I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1249 - 1244: The Blade that Slaughters Relatives

Chapter 1249: Chapter 1244: The Blade that Slaughters Relatives

Dai Changhao set the woman down from him, dropping her onto the ground as he sat there, laughing unrestrainedly. The two of them were ready for battle!

"Why are you here?"

Li Xiaoyan stepped back a few paces, asking with confusion. To be honest, upon seeing Hatred, his heart lurched sharply as if he were walking down a creepy alley and suddenly saw a woman in red up ahead, incidentally, just as he’d been fearing a ghost might appear in front of him.

It really was a case of fearing something would come to pass!

As Li Xiaoyan’s voice sounded, Hatred, sitting amid the rubble not far away, turned his head to look at him, then stood up and walked towards Li Xiaoyan step by step.

He came in front of Li Xiaoyan, his face expressionless, only saying, "I’ve finally waited for you."

Hatred’s voice sounded like a synthesized voice, frozen in fixed emotion, devoid of any soul, and his words made Li Xiaoyan’s heart skip a beat again.

"Have you been waiting here for me all this time?"

"Yes," Hatred answered without concealment, nodding briskly.

"Are you here to kill me?" Li Xiaoyan asked again.

Hatred shook his head.

"You aren’t here to kill me? Then what are you waiting here for?"

Hatred glanced at Dai Changhao standing behind Li Xiaoyan, who looked ready to fight at any moment, but Hatred paid him no heed. With hands behind his back, he paced back and forth in front of Li Xiaoyan, looked up at the sky as if organizing his thoughts.

"In the days I was captured by Paint Man, I didn’t try to escape like you did. There, I experienced an unprecedented level of quiet, and during that time, I thought a lot and suddenly cleared up many things. From the beginning, it seemed I wasn’t really with—" Hatred paused, his eyebrows suddenly furrowing into a "Chuan" character, as if he had forgotten something above. He tried to remember but couldn’t recall anything.

"What is... what’s going on? He isn’t Li Henian, then who could it be? Could it be, he really is Li Henian?"

The confusion in Hatred’s eyes quickly faded. He didn’t spend too much time on the question of someone’s name, quickly returning to the main topic. Shaking his head, he said, "From the beginning, it seems I was never on the same path as Li Henian. I’ve figured that out."

Li Xiaoyan silently watched Hatred for a while before saying, "So, you’ve betrayed the Peace Party? Betrayed the vows you once took?"

"Not at all, I haven’t betrayed anyone. I just want to leave. Since the beginning, my choice was a mistake. Li Henian’s path is different from mine. When I realized that, I still remembered, I just left."

"But why did you come here?"

"To take you with me. Li Xiaoyan, you should be with me, and so should Yan Jie. Let me take you away from Peace Party. This place doesn’t belong to us."

There was a long silence between the two. Li Xiaoyan just looked at Hatred and shook his head, "Do you know, your name is Chen Chaoyang? I didn’t expect you to be this kind of person when I came out, but you’ve changed, changed to the point that I don’t recognize you. You should know, if not for the Marshal, could your vengeance have been fulfilled?"

"Don’t you want to leave here? Or perhaps, you can’t let go of the glory and wealth here?"

"That might be, although the Marshal is a zombie, he isn’t much different from humans. Compared to you, I would rather choose the side of the Marshal."

Hatred didn’t speak again, but from him, a cold murderous intent began to emanate.

"Do you want to kill me?"

Li Xiaoyan became vigilant, Hatred didn’t respond, but his actions proved everything!

Spidery legs burst out from Hatred’s back, tearing through his flesh as the wind from the distant battle blew through Hatred’s white hair.

"Li Xiaoyan, be careful!" Dai Changhao shouted loudly. Li Xiaoyan, of course, knew what Hatred was up to. He quickly embraced Hatred and yelled, "Changhao, take that crazy woman and run! He might not kill me, but you’re not so lucky!"

Dai Changhao understood, he knew Li Xiaoyan and Hatred had a long history; Hatred had Li Xiaoyan in his life from the day he was born into this world. Perhaps Hatred truly wouldn’t kill him.

He didn’t hesitate, lifting Bai Yujie from the ground and sprinting away!

Hatred paid no attention to Dai Changhao. With a gentle exertion of force, the power emanating from his body already sent Li Xiaoyan flying!

Before Li Xiaoyan could get up from the ground, a serrated knife was already aimed at his neck, Hatred looking down at him from above.

"Do you want to kill me, Chen Chaoyang?"

Hatred looked down coldly at Li Xiaoyan, seemingly having lost the ability to speak since some time ago.

Li Xiaoyan, fearless, said, "Uncle Chen, Aunt Zhao have already died; in this world, I’m your only kin. After so many years of affection, I don’t believe you can bring yourself to do it!"

To Li Xiaoyan, Hatred was also family, and he was also family to Hatred. In this apocalypse, they trusted each other the most. How could family bring themselves to kill one another? Li Xiaoyan knew their relationship well, and that’s why he wasn’t very frightened.

But, Li Xiaoyan still hadn’t realized that Chen Chaoyang is Chen Chaoyang, Hatred is Hatred; they are not the same person!

So, Li Xiaoyan was wrong!

The moment his words fell, the serrated knife plunged down, the sharp blade and serrated back easily tearing open the flesh on Li Xiaoyan’s neck, piercing right through!

Li Xiaoyan’s expression instantly froze, his eyes filled with disbelief as he stared blankly at Hatred.

"Chen Chaoyang... you..."

Having only spoken these few words, Li Xiaoyan fell to the ground. The strong vitality of a Level 6 New Human maximally extended Li Xiaoyan’s survival time, but without immediate medical attention, such injuries would soon end his life on this spot.

Hatred didn’t bother with him and turned, walking towards the depths of the Red Ear District, leaving Li Xiaoyan lying on the ground, gasping heavily. But with each breath, a stream of air seemed to rush out from the neck wound. He tried to cover the bloody hole with his hands, but bright, vibrant red quickly covered his hands.

"Save... save me..." Having barely managed these few words, Li Xiaoyan became still.

...

"Scram!"

Near the Peace Party Building headquarters, following a blood-curdling roar, the battling soldiers all stopped and turned toward the source of the sound.

"Vice President Tang~"

The soldiers’ faces turned to terror. At that moment, they didn’t know who was an enemy and who was a friend—they were killing on sight, all for their own survival. But now, with one of the three chairmen, Tang Fu, appearing, they naturally felt fear. They were already severely violating the lines set by Peace Party by killing each other, but what frightened them even more was that the three chairmen seemed to be zombies!