and a few seconds later, the bullet shattered the already fragile cabinet door. The lizard poked its head to find its target, and Zhang Zhiyu could see its middle finger-long fangs and scale-covered skin, and could feel its sultry smell full of rancid smell.

Octopuses belong to another world.

Zhang Zhiyu pulled the trigger without thinking.

But that's just a strange thing after all.

* Directly shattered the lizardman's hard skull, brown and yellow viscous blood splashed Zhang Zhi's body, a sharp tooth connected to his shirt scratched his skin, the lizardman's body instinctively fell backwards, his fingers pulled the trigger, and the bullets shot to the ceiling. Zhang Zhiyu was surprised to find that the head with a green lizard's eye attached to the ground was wriggling, and that eye was staring at him. Zhang Zhiyu smashed that eye with one punch, which was very sharp.

Waterpes is still from Earth.

There was a loud bang behind him, and Zhang Zhiyu turned around sharply and grabbed it, shooting the remaining body of the lizardman. Jang kept shooting until the bullets ran out and the lizardman turned into a pile of pieces of meat.

"What a play!" Zhang Zhiyu muttered, and immediately realized that he should be armed. He slipped the pistol into his trouser pocket, grabbed the lizard guard's rifle, unlocked it with his employer, and quickly loaded it in.

"Move." Zhang Zhiyu commanded the system without raising his head. The picture screen gradually faded and disappeared, and then a light screen appeared in front of Zhang Zhiyu.

"Damn it, damn earthquakes, damn program breaks, what the fucking mutations mean!" Zhang Zhiyu said scoldingly.

"There was no earthquake here, and last night at 24 o'clock sharp, a * hit here. The data is analyzed as an attack with little actual lethality. The program thought that Zhang Zhiyu was talking to himself and responded.

"Is this the only area?" Zhang Zhiyu asked casually.

"The external infrared devices were all damaged and could not collect data." The program replied, changing its tone at the last few words, which was creepy.

"Interior camera." Zhang Zhiyu gave the order.

Zhang Zhiyu soon heard the sound of thumping footsteps, which did not look like a human one. He stopped loading his bullets, walked around the corner of the door, and waited quietly.

Another lizard in a security uniform rushed in, but it didn't shoot immediately, so Zhang Zhiyu shot it three times in the side of the head, and then quickly got behind the lizard that was in pain and lost half of its head, grabbed it, and saved it from falling. The third lizard shoots immediately, and the second lizard acts as a meat shield. Zhang Zhiyu fired at full power, shot for more than 10 seconds, and then drilled out from behind the lizardman. The two lizards in front of him were almost pulp. Zhang Zhiyu wiped the blood of the lizard that was about to drip into his eyes and sighed.

More than 20 minutes later, the neatly dressed Zhang Zhiyu walked to the street of the villa area with three rifles full of bullets.

The neighborhood was in shambles, full of corpses unrecognizable by lizards, buildings that were once luxurious but now dilapidated, expensive but charred luxuries...... Occasionally, multiple lizards can be seen fighting each other. Zhang Zhiyu smoked a cigar and walked down the street expressionlessly. "If these lizardmen used to be human, it's more reliable to call them zombies." Zhang Zhiyu thought, "Zombies are not rotting and moving corpses, they are a concept. “

Zhang Zhiyu walked in the bleak world, along the streets, looking at the withered trees, at the corpses of animals, at the transformed plants that had turned to ashes. They didn't mutate, they all died.

Where Zhang Zhiyu is going to go and what he is going to do, he himself doesn't know, he just goes, walking in the last days.