Published: January 31, 2025
When the golden holy light broke through the atmosphere, turning the beautiful Earth into a hell on earth, it brought not only a virus that mutated living beings, vast wastelands, and endless slaughter, but also a brand-new way of evolution and a glimmer of hope for survival.
Among these hopes was the legendary Secret Realm.
Yes, legendary. Because in his past life, Ye Zhongming had only heard of the Secret Realm and had never seen it.
The Secret Realm Key and the realm it represented were monopolized by a very small number of the most powerful beings on Earth.
In his previous life during the apocalypse, Ye Zhongming, merely a six-star evolver, evidently did not have the qualifications to covet the Secret Realm.
However, this did not stop the legends of the Secret Realm from being mentioned repeatedly, leaving a deep impression on Ye Zhongming.
He remembered someone who had come into contact with the Secret Realm saying that the Secret Realm was a space corresponding to the wasteland, where the wasteland represented danger, death, and terror. The Secret Realm, on the other hand, represented hope and life.
It was also from this person that Ye Zhongming learned how the Secret Realm Key appeared—falling from the sky along with the attack of the golden holy light.
No one knew how many such Secret Realms existed, but one thing was certain: these Secret Realm Keys descended upon various corners of the Earth today, on the very first day of the catastrophe, just like the one that was now falling in the distance.
Faced with it, Ye Zhongming could perhaps maintain his composure, but when it came to the Secret Realm Key, he felt his body boiling with excitement.
The Secret Realm was one of the most precious things in the apocalypse! Inside, one could obtain many unexpectedly powerful items and benefits. For Ye Zhongming, who had survived for ten years in the apocalypse, the allure was deadly.
He immediately abandoned the idea of hunting Grade 1 Zombies and instead aimed to obtain this Secret Realm Key.
Only a few hours had passed since the apocalypse began, and he possessed the strength of a one-star evolver. He had a great chance of obtaining this key.
After estimating the distance, he realized that the place where the Secret Realm Key was falling was actually in his school.
Ye Zhongming felt a headache at the thought of the number of zombies in the school. The campus was not a residential area; even when it was less crowded after work hours, this university had tens of thousands of full-time students living and studying there. With mutated and infected individuals combined, there would be at least thousands, making it far more dangerous than the Prosperous Luxury Residence.
But fortune favors the bold; facing danger every moment was almost the norm for everyone living in the apocalypse, and Ye Zhongming had long since gotten used to it.
Tightening his grip on the machete in his hand, he quickly sprinted to the second floor. The windows here had no protective bars, and he leaped out, landing on the grass at the back of the building.
However, after just a couple of steps, he heard a thud behind him, followed by a woman's voice exclaiming in pain. When Ye Zhongming turned around, he saw a long-haired woman jumping down after him.
Seeing Ye Zhongming looking back, the woman disregarded the pain in her backside, quickly running over to him and pleading, “Don’t leave me behind.”
In the apocalypse, some women were incredibly strong, like Mu Xinfey, a nine-star expert and one of the most powerful beings. Then there was Neptune, who, although only an eight-star expert, stood at the top of the world due to her ability to control marine creatures. And there was Fenghou Ye Linglan, who not only had formidable strength but also commanded a powerful battle group due to her high intelligence, making her well-known in the evolver community.
But these were merely exceptions. Due to physical differences, women had been at a disadvantage since the apocalypse began, a situation that had never changed.