Jake opened his phone and sent a message in the group chat for the Fortune Center Apartments.
Room and board included: [@everyone, recruiting beauties, includes full food and lodging. Those willing, private message me, first send an unfiltered full-body selfie.]
Instantly, the group chat exploded.
Apt 1201, Bldg A "Ex-Marine": [Buddy, have you gone crazy?]
Apt 809, Bldg B "SmoothTalker": [Seriously, just straight photo-fishing? This bait is too salty, can't eat it.]
Apt 1808, Bldg B "Sam Sun - Community Director" (Steven): [Little brother, now is a time of natural disaster, you should hand over the food, give it to everyone to distribute evenly, a person shouldn't be too selfish! Especially since you want to use food to trade for women, this behavior is illegal! Private message me, hand over the food for me to manage and distribute, and your responsibility won to be pursued.]
Apt 303, Bldg A "Rabbit": [Pervert, don't let this old lady find out who you are! So disgusting!]
Apt 705, Bldg A "Aunt Carol": [Why hasn't this trash changed his group name, who knows where he lives? I'll go over there and curse him to death! Hurry up and call the police, what are you waiting for!]
Apt 1802, Bldg B "GoodMoodEveryday": [Where's the group owner? Quickly kick this pervert out!]
Jake was very calm.
Kicking him out was impossible.
Because his main account was the group owner.
He worked part-time at the 24-hour convenience store outside the complex, and people in the complex often bought things and asked him to deliver. For convenience, he created this group, and along the way marked everyone's identity and address. Later, it slowly developed and became the public group for the complex.
Jake's purpose in sending this message was certainly not because he was horny, but because of a system he obtained yesterday!
[God-Tier Return System] [Woman Count: 1] [God-Tier Return: Materials consumed by the host's women will be returned to the host. Return rate = Woman Count * 100. Current rate: 100.] [Portable Space: Infinite capacity, time frozen.]
Jake had an ex-girlfriend named Sophia, they had broken up over half a month ago, but she was still included by the system.
When could he get the next woman?
Jake thought to himself, not too anxious in his heart.
Most residents of Fortune Center were young people, with very little food at home. But now, it was impossible to buy food at all. Because, the world had changed!
Jake put down his phone, his expression solemn as he looked out the window.
Currently, the entire Bay City was covered under boundless red fog, only tall buildings like TV towers and residential buildings revealed their rooftops, like spires on a red ocean. Jake's home was on the 32nd floor, the second-highest floor, and everything below the 20th floor of this building was completely submerged in the red fog!
Even more terrifying, several pine trees in the complex had actually poked their heads out from the red fog!
What kind of ghost pine tree could grow as tall as a 20-story building!
Three days ago, red fog suddenly appeared globally, plants went wild, and animals mutated. Jake had even seen a cockroach bigger than a mouse!
He withdrew his gaze and took out the half-eaten bread from the refrigerator from the morning. The bread, which had just been opened in the morning, was now covered in gray-green mold. As soon as he opened the plastic bag, a moldy smell rushed out. Food was rotting faster and faster!
Jake sighed. Not only plants and animals were evolving, but microorganisms were evolving too. All non-vacuum packed food was rapidly deteriorating. Once packaged food was opened, it would mold in a maximum of 3 hours.
Jake walked to the balcony and threw the bread out. The bread drew a parabola and fell into the red fog. The red fog rippled, like a water surface. Jake couldn't see the situation below the 20th floor and didn't dare go down.
When the red fog first descended on the first day, Jake had tried going down to the 19th floor and walking into the red fog. The red fog severely blocked light, visibility was only about 5 or 6 meters, and even flashlight beams could barely penetrate. The surroundings were a chilling red gloom. After Jake walked for a while, he heard human screams coming from deep within the red fog, so he quickly fled back and hadn't left his room since.
Jake opened another new bag of bread and began to eat.
Now, all social networks had exploded.
[National Television News: The red fog disaster has spread throughout the world, all plants and animals are rapidly evolving, the nation will definitely take action to protect the lives of its citizens...] [Department of Public Safety Reminder: All survivors should try not to go outdoors, please stay put in the nearest building and hold out for rescue! Attention: The wilderness is extremely dangerous! The wilderness is extremely dangerous! The wilderness is extremely dangerous!] [National Telecom Reminder: To ensure citizens maintain contact, all user data is temporarily free until the disaster recovers!] [Help! I was bitten by a mosquito the size of a palm, now my entire face is swollen!] [Oh no! I saw a giant sparrow peck down a helicopter!] [Hahaha! I can shoot lightning! Call me the Lightning Man! I am the master of the new era!] [Envious of another lucky one. When can I awaken an ability...] [Ability user boss seeks to be kept, I have fair skin, am beautiful and knows how to charm, comes with whips, candles, and iron chains! Contact: XXXXX] [Above, can you turn off the beauty filter?] [Get lost!] [I am from the Bay City Coastal District Public Safety Bureau, new awakened ability users please report to my station...] [Officer, I'm almost starving to death, can you send me some food, my address is XXXX.] ...
Jake watched for a while, not seeing any good news. As for ability users, they had appeared since the first day the red fog descended. The world had changed. Jake was very curious how these people obtained abilities.
[Ding! Sophia ate a Snickers bar, returned 100! Already placed in Portable Space.]
Jake's mouth curved slightly. Since the system awakened, Sophia had eaten quite a few things, all returned to Jake 100 times over, enough for him to last a year! Besides this, his Portable Space was piled with a large amount of canned goods, ham sausages, instant noodles, and other packaged foods. These were all expiring foods from the convenience store where he worked. The convenience store owner was Fatty Mike (Mike Peterson). Fatty Mike often forced Jake to buy them at 50% off. Now, they had become precious resources instead.
Jake took out some food, took a few photos, and sent them to the group.
Room and board included: [Full food provided, only beauties, serious inquiries only.]
Apt 303, Bldg A "Rabbit": [Trash! Get out of the group! Having food makes you great, huh!]
Cpt 1708, Bldg C "Chris - Skywalker Gym Coach" (Chris): [Kid! Don't be so dirty, I'll punch you to death!] Chris took the opportunity to show off a few muscle photos, his whole body emitting a metallic sheen.
Apt 809, Bldg B "SmoothTalker": [Huh? Coach Chris, your muscles glow?]
Cpt 1708, Bldg C "Chris - Skywalker Gym Coach" (Chris): [Hahaha! I don't know what's going on, but I suddenly became like this. As long as I exert force, my whole body's skin becomes incredibly hard, even a knife can't cut it! And my strength has doubled!]
Apt 303, Bldg A "Rabbit": [Wow! Coach Chris, you're amazing!]
Apt 705, Bldg A "Aunt Carol": [Young man looks so sunny, Auntie still has quite a few canned goods at home, let's eat together.]
...
Everyone started fawning over Chris.
Jake watched enviously. Chris's ability was very practical... His return system and Portable Space couldn't provide combat power.
Still no women private messaging.
Jake wasn't anxious either. As the situation worsened, as long as the authorities couldn't implement effective rescue, people would sooner or sooner fall into a state of lacking food.
He picked up his watering can and watered the row of succulent plants on the windowsill. These succulent plants were left behind by his ex-girlfriend Sophia. Jake didn't recognize any of them.
One pot of succulent plants was very strange. After the red fog appeared, this pot of plants grew two fruits similar to lychees, but they were black. These two black lychee fruits were fragrant, and every time Jake smelled them, he really wanted to eat them. But he held back. Now that everything was evolving wildly, who knew what these things were. Black lychees looked very strange at a glance.
Just then, screams came from Building A across the way:
"Help! Help!"
Jake looked up towards the building across from him. On the 21st floor of Building A opposite, a woman with disheveled hair ran out onto the balcony.