【Master, it's exactly 6:00 in the morning. Please say to me, "Tmall Genie, morning news channel..."]

The sounds of everything in the world seemed to distort into elusive buzzing in my ears, and I watched Xu Yang die right before my eyes.

Outside his blood-soaked cat eyes was a bizarre and terrifying game-like world.

In the blood-red, sticky concave and convex mirror, there were some strangely shaped...

people?

They twisted their limbs and their faces and bodies were covered in strange, rotten-like black holes of wounds.

It reminded me of the zombies in "Train to Busan".

The difference is that those black hole-like wounds seemed to hide some shark-like creatures, which were still happily devouring.

I stood frozen for a few seconds before realizing that my whole body was trembling. I don't know how long it took, but I managed to lock the door.

The mechanical voice of Tmall Genie had already stopped, leaving only the sound of electrical current,【Zap—Zap—】.

I sat on the ground in a daze for a long time, long enough for dark clouds to cover the sunlight completely. Heavy rain poured down, carrying the stench of blood.

I almost crawled to the balcony.

With my weak body barely supported by my arms, I witnessed a scene that I would never forget in my life.

In the pouring rain, all kinds of strange-shaped fish were rolling on the roads, lawns, and gardens.

Some of the fish had thin, sharp teeth and were 【crunching, crunching】 at the air, seemingly using it as energy to move swiftly.

And the large fish that mutated with shark-like claws gave birth to small fish that quickly attached themselves to cats and dogs, tearing them apart and turning them into monsters full of black holes.

Before long, these cats and dogs "revived" in twisted postures.

I suddenly remembered the zombies that killed Xu Yang, and how similar they were to these animals parasitized by strange little fish...

I slid down to the ground.

It must be because I didn't get up in the right posture. I'll lie down and go back to sleep!

I lay numb in bed.

Then!

【Woo—Woo—Woo—】

The disaster alarm sounded.

At the same time, the emergency broadcast channel on domestic smartphones automatically popped up.

【Emergency! Emergency! Dear residents, please do not go outside! Do not go outside!】

【Emergency! Emergency! Do not go outside! Do not go outside!】

【Emergency! Emergency! Prohibited from going outside! Prohibited from going outside!】

Almost as the alarm stopped, I heard a burst of intense discussion throughout the building, followed by silence.

At first, people uploaded pictures of the strange creatures outside their windows to social media.

Later, the internet in Haicheng went down, and neighbors shouted to each other across the building, discussing when the strange fish would return to the sea... and why nobody was taking care of the injured people and animals.

People weren't afraid of attracting zombies with their shouts because, in everyone's eyes, zombies were like low-intelligence creatures, just like headless flies. As long as they didn't go outside, they would be fine.

Then, people started running out of food, and complaints filled the air.

Before the power went out in Haicheng, I was tearing off another page from the calendar.