The zombie revealed sharp fangs from its gaping bloody mouth, with green sticky fluid smeared around its jaws.
A pair of hollow eyes locked onto Su Yu.
The eyeballs were also filled with red blood vessels.
Su Yu’s hand gently brushed over the zombie’s rough, decayed cheek. The next second, the zombie went berserk.
The devices controlling the zombie around it were yanked and clanged loudly.
Roars echoed throughout the laboratory.
Unlike usual, Su Yu did not inject the zombie with a sedative, instead letting it break free from all restraints.
Finally, the zombie succeeded in breaking free.
The massive mutated zombie body knocked Su Yu to the ground.
It lunged at Su Yu without any rationality, biting fiercely.
“Sorry, Mom.”
After saying this, Su Yu closed her eyes in despair.
The pain of flesh being torn overwhelmed Su Yu’s consciousness.
Blood spilled everywhere, spreading throughout the laboratory.
“Boom!”
An explosion followed, and the raging flames engulfed Su Yu and the other.
[According to the China Meteorological Administration forecast, over the next 10 days, the entire country will experience persistent high temperatures, with some local areas exceeding 40°C.]
The clear voice of the news broadcast echoed in the room.
The blue light of the screen reflected on Su Yu’s face.
Her brows were tightly furrowed, as if haunted by a terrifying nightmare.
Suddenly, she abruptly opened her eyes.
A neat and bright room came into view.
Her dull, lifeless eyes suddenly gained vitality—the place clearly was her home from ten years ago!
Su Yu could clearly feel her heart pounding wildly.
Her hands trembled.
By the bedside, a man sat leaning against the bed.
The man’s sharply defined face was cold and handsome, with an extraordinary bearing between his brows. A pair of gold-rimmed glasses sat on his high nose.
The next moment, Su Yu hugged the man tightly.
Her hands pressed slightly, giving him no chance to escape.
“Dad.”
Su Yu’s soft voice carried a hint of grievance. How much she feared that everything before her was false.
How much she feared that her dad would disappear the next moment.
After so many years, her closest family was truly and clearly before her eyes.
Su Yu could not express what she was feeling at that moment.
Su Mu’an was dumbfounded by Su Yu’s sudden action. His daughter had always been a “high mountain flower” — aloof and distant. Since when had she become so passionate?
Still, despite his efforts, Su Mu’an couldn’t pry the “sloth” clinging to him off.
He thought to himself:
“My daughter is really strong.”
After a long moment, Su Yu finally loosened her grip.
She looked at the time displayed on the TV—[2023.8.10].
She had been reborn, back to when she was twenty years old.
This was exactly one month before Earth’s order was destroyed.
One month later, humanity would face the greatest natural disaster in history.
Extreme heat would roast the entire world as if placed in a steamer.
Floods would overflow, sea levels rise, and coastal cities be swallowed whole.
Extreme cold storms and endless snow would bury frozen and starving human corpses.
Half of humanity’s homes would be destroyed by such disasters, and two-thirds of people would gradually perish.
Even worse, shortly after the natural disaster, humans would become infected by a leaked biochemical virus and turn into zombies.
After the disaster struck, Su’s mother disappeared.
Su Yu and her father fled while searching for her missing mother.
When Su Yu and her father saw Su’s mother surrounded by zombies, their inner worlds completely collapsed.
Su’s father, unable to accept that his wife had become a zombie, became mentally debilitated.
Under the natural disaster, resources were already scarce and tight, and on top of fighting nature, the depressed Su’s father soon passed away.
But before dying, Su’s father entrusted Su Yu with the hope that one day she would cure her mother.
Even though Su Yu spent several years experimenting, she still failed.
Her mother’s human consciousness gradually wore away with time.
If Su Yu did not detonate the laboratory,what awaited humanity would be even stronger—super zombies.
By then, the few remaining humans would only be slaughtered.
Recalling this, Su Yu instantly sobered up.
There was no more time to mourn the past ten years within one month.
Now she had a chance—a chance to overturn everything.
The natural disaster was unavoidable.
But she could prevent her mother from becoming a zombie.
More importantly, she could help her family survive well in the apocalypse.
Su Yu looked at her father and gently parted her delicate lips.
“Dad, I need ten billion.”
Su Yu did not ask for too much.
Ten billion was enough.
Her words made Su Mu’an pause briefly, silently thinking: 6.
Then he lightly swiped his phone, and a message of a huge transfer popped up on Su Yu’s phone—Su Mu’an didn’t even ask what she needed the money for.
After all, Su Mu’an had only this one daughter.
Looking at the balance in the account, countless zeros gave Su Yu an inexplicable sense of security.
As a real estate tycoon standing at the top of the pyramid, Su Mu’an had the strength to casually spare ten billion.
Su Yu clearly remembered that those who took advantage of the apocalypse to break order always targeted wealthy areas first.
Many rich people who failed to escape were cruelly killed in the fires set by rioters.
Thinking of this, Su Yu said to her father again:
“Dad, I also need the data on the properties developed by the company.”
Su Mu’an was silent and looked at Su Yu twice.
His daughter was clearly preparing to inherit the family fortune.
The key point was, he didn’t have any terminal illness!
Su Mu’an muttered to himself.
Perhaps sensing his doubt, Su Yu adjusted her wording to explain part of the reason.
But Su Mu’an waved his hand and asked, “Daughter, do you want a car or not?”
“No need, I have one.”
Then Su Yu chose a low-profile yet highly safe Volvo from among the many luxury cars in her garage.
Since Su Mu’an had to go to the company to handle business, he did not ask more about Su Yu’s unusual behavior.
Afterwards, Su Yu drove quickly to Mingyue Huafu.
This was a property she selected based on data from the Su Group.
Mingyue Huafu was located on the city’s edge, on higher terrain, with an excellent panoramic view of the entire city.
When the apocalypse truly arrived, Mingyue Huafu’s location would be better than the villa area where Su Yu’s family currently lived.
During this time, Su Yu booked a fingerprint lock company to install fingerprint locks at Mingyue Huafu.
Mingyue Huafu consisted of sixteen buildings, each with 26 floors, and only one household per floor.
Since it was a new development, the occupancy rate was low.
Su Yu chose ten buildings; currently, there were only three owners in the entire complex.
After the apocalypse, even if there were dangerous elements, they would only be among the residents inside Mingyue Huafu.
Living here would avoid the chaos in the city center.
Later, with floods spreading, the high terrain would be safer than hiding in the mountains or forests.
After deciding on the residence, Su Yu decided to strengthen the security configurations of the houses.
She deliberately chose a company from another province and paid extra for the installation.
That way, even if the installation company suspected the Su family was stockpiling supplies, they couldn’t come across provinces under extremely bad weather conditions.
Su Yu installed a military-grade security door and a fireproof door on the 26th floor.
The housing price at Mingyue Huafu was not cheap, and the building materials used were excellent.
There were not many areas needing reinforcement.
Mingyue Huafu featured panoramic houses, and Su Yu replaced all the glass with one-way vision glass.
This made it convenient to observe outside movements later.
She also added an extra layer of soundproof glass.
Then she arranged for workers to apply thermal insulation coating inside the 26th floor at night.
The coating process did not make much noise, so it wouldn’t attract much attention.
After confirming the installation details, Su Yu left the residential area.