I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1173 - 1168: The Zombie Tide Closes In

Chapter 1173: Chapter 1168: The Zombie Tide Closes In

"The day has finally come."

Su Sigui looked up at the sky, where the thickness of the dark clouds was unknown to anyone, and the heavy snow fell continuously, some flakes landing on her face before quickly melting from the heat of her skin.

This scene felt both familiar and foreign to her because her arrival had caused the event to occur four days earlier than in her past life. Yet for the same event which had not yet taken place, the specific thoughts that raced through Su Sigui’s mind after the melting snowflake touched her face were now unclear to her.

Indeed, many things had changed. In her past life, when the zombie horde attacked Cloud Gorge Base, their numbers were at 1.4 million, but now, in this same event, the size of the horde had doubled!

However, she soon discovered the reason. In her previous life, the commander-in-chief of the United District at Dongsheng Co-management Branch was a man named Liang Hanyang; now, the commander-in-chief of the United District at Dongsheng Co-management was a man named Song Muyuan.

What exactly had happened?

Watching the snowflakes continuously fall from the sky to the ground, Su Sigui suddenly laughed, her expression peculiar, marked by anticipation yet tinged with worry.

Closer and closer it came, and as time passed, she found herself ever nearer to those familiar events. She didn’t know how much her presence in this life would change things. Would Li Henian remain unseen, whether alive or dead, or would he continue to exist within the public eye?

Would the timeline of this world follow its original trajectory, or would it change drastically?

All of this was unknown.

And so, Su Sigui was filled with both anticipation and apprehension.

"Changqiu."

Snapping someone to her side, Su Sigui called out a name, and swiftly, a woman approached, bowing respectfully.

"Mayor, what can I do for you?"

In a casual tone, Su Sigui stated, "Later on, pass down a notice: Just have those in charge go through the motions; save what we can."

"Eh?" Changqiu, the woman, looked surprised. This was not a situation where one could just fake an effort—this was a zombie horde of two million! If Cloud Gorge Base fell, the consequences wouldn’t be limited to the loss of the judiciary and Hidden Dragon Society. City of Bright Moon would also be severely weakened. How could they merely pretend to take action?

Changqiu couldn’t quite understand and looked at Su Sigui with a puzzled gaze, thinking she might have misspoken.

"Mayor, this strategy seems to harm us more than benefit us."

"It’s fine, ... alright then, you haven’t grasped it yet, so let me explain: The target of those zombies isn’t the people at Cloud Gorge Base. It’s the peripheral cultivation area. This horde, well, it’s being controlled by humans."

"Human controlled, Mayor, are you suggesting it’s the work of the Peace Party?"

"Mm, prepare a large amount of food. Cloud Gorge Base is going to have a tough time ahead. Let the residents live if they can survive; no need to worry about a food scarcity."

"I understand, and afterwards we can ’shear wool’ from those people again," Changqiu laughed.

Su Sigui also smiled like this. Exchanging a glance with Changqiu, a smile formed on her face, but it quickly faded as Su Sigui’s expression turned colder upon seeing the approaching ranks of judiciary and Hidden Dragon Society soldiers.

"This time, we’re not just shearing their wool; we’ll also strip them of their skin!"

From atop the zombie defense wall, the various commanders used binoculars to watch a long, black line slowly appear in the distance. As time passed, the line became thicker, and the contents of this black line more discernible—rotting zombies, one after another!

"Holy shit." The soldiers, ready for battle, couldn’t help but exclaim at the sight. The dense mass of zombies, unlike any they had seen before. But weren’t all the soldiers here veterans of many zombie sieges?

Especially the officers, who had battled the undead so often they couldn’t recall all the times; they knew all there was to know about hordes and recognized immediately that this horde was different.

Take for instance the million-strong horde that attacked four years ago: although it was a sea of corpses, the zombies lacked formation, scattered and disordered, uncollected in force but extending over tens of kilometers.

But this time, the zombies were tightly packed together, so crowded that it seemed impossible to stick a rod in between them. It was as though they were compelled to stay on their path, advancing shoulder to shoulder.

This sight was hair-raising, the fear of claustrophobia instantly triggered.

"Is the data tallied?"

"There are too many, no results yet."

"How long is the zombie convoy?"

"About seven kilometers."

An officer, tapping on a tablet, pulled up a video recorded by a scouting team from the top of a building. The streets below were awash like a river with rushing zombies, clambering over their peers without respect for traffic laws, roaring as they clambered across one another to get ahead.

This short twenty-second clip could stop a viewer’s heart. Even as the camera moved towards the horizon, the end of the horde seemed nowhere in sight.

The horde was still, with the outpost town some twenty kilometers away from Cloud Gorge Base completely overrun!

The scouts paled at the sight of the relentless tide below.

"Fuck, the dead are like bargain hunters in a promotional sale."

"Damn, now we’re in for it."

"Enough, keep it down. If we draw attention and those zombies come up here, we’ll join the ones running below."

Watching the video, each officer’s brow furrowed involuntarily, the staggering display of the two-million-strong horde beyond their wildest estimates.

Yet as the officers reeled from this, another scouting team reported harrowing news.

"This is bad. According to our assessment, the horde originated from Xige City and hasn’t targeted Dongsheng Co-management. They’ve traveled over a hundred kilometers directly to us. The zombies from the outpost have collided with the horde, and now the undead from the outpost have joined the movement!"

"What are you saying? Spell it out, is the situation more serious?"

"It seems so. The horde isn’t just two million—it could reach four million! All the zombies from Xige have left, and this is a horde made up of the undead from two old cities!"

"Four million?" Hearing this number, the officers felt dizzy, their limbs going weak with dread.

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