Chapter 2

It felt as if his entire body had fallen into water; with every breath, he inhaled a gas heavily laden with moisture. In such an environment, it was extremely difficult to breathe.

However, Jiang Feng was desperately gasping for air. He knew that this was the gas produced when a cosmic storm swept over Earth. This gas was highly beneficial to the human body. Most importantly, the gas that appeared at this moment was the purest, and it would be hard to encounter it again in the future.

After about seven or eight seconds, the air returned to normal. At this moment, white mist suddenly rose outside. The mist spread rapidly, covering the entire Earth in an instant. The room where Jiang Feng was, with its windows still open, quickly filled with mist.

The rumble of thunder echoed, and the building shook. In the white mist outside the window, a red light flashed rapidly. Then came the sounds of collisions and explosions.

"The cosmic storm, the white mist, the red light, the spatial rift, and the monsters... they have all come. It seems I won't have to go to jail. Now I'm not at school, and I don't have to be pushed by that scum Huang Sande, nor be used as cannon fodder by the department head. I'm no longer at school, and I've already deviated from the future life I saw. Yes, I need to go get that knife upstairs." Jiang Feng thought to himself.

When the building's shaking gradually subsided, Jiang Feng released the girl and stood up.

"If you go out now, you'll be eaten by the monsters outside. It's better to stay in the room." Jiang Feng said calmly as he saw the girl crawling towards the door.

Hearing Jiang Feng's words, the girl stopped and looked towards him, but the mist had not yet cleared, so she couldn't see where Jiang Feng was.

"What monsters? Where could there be monsters? It's... it's an earthquake. Why aren't you running?" The girl said, disbelieving. At this moment, she also stood up and began to cautiously retreat towards the door.

The mist suddenly cleared at this moment, just as quickly as it had come. In an instant, everything became clear. At this moment, various screams and cries for help came from outside. The same sounds of neighbors screaming and calling for help came from behind the door.

Walking to the window and looking out, everything was just as Jiang Feng had seen before. Many green-bodied, finely scaled lizard people with tails appeared in the neighborhood, crazily slaughtering every human they saw.

"I really just came in to hide. If you don't believe me, come and see for yourself." Jiang Feng said with a bitter smile, as more screams continued to come from outside.

As he spoke, Jiang Feng moved aside. The girl, perhaps frightened by the screams and pounding from behind the door, moved forward involuntarily. With a tense and wary look, she slowly moved towards the window.

She didn't even need to get close to the window to see outside. The girl let out a scream and fell to the ground in fright.

"Your loud noise will attract the lizard people outside. Then you're dead for sure," Jiang Feng said, sitting by the TV.

Hearing Jiang Feng's words, the girl immediately covered her mouth. Then, trembling, she stood up and looked out the window. This time, she saw more clearly. Outside, the ground was already covered in blood, and corpses were scattered everywhere. The green lizard monsters were either devouring the dead or chasing the living. In the distance, thick smoke could be seen, indicating that other parts of the city were also in chaos.

"What's going on? What are those lizard-like monsters?" the girl asked Jiang Feng.

Jiang Feng, rubbing his face, said, "I think they are creatures from another world. They have come to Earth through a spatial rift. At this moment, Earth has entered a new era, but humanity is facing its end."

As he spoke, Jiang Feng stood up. He walked into the kitchen and took out a kitchen knife. However, when he came out of the kitchen, he looked at the light, iron-like kitchen knife and felt it would be of no help.

Putting the kitchen knife back in the kitchen, Jiang Feng found a whetstone and returned to the living room. He took out a butterfly knife from his waist bag and began to sharpen it with water from a cup on the coffee table. He also pondered what he should do next.

"The lizard people come from the Beast World. Their strength is low, only at the Black Iron Zero level. Although their claws are sharp and their scales are hard, their reaction speed is not fast. Their abdomen and neck are their weak points. If I seize the opportunity, I should be able to deal with one. Only by killing the lizard people and obtaining the essence crystals to strengthen myself can I go to the rooftop to find that knife. Then I can gradually become stronger and leave here to return to school," Jiang Feng thought as he sharpened the knife. As for the sounds outside, he no longer paid attention to them.

According to the future that Jiang Feng had seen, monsters were divided into different levels based on their strength: Black Iron, Bronze, Silver, Gold... Each level was further divided into zero to nine ranks. Evolved humans were also classified according to these levels. The current lizard people were the weakest, at the Black Iron Zero level. If he couldn't even deal with them, he had no chance of survival.

The girl's security door could hold off the lizard people in the hallway for a while. Jiang Feng didn't have to worry about them breaking in immediately. What he needed to worry about were the flying monsters that might come in through the window.

Seeing Jiang Feng sharpening the knife, the girl didn't understand what he was doing. Although she was worried that Jiang Feng might stab her, the monsters and screams outside were even more terrifying.

After a quick sharpening, Jiang Feng stood up, holding his butterfly knife, and walked towards the door.

"Where are you going? There are monsters outside, you can't go out," the girl whispered as Jiang Feng approached the door.

First, he looked through the peephole and, seeing no monsters outside, stepped back a few steps. He said to the girl, "Didn't I say I came here to hide from the monsters? I'll leave in a bit. It's time to go now."

"But there are monsters everywhere outside. You'll be eaten if you go out. We should wait for someone to come and save us," the girl said.

"Wait for someone to save us? Who do you think will come to save you?" Jiang Feng asked.

"Well... the police and the military, of course. They will definitely eliminate these monsters. We'll be fine soon," the girl said.

"They probably can't even save themselves. No one will come to save us in the short term. The only ones who can save us are ourselves," Jiang Feng said.

The girl looked out the window and then said uncertainly to Jiang Feng, "How can we save ourselves? Run away?"

"Running is one part of it. On the other hand, we need to figure out the strength of the monsters. Only by knowing their strength and weaknesses can we have a chance to survive. If we can find a way to strengthen ourselves, that would be even better," Jiang Feng said.

"But how can you fight those monsters? I saw them tear apart cars. With just what you have, you probably can't fight them," the girl said.

Jiang Feng looked at the butterfly knife in his hand and said helplessly, "We have to try, even if we can't win. It's like playing a game; at the beginning, you face the weakest monsters. If you're afraid to fight them, you'll only be waiting to die. I think those outside are cannon fodder. If we can't even deal with them, we shouldn't even talk about the higher-level monsters."

Seeing Jiang Feng's determination to go out, the girl thought for a moment and suddenly said, "Wait a moment," and then quickly ran into the bedroom.

Jiang Feng, not knowing what the girl was doing, saw her come out carrying a rectangular cardboard box. As she walked towards him, she pulled out some paper balls from the box.

"See if these can be useful. I think they should be better than your knife," the girl said, handing two items to Jiang Feng.

Holding the items, Jiang Feng was puzzled and asked, "Are you a mountaineering enthusiast?"

Seeing the girl shake her head, Jiang Feng said, "If you don't climb mountains, why did you buy two curved ice axes? They must cost six or seven thousand yuan."

"A couple of years ago, a wealthy person climbed Mount Everest. I had a sudden urge to try it too. But after buying them, I lost interest and kept them under the bed," the girl said.

In Jiang Feng's hands were two curved ice axes. They were fifty centimeters long, with sharp heads and serrated edges, definitely better than his butterfly knife.

"Great, with these, I should be able to deal with a lizard person," Jiang Feng thought as he put the wrist straps on.

He listened intently by the door and occasionally looked through the peephole. When he was sure there was no sound in the hallway and he hadn't seen any lizard people pass by the door for a while, he decided it was time to go out.

Just as he was about to turn the doorknob, Jiang Feng turned to the girl and said, "Can you tell me your name?"

"I... I'm Huang Xiaoyue," the girl said.

"My name is Jiang Feng. We've met. One last thing. If I survive and knock on your door, will you open it for me?" Jiang Feng asked.

Huang Xiaoyue was taken aback. Before she could answer, Jiang Feng looked through the peephole again and then opened the door and went out, reminding her not to open the door for anyone else.

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