The apocalypse begins with a dungeon game.

Li Can nodded silently. It was a good thing that he could log into this survivor forum, but he didn't know if he would still be able to receive signals after leaving the instance.

A 99% probability is unlikely to work.

Even so, he was quite satisfied. Being able to keep the cached posts on the bomb machine was enough for him to look through when no one was around in the future.

"Okay, thank you. It's getting late, I'm going to leave the instance now." Li Can placed Bai Zhuo's phone in his arms and stood up.

"So, how are you going to leave?"

"There are props, but these things are very precious and ordinary people can't get them." As he spoke, Bai Zhuo materialized a square thin card from the void.

It looks similar to a regular business card or VIP card.

The entire card is black, except for a few large gold-plated characters in the very center that read "Dungeon Pass Card".

"If you have the opportunity in the future, you should be able to get it too. Currently, only a few powerful guys in our base possess it."

"However, this thing is good, but it has a limited number of uses. It's useful for escaping death, but it's not really useful for clearing dungeons in the game."

"After all, we need to get through here." He tapped his temple with his other hand.

"In that case, we'll meet at the First Base. I hope we'll actually see you there then."

Bai Zhuo patted Li Can on the shoulder, calmed himself down, and gathered a wisp of energy to envelop the black card. Then, the card flashed with golden light, surrounding him.

Li Can could see his body gradually melting away under the golden light, which devoured his torso from his ankles upwards until it finally reached his neck.

Goodbye, my friend.

He waved goodbye to Li Can.

Li Can looked back at him, carefully examining the changes he had made in the dungeon pass.

Upon hearing the word "goodbye," I couldn't help but smile helplessly. Would we ever meet again?

"goodbye."

After his white, cloudy hair was also spread and eroded, he completely disappeared without a trace.

The remains of flesh and blood he had shattered with his energy still lingered on the spot, and the small wooden stick next to the big rock lay quietly on the muddy ground.

Li Can calmed down and looked at her palm, where a floating switch button was drawn.

[Should we leave?]

Yes / Not for now

The instance had prompted him multiple times, but he had always chosen not to. Now he had nothing left to miss here, and he had already finished all the cleanup work he wanted to do.

The countdown to the death of Earth continued to flow calmly in my mind.

Like a cone-shaped hourglass, time ticks down like fine sand, accumulating into a pile.

Li Can took out the unused bottle of alcohol from the supplies capsule, opened the cap, and poured it on the grave mound in front of him, where peach blossom branches were stuck.

"Splash..."

A strong smell of alcohol wafted to my nose.

"Goodbye, Second Sister, Third Brother, Master Wu, Little Fish, Little Mo." He murmured softly, then pressed the "Yes" option in his palm without further hesitation.

Suddenly, a wave of dizziness washed over me, making me feel like I was being tossed around.

Li Can felt as if she were inside a washing machine, her body constantly being tumbled and kneaded by the vortex of time and space.

After the last familiar white light flashed, he was completely exhausted and staggered to his feet in a completely unfamiliar place.

"It's not the original teleportation point anymore?"

Li Can looked around at the scene with some doubt.

When he first traveled to Earth ten years in the future, he was on a rooftop. Now, he has been teleported to a residential house.

He stood in the bedroom, which was covered in dust and cobwebs and smelled of decay because the room had not been cleaned or ventilated for years.

He choked and couldn't stop coughing.

Before he could make his next move, something in the living room seemed to be attracted by his coughing. Footsteps approached little by little until they stopped at the doorway and weakly patted the door frame.

After Li Can adapted to the environment, he forcefully pushed open the door, knocking the weak zombie outside to the ground.

"It seems it wasn't very old when it died. What a pity." He sighed. The zombie, which had been lying on its back on the ground and could no longer crawl on its own, had gradually exhausted its strength and finally slowly closed its gray eyes, never to move again.

It looked to be only eleven or twelve years old, small and dry, its skin and flesh dried up, leaving only a little bit of flesh clinging to its skeleton.

Li Can ignored it and strode over the little zombie.

Since the apocalypse, there have been far too many cases like this, with all living beings dying equally until everyone is extinct... Li Can sighed inwardly, pushed open the last security door, and through the glass window of the corridor outside, he saw a familiar figure.

"Good evening, humans. Today is the 3,985th day since the apocalypse. The current number of players remaining in the world is 1."

It was that familiar electronic noise notification again.

A scrambled cloud the size of a small mountain, its broken colored stripes and blocks flickering and trembling.

Like wriggling maggots and garbled bytes, constantly moving in and out of its body.

"They actually managed to come to us so quickly." Li Can looked at Yun, and Yun looked at him.

To be precise, a garbled cloud doesn't have the verb "to see" because it has no facial features; it's just a pure cloud.

But through those white clouds mixed with other random colors, Li Can could still feel its gaze.

[How far away is the destruction of Earth?]

【18:35:27】

【18:35:26】

【18:35:25】

As Li Can walked out, he calculated in his mind the time it would take him to enter and leave the instance.

At that time, there were about 24 hours left, and now a full five and a half hours have passed, which is both long and short.

The reward for winning the instance suddenly rang in his ears with a "ding".

Li Can stopped walking outwards, quickly turned around, and returned to the house, carefully locking the door behind her.

Then he sat down on the coffee table, which looked fairly clean.

I need an absolutely safe place to focus on studying the rewards from my first dungeon run without any distractions, so returning here is the most convenient and suitable option.

A burning sensation suddenly came from his palm. The question-and-answer prompt switch that was originally there had disappeared, and now it had turned into a series of items and props, which were surging out one after another.

[Dungeon Quantity Ball]

[Congratulations to the player for successfully completing the Tang Mystery Hospital dungeon and winning the grand prize, a Quantity Ball; Superpowered individuals can use it to absorb and upgrade their abilities, while ordinary people have a certain probability of awakening their own abilities upon absorption.]

"So this is the sphere that the garbled cloud wanted." Li Can held a round, crystal-like, light blue sphere in his hand and played with it.

The more closely he observed it, the more he felt that it resembled a miniature version of the entire planet Earth.

It's about the same size as a regular crystal ball in a toy store.

Looking through the inside of the sphere, one can vaguely observe what appear to be life spores, emitting a faint glow, like fireflies flitting about on a summer night.

"Bang!" The bedroom window behind Li Can suddenly shattered, shards of glass scattered all over the floor.

He turned around and looked around, extremely wary.