Post-Apocalyptic: Unlimited Resources, Neighbor's Wife and Sister Beg for the Door to Open

After confirming a person's information and location, Lu Zheng set off immediately.

It's late at night now, the perfect time.

People with the Xuan Yin body attract strange things. The hero saving the beauty is a cliché, but it's very practical.

At this moment, on a dimly lit street.

Li Minting's fingers, gripping the steering wheel, had lost their color due to excessive force.

The windshield wipers swung futilely across the windshield, while outside lay an endless, fine, cold rain and a thick, impenetrable haze.

The dim yellow glow of the streetlights spread through the fog, illuminating only a few meters in front of the car; beyond that, there was only darkness and rain that swallowed everything.

She drives this road twice a day, so familiar with it that she could go home with her eyes closed.

But tonight, things started to go wrong not long after the company president, Fang Muyun, turned onto this side road in his flashy sports car following her.

First, the navigation signal completely disappeared, and then the engine emitted a dull, abnormal noise and completely stopped working.

No matter how she tried to start the fire, all she got in return was a few weak coughs.

"Damn it!"

Li Minting slammed her hand on the steering wheel, gripped by immense fear.

She looked out the window at the completely unfamiliar street scene.

The familiar residential buildings and shops that should have lined both sides of the road have now been replaced by a continuous stretch of low-rise buildings with an old-fashioned style that looks like they were built decades ago. They are shadowy in the rain and mist, without a single light, and are as silent as a giant tomb.

A cold, damp air, carrying the smell of rust and decay, seeped in through the gaps in the car window.

She knew she might have run into "that kind of thing".

In recent years, she has encountered several such bizarre events every year, and even nearly died twice.

She has been going to pilgrimages and praying for blessings for some time now, but to no avail.

She can only walk during the day and avoids going out at night.

Unfortunately, as the design director of Skyworth Advertising, she was given a lot of work by her suitor, Fang Muyun, which prevented her from leaving get off work early today and even dragged her into the middle of the night.

Through the rearview mirror, the outline of that eye-catching sports car was also parked in the rain and mist not far away, and Fang Muyun had obviously also entered this strange place.

A surge of intense anger temporarily overwhelmed the fear.

That bastard deliberately made her work overtime until this late, just to create a so-called "opportunity to be alone," and then followed her here. Now look what happened, they're both trapped in this godforsaken place!

Li Minting took a deep breath, forcing herself to calm down. She grabbed the umbrella and handbag from the passenger seat and opened the car door.

The cold rain instantly soaked her trouser legs and shoes.

She opened her umbrella and stood outside the car, looking around. Apart from the sound of rain, all was deathly silent. Her phone had no signal, and the time on the screen seemed frozen at the moment she was trapped.

Don't stay in the car and wait to die!

Li Minting gritted her teeth and, relying on her vague sense of direction, walked forward along the wet street, which was full of small puddles.

The high heels clattered and echoed on the puddle-filled pavement, sounding particularly jarring and lonely in the empty, eerie environment.

Every time she stepped on something, she was filled with fear, afraid of stepping on something she shouldn't have.

"Minting! Li Minting! Wait for me!" A panicked voice came through the rain.

Li Minting turned around abruptly and saw Fang Muyun stumbling towards her from the direction of his sports car. His expensive suit was already soaked with rain, his hair was messy and stuck to his forehead, and his face showed a fear that Li Minting had never seen before, a fear that was almost devastating. He no longer had any trace of his usual dashing and self-satisfied rich second-generation CEO demeanor.

"What the hell is this place?! My car is broken! And my cell phone has no signal!"

Fang Muyun's voice was trembling. He rushed to Li Minting's side in a few steps, trying to grab her arm for support.

"Don't leave me! I was wrong, I shouldn't have..."

His apologies and pleas came to an abrupt end.

Just as he was only two or three steps away from Li Minting, his right foot suddenly stepped into a seemingly ordinary, slightly reflective puddle.

When that foot landed, not a single splash appeared on the water's surface; instead, it felt as if one had stepped into a sticky, bottomless swamp.

"what--!"

Fang Muyun let out a shrill scream.

A gigantic, twisted hand, formed from murky, filthy water and an unidentified black, viscous substance, emerged from the puddle like a venomous snake that had been lurking for a long time. The eerie hand was cold and slippery, carrying a strong stench of decay and a suffocatingly chilling aura. It gripped Fang Muyun's ankle tightly, and the immense force instantly dragged him downwards.

"No! Let me go! Help, Minting! Save me!"

Fang Muyun struggled and kicked frantically, trying to grab anything within reach.

Half of his body sank into the puddle, which seemed to be only a few centimeters deep, at an astonishing speed; the surface of the water seemed to connect to an abyss from another dimension.

Li Minting was so terrified by the scene that she instinctively took a step back.

There seemed to be many people's shadows in that puddle!

The fear and despair on Fang Muyun's face were so real and terrifying, completely devoid of the hypocrisy and scheming he had shown when pursuing her.

He looked at Li Minting with pleading and disbelief in his eyes.

"Minting...give me a hand..."

His voice was drowned out by the water and became muffled.

However, Li Minting was unable to move.

Extreme fear froze her limbs.

She watched helplessly as Fang Muyun's body was rapidly swallowed up by that terrifying, grotesque hand and the viscous, filthy liquid.

The water surface rippled violently a few times, producing several murky bubbles, before quickly returning to calm, as if swallowing a living person was just an illusion.

"what--!"

Overwhelmed by fear, Li Minting finally broke free of her restraints. She let out a short, sharp scream and turned to run forward with all her might.

Run! Run! Get out of here!

The instinct for survival overwhelmed everything. She just wanted to escape this nightmarish, rain-soaked alley. Her vision was blurred by rain and tears, and fear made her lose her sense of direction. She instinctively rushed towards the only alleyway that seemed to have a glimmer of light ahead.

Just as she was about to cross a slightly larger area of ​​water, her foot suddenly slipped.

"Pfft!"

One foot stepped precisely into another inconspicuous puddle.

Just like Fang Muyun.

The seemingly shallow puddle instantly turned into a sticky swamp, and a chilling, powerful suction force instantly wrapped around her ankles and quickly spread upwards.

"No! Let me go!"

Li Minting screamed, and the umbrella in her hand fell to the ground.

She waved her arms in terror, kicking her other foot desperately at the slippery ground, trying to break free.

But that force was too powerful, like the jaws of a hydraulic press.

She felt as if her legs were frozen, and then she was being dragged downwards by an irresistible force.

"Help! Someone help me!"

She let out a final, tearful cry as her body continued to sink uncontrollably.

The mud had reached her waist, and the immense pressure and suffocating feeling made her vision go black.

Just when she was in utter despair, a warm and strong hand suddenly reached out from the rain and mist behind her.

The long, steady hand suddenly grabbed Li Minting's shoulder and easily pulled her out of the puddle.

[Ding! Survivor detected, in progress]

Name: Li Minting

Age: 26

[Position: Design Director, Skyworth Advertising Company]

[Evaluation: Humble and gentle, with a slender figure, outstanding abilities, decisive in action, possessing a boundless imagination, courageous in innovation, compassionate, frequently donating to nursing homes and orphanages and caring for the vulnerable and widowed, demonstrating a high sense of social responsibility.]

[Conclusion: Meeting the four requirements of 'virtuous and kind, beautiful and intelligent,' successful protection will grant a card with unlimited resources of extraordinary quality.] (End of Chapter)