I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1190 - 1185: The Taken Fruit

Chapter 1190: Chapter 1185: The Taken Fruit

As a Level 4 New Human, and especially within Cloud Gorge Base, he was able to stride with authority due to his own strength. In the ground cities, most of the Chinese strongholds lived in Sky City, while those who remained below were as strong as he was. In the cities on the ground, he could be considered a top-tier powerhouse.

Although there were foreign stronghouses, within Cloud Gorge Base, even Level 6 New Humans wouldn’t dare provoke the Chinese, as it would bring nothing but trouble. The common saying was that by attacking the elders, they invited the wrath of the youth.

This was their territory. Would other locals let you off the hook if you attacked one of their own on their turf?

To foreigners, the hallmark of the Chinese at Cloud Gorge Base was their pride, extreme pride; to the point where no person of any other ethnic group could afford to show the slightest disrespect.

Thus, he lived quite comfortably at Cloud Gorge Base. To ordinary people, his status was comparable to that of a dominant president; he could solve any problem in the ground cities, which kept him from feeling his own vulnerability.

In the absence of stronger individuals, those strong amongst the weak could also be called strong.

But now, facing an adversary many times more powerful than himself, he could only watch helplessly as events unfolded, powerless to intervene!

In the first month after the post-apocalyptic outbreak, he evolved into a New Human by chance and discovered that he was immune to zombie infection. This made him a wanderer of the apocalypse. While others huddled in sewers, buildings, and corners, living like rats, he could boldly walk the zombie-infested streets to hunt evolved zombies and obtain their Evolution Crystals.

Back then, he was just a student who had finished his sophomore year in high school. At his age, he had enormous yearning for certain things. As a child, which boy didn’t dream of roaming the mortal world with a sword, free and unfettered? At that time, he was just like that—cool and dealing with all the injustice and darkness of the apocalypse with his fists and weapons.

As one of the first to evolve into a New Human, every opponent he faced ultimately fell before him, which made him even more arrogant, believing himself to be the chosen one, the protagonist of the world!

Almost in the second month of the apocalypse, on August 11th, he experienced a day he would never forget. He encountered a primary school-aged girl surrounded by fear in a horde of zombies.

After saving her, he saw the admiration she had for him.

That’s when he realized he liked that kind of look in someone’s eyes.

Her short ponytail fluttered in the wind, looking very beautiful in the apocalyptic sunset.

She told him that her parents had never returned since that day, and he chose to protect her with his strength, even though she caused him much trouble.

She said many people liked to bully her, but with a big brother like him around, no one dared to continue.

Clingy, she followed wherever he went, scared of interacting with others. Even if he went to dangerous places where he might not return, she still wanted to stick with him.

There was a moment when he considered abandoning her, discarding this liability, as he felt that he had reached the limit in protecting her.

But at Cloud Gorge Base, seeing her lost in the crowd, he suddenly realized that the dreams he initially had about his existence in this world had become about her existence.

She also said that she would marry him and be his wife, living a mundane life when the world was at peace.

However, all that was a dream.

Seven years ago, he planted a seed, nurtured it carefully, and after seven years, it sprouted roots, branched out, and bore alluring fruit. Unfortunately, that fruit was snatched by others. They held guns to threaten him, taking away the fruit he had painstakingly grown.

Looking at Mei Hong on the bed was extremely irritating to his eyes.

He wanted to feel angry, but he couldn’t muster the rage. Instead, he hated himself with a furious resentment, for his weakness, for being complacent and not striving to become stronger!

He should have realized early on in this world that only strength, only a powerful and hard fist, could protect what he wanted to protect!

But no amount of resentment or regret could change things now. He didn’t dare to meet her eyes, looking down instead, unable to see the tears falling.

Ah~!

"F*ck! Are you crazy!?"

Suddenly, screams echoed from outside—familiar sounds from one of the powerful individuals he had just seen. Following the scream, "bang, bang, crash, crash" sounds of a scuffle ensued.

It was these noises that jolted him awake, a crazed glint flickering in his eyes, the kind seen only in someone who had given up all hope for life.

Quietly, he picked up the scalpel beside him. Unlike ordinary scalpels, this one had a faint black hue—it was made from H-steel, meant specifically for operating on New Humans, as ordinary scalpels couldn’t cut through the skin of higher-level New Humans.

Picking up the scalpel without looking into the girl’s eyes, he took heavy steps out of the medical facility. Stepping out, he saw the stronghouses killing each other. Some of them were in strange conditions, their skin discoloring, and their eroded wounds were much larger than before.

He paused, not understanding what was happening.

In that moment, several more fell to the ground. They were fine one second, but the next, they were writhing and convulsing on the floor.

"Ah! Ugh... Ah!! It hurts... it hurts so much! I feel awful."

One of them convulsed severely, clenching his teeth. It was clear that he was enduring inhuman torment.

Yu Guang caught sight of the man who had just come out and desperately reached out, shouting, "Save me!"

The other man didn’t move but instead, the request brought a gleam of joy to his eyes.

"Save you? I’ll kill you!" His face suddenly filled with undeniable murderous intent. He charged at the man, scalpel in hand, and viciously brought it down!

The sharp scalpel effortlessly sliced open the stronghouse’s belly. Driven by anger, he exerted all his strength, tearing open the stronghouse’s skin bit by bit like a cogwheel.

"What are you doing? You looking to die?"

The other stronghouses nearby rushed over, including the one who had personally taken his precious fruit.

The moment he saw him, the doctor immediately abandoned the man before him and charged at the stronghouse responsible for his loss.