Humanity has fallen from the top of the food chain back to being just another link. Zombies and all kinds of ferocious mutant creatures have become part of the new rulers of the earth. Under the protection and exploitation of a handful of superhumans, humans have formed new cities, barely clinging to survival.

Fire axe! Split open the skulls of zombies! Electric chainsaw! Tear apart the bodies of super mutants! Tri-edged military dagger piercing the enemy’s throat! Six-barrel Gatling gun! Roar! Rage! Let your explosive metal frenzy play the most wonderful rock and roll between heaven and earth! Knives! Stones! Fists! Teeth! Baseball bats! Javelins! Sulfuric acid! Fight with every tool that can kill!

To breathe the air of the next second! To drink a mouthful of pure, sweet spring water! For those you love or who love you. And even more, for the brothers who gave their lives so you could go on living—fight! Go kill zombies! Go kill mutant creatures! Go kill people! Go kill everything that wants to kill us! Stain the sky! The earth! The human heart! Stain everything in this world completely red with blood! In the end... it’s either you die or I die!

Survive. William Carter changed himself, and next, he’s going to change this world.

Volume One: Awakening

Chapter One: Fifty Years in a Single Sleep—Awakening to a Changed World

What does the end of the world look like? Is everything destroyed? Does everything turn to nothingness? Everyone imagines the apocalypse differently.

William Carter stood under the August sun, gripping his fire axe, still unable to feel a trace of warmth on his body. That uncontrollable fear filled him completely.

The once bustling streets were now littered with crashed cars, some even flipped over with all four wheels in the air, standing there. Traces of burning and explosions could still be vaguely seen.

Not far away, a huge store sign hung crookedly on the wall, creaking eerily in the wind. The entire street, apart from William Carter, showed no sign of a living soul—deadly silence everywhere.

“Why? Why did it turn out like this?” William Carter screamed hysterically under the sunlight: “Where is everyone? Where did all the people go? Is anyone still alive?!”

The empty street echoed with William Carter’s shouts. A gust of wind swept by, stirring up dust with a rustling sound, making the once-prosperous city seem even more desolate.

William Carter was a special forces soldier, extremely experienced in combat, trained under all kinds of harsh conditions. He had thought his willpower was already as strong as steel, but now he realized he wasn’t as tough as he imagined. He could joke and laugh in the midst of gunfire, but when faced with a dead city, an inexplicable fear still crept into his heart.

He had gone into hibernation to complete a genetic modification experiment, and before going under, he was told he would wake up in a month. But when he woke again, he found all the electronic equipment in the lab covered in thick dust, and all kinds of documents scattered messily on the floor, showing that the people who left had done so in a hurry—so hurried that they had no time to tidy up.

Judging by the dust, this was definitely not something that could happen in just a month. William Carter walked out of the deathly silent underground secret research facility and onto the street. The scenes he saw as he crossed several streets were all the same.

After confirming he wasn’t having a nightmare, the thought arose in William Carter’s mind that he might be the only living person left in this city.

“No, no! There must be someone alive…” William Carter tried to convince himself.

A faint sound of wind came from above William Carter’s head. His body, tense to the extreme, instantly dodged to the side.

Splat...

A puddle of red liquid hit the ground, mixing with the dust and slowly spreading outward.

Blood! Fresh human blood! William Carter was confident in his sense of smell and quickly looked up.

Whoosh...

A larger object fell from three stories up, slamming into the ground in front of William Carter and kicking up a cloud of dust.

It was a corpse—a body whose abdomen had been brutally torn open by something. Most of the “parts” inside the belly scattered around William Carter as it fell, blood still flowing, showing the person had only just died.

William Carter immediately gripped his fire axe tightly, his body like a compressed spring, ready to strike at any moment.

Roar!

A strange, inhuman howl came from the third floor. A perfectly intact window suddenly shattered, and then a “person” burst out, landing heavily on the ground not far from William Carter.

“Person”? In William Carter’s eyes, this thing was more like a dead man—or a monster.

His clothes were in tatters, and a wound the size of a child’s fist had completely pierced through his heart. Maggots crawled back and forth in the wound, and William Carter could see the scene behind the creature through the hole in its chest.

To survive such a fatal wound—this was already far beyond the realm of humanity!

As a special forces soldier, William Carter had seen many things that defied common sense, but facing such a creature, his heart still tightened involuntarily.