I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1071 - 1067: Drain All Moisture

Chapter 1071: Chapter 1067: Drain All Moisture

"Stay back."

Tang Ye said as he stripped off all his clothes. A soldier handed him a towel to wipe off the disgusting pus from his neck and face. He then changed into the new clothes provided by the soldier.

"When will Xu Haishui return?"

The soldiers knew that Tang Ye was asking about Xu Haishui, the vice chairman of the Peace Party. They shook their heads and replied, "He didn’t say. He mentioned he was going out to draw the corpse tide here but didn’t specify when he’d be back."

Tang Ye nodded, "Since that’s the case, notify everyone to open all the northern gates completely. Ensure all the streets leading here from the northern entrances are clear and unobstructed, and keep a close watch on our defenses. We can’t let any of those ghostly creatures cross over."

"Yes!"

The soldiers shouted loudly. However, at that moment, one of the soldiers approached Tang Ye with something to say.

"What is it?"

Tang Ye noticed the soldier’s strange expression and frowned. His query made the soldier’s face turn even more hesitant. The surrounding soldiers seemed to know what had happened, falling silent and directing their gazes toward their comrade who stood next to Tang Ye with something to say.

The atmosphere made Tang Ye feel an unusual unease. He turned to the soldier next to him and asked in a stern voice, "What happened? Speak!"

"This..."

The soldier glanced around at his comrades. Their stares made him feel an unprecedented tension, fearing that revealing what had happened might lead to Tang Ye killing him on the spot!

That would be an undeserved death.

He somewhat regretted stepping forward. Knowing what he knew now, it seemed like a better deal if someone else died. As for himself, it was as if nothing had happened.

But it was too late. Even though he didn’t want to speak now, Tang Ye’s relentless gaze told him he had to.

"I... Marshal, your... Miss Li has been kidnapped!" After stammering for a bit, he finally closed his eyes and blurted out the rest of the sentence in one breath.

The words echoed repeatedly in Tang Ye’s mind, virtually instantaneously conjuring the image of Li Qingtian.

In the United District, Miss Li could only be Li Qingtian!

Tang Ye felt somewhat dazed. Li Qingtian had been kidnapped? The United District was his territory—who would dare kidnap Li Qingtian?

"She’s been kidnapped? My sister?" Tang Ye repeated in a daze while the soldier opposite him nodded.

"How could she possibly be kidnapped?"

"We don’t know; it wasn’t our people from the United District."

"Then who was it?"

"It seems to be Lin Jie, someone who took over a sanctuary. We captured one of them and only then did we learn that the person who kidnapped Miss Li was Lin Jie."

"Lin Jie?"

Tang Ye’s mind thundered, immediately realizing it was the Level 7 New Human who had nearly killed Ah Fu in Jiuge. He had come for revenge. In the United District, who else would dare kidnap the marshal’s relative but someone who could contend with the marshal of the United District? And that person was Lin Jie!

A fierce murderous intent flashed through Tang Ye’s eyes as he thought, "I haven’t even come looking for you, yet you dare to come to me!" A streak of blood flashed deep in his pupils, filled with endless ferocity!

"Lin Jie took over a sanctuary? And you extracted this information from someone at the sanctuary?"

"Yes," the soldier nodded. Under severe interrogation earlier, a soldier from the sanctuary had spilled everything that had happened there. Now, the head of the sanctuary had been killed, and the current head was that guy named Lin Jie, and the entire sanctuary was under control!

What Tang Ye didn’t understand was, now that Lin Jie had control over the sanctuary, why were people still entering the United District, and what for?

"Take me to that person, I want to ask him myself!"

"Yes!" the soldier nodded again. Seeing that Tang Ye wasn’t extremely furious or intent on killing him, he breathed a sigh of relief and led Tang Ye to the place where Li Qingtian had previously been captured by Lin Jie.

"Marshal, it’s just ahead."

After crossing the street, Tang Ye followed the soldier to another section of the defense line. As soon as they arrived, Tang Ye saw several people gathered ahead. Upon seeing him and the soldier, someone hurried up to them.

"Marshal," a few soldiers greeted Tang Ye respectfully, then turned to the soldier with Tang Ye, frowned, and shook their heads.

"What’s wrong?" the soldier asked, puzzled.

Tang Ye, seeing the shaking of the head, also narrowed his eyes, feeling a sense of foreboding.

"What happened again?" Tang Ye asked him afterward.

"Marshal, come with me and see for yourself," the soldier replied.

The soldier led Tang Ye into the crowd. When the soldiers saw Tang Ye, they quickly cleared a path, and Tang Ye saw what was inside.

It was a corpse. In the post-apocalyptic world, that wasn’t unusual, but the words flashed through Tang Ye’s mind.

"The person is dead, and the clue is cut off!"

The way the corpse surrounded by the soldiers had died was bizarre, all flesh shriveled, the skin dry and yellow, clinging to the bones, clearly a mummy! All bodily functions had ceased! It lay motionless in a pool of blood.

"What happened?" Tang Ye asked everyone.

"Marshal, he should have told you about this area. This person was a member of the sanctuary that we captured. But right when he was about to report to you, he turned into this, now a mummy. However, we found this on the back of his neck," another soldier stepped forward, taking a bloodstained shard from another soldier. It was a fragment of a slavery worm.

"What is this?" Seeing the strange pile of fragments, Tang Ye was also puzzled. The fragments seemed to be shaped like an insect when assembled together.

"We don’t know either, but it’s this thing that dried out all the water in his body."

"Dried out all the water?" Tang Ye picked up a piece of glass shard, which was covered in thick blood. The indescribably tempting smell of blood lingered at the tip of Tang Ye’s nose.

"Yes."

"When did this happen?"

"Just half a minute after he left to report to you."

"He was from the sanctuary... I have looked into it, there are quite a few sanctuaries distributed in Longyang City. Did he say which sanctuary he was from?"

"He did; it’s called Cigong Sanctuary."

"Cigong Sanctuary?"

"Yes, that’s the sanctuary. But what’s troubling us is, we only captured this person, and now he’s dead, cutting off the clue. Perhaps he wasn’t the only one who came to our United District. His sudden death is likely due to this thing, which might be remotely controlled by someone to control others. His death might mean that others who came from Cigong Sanctuary to the United District have been killed by this thing as well."