Chapter 1 Chu Anqin

Chu Anqin opened his eyes and looked at the ceiling, feeling both familiar and unfamiliar.

"Hungry, so hungry!"

He felt his stomach cramping, as if the gastric juice was trying to digest him, and a feeling of hunger that he had not experienced in more than twenty years of life came over him.

He wanted to get up and find something to eat, but found that he was so weak that he couldn't even lift his hands.

"Where is this?"

"Am I not sleeping in the rental house?"

Chu Anqin tilted his head and looked to the side, and found himself lying on a brown sofa, with the surroundings in a mess.

sofa?

"Am I not in bed? There is no sofa in the rental house."

"I remember working overtime until midnight, and when I got home I lay down on the bed and fell asleep."

Pain, severe pain!

Chu Anqin's head suddenly felt like it was about to explode, and scenes of incomplete memories that did not belong to him quickly emerged in his mind.

"Chu Anqin, earthquakes and floods, melting glaciers, ancient viruses, electromagnetic storms"

These memories are like a kaleidoscope of memories, fragmented and disjointed.

“I traveled through time.”

Chu Anqin laughed bitterly. He didn't expect that he would travel through time and space, and to be a person with the same name and surname.

The original owner of this body was also called Chu Anqin. After graduation, he worked honestly and was a very mediocre person, which was very similar to his own experience.

Oh yes, it's a little different. The original owner had a house left by his parents, with two bedrooms and a living room, which is where he is lying now, while he can only live in a rental house that costs a few hundred dollars a month.

Chu Anqin twisted his neck and looked at the surroundings, the glass coffee table, the balcony, the TV, the kitchen, the dining table.
It's the house I've always dreamed of.

“I never thought I would own a house in such a way.”

However, just by moving his neck a few times, the feeling of hunger came back like a flood.

As far as he could remember, the last time this body had eaten was three days ago. He could clearly feel that his stomach was empty and the stomach walls were rubbing against each other.

Why am I so hungry? Hungry and thirsty!
"So this is what it feels like to not eat for three days."

He had lived for more than twenty years and had never eaten any delicacies, but he had never been so hungry.

"Hungry...food..."

At this moment, Chu Anqin didn't want anything, he just wanted to eat.

However, he knew that this was wishful thinking and it was impossible for anyone to send him food.

This is a world where doomsday has come. About a year ago, various natural disasters occurred one after another around the world, including earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, volcanic eruptions, and electromagnetic storms that swept the entire world.

The disasters lasted for several months, and the technology believed by mankind was useless in the face of nature.

However, these disasters are just the prelude to the beginning of the end of the world. The resulting icebergs melted on a large scale and an unknown ancient virus revived.

At first, only some animals were infected, but in just half a month, the virus spread among humans.

And this is the moment when the catastrophe truly comes. The virus mutates rapidly, and a super virus appears that spreads quickly and is highly toxic. The infected people will die within three to five days, and humans can't find any way to treat it.

Humans try to control the spread of the virus by isolating the source, establishing quarantine areas, and isolating people at home, among other means.

The original owner's parents were infected with the virus and died in the quarantine area, and the original owner himself, as a close contact, was required to be quarantined at home.

Because his neighborhood was a severely infected area, more than half of the people were infected and were taken to the quarantine area and never returned.

Chu Anqin took a deep breath, and finally gathered enough strength to move his arm. He groped around and grabbed something soft.

He raised it to his eyes and saw that it was a piece of bread covered with black mold.

This was the original owner’s last food, and he didn’t dare eat a single bite until he starved to death.

At the beginning, when the original owner was quarantined at home, someone delivered supplies to his door every day, but everything changed more than half a year ago.

The virus has mutated again. Once humans are infected, they will die within ten minutes or even minutes. It is more poisonous than arsenic.

However, infected animals will not behave like this. Instead, they will become crazy and bloodthirsty, hunting all living things.

No matter what flies in the sky, swims in the water, runs on the ground, or crawls in the soil, they all surpass humans and become predators, and ordinary people are relegated to the bottom of the food chain. Chu Anqin looked at the bread covered with black spots in front of him, and his mouth could not stop secreting saliva. His empty stomach growled, as if urging him to eat it quickly.

But he couldn't eat it. This moldy bread also contained a deadly poison. Eating it would definitely cause poisoning. Otherwise, the original owner would not have chosen to starve to death and not eat it in the end.

He turned the bread over and over, and found that the entire piece of bread was covered with black spots, and there was no place to eat it.

Chu Anqin still didn't give up. This was the only food in the house. He felt that if he didn't eat something, he would follow in the footsteps of the original owner and go to heaven to enjoy himself.

"I can't die!"

He had finally traveled through time and space, how could he starve to death?

I feel aggrieved and have no place to complain.

Chu Anqin raised his other arm, held one side of the bread with each hand, and with a little force, he split the bread into two.

“It’s moldy too!”

Seeing that there was also a layer of black spots in the middle of the broken bread, his heart sank to the bottom of the valley in an instant.

"Overtime, overtime, I am forced to work overtime every day. Now, I don't get any money, and I have to endure the punishment of hunger."

Chu Anqin's resentment suddenly burst out, and he scolded the black-hearted boss harshly.

However, even after he cursed his boss's ancestors for eighteen generations, the pain in his stomach did not improve at all, and he became even hungrier.

"I want to get up and find something to eat."

Chu Anqin used all his strength to support himself with his arms, trying to sit up.

However, his body, which had not eaten for many days, had already gone on strike, and when he moved, he had already drained the last bit of energy stored in this body.

Weak and dizzy, Chu Anqin's body did not move even a little from the sofa and fell back heavily.

He grabbed the moldy bread again, his eyes becoming increasingly blurred.

"Just one bite should be fine."

Saliva was secreted crazily in his mouth. He swallowed his saliva and slowly brought the moldy bread to his mouth.

Can't eat.
One bite won't kill you
It was as if there were two demons in Chu Anqin's mind, one hoping he would starve to death, and the other hoping he would be poisoned to death.

Tick, tick.
A few drops of rain fell on the balcony, and then heavy rain poured down.

"It's raining?"

Chu Anqin licked his cracked lips, and suddenly a surge of strength surged in his body. He threw down the bread, rushed to the balcony window, opened his mouth and drank the rain in big gulps.

Not only did he not eat a single bite of food for three days, he also did not drink a single drop of water.

A sip of water can relieve the condition of this paralyzed body.

Faced with the huge temptation of the rain, his physical potential burst out, and he seemed to forget his weakness and hunger, allowing his body to be irrigated by the rain.

The rain flowed down the security window frame and into Chu Anqin's mouth, and he finally regained a little life.

After drinking for nearly half a minute in one breath, Chu Anqin lay on the balcony and seemed to be alive again.

But, the next moment, that desperate feeling of hunger emerged again.

Rainwater can only quench your thirst, it can never fill your stomach.

Chu Anqin returned to the sofa tremblingly, picked up half a piece of moldy bread, and the two demons in his mind appeared again.

Have a bite
Can't eat.
Chu Anqin's hands trembled as he picked out a small piece of the bread with the least black spots.

"It's so small, it must be fine."

He took a piece of bread crumb that was not even half the size of his little finger and slowly moved it towards his mouth.

At this moment, Chu Anqin felt his head buzzing, and then a strange panel appeared in front of him:
[1. Compressed biscuits, fill the stomach, not very nutritious, production materials: 5 units of food]

[2. Sports drinks, quench thirst, increase brain excitement, production materials: 2 units of water + 1 unit of food + container]

[3. Professional prying tool, can be used to pry open doors, windows and safes. It can also be used as a weapon with good power. Production materials: 10 units of metal]

[Unlock the next page conditions:
1. Complete the production of three items;

2. Make a high-energy ration, which is more nutritious and tastes better than compressed biscuits. Ingredients: 2 compressed biscuits + 1 unit of sports drink. 】

(End of this chapter)

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