Black Fog Disaster, Infinite Supplies

Shen Yi slammed the dorm door shut behind him. With a click, the sound of metal striking metal rang especially clear in the silent room.

He crossed to the bed in a few strides, dropped onto it, pulled out his phone, and rapidly tapped the screen. Then he posted an especially eye-catching advertisement in the Shancheng University Student Exchange Group:

Shen Yi from Foreign Languages Department Class 301: @All Members The apocalypse may be heartless, but people aren't. I'm taking in girls who lack food and water. I have unopened bottled mineral water here, guaranteed uncontaminated. As long as you're pretty and have a good figure, message me privately. Food and drink provided!

The instant the message was sent, the group erupted like water splashing into a pan of hot oil.

Li Yang from Computer Science Department Class 202: Bro, do you have a fever? Are you delirious?

Wang Yu from Foreign Languages Department Class 301, who called himself the department heartthrob: Holy shit, Shen Yi!?

Chen Xiaoxiao from Literature Department Class 203: What a disgusting loser! Just because you have a couple bottles of water, you think you can coerce women? That's revolting! You think the apocalypse means you can do whatever you want?

Student Union President Zhang Hao: @Shen Yi from the Foreign Languages Department Student, these are extraordinary times. You should take out all your food and share it with everyone. We should help one another and survive together!

Su Yao from Literature Department Class 203: So disgusting. What a creepy loser. Are all the boys in the Foreign Languages Department this revolting?

Qin Haoran from Foreign Languages Department Class 301: Don't attack the whole department, okay? I'm in the same class as Shen Yi. Even before the apocalypse, he was a pathetic nobody—average-looking and broke. He's just read too many novels and started spouting this insane nonsense. Normal guys like us are definitely different. Even in the apocalypse, we still have basic morals, like prioritizing the protection of women and children!

Aunt Zhao from Campus A Dormitory (Dorm Manager): This student has no manners at all! He actually objectifies women. I wonder which dorm he lives in. Otherwise, I'd definitely teach him a proper lesson! People like him don't deserve to attend university!

Liu Yue from Arts Department Class 303: Where's the group owner? Hurry up and kick this creepy loser out. Don't let him pollute the group!

----Group member Shen Yi from Foreign Languages Department Class 301 has been removed from the group chat----

Shen Yi looked at the notification with an indifferent expression and skillfully switched to an alternate account.

Ever since this sudden Black Fog disaster had descended, Shen Yi had registered several alternate accounts and added them all to the campus groups, just in case his main account got kicked out.

Right now, it wasn't just the Shancheng University Student Exchange Group that was verbally attacking him.

A quick glance at his phone screen showed that the upper-right corners of more than a dozen campus groups all displayed a glaring crimson 99+!

When he opened them, the students inside were either calling him crazy or mocking him as a loser and a disgusting creep. A few bottles of water, and he was already showing off?

But though they cursed him openly, quite a few students still privately messaged Shen Yi for water. Some even threatened to cause trouble for him if he refused. Shen Yi replied, "Idiot," then blocked them outright.

It's the fucking apocalypse. You think I'll still let you bully me?

Besides, water was incredibly precious now. It could even be said that it had become a nonrenewable resource!

That was because more than a dozen hours ago, a strange Black Fog had suddenly enveloped the entire world without warning, instantly contaminating the vast majority of water sources with unknown bacteria.

Once someone drank contaminated water, they would either vomit and suffer diarrhea until they were half-dead, or lose their life outright.

Only water and food that had been well preserved or tightly sealed, and had not been exposed to the Black Fog for long, could still barely be consumed.

The value of water and food was steadily rising.

Just moments ago, a rich second-generation student had offered five hundred yuan for a bottle of Shuaishifu Mineral Water in the group, but no one was selling.

Shen Yi stood and walked to the window in a few steps. He raised a hand and wiped the grimy glass, then peered downstairs through the small patch he had managed to clean.

The campus paths, once bustling with youthful energy, had now been completely swallowed by rolling black smoke.

The Black Fog was thick as ink, churning and rising wildly, obscuring every last bit of scenery.

Fortunately, the strange Black Fog had stopped at the fifth floor, still some distance from his room on the sixth.

Shen Yi secretly counted himself lucky. If he hadn't caught a cold and developed a fever yesterday, taking leave to rest in the dorm, he would most likely have been trapped in a classroom building or somewhere else with his roommates...

He had heard that once someone inhaled the strange Black Fog, they would not die immediately, but an uncontrollable thirst would rise within them, making them desperately want water. If they could not replenish their water supply, they would be thirsted to death alive within just a few hours!

Under normal circumstances, even if someone went two days without water, they could barely hold on through sheer willpower.

But if they inhaled the Black Fog, going five or six hours without water would put their life in danger!

Still, even if the Black Fog really spread upward, Shen Yi was not worried.

Because... he had more water than he could ever drink!

More than a dozen hours ago, a crisp and pleasant yet mysterious voice had suddenly sounded beside his ear.

Congratulations, you have unlocked the Infinite Supplies System. Currently unlocked supplies: Shuaishifu Mineral Water!

Please work hard to unlock more supplies. Each time you successfully unlock a new category of supplies, the effect of +1 per second will be triggered.

Congratulations, you have unlocked an infinitely large System Space. All supplies you obtain will automatically be stored in the System Space. From now on, you may freely take out or store items within it.

Your System Space currently contains: bottles of mineral water

What shocked Shen Yi even more was that the number was still wildly flickering and increasing at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Every second, another bottle of mineral water was added!

One bottle per second meant sixty bottles per minute, 3,600 bottles per hour, and an astonishing bottles in a day... The number was simply beyond imagination. Forget daily drinking—even if he used it to bathe every day, he would still have more than enough!

With such an absurdly powerful cheat, Shen Yi had no need to worry about water resources at all!

However, water alone was not enough. If he wanted to survive in this perilous apocalypse for the long term, he needed to unlock more kinds 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, he could unlock an entirely new type of supply.

Although he had not yet found any beautiful woman who met the system's standards, well...

Shen Yi believed he would definitely find one who qualified.

After all, Shancheng University had tens of thousands of students. Even if only one-third were girls, and only one percent of that third met the system's standards, that would still be enough for him to farm supplies.

As long as he unlocked any kind of supply, the +1-per-second rate would be enough for him to squander!

"Ahhh!!!"

"Help! Help! Someone save me!"

At that moment, a heart-wrenching scream suddenly came from downstairs.

It was followed by a deafening series of booms, as though a giant were madly pounding on the building. One thunderous impact followed another, making people's eardrums ache.

Startled by the sudden commotion, Shen Yi flinched and rushed to the window, looking downstairs.

There, a male student was trembling violently from head to toe, both hands clamped tightly around the railing until his knuckles had turned white from the force.

He stared at his dorm room, his face filled with terror, his eyes wide as though he had seen something utterly horrifying.

Not far from his feet, within what had once been an ordinary flowerpot, it now seemed as though a sleeping beast had awakened. Countless vines surged out at an astonishing speed.

The vines were like ferocious pythons, crawling madly up the wall. Everywhere they passed, they left wet, sticky trails that looked especially eerie in the dim light.

Even more horrifyingly, eyeball-like spheres had grown from the vines.

Those spheres seemed alive as they slowly rotated, emitting a ghostly green glow.

"Holy shit! What the hell is that?!" Shen Yi muttered under his breath. A powerful wave of fear surged through him, and he instinctively retreated several steps, his body trembling slightly.

Just then, a sharp, ear-piercing scream tore through the oppressive, horrifying atmosphere.

Those terrified screams had come from the girls' dormitory across the way...