When Jiang You returned to the residential complex, news that she had been kicked out had already spread throughout the neighborhood.
A group of old men and women cooling off beneath a tree watched her enter the unit building, some with sympathy and others with schadenfreude. Once she turned around, their discussions became even more brazen.
Jiang You ignored those complicated gazes and went straight upstairs. She put her personal belongings into her space, then moved out.
She rented a new place.
The apocalypse began with torrential rain.
An unprecedented downpour continued across the country for three days and three nights. In City A, everything below the fifth or sixth floor was completely submerged.
She did not know much about the situation in other cities. After all, she had stayed in City A the entire time, and she had learned about certain matters from the news and the internet.
Aside from the urban area of City A, the low-lying villages in the countryside surrounding the city were also completely submerged.
But that did not mean places at higher elevations were safe. Mudslides and landslides also occurred frequently over the next few days.
Therefore, she could not rent a place on a low floor. Besides, zombies could easily climb up to low floors, and so could people.
Through an agent, she rented a small one-bedroom apartment on the twenty-third floor of an elevator building.
After the apocalypse, the power system would collapse. Without elevators, the higher the floor, the fewer people there would be, and the fewer zombies there would be.
She did not mind the height, nor was she afraid of climbing stairs. After all, she had lived on even higher floors before.
In those deserted cities, one never knew where malicious fellow survivors or zombies might be hiding.
Therefore,