​​Chapter 1

""Ping An, run!""

""No! Don't go outside! Wait for me to come home!""

At 1 AM, I received two WeChat messages from my boyfriend, Jiang Shen.

My heart lurched, a wave of ominous foreboding washing over me.

Jiang Shen had trained as a doctor and was now a physician at a renowned first-class hospital in our city. He had been attending a symposium in City A for the past week. Young and accomplished, he was always steady and reliable. Sending such ambiguous, cryptic messages was completely unlike him. Not his style at all.

I immediately called Jiang Shen, but no one answered. Wide awake now, I sat on the sofa waiting for him until dawn.

Sure enough, at 5 AM, Jiang Shen returned, looking utterly exhausted, bringing with him earth-shattering news.

The zero patient of a zombie virus had been discovered in City A.

Worse, most of the hospitals that had participated in the symposium were overrun. Although the hospitals had contacted specialists to lock down the areas immediately, the situation was still extremely grim.

""How could this happen?"" I gasped, collapsing onto the sofa, my mind reeling.

Jiang Shen grabbed my hand tightly, as if trying to inject some strength into my limp body.

""Ping An, if the situation is truly as bad as I fear,"" Jiang Shen seemed to struggle for the right word to describe them, ""those monsters... they could reach here from City A in just three days.""

""Ping An, we only have three days!"" Jiang Shen sounded profoundly shaken himself. ""Just three days, Ping An. The apocalypse is coming."""