Leon collapsed onto the cold, dilapidated floor.
His eyes were hollow, his whole body trembling uncontrollably, his knuckles white with the force of his clenched fists.
In his arms, he clutched the small corpse of a little girl around seven or eight years old.
Her skin was pale gray and stiff, long devoid of life, her messy hair sticking to her icy cheeks.
Her name was Anna.
She was Leon's only sister.
She was his only hope and attachment in this hellish apocalypse.
On the day the apocalypse descended, disaster swept across the entire city without warning.
Order collapsed completely, and the dead rose again, turning into bloodthirsty zombies.
At that time, Anna was playing outside the fortress with her friends.
This sudden mutation tore apart all peace.
Her best friend beside her turned into a zombie without warning, lunging to bite her with no sanity left.
Poor Anna had no power to fight back, and was infected on the spot.
By the time Leon fought his way through the surrounding roaming zombies and rushed to her side over the ruins everywhere, it was already too late.
His sister had completely turned into a low-rank zombie, her consciousness gone entirely.
She was left with nothing but instinctive roars and wandering, and could no longer recognize her brother.
According to the unbreakable Survival Rules of the apocalypse, mutated relatives must be executed on the spot to eliminate future trouble.
But looking at the sister who had depended on him for life, Leon could not bring himself to do it no matter what.
Guilt and heartache overwhelmed his reason.
He secretly settled Anna in the deepest part of his fortress, risking his life every day to gather food to feed her.
He prayed day and night for the end of the apocalypse, for humanity to develop an antiviral antidote.
One day, Anna would be able to turn back into the lively and innocent girl she used to be.
This fortress was a safe zone Leon had reinforced with painstaking effort.
It had thick walls, locked doors and windows, and was hoarded with a large number of guns, ammunition and survival supplies.
Leon had survived and held on to his peace until now, relying only on cautious defense and proficient marksmanship.
When he was hunting zombies before, he luckily obtained a rare Crystal Core.
The apocalypse was cruel. Only one in a thousand ordinary zombies might spawn a Crystal Core, making it extremely precious.
Ordinary humans who absorb a Crystal Core can get Physical Enhancement: improved Strength, Stamina, Damage Resistance, and Minor Regeneration.
It was precisely this absorption that made Leon's physical fitness far superior to that of ordinary people.
Coupled with the weapons in the fortress, he could live safely and guard his sister.
Today, when he went out to search for supplies, the fortress was violently broken into.
When he returned to the fortress, the scene in front of him tore his heart apart.
The blood on the ground was dazzling.
The supplies in the house were looted completely.
Anna lay in a pool of blood, her head smashed to a bloody mess, the Crystal Core in her forehead cruelly ripped out.
Pain, despair and raging hatred drowned him in an instant, pushing his spirit to the brink of collapse.
Just as his consciousness was about to sink into darkness, an invisible rule was quietly branded into his mind!
[Host's extreme grief and strong obsession detected. Exclusive Talent Awakened: Infinite Storage.]
[Talent Rules Announcement:]
1. The space is boundless. It only stores inanimate and static objects; any living beings are strictly forbidden to be stored.
2. Any item placed inside once will trigger permanent infinite duplication, with no limit on the number of withdrawals.
He slowly put down his sister's cold body.
In his hollow eyes, only frozen killing intent remained.
He did not have the power to destroy the world, but he had the unshakable determination to kill his enemies.
A hundred kilometers south, in Misty Pine Mountain, there was a large Human Settlement.
The supplies raiders would all go there to trade their stolen goods.
There would definitely be clues there.
But he could not rush now.
The road to Misty Pine Mountain was full of dangers.
He needed to have enough strength first, otherwise he would be torn to pieces by zombies before he even reached Misty Pine Mountain.
Only by staying alive could he get revenge.
Leon stood up and took a bottle of purified water from the safe.
He whispered in his mind: Store into the System Space.
The water bottle in his hand disappeared in an instant.
He whispered to open the System Space again, and a pale blue translucent panel immediately appeared in front of him.
The pattern of a water bottle was clearly displayed on the panel.
He whispered to take it out, and the bottle of purified water immediately appeared in his palm.
He unscrewed the cap and took a sip. It was just ordinary drinking water, without any abnormality.
Immediately after, he whispered to take out five bottles of water.
Five more bottles instantly appeared on the table in front of him.
He swept his hand across the table and whispered to store them, and the five bottles of water disappeared completely again.
Then he walked into a room, and took out an Assault Rifle and 30 rounds of ammunition from inside.
This room used to be used to lock Anna.
But Anna kept ramming the door inside, breaking her forehead over and over again.
So he chained Anna to the ceiling of the main hall, the chain was only long enough for Anna to move within a small area of the main hall.
The door of this room was strong enough, so it was not broken open.
Leon stored the rifle and ammunition into the space.
To test his ability, Leon began repeated experiments.
He loaded 30 rounds of ammunition into the Magazine and inserted it into the rifle, stored the fully loaded rifle into the space and took it out again, and it was still in a loaded state.
The same was true for the second and third rifles.
Infinite fully loaded rifles instantly greatly improved his survivability.
He settled Anna in the inner room, walked out of the fortress, and headed straight west.
He needed to find something to repair the fortress gate as soon as possible.
Five kilometers west of the fortress, there was a large store and a gas station.
More than a dozen zombies wandered there all year round.
In the past, when Leon came here to scavenge for food, he was always careful and did not dare to make the slightest sound.
Once he alarmed the zombies, he could hardly cope with a siege of more than a dozen with his strength.
He did not even dare to shoot, for fear of attracting more zombies.
But now, he had infinite ammunition, and had no more scruples.
No matter how many came, he would kill them all.
Leon soon arrived at the gas station.
A few zombies were wandering slowly outside.
He raised his gun and aimed, and with a bang, the bullet accurately hit a zombie's head, and the zombie fell to the ground with the sound.
The loud gunshot instantly alerted the surrounding zombies.
Seven zombies roared and charged fiercely at him.
Leon looked calm and not flustered at all.
He raised the rifle and started shooting. When one gun ran out of bullets, he immediately took out another fully loaded rifle from the space to continue shooting, with seamless connection.
In less than a minute, all seven zombies were knocked down.
He directly looted all the items in the store, then quickly rushed to the backyard of the gas station.
A carefully modified Off-road Vehicle was parked there.
When he scavenged for food before, he had seen the car keys hanging on the wall behind the cashier counter.
This car was exactly what he urgently needed now.
Leon ran to the cashier counter quickly, grabbed the keys on the wall, and headed straight for the backyard.
There were five or six zombies in the backyard, roaring furiously and ramming the store door.
He took out his rifle and fired through the door, cleaning up all these zombies with two magazines of bullets.
Then he kicked open the bullet-riddled door, and fired a shot at the still wriggling, not completely dead zombie on the ground, killing it completely.
Leon opened the car door and started the vehicle with the key.
He was pleasantly surprised to find that the fuel tank was full, thank goodness.
He stepped on the gas, and the off-road vehicle rushed out with the roar of the engine.
When passing a zombie corpse, Leon suddenly had an idea.
He stretched out his left hand, whispered to store it, and the zombie corpse disappeared instantly.
He was overjoyed, stopped the car and whispered to take it out, and the corpse appeared in place again.
But when he opened the space panel, there was no icon of the zombie corpse displayed on it.
After several repeated tests, Leon came to a conclusion:
Zombie corpses can be stored in the space, but cannot trigger infinite duplication.
Only one corpse can be taken out for every one stored.
Just then, dense roars came from the direction of the store in the west.
A large group of zombies, alarmed by the gunshots, were charging quickly toward this side.
Leon did not dare to delay, quickly storing all the zombie corpses on the ground into the space.
He leaned against the car door, raised his gun, and fired at the incoming horde.
There were more than thirty zombies in this wave.
When the horde was 400 meters away, Leon opened fire.
At 300 meters, only more than twenty zombies were left in the horde.
At 200 meters, only a dozen remained.
When the distance was 100 meters, only 3 zombies were left.
Finally, when the zombies were 60 meters away from him, he killed all of them completely.
Leon turned around, stored the off-road vehicle in the space and took it out again, then drove to collect all the scattered zombie corpses.
But at this time, the second wave of horde was already approaching this side.
One of the zombies had a faint green glow on its body, and its speed was far faster than other zombies.
This was not an ordinary F-Rank Zombie, but an E-Rank Mutated Zombie.
It was faster, had stronger defense, and ordinary rifle bullets had limited damage to it.
Leon did not dare to stay long.
He immediately turned the car around and sped toward the fortress.
When he was still one kilometer away from the fortress, he stopped the car, stored the off-road vehicle into the space, and chose to walk back.
The roar of the engine was too conspicuous, and it could easily draw zombies near the fortress, which was extremely unfavorable to him.