I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1057 - 1053: Birth of the Matrix

Chapter 1057: Chapter 1053: Birth of the Matrix

Seeing that his colleagues from the refuge had also arrived at the United District, Wei Ba decisively abandoned the idea of leaving the United District to return to the refuge. He looked at Sun Wen and others and said, "Don’t say it’s nothing, Old Sun, just look at how pale your face is, as white as a ghost. Don’t worry, we acquired a building here yesterday. From now on, this building will be our base in the United District. For now, let’s go there and rest."

Wei Ba’s words left Old Li and the others exchanging puzzled looks.

"Old Ba, you said... you have a building here?"

"Yes, oh, don’t worry, getting things done here is quite easy. Come on, let’s walk and talk."

Thus, Wei Ba took everyone back, talking as they walked about what they had encountered the day before and about the ruler of the United District. As Wei Ba narrated, people gradually understood the barbarism of the only remaining civilization in the apocalypse: simply needing to fight to acquire a building!

However, nobody noticed that Sun Wen’s pace was getting slower and slower, and at some point, he had unknowingly fallen to the very back of the group. His skin swelled with veins bulging like earthworms, his forehead was covered with blue veins, his skin turned an inflamed red, his throat emitted unconscious roars, and his head twitched slightly in mad fits.

Before long, under Wei Ba’s guidance, those who had come from the refuge reached the building that now belonged to Wei Ba’s group—the future base of the refuge in the United District.

A few people walked in. The building was empty. After Wei Ba had changed the ownership of the residential building to his name yesterday, he had driven out all its occupants. Compared to Wei Ba’s group, Old Li’s group who arrived today seemed somewhat excited, walking around and observing everything.

The only eerie factor was Sun Wen; he showed no curiosity about the surroundings, instead, he randomly chose a room, standing at the door, he called out in a feeble and somewhat hoarse voice.

"This... there’s no one here... right?"

"Huh? What’s up?" Wei Ba heard his voice but, at this moment, Sun Wen’s voice was too muffled for Wei Ba to understand what he was saying exactly.

"I’m asking... there’s no one inside, right?" Sun Wen’s voice got louder, making it somewhat clearer for Wei Ba.

"There’s no one inside, you want this room, right? Go ahead, it’s fine," Wei Ba said, yet Sun Wen’s throaty voice made him worried about Sun Wen’s condition. As Sun Wen opened the door to enter, Wei Ba called out to stop him.

"Hey, Old Sun."

"What’s up?" Sun Wen responded, turning around. At this moment, Sun Wen looked just like an unconscious zombie, his movements very stiff and mechanical.

And the instant Sun Wen turned around, his appearance startled Wei Ba.

"Oh my, Old Sun, are you alright!"

Sun Wen’s face was inflamed red, his veins dark and sprawling across his face like little snakes, both thick and long. But what was most eerie were Sun Wen’s eyes; his pupils were markedly dilated, which looked highly abnormal.

"I’m fine, I’m just tired, I need... I need... to sleep... to go to sleep."

Sun Wen shook his head dully, turned back weakly, and closed the door without further engaging with Wei Ba. As he walked away, out of Wei Ba’s sight, he still muttered unconsciously, "Sleep, I need to sleep, I... just want to sleep, sleep..."

Staggering along, Sun Wen’s blurry eyes spotted a floor mat without any blankets or sheets, but his consciousness was fading and he couldn’t care less; he was so drowsy that he just wanted to fall asleep and never wake up.

Suddenly, his legs seemed to lose all strength in an instant, and he collapsed onto the floor mat with a "bang", his eyelids closing rapidly. He lay motionless, his only sign of life being the rising and falling of his stomach, which didn’t last too long—about five or six minutes later, Sun Wen’s body began to convulse, writhing on the ground like a snake.

Meanwhile, in a different shelter, Lin Jie’s phone suddenly began to ring. Looking at the bodies scattered around, Lin Jie took out his phone and frowned at the message on the screen.

[Dear user, your subordinate unit number two has encountered an anomaly and is losing control. The slave parasite is struggling to resist, 1%...38%]

[Dear user, we are sorry to inform you that the slave parasite has lost control over the offline personnel. It is confirmed that the slave parasite installed in the offline personnel was forcibly removed. The location system has been activated, and the user can check the locations previously visited by the offline personnel or reinstall the slave parasite.]

"What’s happening?" Lin Jie wondered. The slave parasite could only be unlocked by the user it was bound to online; forced removal would trigger an explosion. From the message he received, the parasite was still able to locate the chip, which suggested that it had not exploded. Moreover, just a second ago, all the vital signs of his subordinate were normal, but suddenly, the control was lost.

Lin Jie’s eyes flickered with an eerie light under the dim illumination of the shelter, making him look like a vampire living in a dark, ancient castle.

"Arggh...ahhh~cough cough!"

Sun Wen’s body twisted more violently, his face becoming increasingly flushed, his pupils dilating until they filled with white. In the middle of his eyeballs, threads of blood began to appear, spreading out and crawling over his eyes, then climbing onto his eyelids, his veins growing thicker and turning a darkening purple!

His hands alternated between clenching into fists and relaxing, but one thing remained constant—his skin became more and more enflamed. Under the continuous pressure, his clothes tightened visibly, and within a few minutes, Sun Wen’s body had swollen significantly.

Gradually, his clothes began to show red, soaked through with the blood seeping from his body.

The howls coming from his mouth were emotionless—unconsciously issued, without pain or joy, like the first cry of a newborn baby.

"Err...err~uuuhh~"

Wow~

Suddenly, Sun Wen’s body twisted into a bow shape, and he spat out a mouthful of dense black liquid mixed with stringy saliva. Next to him, his abdomen could be seen writhing, as if something was inside, and he continued to vomit that nauseating black liquid.

Slowly, the liquid Sun Wen vomited was no longer black, but turned from black to dark green, then gradually shifted to moss green, and finally yellow-green, extremely viscous and utterly revolting!

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