I Build a Floating City in the Apocalypse – Chapter 1

Chapter 1

“Mage Apprentice’s manuscript?”

Fang Bai looked at the worn notebook in his hand. The notebook had an imitation leather cover, and the few scribbled words on the cover looked like someone’s random doodle.

The two characters in the middle were too blurry to make out.

“Probably a personal name,” Fang Bai muttered. Judging from the contents, it seemed like a notebook, but Fang Bai couldn’t understand the text and symbols inside. Looking at it for too long made his head dizzy. It was somewhat strange, and this piqued Fang Bai’s interest.

At this moment, Fang Bai was sorting through some old items in his house. He had just found this notebook.

He put the notebook aside for now. Fang Bai was about to continue tidying up when his vision suddenly went black, and he collapsed to the ground. Before losing consciousness, he vaguely heard a mechanical voice, followed by some crashing sounds.

“System deployment, datafication loading.”

After that, Fang Bai completely lost consciousness.

He didn’t know how long had passed when Fang Bai groggily woke up. He felt sore all over and was about to go to the hospital for a check-up when he was attracted by something that appeared before his eyes.

“Attribute Panel.”

Fang Bai murmured softly.

What appeared before his eyes was like a transparent panel from a science fiction movie, displaying a few simple numbers.

“Level: 0.”

“Strength: 6.”

“Constitution: 5.”

“Agility: 4.”

“Mental Power: 8.”

“What does this mean? A game panel?”

Fang Bai immediately recalled the mechanical voice and crashing sounds he heard before fainting.

“If the mechanical voice is the source of this panel, then the crashing sounds…”

Fang Bai remembered something and walked to the window to look down.

Fang Bai’s home was on the ninth floor, the top floor. Because it came with the rooftop, the unit price when he bought the house was second only to the first floor with a courtyard.

Fang Bai stood by the window and looked down. He saw several cars on the road outside the residential area colliding one after another. Fortunately, it was in the city area, and the speed wasn’t fast, so the damage to the vehicles wasn’t significant.

Obviously, the crashing sounds just now were from the car accident.

“So, it wasn’t just me who fainted just now. It wasn’t because of my health, but a large-scale event?”

As Fang Bai pondered, he suddenly froze, looking down below.

“They’re fighting already?”

He saw two drivers below grappling with each other, biting, biting, biting…

“Huh?!”

Fang Bai felt something was wrong. He widened his eyes. On the ninth floor, Fang Bai couldn’t see very clearly, so he immediately took out his phone, turned on the camera function, and zoomed in. But after seeing it clearly, Fang Bai’s pupils constricted.

“Zombies?!”

Fang Bai saw in the picture a zombie with a pale, withered, and terrifying face biting into the flesh of another driver, mouthful after mouthful.

He wasn’t sure if it was an illusion, but Fang Bai felt that the zombie’s face and body muscles gradually became fuller during the devouring process.

The driver’s screams rang out. The intense pain made him frantically smash the zombie’s neck. After more than ten blows, the zombie with a broken spine was pushed to the ground, unable to move, only its mouth opening and closing continuously.

Before the blood-covered driver could rejoice, three or four zombies pounced on him. A few minutes later, the zombies stood up and wandered on the road, leaving only a bloody skeleton behind.

Such scenes were happening in every corner inside and outside the residential area. Fang Bai looked around, and the entire city seemed to be covered in terror.

Looking at the corpses that had been gnawed clean, Fang Bai felt a chill in his heart.

“Bang! Bang! Bang!”

“Roar!”

The sudden banging on the door and the roar made Fang Bai tremble all over. He turned his head sharply to look at the door.

“Roar!”

The banging on the door continued. Fang Bai was stunned. The next moment, he forced himself to calm down.

“There’s a zombie at my door, and it has discovered me…”

“But zombies can’t break open security doors.”

Fang Bai froze, and he felt much more relaxed. He slumped to the ground.

“Oh, is that so? Then it’s fine.”

Feeling a lot more at ease, Fang Bai picked up his phone and glanced at it. It was 12:30, and the network was working normally.

He entered the chat software page. Many friends were posting photos of zombies they had taken in various group chats. Netizens from all over the country made Fang Bai instantly understand that the whole country—no, the whole world—had people turning into zombies.

The apocalypse had arrived!

This inevitably made Fang Bai feel somewhat depressed.

After a moment of silence, Fang Bai put away his phone. Now was not the time to be playing with his phone. The zombie at the door was still banging incessantly. The only fortunate thing was that although the security door wasn’t burglar-proof, it could still keep zombies out.

“But I still have to find a way to get rid of this zombie. Otherwise, if it can’t get in, I can’t get out either.”

Fang Bai immediately started searching around the house. Unfortunately, Fang Bai neither practiced martial arts nor collected cold weapons. He only found a kitchen knife and a fruit knife at home.

One of the kitchen knives was from Zhang Xiaoquan, and the other fruit knife was also from Zhang Xiaoquan, with a length of less than 20 centimeters.

Fang Bai looked at the two knives and found a wooden mop handle.

Theoretically, the fruit knife could be fixed to the mop handle with rope, wire, or other tools to form a simple spear.

But if it wasn’t done professionally, and the fruit knife wasn’t fixed securely, it could cause a lot of trouble.

After thinking for a moment, Fang Bai chose to throw the fruit knife aside, grabbed the kitchen knife, and started chopping at one end of the mop handle.

Half an hour later, the chopped and sharpened mop handle was placed by Fang Bai on the fire to be roasted. After the sharpened part was slightly carbonized, Fang Bai turned off the stove.

“Slight carbonization should effectively increase the hardness of the wood.”

Fang Bai hesitated for a moment.

“Probably?”

Fang Bai shook his head, put the finished wooden spear aside, and started rummaging through the room again.

Although the weapon was ready, it was secondary. As an adult, even with a chair leg, he could crack open a zombie’s head. But if Fang Bai was touched by a zombie even once, he would surely die.

Zombies were contagious!

This was what a dead person downstairs who had turned into a zombie told Fang Bai during the spear making process. The driver who had been gnawed clean had become a zombie. Although he was still lying on the ground unable to move, he was indeed a zombie.

Therefore, zombies could make mistakes ten, a hundred times, but Fang Bai couldn’t afford to make even a single mistake.

One mistake meant death.

Compared to offense, defense was more important.

So this time, Fang Bai found a raincoat and a pile of textbooks.

Theoretically, textbooks that were 0.5 centimeters thick could completely block any attack from a zombie.

Half an hour later, Fang Bai, wearing a paper armor raincoat, put on a thick military coat and a pair of plastic rain boots. He clumsily pushed a cabinet to the door.

The zombie at the door heard the commotion and became frantic again, roaring and banging on the door crazily.

Standing at the door, Fang Bai put on the mask and sunglasses he had set aside, gripped the spear, and took a deep breath.

The fear in his heart seemed to have vanished completely. Fang Bai put his gloved left hand on the doorknob, pressed down, and the door swung open. Instantly, a zombie lunged in.

“Roar!”