"I'm quite curious about this apocalyptic world!"
As soon as the words fell, a familiar dizziness washed over Lin Yan, and a piece of memory appeared in her mind.
This was a zombie apocalypse. According to the system, this genre had been popular since the movie "Resident Evil," with many authors writing novels on this theme.
Therefore, there were many such worlds in the Lord God's space. However, relatively speaking, this kind of zombie apocalypse was considered simpler. After all, humans only dealt with mutated compatriots, animals, and plants.
Moreover, humans themselves were evolving. No matter how powerful the zombified people and animals became, humans also had their methods.
It would be much harder if it were a natural disaster genre. Human power was no match for nature. In the face of nature's wrath, human strength appeared so insignificant.
The opening of this novel was about a meteor bringing zombie viruses from another planet. Then, mutations began.
The virus spread incredibly fast. Those with weak bodies, especially the sick, quickly mutated into zombies. Those with stronger bodies survived the fever and became ability users, while the majority remained ordinary people.
The virus mutated too quickly. Many people were bitten by zombies before they could react, and the number of zombies grew.
The internet, electricity, and water were cut off. Society lost the constraints of law and order. All sorts of evils festered.
This world had truly entered its end times!
The female protagonist of this world was a spatial ability user. Unlike the gentle and kind female protagonists popular in previous years, by the time of this book, strong and decisive female protagonists had become popular.
She, a woman, thus rose to a high position within a base. She gathered a team, cultivated her own influence, and in this world where the strong reigned supreme, became one of the top powers.
Moreover, the male protagonist was ranked first, a dual-element ability user with formidable combat power, forming a strong alliance with the female protagonist.
The entire book was about their journey of leveling up and fighting monsters. They killed zombies and fell in love in this post-apocalyptic world.
In the end, the male and female protagonists jointly killed the Zombie Emperor and became the saviors of the entire world, concluding the book.
On the surface, there were no problems, but upon closer examination, there were issues everywhere.
The original host was the male protagonist's school crush and the person he liked. However, before the male protagonist could confess, the apocalypse arrived.
The male protagonist fell for the original host precisely because of her kindness.
But in the apocalypse, this kindness became a burden.
When the apocalypse struck, the original host escaped with the female protagonist and her group. Along the way, the original host rescued many people. In fact, the female protagonist herself was initially rescued by the original host.
The original host's family was very wealthy, so when she was in college, they bought her a villa near the school.
After the apocalypse arrived, the original host took in many people, including the female protagonist and her group.
They awakened their abilities in the original host's home and successfully survived the initial high fever thanks to the common medicines the original host had stocked.
The original host had always been educated with the principle of "do not neglect even the smallest good deeds." Therefore, even in these difficult times, she genuinely tried to save people.
However, the original host's actions caused dissatisfaction among the people she had initially rescued. They felt that the food in the villa was limited, and rescuing more people would dilute their food and water.
But this was the original host's home, so they didn't say anything. Later, when the food in the villa was almost gone, they decided to leave. The original host also provided them with the RV and cars.
But the original host's kindness made them very unhappy. When the original host rescued another child, the female protagonist's group felt that the original host was too much of a saint. If they took her along, she would become a greater burden to the team.
So, they tacitly abandoned the original host in this town.
One of them even pushed the original host towards a zombie.
This was why Lin Yan experienced that scene the moment she arrived.
Indeed, the sound of car engines Lin Yan heard then was not her hallucination.
The original host died a gruesome death by the jaws of zombies, and when the male protagonist met the female protagonist, she never mentioned having met the original host.
Later, the original host was mentioned only a few times in the male protagonist's memories. He would only sigh, lamenting that with the original host's personality, she wouldn't survive in such a world.
After sorting through the memories, Lin Yan picked up the comb she had just cleaned and began to comb her long hair. Although there was no light in the room, Lin Yan combed it very carefully.
"Host, the original host was a really good person, but wasn't she a bit too saintly!"
"But don't you think the original host's attitude was the right one? When the virus first started spreading, who knew it would be a global catastrophe.
So when you encounter someone in distress and can easily help them, isn't it natural to lend a hand?
Although human nature is selfish and prioritizes self-interest, the original host's actions at that time had not yet harmed her own interests, had they?"
After smoothing her hair, Lin Yan walked to the window, drew the curtains, and then took a flashlight from her system backpack.
She adjusted the light to its dimmest setting, then removed the bedding and set it aside. She then took a clean set from the cabinet and changed into it.
"It seems so. Looking at it this way, the female protagonist's group adapted too quickly. The original host was an ordinary person. The times changed too fast, and she hadn't fully adapted yet, still acting according to her old ways.
But the female protagonist and her group seemed to have directly adapted to the laws of the apocalypse, with no buffer time at all."
"That's the problem. The people in this world, especially ability users, adapted too quickly and too heartlessly to the apocalypse.
This is abnormal. Generally speaking, it takes time to transition from a society governed by law to a society where etiquette and morals have collapsed.
Even if one commits a crime, there would be hesitation beforehand or afterward, wondering if they would face legal repercussions. But look, the apocalypse had just begun, and society had completely lost order."
Lin Yan spoke of the inconsistencies she discovered.
"Ability users were high and mighty, while ordinary people were almost reduced to slaves. There was no transition from an egalitarian society to a class-based society, and all ability users calmly enjoyed such privileges.
But ability users also have friends and family. Their relatives might not be ability users. How could they so easily accept relegating their own loved ones to the status of inferiors?
This shouldn't have happened so soon. Such a situation should have occurred at least five to ten years into the apocalypse, when the achievements of ability users grew greater, ordinary people could do less, and zombies became more formidable.
But this situation occurred at the very beginning of the book. The first base the female protagonist and her group reached already had such regulations."