I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 680 - 678: Something is Missing in This City_1

Chapter 680: Chapter 678: Something is Missing in This City_1

At Tang Ye’s command, Ah Fu started to move. Compared to his immense figure, Liang Hanyang below seemed like a tiny ant compared to an elephant.

"Ah, don’t go! Wait for me!"

Liang Hanyang hastily called out. Ah Fu stopped and gave her a ferocious smile, then roared at her, probably trying to scare her.

"Ugh~ Ah Fu, your breath stinks!"

As Ah Fu opened his mouth, a strong foul smell hit the air. Liang Hanyang covered her nose and complained. Ah Fu then lifted her onto his shoulder and began to stride forward with a rumbling sound. He crushed countless zombies on his way.

He stretched his massive body, opened his large mouth slightly, and emitted a comfortable moan.

"Ah~ comfortable. It’s better being like this. Boss, why do we always have to change like this?"

Tang Ye replied: "It’s easier to get things done when looking like a human."

"Tsk, it’s not fun at all. Being a human is so tiring, and so weak. It’s more fun not to be one."

Tang Ye’s eye twitched, suppressing the urge to punch Ah Fu hard on the head and continuing to look ahead.

"We’re here."

After an unknown period of time, Liang Hanyang, who had just pulled up a little creature called Xiao Bai from the bone spikes on Ah Fu’s elbow, hurriedly pointed out the changed surroundings.

"Where?" Tang Ye surveyed the area ahead and didn’t notice anything peculiar, asking in confusion.

"We’re almost there... Look over there!"

Suddenly, Liang Hanyang noticed a black area amidst the high-rise buildings in the distance, and quickly pointed it out.

"Chief, look, it’s that black thing over there. We’ll see it as soon as we go over."

At her words, Ah Fu quickened his steps. His massive body ran forth, crushing the zombies on the street into splatters of blood and flesh. The high-rise buildings on either side collapsed with a thunderous noise from his impact, sending up clouds of dust.

After Ah Fu led them around a skyscraper about a hundred meters high, Tang Ye saw a thick black line ahead from afar. As Ah Fu approached it, this black line turned increasingly thicker!

"Is that the zombie hive?"

Up ahead, an enormous unidentified object shaped like a tangle of threads was entrenched amongst the buildings, with countless tentacles as thick as an adult’s arm wrapped around the buildings. It was unclear to what extent it stretched out, but it covered a considerable range of Liang City. At a glance, the hive’s surface was rippling like an arrested ocean wave.

The hive layered itself over Liang City, anchored itself around numerous buildings with its tentacles, hoisting up its colossal body about forty to fifty meters high.

The hive’s meaty bulk was irregular and varied in thickness, being at least five meters thick at its thinnest and possibly more than ten meters at its thickest!

Thump! Thump! Thump!

At Tang Ye’s command, Ah Fu was stepping towards the hive. As they approached it, Tang Ye found that, although the zombies in Liang City were numerous and horrifying, there weren’t many zombies around the darkened area underneath the hive.

From time to time, zombies similar to Xiao Bai, but entirely grey, hopped out. However, many of them were missing limbs, or covered with huge lumps on their heads, extremely repulsive.

It seemed that most of the zombies birthed by the hive were deformed in this manner, almost none of them were considered pleasing to the human eye—except for Xiao Bai.

Ah Fu was massive and his movement as a Level 6 seemed a bit slow, but he was far from sluggish. With a few large strides, he arrived in front of the hive.

He put down Tang Ye and Liang Hanyang. As for Xiao Bai who was in a daze, he casually tossed it aside. Liang Hanyang exclaimed in shock with a pained expression when she saw this.

"Ah Fu, what are you doing! It’s my treasure!"

Ah Fu ignored Liang Hanyang’s outburst. Meanwhile, Tang Ye scanned the surroundings and found that there were indeed very few zombies under the hive, unlike the outside with its mass of zombies. The zombies in the hive were all born from the hive and were all sleeping on the ground.

In stark contrast to the outside zombie swarms, it was strange. The hive was a one-way street for zombies. Presumably, the zombies outside didn’t like the hive’s scent. As soon as the zombies inside woke up, they would run out and never stay for long.

Although Tang Ye speculated so, he didn’t sense anything odd about the hive.

The interior of the hive was chilly. Despite the darkness, Tang Ye’s night vision allowed him to clearly see everything inside.

The ceiling of the hive was as dark as a meaty shed between heaven and earth. From Tang Ye’s viewpoint, it was a mixture of black and purple, forming strange patterns.

Also, there were many knife-like meat pillars plunged into the ground, and a myriad of holes could be seen on the ceiling of the hive— possibly up to thousands.

Thump!

At that moment, Tang Ye saw the flesh around one of the holes in the ceiling of the hive writhing. In a while, a round, rolling object fell down. It bounced a few times after hitting the ground and then stopped. With an audible "plop," it flattened out, releasing a stream of pus-yellow fluid. Inside it was a zombie, grey all over, bald, its terrifying body covered with prominent black veins.

Tang Ye’s eyes narrowed. He said, "This must be a newly born zombie."

"Yes, these zombies are birthed from there." Liang Hanyang confirmed beside him.

The newly born zombie was quite clean. Judging from how its ’egg’ bounced a few times when it fell, it seemed the ground was meaty and part of the hive.

The zombie didn’t look like a human infant after birth, but appeared fully grown. When its egg broke open, it didn’t wake up immediately but continued to sleep.

When the pus-yellow fluid from the egg scattered all around but was then absorbed by the ground made of the hive’s flesh right before Tang Ye and the others, the fluid slowly disappeared without leaving a trace.

"Let’s go and have a look inside the hive," said Tang Ye.

As he was about to step inside the hive, Tang Ye suddenly realized something seemed to be missing from the city and retracted his foot.

"What’s the matter?" The human-form Ah Fu asked in confusion.

"Something seems off," said Tang Ye, squinting at his surroundings. Liang Hanyang beside him looked curious too.

"What’s off?"

Tang Ye’s gaze wandered from the zombies on the streets to the nearby buildings, then to the half-set sun, furrowing his brows.

"What’s missing in Liang City?"

The more he looked at the city, the stranger it seemed, but he couldn’t put his finger on it. It was like something common in Lin City, Hua City, and Yunchuan City was suddenly missing from Liang City, which made it seem odd.