Reborn in the Apocalypse: A Commoner's Survival Log

Time flies and it's night.

I felt I had done enough for today, so I put everything into my online space and plan to continue tomorrow.

Zhou Yang first poured a bowl of dog food and some freeze-dried chicken for Pea before starting to cook dinner for himself.

He didn't want to make anything complicated, and it was too hot to eat anything greasy, so he decided to make cold chicken noodles.

First, prepare a bowl of the essential sauce and set it aside. Then, shred the cooked chicken breast into strips, and next, cook the noodles and rinse them with cold water. Finally, place the shredded chicken on top of the noodles, sprinkle with chopped green onions, and pour the sauce over it.

That's it.

Enjoying a bowl of cold noodles while watching videos on my phone in the air-conditioned comfort is truly delightful.

He had just finished watching a delicious food video when he came across a breaking news story – wild animals in Changsha had collectively run away from their homes.

Zhou Yang paused for a moment, then quickly put down the chopsticks he was using to pick up noodles and took a closer look at his phone.

In the video, someone filmed wild animals in Changsha emerging from the mountains and forests, and some animals even walked directly through the city streets, while flocks of birds flew intermittently overhead.

And all the animals seem to be heading in the same direction: northwest.

Netizens commented that even the animals couldn't stand the heat and were planning to go north to escape the heat.

But Zhou Yang knew that wasn't the case.

This was the first precursor to the Changsha earthquake.

The exact same scene had happened in his previous life. The animals in the mountains fled north, but because of the high temperature, everyone was misled, and he didn't take it seriously when he saw it.

It wasn't until the Xingcheng Zoo riot and rats were seen crossing the streets that people began to suspect an impending earthquake.

However, Changsha is not located in an earthquake zone, and since the founding of the People's Republic of China, Changsha has never experienced an earthquake. It is the only city in the country that has never even experienced a minor earthquake.

So in the end, no one believed it, and everyone continued to live a nocturnal lifestyle.

The night in Changsha is as bustling and lively as ever.

However, just as the people of Changsha were happily celebrating Children's Day with their children, the earthquake struck.

A massive earthquake of magnitude 9.5.

The earth cracked, and from the city center to the outskirts, large areas of high-rise buildings and residential buildings collapsed, and many people were buried under the rubble. Everywhere you looked, there were mottled bloodstains.

Cries, screams for help, and sirens filled the air, creating a scene of utter desolation that echoed throughout the city.

Thinking of the disaster scene and countless corpses he saw on TV at that time, Zhou Yang felt as if his heart had been ripped out.

He didn't want so many people to die in this life, so he left a comment below, informing everyone that there might be a major earthquake in Xingcheng, and that animal escapes are one of the precursors to an earthquake.

However, no one believed him, and his comments were ridiculed.

Many netizens commented that he was worrying unnecessarily and that he was just trying to attract attention.

Zhou Yang was helpless, but he was unwilling to just watch helplessly.

So he posted a thread on Weibo about common knowledge and self-rescue tips for major earthquakes.

Referring to the Xingcheng earthquake in my previous life, I have compiled a list of early signs, the epicenter, the magnitude of the earthquake, and some self-rescue methods, and included them all. Finally, I also mentioned the current Xingcheng event and urged the people of Xingcheng to be vigilant if they experience any more earthquake precursors in the future.

After sending it, Zhou Yang breathed a sigh of relief.

That's all he can do to help. Hopefully, someone will believe him.

It's one that can be saved.

On the other side, Xingcheng.

Inside a high-rise building in a residential community.

A high school senior sat at his desk, holding a textbook in one hand and secretly surfing the internet on his phone in the other.

I suddenly came across a long Weibo post about the earthquake, which also mentioned the incident of wild animals running away from home in Changsha at the end.

With a sneer, he swiped away.

Then I continued browsing other things and suddenly saw a classmate's rant post.

This student lives in the countryside, and these past few days they've suddenly had a rat infestation. They can't get rid of them all, so they had to ask a neighbor to catch a few cats to ward off bad luck. And it's not just their house that's infested; the whole village has suddenly seen a surge in rats.

For some inexplicable reason, he remembered the earthquake blog post he had read before, so he quickly searched for it again, saved it, and even took a picture of it and saved it to his phone.

Regardless of whether there was actually an earthquake in Xingcheng, it's always good to be cautious. If there were any further signs, he would take his parents and run away.

Zhou Yang was unaware that his blog post had already influenced some individuals.

At that moment, he could only sigh and silently begin preparing the supplies to be donated. He contacted suppliers and purchased a batch of water, food, basic medicines, and some clothes for adults and children.

The high temperatures continue.

During the day, Xingcheng is deserted and empty.

Only some shopping malls and supermarkets are still open, and many elderly people who are reluctant to spend money on electricity go to these places to enjoy the air conditioning.

However, most people had already spent some money inside, so the businesses couldn't easily kick them out. As long as they didn't cause trouble, steal, or rob, they were left to their own devices.

Inside a large supermarket in the city center.

An older woman was dozing off in a corner when she suddenly felt an itch on her back, as if something was crawling on it.

She reached out and touched something that was moving. When she looked at it, she saw a pitch-black cockroach baring its teeth and claws at her. She was so frightened that she jumped up and quickly threw the thing away.

"Oh my god, how can there be cockroaches in broad daylight!"

The elderly people nearby were also startled and looked over.

Sure enough, there was a large cockroach crawling all over the ground.

An old man with a palm-leaf fan kicked the cockroach away.

"It's nothing, it's nothing, it's just a cockroach, don't make a fuss."

Just as everyone breathed a sigh of relief, a middle-aged woman with curly hair suddenly exclaimed, "Oh no, there are still so many cockroaches on the wall!"

The old lady who first discovered the cockroach was closest to the wall. When she heard this, she felt a chill run down her spine and quickly ran a few steps away before daring to look back.

On the white wall of the supermarket, dozens of cockroaches had appeared out of nowhere, and their numbers were increasing, spreading outwards and onto the ground.

The elderly people scattered and ran away to find supermarket staff, all the while taking videos with their phones.

The supermarket manager arrived quickly and was stunned by the sight of so many cockroaches. He immediately told his employees to use insecticide to deal with them, and then he called a pest control company to come and do a thorough extermination.

A video of cockroaches infesting a supermarket in Xingcheng during the day went viral in less than an hour.

The hordes of cockroaches caused considerable distress to netizens, who demanded an apology from the supermarket owner.