Black Fog Disaster, Infinite Supplies

Shen Yi slammed the dormitory door shut behind him, the "click" of the lock echoing sharply in the silent room.

He strode to his bed and plopped down, casually pulling out his phone. His fingers flew across the screen as he posted a particularly eye-catching advertisement in the Shancheng University Student Exchange Group:

Shen Yi from Foreign Languages Department Class 301: [@everyone, the apocalypse is merciless, but people can be kind. Taking in girls who are short on food and water. I have unopened bottled mineral water here, guaranteed to be uncontaminated. If you're pretty and have a good figure, message me privately. Food and water are plentiful!]

The moment the message went out, the group exploded like water hitting a hot oil pan.

Li Yang from Computer Science Department Class 202: [Bro, are you running a fever and talking nonsense?]

Wang Yu from Foreign Languages Department Class 301, who calls himself the campus heartthrob: [Holy crap, Shen Yi!?]

Chen Xiaoxiao from Literature Department Class 203: [Gross! Just because he has a couple of bottles of water, he wants to coerce women? Disgusting! Does he think he can do whatever he wants in the apocalypse?]

Student Union President Zhang Hao: [@Shen Yi from Foreign Languages Department, classmate, these are special times. You should bring out all your food and share it with everyone, help each other, and survive together!]

Su Yao from Literature Department Class 203: [So disgusting, what a creep. Are all guys from the Foreign Languages Department this awful?]

Qin Haoran from Foreign Languages Department Class 301: [Don't generalize, people above! Shen Yi and I are in the same class. Before the apocalypse, he was just a loser, average-looking and from a poor family. He's just read too many novels to spout such ridiculous nonsense. We normal guys are definitely different from him. Even in the apocalypse, we have basic morals, like prioritizing the protection of women and children!]

Aunt Zhao from Campus A Dormitory (Dormitory Administrator): [This student has no manners, objectifying women like that! If I knew which dorm he lived in, I'd teach him a lesson! People like him don't deserve to be in university!]

Liu Yue from Arts Department Class 303: [Where's the group admin? Hurry up and kick this creepy, awful guy out, don't pollute the group environment!]

———— Shen Yi from Foreign Languages Department Class 301 was kicked out of the group chat ————

Shen Yi watched the notification, his expression calm. His fingers expertly switched to an alt account.

Ever since this sudden black fog disaster descended, Shen Yi had created several alt accounts and added them to the campus groups, just in case his main account got kicked out.

And now, it wasn't just the Shancheng University Student Exchange Group that was condemning him.

A quick glance at his phone screen showed that over a dozen campus groups had prominent red "99+" notifications in the top right corner!

Clicking into them, he saw students either calling him crazy, a loser, or a creep, mocking him for having a few bottles of water and showing off.

But despite the verbal abuse, many students were still privately messaging Shen Yi, asking for water. Some even threatened him, saying they'd cause trouble if he didn't comply. Shen Yi replied with "idiot" and blocked them directly.

It's the apocalypse, and he's going to let them bully him?

Moreover, water resources were incredibly precious now, almost a non-renewable energy source!

This was because, over ten hours ago, a strange black fog had suddenly enveloped the entire world without warning. Most water sources were instantly contaminated by unknown bacteria.

Anyone who drank the contaminated water would either suffer severe vomiting and diarrhea, leaving them utterly miserable, or die outright.

Only water and food that were well-preserved or tightly sealed, and hadn't been exposed to the black fog for long, were still barely edible.

The value of water and food was continuously rising.

Just a moment ago, a rich second-generation student in the group offered five hundred yuan for a bottle of Shuaishifu Mineral Water, but no one sold it.

Shen Yi stood up and walked to the window. He raised his hand and wiped away some of the grime on the glass. Through the small clean patch he'd managed to create, he looked down.

The once bustling campus path, full of youthful energy, was now completely swallowed by rolling black smoke.

The black fog was thick as ink, churning and rising, obscuring everything.

Fortunately, this strange black fog had stopped at the fifth floor, still a distance from his sixth-floor dorm.

Shen Yi felt a sense of relief. If he hadn't caught a cold and fever yesterday and taken leave to rest in his dorm, he would most likely have been trapped in the teaching building or elsewhere, just like his roommates...

He'd heard that inhaling this strange black fog, while not immediately fatal, induced an uncontrollable thirst, a desperate urge to drink. If water wasn't replenished, one would die of thirst within a few hours!

Normally, a person could endure even two days without water with sheer willpower.

But after inhaling the black fog, not drinking water for five to six hours could be life-threatening!

However, even if the black fog did spread up to him, Shen Yi wasn't worried.

Because... he had an endless supply of water!

Just over ten hours ago, a crisp, pleasant, yet mysterious voice had suddenly sounded in his ear.

[Congratulations on unlocking the Infinite Supplies System. Currently unlocked supplies: Shuaishifu Mineral Water!]

[Please strive to unlock more supplies. Each successfully unlocked type of supply will trigger a +1 effect per second.]

[Congratulations on unlocking an infinitely large system space. All supplies you acquire will be automatically stored in the system space. You can retrieve or place items from it at will from now on.]

[Your system space currently contains: bottles of mineral water]

What shocked Shen Yi even more was that this number was increasing at a visible rate.

Every second, another bottle of mineral water was added!

One bottle per second, sixty bottles per minute, thirty-six hundred bottles per hour, and a staggering amount per day... the quantity was unimaginable. It was more than enough for daily consumption, and even for taking baths every day!

With such a heaven-defying cheat, Shen Yi had no need to worry about water resources!

However, just having water wasn't enough. To survive long-term in this perilous apocalypse, he needed to unlock more types of supplies.

And the key to unlocking supplies was taking in beautiful women.

For every beautiful woman who met the system's standards that he took in, a new type of supply would be unlocked.

Although he hadn't found any women who met the system's standards yet, Shen Yi believed he would.

After all, Shancheng University has tens of thousands of students. Even if only a third of them are girls, and only one percent of that third meets the system's standards, that would be enough for him to gather supplies.

If he could just unlock one type of supply, with a speed of +1 per second, that would be more than enough for him to live lavishly!

"Ahhh!!!"

"Help! Someone save me!"

Just then, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly came from downstairs.

This was immediately followed by a deafening roar, as if a giant was frantically pounding on the building. The thunderous noise came one after another, making one's eardrums ache.

Shen Yi flinched at the sudden commotion. He quickly rushed to the window and looked down.

He saw a boy, trembling uncontrollably, his hands gripping the railing so tightly that his knuckles had turned white from the exertion.

He stared at his dormitory, his face etched with terror, his eyes wide open as if he had seen something truly horrifying.

Not far from the boy's feet, in what was once an ordinary flowerpot, it was as if a sleeping beast had awakened. Countless vines surged out at an astonishing speed.

These vines, like grotesque pythons, climbed frantically up the wall, leaving behind wet, sticky trails wherever they went. In the dim light, they looked particularly eerie.

Even more chilling was that the vines had grown spherical objects that resembled eyeballs.

These spheres, as if alive, slowly rotated, emitting a faint, eerie green light.

"Holy crap! What the hell is that?!" Shen Yi couldn't help but whisper, a strong sense of fear surging within him. He instinctively took a few steps back, his body trembling slightly.

Just then, a sharp, piercing scream cut through the oppressive and terrifying atmosphere.

Those startled screams came from the girls' dormitory across the way