"Alright, Host."
Under Noah's control.
The elevator carrying Li Chen continued downward.
A dozen seconds later.
As the elevator doors opened.
What appeared before Li Chen was enough to prove the former glory of the Noah Civilization.
Rows of devices resembling space escape pods filled this level.
Blue circular lights shone brilliantly.
"Begin."
Li Chen gave the command.
According to Noah's recommendation.
Nearly one-fifth of the Energy Cores consumed earlier had been used on this level.
The initial batch would produce a total of 200 Android Warriors.
They consisted of 120 combat soldiers, 30 maintenance technicians, 40 medical androids, and 10 administrators.
With Li Chen's command.
The cultivation pods before him began operating.
Inside the massive culture tanks nearby.
Human embryos were extracted one after another.
The androids possessed absolute obedience toward Li Chen.
There was no need for Li Chen to worry about betrayal.
It had to be admitted.
In the apocalypse.
The threats caused by the darkness within human hearts.
At certain times, far surpassed zombies.
Since Li Chen was an orphan.
He settled down in the shelter afterward.
"Cultivating the androids will take seven days."
"That will happen to be the day the apocalypse begins."
Waiting was always dull.
And the splendor of the Noah Civilization was not something Li Chen could understand in just a day or two.
Besides.
There was one important premise not to forget.
The thirty percent of data Noah had lost could not be restored in a short time.
The days passed one by one.
During this time.
The many orders previously placed through Noah.
Were arriving one after another.
Hundreds of tons of rice, grain, cooking oil, and vegetables.
As well as all kinds of canned goods with long shelf lives.
Li Chen did not need to manage any of it.
Once he signed the delivery receipts.
Noah would control machinery to sort everything by category and place it into storage.
With each passing day.
This Star-Level Shelter was restored a little more.
Before he knew it.
The seven days passed in the blink of an eye.
At this moment.
On the lowest floor of the Star-Level Shelter.
Li Chen sat in a seat within the Command Room.
Behind him.
Two hundred androids stood neatly in place.
Their skin colors, genders, and heights might have varied greatly.
But the one thing they all shared.
Was the blazing intensity in their eyes.
They were loyal to Li Chen.
At a single command from Li Chen, they would not hesitate even if it meant sacrificing themselves.
Because within the androids' genes.
Commands of loyalty had been written in abundance.
The massive projection before him had been divided into hundreds of densely packed screens.
Through the network.
It monitored not only every movement within the city.
But also the detailed activity on every floor of the shelter.
"Host, the hydroponic cultivation of all crop seeds has now been completed."
"At most, one week will be needed before the first crop yield can be harvested."
"The android cultivation pods have reached 95% completion."
"High-ranking officials around the world have also issued the latest shelter advisories."
"Thousands of shelters have been constructed in advance across various regions, though most are located in open outdoor areas."
With each statement Noah delivered.
Li Chen's eyes dimmed a little further.
Li Chen had once considered notifying the authorities of every nation in advance about the severity of the Zombie Virus.
But in the end, he had not acted on it.
Because Li Chen knew.
The upper echelons of nations around the world had actually discovered the anomaly in Earth's core as early as a year ago.
They had even been secretly making all kinds of preparations in response.
They had not revealed it to all humanity in advance.
Only because they feared unpredictable chaos.
"Alas!" Li Chen sighed.
Even if he was unwilling to face the coming apocalypse.
What else could he do?
With the advancement of technology over recent years, along with the melting of the permanent permafrost at the North and South Poles.
More and more prehistoric biological remains had been discovered.
Clearly, uncontrollable prehistoric viruses had been found inside those remains.
Yet humanity's greed had always driven it to seek control over them.
"60 seconds remain until the apocalypse descends."
Sure enough.
As Noah finished speaking.
Li Chen slowly closed his eyes.
What was meant to come had come at last.
In his previous life.
The Zombie Virus had needed only half a year to completely erase humanity from this planet.
Humanity had gone extinct from that point onward.
On the massive screen.
The numbers continued counting down.
The instant the countdown reached zero.
A tremendous wave of energy erupted outward from deep within Earth's core.
At the same time.
Earthquakes began breaking out across the world.
The towering buildings of the past turned to ashes in an instant.
Countless people were buried forever beneath the ruins!
Immediately afterward.
Countless cities began shaking violently.
Humanity screamed.
The earth split open with densely packed, bottomless fissures!
In the distance.
The sea level was rising madly.
The wind roared, and pitch-black clouds fought humanity for its last remaining light.
Rumble!
Massive waves dozens of meters high, whipped up by the wind.
Easily shattered a hundred-thousand-ton ship.
Flash floods erupted, the earth cracked apart, and tsunamis came rolling in!
Countries across the world were instantly plunged into disaster.
Water supplies failed, electricity was cut off, and network signals collapsed!
The technology modern humanity had spent centuries building.
Was ruthlessly dismantled in an instant.
For a time.
Under the advance arrangements of city authorities.
More and more civilians were placed in open-air parks, stadiums, and air-raid shelters.
The supplies prepared a year earlier were mobilized at the same time.
But only Li Chen knew.
The apocalypse had already begun.
The more people gathered in one place, the more dangerous it was!
Because carried by ocean air currents, the Zombie Virus.
Would need only a day or two to sweep across the globe!
Humans with weaker constitutions.
Would be infected first.
Humanity would not even be given time to react.
Before long, they would become bloodthirsty zombies stripped of their humanity!
At this moment.
Li Chen slowly opened his eyes.
Countless screens were reflected in his dark pupils.
Every screen showed countless people dying.
"Host."
Then suddenly, Noah's voice sounded once more.
"Zombie Virus detected! At the same time, all virus research institutes across the world have been destroyed!"
"Within America, the first Zombie Zero has appeared."
"In just one minute, it has already infected sixteen American civilians."
Noah's words made Li Chen frown deeply.
He knew that before long.
These infected zombies would infect even more people through a terrifying fission-like process.
Li Chen took a deep breath.
"Check Donghai City's situation. Donghai City has a permanent population of twelve million."
"Help me formulate a plan. Before the Zombie Virus reaches Donghai City..."
"I need to save some scientific researchers."
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