Book title: Life in the Apocalypse After the Pokémon Arrival
Author: Heaven Sacrificer
Book ID: 60131048
Type: Paid (requires book coins)
Chapter count: 131
Source: QQ Reading
Download time: 2026-09-29 07:58:47
Chapter 1
The third day after the Pokémon arrived.
The sky was a pristine indigo, the sunlight clear and bright.
It was a beautiful day without a cloud in sight.
If not for the catastrophe three days earlier, this would undoubtedly have been a pleasant day. Yet that brilliance shone beneath the pall of the apocalypse.
Lu Li pulled back the curtains. Beneath the cloudless sky stood skyscrapers belching black smoke and streets without a soul in sight.
Three days earlier, strange creatures suspected to have come from a higher dimension had descended upon this planet, known as Teran Star.
After arriving, these strange creatures with terrifying destructive power had dealt this world a nearly fatal blow.
In just three days, the industrial civilization humanity took such pride in had collapsed, and order had vanished entirely.
It was also three days earlier that Lu Li had awakened the memories of his previous life and realized he had been reborn on this planet called Teran Star.
People had named these strange creatures demonic beasts, but as someone from another world, Lu Li knew they had other names: Pokémon, pocket monsters, and so on...
But in this world, calling these creatures demonic beasts was no misunderstanding on humanity's part. Their actions fully justified the name.
An ecologist had said this was one ecosystem launching a dimensional crushing attack on another.
A biologist had said this was an extreme form of predation, with higher-dimensional creatures trampling lower-dimensional creatures to death.
When the Pokémon first arrived, he could still occasionally find news from other places online.
For instance, the Human Federation's major military bases had suffered surprise attacks from Ghost-type demonic beasts, which had devoured tens of millions of troops as food to fill their stomachs.
On the second day after the Pokémon arrived, humanity lost the sky forever. Every satellite vanished overnight, and remote regions became isolated islands of information.
The third day after the Pokémon arrived was today.
Lu Li took out his phone.
All that remained on the screen was the lifeless no-signal icon. He was in a top-tier city where every inch of land was worth a fortune, which meant the undersea cables and ground-based stations had been destroyed too.
Then there was the water.
The water had stopped that morning, and the power had gone out the night before.
Just as that ecologist had said, this was a dimensional crushing attack. Humanity had never been the disaster's only victim, merely one of the insects inadvertently crushed beneath the arriving Pokémon.
The problem he faced now was that, although he knew about the Pokémon that had arrived, these real-world Pokémon were somewhat different from the ones in his memories.
He had previously seen a video online in which a single Tackle from a Caterpie had wrecked a car traveling at high speed.
One sweep of an enormous Onix's tail had brought an entire high-rise crashing down. What chilled him most was that he had also seen footage of Spearow preying on humans.
Lu Li had realized something then: these Pokémon were nothing like the Pokémon he knew.
If Pokémon possessed more bestial savagery than intelligence, perhaps they really were demonic beasts.
If possible, Lu Li wanted to hole up at home and wait for an official rescue, or for the special power every transmigrator was supposed to have to awaken.
But now he had to face one problem-there was no food left at home.
Looking down at the deserted, deathly quiet street, Lu Li gritted his teeth, turned around, and dug the baseball bat he had bought some time ago out of the storage room.
Wearing a blue-and-white six-panel cap and holding his baseball bat, Lu Li cautiously opened his front door.
Lu Li poked his head out and surveyed the hallway. It was completely empty, without a sound.
Only after confirming there was no danger did he steel himself and edge out of his apartment. He locked the door behind him and hurried toward the emergency stairs at the end of the hall.
As he passed along the hallway, crying as faint as a mosquito's whine reached his ears, and he stopped.
Lu Li listened closely, shook his head, and continued forward. He did not know why the person in that apartment was crying, but now was not the time to meddle in someone else's affairs.
After all, he was nearly starving himself. How could he spare any strength to worry about whether others lived or died?
There were quite a few survivors in this building. His residential complex was relatively out of the way and did not have much foot traffic, so it had not yet been attacked by Ghost-type Pokémon.
Lu Li descended very slowly, placing each step lightly on the edge of the stairs, afraid that even slightly louder footsteps might attract Pokémon.
Even an ordinary Raticate could kill him. As he was now, running into a frenzied Pokémon would mean almost certain death.
He reached the ground floor without incident and headed straight for the convenience store, but the sight inside left him stunned the moment he reached the entrance.
Every shelf in the convenience store was empty. Forget food-they had not even left him a crumb.
Lu Li's expression darkened, but since he was already there, he could only make a new plan.
He had to get some supplies today. Perhaps there was still something he could take from the large shopping mall across from the residential complex.
With that thought, Lu Li gritted his teeth, steeled himself, and headed toward the more distant mall. He knew the dangers he faced along the way would only multiply.
When Lu Li reached the roadside and saw the landscaped median in the middle of the road, his heart jolted to a stop. He pulled back the foot he had just extended.
Several Oddish had buried the lower halves of their bodies in the median and were quietly enjoying the sunlight.
Lu Li did not know whether these Oddish were territorial, but he did not dare gamble on it.
Although the Pokédex said Oddish fed by absorbing nutrients from the soil through their bodies, what if these Oddish were omnivores and occasionally ate meat too?
While the internet was still working, the authorities had rated Oddish as one of the most dangerous plant-type demonic beasts. The poisonous powder they released could quickly suffocate a person to death, and some individual Oddish could also spit highly poisonous liquid that could even dissolve alloy steel plates.
As someone from another world, Lu Li knew the poisonous powder Oddish released was simply called Poison Powder, and the highly poisonous liquid they spat was actually called Acid.
But so what?
Knowing that would not give him a few extra minutes before he dissolved after being hit by Acid, nor would it grant him poison resistance, so Lu Li chose to take a detour.
Having decided to skirt this stretch of median, Lu Li had barely taken two steps before he stopped again.
Several Caterpie were steadily munching on the ornamental trees'
leaves, and several nearby ornamental trees had already been stripped completely bare.
Lu Li's expression darkened again.
According to the information provided by the authorities, Caterpie were less dangerous than Oddish, and their means of attack were relatively limited. But after watching that video of a Caterpie sending a car flying, Lu Li did not dare underestimate these Pokémon at the bottom of the food chain.
If a human's frail body took a Caterpie's Tackle, pieces of it would pretty much end up scattered everywhere.
But compared with Oddish, the Caterpie focused on stuffing themselves were clearly much safer.
Lu Li had also noticed something rather strange: the Pokémon that had arrived in this world all seemed to be caught in some bizarre state of starvation.
Ever since arriving in this world, those Pokémon had been eating nonstop to replenish their energy, and these Caterpie were no exception.
In just two days, these few Caterpie had stripped all the leaves from eight large trees.
The trees they had eaten bare had nothing left but naked trunks. One glance was enough to tell they would not live much longer.
The damage Pokémon inflicted on the ecosystem could be dozens or even hundreds of times greater than humanity's. Just as that ecologist had said, these demonic beasts were changing this world's ecology.