Casting a Wide Net, Xu Wanting's Resolve

Shen Yi hadn't been idle these past few days.

While the internet was still functional, he'd searched for nearby group chats, applied to join them, and then, at intervals, posted ads offering refuge to beautiful women...

In short, he was casting a wide net!

The system had high standards for the girls it accepted, so he could only resort to this method of searching for a needle in a haystack.

As long as the net was cast wide enough, he was bound to catch a few good ones!

After all, he currently had no self-defense capabilities and couldn't personally go out to find high-quality goddesses. He could only rely on the internet.

Shen Yi had a hunch that this disaster wouldn't end so easily.

It might very well escalate into an apocalypse for humanity!

If it were just the black fog that made people thirsty, it wouldn't really be an apocalyptic disaster; at most, it would lead to a scarcity of food and water.

But the plants in the black fog seemed to be mutating...

Furthermore, five days had passed since the black fog appeared, yet official rescue efforts had been conspicuously absent.

They had only pushed messages online, telling everyone not to leave their homes and to abandon their pets, and so on.

Of course, there were also precautions on how to determine if water and food had been contaminated...

These messages had started being pushed by the authorities four to five hours after the black fog descended.

It's just that, at first, no one had taken it seriously.

They hadn't even stored much in the way of supplies.

Until now, as the black fog grew thicker and thicker, most food and water had spoiled due to contamination by unknown bacteria. It was too late to store anything.

Moreover, most people were too afraid to go outside!

The black fog now concealed deadly dangers!!

Over the past few days, screams had frequently erupted from within the black fog, and no one knew how many people had died...

At this moment, Shen Yi was drinking water and chatting with a newly added girl when a WeChat message suddenly popped up.

Jin Rui (Roommate Boss): "Shen Yi, do you have any water on you? Send me a bottle, I'm on the eighth floor of the teaching building, hurry!"

Shen Yi: "F*ck you! Idiot! Get lost!"

After cursing, he directly deleted the contact.

Damn it, these idiots of roommates had bullied him before the apocalypse, and now that the apocalypse had arrived, who was going to put up with it?

Online, people said that university male dorms were filled with brothers who would die for each other. Maybe others truly had such friends, but Shen Yi was unlucky and encountered a rich second-generation heir whose family had some money.

Then, this guy liked to boss people around and bully the weak.

Shen Yi naturally didn't like being bossed around, so he'd gotten into a few fights with Jin Rui. Unfortunately, the other two scummy roommates would help Jin Rui cheat, ganging up three-on-one, leaving Shen Yi helpless.

Shen Yi had also considered risking his life to kill the other party, but thinking about his grandmother raising him and how he hadn't yet shown filial piety, he truly couldn't risk his life.

"I wonder how Grandma and little sister are doing today..." Shen Yi dialed his grandmother's number again.

He'd spoken to her yesterday. At that time, his grandmother and little sister were hiding in the cellar. Because rural cellars usually stored a lot of grain and vegetables, they weren't short of food or drink.

However, his grandmother and little sister were also afraid to leave the cellar. They'd apparently said that a neighbor's dog was eating people! It was terrifying!

The little sister couldn't explain the specific situation clearly, but Shen Yi guessed that animals might have mutated...

Otherwise, a pet dog would never eat its owner.

Meanwhile, on the other side.

In a classroom on the eighth floor of the teaching building.

Jin Rui looked at the message Shen Yi had sent and was so angry he almost smashed his phone.

"Damn it! Shen Yi, this dog, actually dared to curse at me!"

"You wait! When I get back to the dorm, I'll beat you to death!"

Before, Shen Yi had fought with him, but he had never dared to curse at him like this.

Jin Rui, who had been a little tyrant since childhood, couldn't stand this kind of insult.

If it weren't for the fact that he knew the black fog was dangerous, he would have definitely gone back to the dorm to teach Shen Yi a harsh lesson.

He wouldn't dare to kill him, of course, because no one knew when national rescue would arrive. If he killed someone, he would have to pay a price.

But he dared to beat him up badly, to break an arm.

At worst, he'd have to pay some money.

"Brother Jin, don't be angry, it's not worth getting upset over this idiot."

"Shen Yi just has a few bottles of water, doesn't he? Does he really think the apocalypse will never end? When it's over, we'll teach him a lesson! We'll make him kneel and apologize to Jin Ge!"

Two of Jin Rui's sycophantic roommates were trying to calm him down.

They had seen Shen Yi's message in the group chat and that's why they went to ask Shen Yi for water.

Who knew Shen Yi would get so bold.

The two of them were also very angry, but for now, they had to fawn over Jin Rui.

It was because Jin Rui's family was rich and well-connected. Maybe Jin Rui's dad would send people to rescue them, and they could hitch a ride with the rescue team.

All their fawning had a purpose!

The sky was gradually brightening.

Over at Xu Wanting's place.

She had managed to last another night.

A whole night without a single drop of water.

It wasn't that she didn't want to drink, it was that there was none left.

Because she was so dehydrated, she couldn't even urinate...

She had been without water since yesterday morning.

During that time, she had called for rescue countless times, and called her parents countless times, but she hadn't received any reply...

Xu Wanting was starting to despair.

If she kept waiting like this, she would really die of thirst.

Dying of thirst, that was a feeling few people could endure.

Especially for a young girl like Xu Wanting.

So, she lowered her pride and stood on the balcony, hoping Shen Yi would throw her a bottle of water.

But after calling for a long time, Shen Yi completely ignored her.

It seemed that unless she went to the male dormitory, nothing else was up for discussion.

Xu Wanting cursed Shen Yi viciously for several hours, even using swear words she had never learned before.

But cursing wouldn't solve her problem, nor would it quench her thirst.

So, After a deep struggle, Xu Wanting finally decided to go to the male dormitory.

Actually, the decision wasn't that hard. Compared to dying of thirst, Xu Wanting felt that sacrificing her body was nothing...

Only those who had experienced this kind of hunger and thirst would understand.

However, what made Xu Wanting hesitate was that she still held a sliver of hope for national rescue.

What if, just as she compromised and used her body for water, the rescue team arrived? That would be too much of a loss!

She really didn't want to give her first time to an ordinary guy like Shen Yi...

She normally looked down on ordinary people like Shen Yi, not even bothering to speak to him, let alone date him or sleep with him.

Besides that, another reason Xu Wanting couldn't make up her mind was that she had previously heard screams from girls downstairs. Although it was far from her floor, those screams sounded wrong.

Xu Wanting guessed that there might be some monsters in this black fog...

Her guess wasn't baseless. Some students in the campus group chat had also posted videos, showing that many plants and animals seemed to have mutated.

Even geckos, which were originally palm-sized, had grown several times larger, about the size of an adult dog. They looked terrifying!

So, Xu Wanting had been afraid to open her dorm room door, or even make too much noise.

But now, Compared to dying of thirst in her dorm room, she had to take a chance!

"Damn Shen Yi!"

"Couldn't he just throw a bottle of water over? He has to make this young lady go out and take risks..."

Xu Wanting put on her white stockings and then her sneakers, muttering curses at Shen Yi.

After getting dressed, Xu Wanting packed the remaining bags of snacks into her pink backpack. This was her last bit of food. If she had water, she could have lasted another three or four days, maybe even five or six.

But without water, she really couldn't...

She couldn't even last a single day.

Looking at the fruit knife on the table, she hesitated for a moment before tucking it into her embrace.

After that, she took out her phone, found Shen Yi's post in the group chat, and sent him a friend request.

However, Her request was not accepted for a long time.

Xu Wanting waited for a while, then looked out at Shen Yi's dorm building from the balcony again, but couldn't see clearly. With no other option, she could only go out now that it was daylight.

I hope I can get there safely...

Meanwhile, on Shen Yi's end.

As the disaster dragged on.

More and more people were adding him.

And there were more men than women among them!

But Shen Yi only accepted girls.

In just a few short days, he had already been added by no less than two hundred girls who took the initiative!

This was the benefit of casting a wide net!

And among these two hundred girls, he had found another one who met the system's standards