I call that day: the beginning of the end times.

Although I have fantasized about it countless times in my mind in the past, when this moment really comes suddenly, I can only run away like ordinary people......

No one knows exactly how this happened in the first place, but some people have reportedly started to experience amnesia, followed by high adrenaline, a sharp rise in body temperature, and confusion. Scientists were helpless, unable to find an effective treatment, and a large number of infected people began to die......

After that, the infection spreads rapidly. The plague soon swept across the country, plunging the whole of China into chaos. The government and scientists tried to bring the plague under control, but failed, and the infected who had died before began to resurrect in large numbers, as if they had become monsters with only appetite, yes, like Resident Evil. Now, survival is a top priority.

---------------- Zhou Hong (Dark Age 0001-09-13)

Thursday, September 13, 2020 was cloudy and rainy

"Whew~ It's so boring~ Are you having some fun...... Just come to a Lori soft sister and the royal sister temptation what kind of stimulation...... If it goes on like this every day, the baby is going crazy......"

This is a large underground shopping mall, and at this time, in one of the shops in the mall, a second-class young man with otaku attributes was lying on the cash register counter and complaining.

The young man's name is Zhou Hong, and he says that he is an otaku, but in fact, his communication skills are not bad, and he is said to be a secondary two...... All right...... People around him commented: He is indeed quite secondary...... As one of the merchants in this underground shopping mall, Zhou Hong operates some bizarre gadgets and small objects that are popular among young people nowadays. Now he is complaining about the cold business and the usual dull life.

"Forget it, Hongshao, today is not a Saturday and Sunday, students have to go to class, adults have to go to work, plus the current typhoon weather, it is windy and rainy outside, it is good to have two or three such kittens in our mall this morning, be content."

A middle-aged man wearing a shopping mall security uniform said after hearing Zhou Hong's complaint when he passed by Zhou Hong's bunk.

"Is it windy and rainy...... Alas......" Zhou Hong muttered listlessly after hearing the middle-aged man's words, in this underground shopping mall, in fact, he didn't know if it was windy and rainy outside now or that the wind and rain had stopped, but after looking at the raindrops on the middle-aged man's clothes, the rain outside seemed to be not small.

"By the way, if you want to open the market today, I can help you with this first business, as long as that dagger ......" The middle-aged man who just wanted to go far stopped and looked at Zhou Hong with a smile and said.

"Go, go, don't bother me, you don't have to think about the dagger anymore." Zhou Hong glanced at the middle-aged man angrily and said.

The middle-aged man's name is Li Tie, and he has been working as a security guard here as soon as the underground shopping mall opens, and he has a good relationship with Zhou Hong, and he often goes out with Zhou Hong to find a food stall to drink two drinks when he has time after work. In his own words: it is called smooth.

At the same time, he is also a senior cold weapon enthusiast, and his home has a collection of more than 1,000 cold weapons of different eras, large or small. Since he saw the jet-black dagger that Zhou Hong called the treasure of the town store in Zhou Hong's stall half a year ago, he has never forgotten it, and as long as he meets Zhou Hong in the past six months, he will ask a few words if the dagger is for sale? Every time, it will only get Zhou Hong's eyes.

Speaking of which, the dagger was also obtained by Zhou Hong accidentally.

That evening, as a middle school boy with otaku attributes, Zhou Honggang bought a new anime peripheral magazine and walked home in a good mood humming an unknown song, passing by a park flower garden, and the corner of his eye suddenly swept to the ground among the flowers, and there was a half-shaped "tree root" inserted in the flower...... That's right, at that time, Zhou Hong just thought it was a tree root.

Because the exposed half of the part is a tree root, the only thing that made Zhou Hong notice this "root" is that although the exposed part is jet black, there is still a faint layer of silver light wrapped on it, if it was not too late at that time, I am afraid Zhou Hong would not have seen the silver light on it so obviously.

With the unique intuition of the patients with secondary two diseases, Zhou Hong decided that he had encountered some treasure: unique shape + luminous = treasure (lamp) object (bubble)! Then, Zhou Hong walked over without thinking about it, pulled one hand on the exposed half of the "root", and tried to uproot it, with Zhou Hong's continuous efforts, the "root" was pulled up little by little, and then, a black dagger with a faint silver light appeared in front of Zhou Hong's eyes.

"Hey, hey, hey! What a treasure! With a grin, Zhou Hong's weird laughter came out. After looking around at the nobody, he returned his gaze to the dagger...... The shape of the dagger is very unique, the blade part is fine, the shape is still in the normal range, but the color is black, and then look down, to the grip of the dagger, it is completely like two black old tree roots coiled together, and you can even see some small roots on it.

"Wood...... Root whiskers ......" Zhou Hong muttered as he stared at the dagger grip part...... Moments later...... Tranquil evening ...... "For the tribe!" Roar! "Okay...... A senior secondary school patient has become ill again......

In short, this dagger with a unique black shape was regarded by Zhou Hong as the treasure of the town store and placed in front of his stall every day, which is also fortunate that the silver light on the dagger is so faint that it is almost invisible when there is a light, and the underground shopping mall is brightly lit except for the end of the mall's business hours at night, otherwise maybe this dagger has been paid attention to by some people now. (Li Tie: Hey, hey, hey...... Don't ignore me, hey...... ）

“…… Well...... Go to the toilet and go out to blow the wind...... "There were no guests coming for a while, and Zhou Hong, who had been waiting for a long time, began to feel a little drowsy, and decided to go out to the underground mall to see the wind blowing after going to the toilet, and by the way, let his mind clear up.

Bang! At the entrance of the underground mall, a rather loud thunder sounded.

"Okay...... Look at this rain, there is no business today......" Zhou Hong, who was standing at the entrance, looked at the majestic rain outside and muttered to himself. "Forget it...... Why don't you go back to the booth and continue watching anime...... I can't go away with such a heavy rain...... Finish...... ...... coming from afar Is that...... People? ”

Zhou Hong, who originally looked at the rain for a while and wanted to go back, suddenly found that in the rain curtain in the distance, there were several similar figures, because the rain was too strong, and the sky was gloomy, Zhou Hong couldn't see their appearance clearly, but felt that they walked crookedly and felt weird...... And with such a heavy rain, these people didn't even have any rain gear, and they all staggered towards the underground mall in the rain......

Whew~ A cold wind blows...... Zhou Hong suddenly had an inexplicable creepy feeling...... Goosebumps suddenly rose all over the body...... I don't know if it's because of this cold wind or because I saw the crooked figures of those people walking in the distance...... "That's not right!" This environment ...... The atmosphere is ...... How...... It seems to have a sense of danger......"

Watching those figures slowly approach, Zhou Hong suddenly felt a sense of crisis in his heart for no reason.

He has been sensitive to dangerous things since he was a child, although he looks a little neurotic to the people around him, but he has escaped many sudden dangers with these seemingly mysterious "sixth senses", so Zhou Hong is particularly concerned about and believes in the feeling that he suddenly came to his heart this time.

Although he didn't see where the danger was yet, his body instinct told him to stay away from here, away from this doorway, and even away from the underground mall...... "Go!" The next moment, Zhou Hong made a decision, but instead of rushing out of the door of the underground mall and running into the rain curtain, he ran to the meeting, he wanted to run back to his stall, he wanted to take his treasure of the town store-------- jet-black dagger.

In his "sixth sense", he felt that he had to carry the jet-black dagger with him, which was very important to him! As for the important method, he himself didn't know, but he knew that this feeling appeared with the sense of crisis: bring a dagger! Run!

"Whew...... ......"Zhou Hong, who ran all the way back to the underground mall, was out of breath, as a quasi-otaku who usually doesn't like sports, this rush has made his legs weak and exhausted, but he didn't dare to stop!" The sense of crisis in my heart is getting worse and worse!

Hurriedly came to the place where the items were displayed in front of his stall, took the black dagger in one hand, and randomly stuffed a few small objects that he felt would be used into his bag, and left his stall without stopping.

When running past the door of the toilet in the mall, Zhou Hong saw Li Tie who was smoking next to the trash can at the door of the toilet, hesitated for a moment, but turned around and ran towards Li Tie.

"Brother Li, I know that what I am saying now may be ridiculous, in fact, I don't have a definite answer myself, but I trust my intuition, my intuition has always been very accurate, I can feel that this underground mall will soon fall into a crisis! The only way is to get out of here as quickly as possible! I don't expect you to trust me right away, but I still hope you'll be prepared! Zhou Hong, who hurriedly finished saying this, turned around and ran towards the entrance of the underground shopping mall without waiting for Li Tie, who looked confused, to reply.

"Hong Shao! You...... Ay! This is a store closure for no reason! Have you written an application? Looking at Zhou Hong's figure running away, Li Tie, who was confused, finally reacted and shouted at Zhou Hong, but unfortunately Zhou Hong turned around and disappeared into Li Tie's sight without looking back, as if he hadn't heard it.

"This stinky boy...... Watching anime and watching insanity? Never mind...... Go back and help him talk to the mall desk! Shaking his head, Li Tie didn't care what Zhou Hong was crazy about, and continued to half-squint his eyes at the door of the toilet and enjoy it. As for the danger? For Li Tie, who retired from the veteran, it does not exist.