I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1266 - 1261: The Land Where Life is Forbidden

Chapter 1266: Chapter 1261: The Land Where Life is Forbidden

"Boss, where are we going next?"

Chen Zhou’an asked beside him, seemingly going back to the years when he had followed Tang Ye to the Chenyang Base and then returned to the United District.

"I don’t know, but I don’t want to stay here any longer. Let’s keep moving forward until we feel like stopping."

Tang Ye looked towards the direction of the United District and said, "When you stand atop the peak, all other mountains seem small." At this moment, standing on the back of the Nest, Tang Ye could already see the United District, engulfed by a deep new color—a combination of various colors resulting in a likely brownish hue—creating an unsettling feeling. It wasn’t as inherently detestable as the vivid new colors, ranging from red to blue to purple, but its deepness signaled ill omens.

There, it had become a no-go zone for humans, and Ting Ye saw through his retinas how the enveloping color of the United District was spreading outward, expanding its territory.

As Tang Ye spoke, everyone around became silent. They had seen the entirety of the United District, the "Q"-shaped zombie barricades snaking like mountain ranges—prominent reminders of the Sanctuary City where they had lived for several years. Now, just as Tang Ye said, it was dead.

Scenes from the past flashed before his eyes—the moment he knew he was taken away by Lin Jie or when the rebellion of the Peace Party soldiers had ended—as fleeting as an inconsequential dream.

The Nest kept moving forward. They watched the United District draw nearer yet swiftly recede. The United District watched them leave, or rather, they watched the United District slowly vanish from their sight until it was an insignificant grey dot on the horizon. At the same moment, everyone had the same thought flash in their minds: "Farewell, United District."

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Time quickly passed, and as days and nights cycled relentlessly, the annihilation of the United District caused panic everywhere. No one knew what exactly had happened—how it had vanished without a trace within a day. Numerous superpowers, upon hearing about this disappearance, immediately dispatched investigative squads to South China to collect clues and uncover the truth, considering the significant influence of the United District—a top ten global superpower—its sudden disappearance was alarming.

With the presence of these investigative squads, regretfully, they could neither enter nor dare to approach the United District. They hadn’t even reached Longyang or the adjacent Xisong City before being blocked by hazardous radioactive substances potent enough to alter Level 7 New Humans!

Apart from Longyang City and Xisong City, the nearby cities of Hongzheng and Yu City were also partly affected, while other areas remained normal.

It seemed as though, shortly after the superpower of the United District disappeared, a large area around it was circled in red by the heavens. It was alright not to enter, but once inside, a variety of terrifying events occurred—spiritualized monsters, various abnormal creatures parasitizing other life forms, and some living terrains—all eerie enough to make one’s skin crawl.

Countless investigative squads perished inside; as for the exact situation of the United District, although people knew its location, the surrounding vegetation’s explosive growth and mutations covered everything, leaving no one with a clear understanding of the current state of the United District.

Even Level 7 New Humans inside the zone turned into creatures, some with their flesh mutated into plants rooted to the ground, and others transforming their limbs into tentacle-like branches.

During this time, the United District truly became a forbidden zone for life!

Speaking of the United District’s disappearance within a day caused inexplicable panic, piquing curiosity about what had really happened inside.

And the most terrifying thing was that not a single person escaped from the United District—not a single survivor. This meant that the nearly five million people living there were wiped out in an instant—either turned into monsters or already dead!

Only a few individuals from the nearby Survivor Forces managed to escape, but regarding what exactly happened in the United District, that was completely unknown.

The sudden disappearance of the United District became a hot topic among many. Various theories circulated, one version suggested that the United District was punished by divine beings—a ludicrous claim, yet many believed it. After all, in the Apocalypse, some frantically begged for a return to life before the Apocalypse, spawning many churches preaching the existence of deities and attributing the catastrophe to humanity’s environmental devastation.

Another theory blamed the explosion of the nuclear power plant in the United District, leading to its and the Peace Party’s disappearance within a day. However, this theory was quickly dismissed—if it were just a nuclear explosion, how could it be that not a single person escaped?

That was a sanctuary city of over four million people!

Even with the lowest probabilities, no one believed it. Some suggested that the explosion at Changheng Power Supply coincided with a massive zombie surge. Although investigative squads couldn’t confirm what exactly happened, every zombie in the cities around the United District had vanished, leaving only a few low-level zombies.

However, many doubted this theory as well. The United District’s superpower status and the leading force of the Peace Party’s capability to utilize zombies as labor made it highly unlikely for the district to fall victim to a zombie surge. Of course, if an accident occurred, then no one could be sure. It was unknown if anyone else had mastered the Peace Party’s method of controlling zombies, staging a great zombie battle against the Peace Party.

This was undoubtedly the closest to the truth, but no one could imagine or believe that during the zombie surge, zombies had already surrounded the United District, and those who attempted to flee early became the first pitiful victims to die in the surge.

As for someone escaping by airplane?

That was impossible. The Peace Party had never anticipated such a day, even during the early rebellious phase. Those loyal to the Peace Party wouldn’t believe in its defeat, given its evident strength. Moreover, due to the Peace Party’s deep hatred for rebels, to leave no avenue of escape, all aerial vehicles were firmly controlled by the Peace Party. To leave by airplane, one needed the Peace Party’s permission and a substantial payment of Yajin.

And the original underground forces had long been eradicated by the Peace Party, the remaining ones merely existing in a form of business cooperation, posing no significant threat.