Doomsday: Humanity shrinks 100 times

Chapter 1 Doomsday and Dilemma

September.

Located in a remote park, the sun is shining and the surroundings are unusually quiet.

Lu Yuning woke up drowsily in this park an hour ago.

Then he found that the world seemed to have changed dramatically. In simple terms, he became smaller.

After experiencing the initial shock, panic, despair and other negative emotions, I finally had to accept this absurd reality.

At this moment, he looked at the bushes in front of him that looked like a primitive jungle and fell into deep thought.

There were three people following behind him, all with bewildered looks on their faces.

Several people were silent and moved forward silently.

A few minutes later.

"We've been walking for so long, where are we going? It's so unlucky that we have to encounter something like this. I should not have come out with you guys if I had known."

The slightly plump woman who was at the end spoke first, but her tone was somewhat unfriendly.

"We're probably only one percent of our original height now. Can we ever grow back? I'm scared... I, I want to go home."

The pretty young girl in casual clothes kept wiping her tears and spoke while crying.

"Zhang Xinyue, can you please stop crying? It's annoying enough as it is, and now I have to listen to you crying."

The slightly plump woman was a little impatient.

"Liu Ping, are you sick? Why did you lose your temper with her? And didn't you insist on following her out?"

A strong young man with a sharp face glared at the woman named Liu Ping.

"Zou Yunxin, you're such a loser. You've been chasing her for a year and still haven't gotten her. And you're dating someone in the park? Are you so reluctant to spend a little money?"

Liu Ping's voice rose a few notches, and her hand almost poked Zou Yunxin's face, her expression becoming more and more disgusted.

"You're talking nonsense! You came out here hoping to get some free food and drinks, and you still have the nerve to say that! If it weren't for the fact that you're Xinyue's roommate, I would have beaten you to death if you spoke to me like that."

Zou Yunxin's veins bulged and he clenched his fists.

"Come here, I'll scratch you to death."

The situation was quite tense.

"Alright! Stop arguing, you two. Do you still want to live after this fight? Two random ants can kill us right now. If we get hurt, it's almost like waiting to die."

Lu Yuning didn't say anything the whole time. He was constantly alert to his surroundings. When he heard that Zou Yunxin and Liu Ping were about to start a fight, he turned his gaze back.

"Yu Ning, what should we do now?"

When Zou Yunxin saw Lu Yuning speak, he immediately suppressed his anger and ignored the aggressive Liu Ping. Instead, he asked for Lu Yuning's opinion. It was obvious that Lu Yuning still held some weight in his heart.

Although Liu Ping looked disdainful, she probably felt that what Lu Yuning said made sense, so she didn't dare to say anything.

"I don't know why we were shrunk, but it's probably going to be difficult to recover... We just have to accept this fact for now."

Zhang Xinyue had stopped crying, but when she heard Lu Yuning's words, her expression became a little gloomier.

"Anyway, let's keep going and get off this tree-lined path. It's so densely covered with vegetation that it doesn't feel safe."

Lu Yuning looked at the forest-like bushes on both sides of the road and the trees reaching into the sky, and felt a little scared.

"Still walking? I can't walk anymore. I didn't even have lunch, and now I'm walking in this lousy park. I'm starving."

Liu Ping looked impatient. She walked to the side of the road and sat down.

Lu Yuning frowned, thinking that Liu Ping was really shameless. She really didn't know how Zhang Xinyue had managed to be her roommate for the past year.

"I advise you not to get too close to the plants."

Lu Yuning reminded coldly.

"Tsk, he's quite handsome, but so brave..."

Before Liu Ping finished speaking, she saw the expressions of the three people opposite her gradually becoming terrified, and Zou Yunxin even directly protected Zhang Xinyue behind him.

By the time Liu Ping realized the danger, it was already too late. She felt something crawling up from behind her, seemingly wrapping itself around her. Then, she felt a pain in her neck, and her vision blurred. She was left with her lunch box in a daze. Lu Yuning and the other two could clearly see from a distance: a giant, slender, pitch-black insect emerged from the bushes by the roadside.

It has thin legs on both sides of its body and two long tentacles on its head.

He twisted his body and quickly wrapped it around Liu Ping, then his fangs popped out of his mouth and bit her neck.

Liu Ping didn't even scream, her face was filled with fear, and then she quickly lost her life.

This was the first time that Lu Yuning and the others saw insects from a miniature perspective. The three of them looked terrified, and it was obvious that this scene had caused them a great visual impact.

Fortunately, the bug was enjoying its own food and didn't bother them anymore.

"vomit…"

Zhang Xinyue was so frightened that she retched.

Lu Yuning and Zou Yunxin were not much better off.

As students who had just entered college, they had never seen such a creepy scene. Looking at the insects eating, their stomachs were already churning.

Fortunately, the two of them managed to hold back, pulled up the pale-faced Zhang Xinyue, and quickly fled the scene.

……

Not long after, the three of them were still walking on the tree-lined path of the park, but they were now extremely alert and kept an eye on the bushes on both sides.

"Whoo~"

Zou Yunxin let out a long breath, and the fear he had just felt was slightly alleviated. He rubbed his palms and they were sweating.

"What was that just now?"

Zou Yunxin looked at Lu Yuning and asked.

Lu Yuning thought for a moment and said, "If I'm not mistaken, it should be a centipede."

"What a big one..."

"From our current perspective, it's indeed quite large, and it looks like it's quite powerful."

"If we are attacked by it, we will die."

"Not really. First of all, centipedes are not common. This tree-lined road is lined with bushes, and she just happened to run into one. Moreover, her back was turned to the bushes, so she had no time to react. If she had paid more attention, there should be some way to deal with it. But it would be troublesome at night."

"So we have to find a place to stay before dark?" Zhang Xinyue's face was pale. She finally stopped retching and joined the conversation between the two.

"Well, now we can only find a shelter. Alas, food and water are also a problem." Lu Yuning nodded, and then sighed.

"There is a river nearby..." Zhang Xinyue thought for a moment and said to the two of them.

"How far is it from here?" Lu Yuning asked
"You'll see it once you exit this tree-lined road. I think we're almost there. Although my field of vision is limited now, I'm quite familiar with this place."

"Then the problem of drinking water is solved! It's a good start." Zou Yunxin said.

Lu Yuning interrupted him, then shook his head and said, "I'm afraid not."

"Huh? Why?"

"We are now over 100 times smaller in height and only a few millionth of our original size. The river water is full of bacteria. I don't know what effect it will have on the human body. If you drink it directly, you might not survive tomorrow."

"Okay, okay. Oh, it's really complicated, but I'm sorry to have implicated you, Yu Ning. I didn't expect that Liu Ping had to come out with Xinyue, so I could only call you over too..." Zou Yunxin said apologetically.

Lu Yuning patted his shoulder, shook her head and said, "It's okay, it may not be a bad thing. If you get smaller in the dormitory, you don't have to worry about where to live, but the situation may get worse later..."

"Is it possible that only the four of us have become smaller, or is there something wrong with this park?" Zhang Xinyue suddenly asked.

Lu Yuning shook her head. "Although our eyesight has weakened a lot now, our hearing is obviously better than before. Since you woke up, have you heard any noises or traffic?"

"It seems not," Zou Yunxin said a little depressed, and Zhang Xinyue was also a little disappointed.

The three of them were in a low mood and temporarily stopped talking.

Although the situation is bad now, fortunately the belongings of the three people have also shrunk together, otherwise they would have to meet each other naked, which is a blessing.

Let’s get out of here as soon as possible.

(End of this chapter)