I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 123 - 120_1

Chapter 123: 120_1

Bounty hunters, as the name suggests, are individuals who complete tasks assigned by their employers in return for bounty rewards. However, the employer in this case is not an individual but the government of the survivor bases!

For those New Humans who are unwilling to be recruited, the government will not force them. After all, provoking a New Human could result in greater casualties. Nevertheless, those officials in the government are not fools. They naturally have various ways to exploit these uncooperative New Humans.

Such as by posting bounty missions, providing them with you with work that’ll allow you to survive. It is essentially a way of subtly hiring these New Humans as laborers or temporary workers.

The New Humans who are recruited can be considered as one of their own. Whoever belongs to them will suffer no loss. As for those who are unwilling to be recruited, whose death wouldn’t concern the leaders at all, the more of them that perish, the better it is, especially when one less uncontrollable entity dies!

Of course, bounty missions do not necessarily have to be issued by the government. Some oppressed survivors can also give up some valuable items to post bounty missions, hiring New Humans or some exceptional individuals who were martial artists before the apocalypse to assassinate someone or something. But if they ask you to help them kill an evolved creature and get its Evolution Crystal Core for them, forget about it!

The Evolution Crystal Cores are the most valuable assets in the post-apocalyptic world. They can be consumed directly by New Humans to enhance their power. Once a New Human gets an Evolution Crystal Core, they would rather swallow it directly than fulfill a bounty mission for you.

The bounty rewards in bounty missions are divided into three categories:

1: Food. 2: Gold. 3: Evolution Crystals.

While Evolution Crystals can also be used to enhance the strength of New Humans, they need a complicated processing method. It requires the extraction of harmful components within them, and only the remaining evolution energy is made into a drug for consumption.

Due to this complicated process, many people find it troublesome and simply use the evolution crystals inside a zombie’s brain as a currency, which can be crafted into drugs to supplement their nutrition when they have time.

Following this, the profession of bounty hunting has started to spread in all major bases. At this stage in the post-apocalyptic era, every base has bounty hunters.

The disparity in strength between ordinary humans and New Humans is too vast. The consequences are obvious. Empowered by their inhuman abilities, New Humans run rampant, causing chaos everywhere. Initially, the government could keep things in check, but with time, the strength of New Humans has become the determining factor of who holds power. They have started turning a blind eye to the events where New Humans reign supreme over old humans.

Gradually, they completely turned a blind eye, and the society established by humans became thoroughly based on the rule of strength. Old humans have awakened and no longer dare to challenge the government, which has essentially become a different entity.

The inaction of the ruling class has turned these bases into hotbeds of criminal activity. The result behind all this can be easily imagined, right?

Many forces have risen, occupying different territories. Some forces in the bases can even compete with the base leaders! Behind each of these forces lies a powerful New Human!

Under such circumstances, New Humans casually dictating the lives of old humans have become the norm. At the same time, Level 1 New Humans are also at the mercy of Level 2 New Humans!

In this chaotic world, lives are worthless!

In the post-apocalyptic world, lives are worth a lot, but not enough to buy a moldy loaf of bread!

A world where strength reigns supreme has emerged, but slaughtering another person could potentially entice retaliation from their affiliated forces. To avoid being recognized by bounty hunters who had accepted the mission, people started to wear masks to hide their identities. But there are also many who wear masks merely for the mystery, not that anyone cares. Wear it if you want to, no one would give you a second glance, as there are many mask-wearing survivors and New Humans in Qinshan Base.

Chen Chaoyang is well aware of this fact. However, wearing a mask doesn’t mean you can enter the base freely. To enter the base, you have to register and take a photo for archival purposes.

These procedures are actually quite useless. As long as you have the ability to sneak into the base, no one would bother to investigate you.

After listening to Chen Chaoyang describe the situation in the bases during the post-apocalyptic period, Tang Ye was enlightened. He hadn’t returned to human society for a long time, and now it had changed so much.

However, after learning about the situation in the survivor bases, Tang Ye felt an inexplicable excitement. This was not because of Ning Yu’er, but his curiosity about the current human society.

He wanted to go in and see, and maybe... cause some trouble.

"Alright, I’ll find a mask. You guys wait here for me," Tang Ye said.

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned into a black shadow, and disappeared in front of Chen Chaoyang’s eyes, leaving Chen Chaoyang looking horrified and envious.

"A true mutant zombie!"

He certainly knows what he means by mutant zombies. During his time at Qinshan Base, he had learned about some of the zombie situation from some researchers.

Zombies generally evolve in three directions: strength, speed, and psychic control.

Strength-evolved zombies are skilled in strength and defense. But that doesn’t mean they have no speed. Strength-type zombies have a basic speed that will increase with level advancement.

Speed Type Zombies are also like this, favoring speed but also possessing basic strength.

These two types of zombies are very common, but psychic zombies are very rare. Most of them have a large brain with no evolution crystals inside. Compared to other evolved zombies, their brains are very plump, not dark and withered!

Their distinguishing trait is that they can command a large number of zombies to surround themselves, and even put zombies of the same level under their commands as guards. However, their combat capabilities are very weak, not even on par with normal zombies. Usually, they would prefer to be on their own, but once in danger, they will summon their kind from the surrounding areas at an extremely fast speed!

This is one of the reasons why many hunters despise them. Not only are they hard to kill, but there are also no rewards after killing them!

There are also various types of mutant zombies, but most are mere speculations. However, people have encountered some types of mutant zombies, and Tang Ye is one of them, possessing both strength and speed!

Other types of mutant zombies focus all their evolution in one direction - for example, a zombie that has discarded all basic speed to concentrate entirely on strength! As a result, their strength can be two or three times higher than evolved zombies of the same level.

This type of zombie is similar to Ah Fu, nicknamed Iron Simpleton. However, it appears no different from an average strength-evolved zombie, so Chen Chaoyang he could not tell that it was an evolved zombie.