I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 556 - 553

Chapter 556: 553

Qiongli didn’t charge head-on into the silver-armored zombie that was rushing towards her. Instead, she moved to the side, angling the zombie in such a way that it gave Bai Xinran with Nannan in her arms a chance to get away.

"Run!" Qiongli yelled.

With a swift turn, Qiongli swung her blade at the silver-armored corpse. However, with a "snap," the blade broke in two. Her force had only managed to push the armored zombie back a little, a distance trivial to it.

The zombie raised its claw, fiercely swiping at Qiongli, simultaneously shutting down the path to Qiongli’s right. Little did it know that Qiongli wasn’t planning to go that way.

As is known, a blade has limited flexibility. However, when a blade breaks, its original flexibility multiplies. Reversing the broken blade, Qiongli thrusted it into the wall as per this concept.

With the strength of a Level 3 New Human, the broken blade stuck firmly in the wall. Then Qiongli jumped, leaping over the silver-armored zombie’s head, rolled on the ground twice, quickly picked up a gun, and fired several bullets aimed at the zombie’s eyes.

Bang! Bang! Bang!

Gunshots echoed, followed by collisions of metal. Sparks flew from where the bullets hit the silver-armored zombie, but the weapons of immense power before the Apocalypse seemed to have no effect on it.

Immediately after, the zombie lunged at Qiongli like a ferocious beast from prehistoric times, a deadly intent clearly expressed by the shimmering claws it raised.

Qiongli took a few steps back. A Level 4 zombie was not something a Level 3 New Human could handle, and this wasn’t just any zombie - it was a silver-armored zombie with enormously greater defensive capabilities than the usual ones.

Without a suitable weapon in hand, such as the H-steel weapon mentioned by Chen Daowei, she couldn’t possibly breach the silver-armored zombie’s defenses with ordinary weapons.

Glancing at Bai Xinran, Qiongli saw her standing at the stairway entrance with Nannan in her arms, looking at her with deep worry in her eyes.

"Get out of here! Don’t worry about me!"

"I..." Bai Xinran wanted to say something, but teardrops welled up in her eyes as she shook her head.

"If you don’t leave, we’ll all die! Go!"

As Qiongli urged Bai Xinran to getaway, there was no time for further discussion. The silver-armored zombie had already reached her.

Out of options, Qiongli had to put all distractions aside. Even if she escaped from this silver-armored zombie, countless others were waiting outside. Regardless of whether Bai Xinran and Nannan could escape or not, she had already done her utmost. Now, her only option left was to give her all in fighting off this zombie.

Resolved, Qiongli took a few steps back, picking up the rifle from the body leaning against the wall, and hoisted the butt up.

"Bring it on!"

She let out a loud bellow, and with all the strength she could muster, she slammed it down with full force!

Clang!

The butt of the gun hit successfully, and the recoil sent a shiver through her body. A bitter smile appeared on her face as she expected to be knocked back by a powerful counterattack, but that sensation didn’t come.

"Look auntie, brother’s here!"

To her surprise, Bai Xinran’s excited voice reached her ears. Raising her eyes, she saw Tang Ye grabbing the short tail of the silver-armored zombie and hurling it aside. It only stopped after toppling several walls.

"What brother? Call me Uncle!"

Tang Ye brushed off the dust on his hands and quipped. Seeing this, Qiongli’s eyes flashed with delight, and she allowed her body to relax.

Having just narrowly escaped death, anyone would feel their strength depleted.

"Where have you been all this time?" asked Qiongli.

Tang Ye felt a sudden rush of anger at the question. A month ago, he was surrounded by undead spirits due to venturing out, trying to save Qiongli and the others.

No one could understand the feeling of opening your eyes to the sight of one or multiple undead zombies. No matter what kind of creature you were, human or zombie, they were all targets to be killed.

These zombies, just like the Night Demons, couldn’t be controlled by Tang Ye himself. Their brainwaves were the same as humans, with no way to maintain the same frequency, let alone control them.

After Qiongli left, Tang Ye was closely contained by those undead zombies appearing out of nowhere and constantly surrounding him. This led to a situation where seeing one led to seeing many - causing constant interference from these bald ghosts. As one who lacked patience, Tang Ye plainly couldn’t manage to evade or wait.

But what could he do? Going out meant fighting, going home meant killing all the undead zombies he had seen. Sometimes, handling things poorly would just provoke a larger crowd of them.

Over time, Tang Ye bottled up a fit of rage. He realized that as long as he wasn’t looking at the undead zombies, they wouldn’t attack him. This meant either blindfolding himself or closing his eyes when going out. But how could Tang Ye, a high-level zombie, bow down to a crowd of low-level ones?

Just like how a bunch of ants can’t threaten a human, no matter how generous the person, one cannot yield to the ants!

Thus, Tang Ye chose to confront them directly. However, this confrontation built up his rage, in the end making the situation uncontrollable. Countless times, he wished that all these undead zombies would just die!

But to what end? Without looking at them, he couldn’t see them. But if he saw them, he had to fight. His situation was always precarious and passive.

However, in one instance, Tang Ye accidentally captured an undead zombie. Its tall, pale body which was just like SCP-096, aroused Tang Ye’s curiosity and he decided to transform it into a beautiful girl...

As a result, a silver-armored undead zombie appeared. When it first emerged, Tang Ye discovered that the zombie, which had been assimilated bit by bit by his own mutant, anti-life material, could actually see the invisible undead zombies!

However, since the undead zombie assimilated by Tang Ye lost its original identity, when it was discovered by the undead zombies that this non-kindred entity could see them, they started fighting it.

At the same time, Tang Ye learned a lot: the undead zombies could see each other. The undead zombies assimilated by Tang Ye did not lose the initial structure of their eyes; they only lost some of their abilities, which conflicted with the silver-armored zombie’s abilities.

Therefore, the assimilated undead zombies could see the non-assimilated undead zombies. But because Tang Ye wasn’t originally an undead zombie, he could not see these bald ghosts.