I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1274 - 1269: The Living Knife

Chapter 1274: Chapter 1269: The Living Knife

Su Sigui and her group had fully entered the territory of the Royal Court by now, but the city built upon the giant rock still lay far from them. Yet, this distance did not prevent them from observing the prosperous street scenes of the Outer City.

The Royal Court had no walls against zombies, and just like the cities before the Apocalypse, Su Sigui and her companions saw rows of farms not far from them; on the streets, flocks of chickens and ducks, which had grown nearly one to two times larger than before the Apocalypse, were being herded by people.

Looking out the car window, one could see many workers busy atop the giant rock, installing something. Surrounding high-rise buildings could also be seen, embedded into the rock itself along with some staircases leading from the base of the rock all the way to the top—these were known as the "Stairway to Heaven," leading to the Inner City. The rock was immensely high and large, towering at least four to five hundred meters from the ground to its peak, making it evident that this rock was not a product from before the Apocalypse; otherwise, it would have already become a world wonder.

According to the elders, this rock had existed only since the arrival of Heavenly Khan. Before that, the place where the Royal Court now stood was a county town completely occupied by the "Blasphemers." When Heavenly Khan first appeared, the surrounding tribes could hardly withstand his attacks. Each of his generals was an unmatched powerhouse; tribal leaders who resisted were slaughtered by these generals without a single survivor. The remaining tribal leaders and city survivors also raised the white flag.

In just half a year, the surrounding forces had been unified. Unlike in China, where power was revered, here the defeated quickly submitted to that man and even referred to him as Heavenly Khan—an honorific that symbolized the highest respect in this region.

Soon after, this giant rock appeared here, and Heavenly Khan immediately established the Royal Court upon it. Initially, it was not called the Royal Court—Heavenly Khan, an ancient symbol of kingship, thus merited the term ’court’ in its honor.

Where the king resided.

Similarly, with Heavenly Khan, the city of the Royal Court possessed the best security. No one dared to act recklessly here, not even so-called Near-Heaven Level Powerhouses. Those who caused trouble, if minor, would be thrown into dark dungeons; if serious, they would be executed on the spot by many Near-Heaven Level Powerhouses!

Two years ago, a Near-Heaven Level Powerhouse had attempted to challenge Heavenly Khan, but before Heavenly Khan could act, the challenger was surrounded by more than a dozen Near-Heaven Level Powerhouses and beaten to the brink of death. Ultimately, he was torn apart by Heavenly Khan’s subordinates, and his blood completely dyed the streets of Etema below a deep red.

No one knew just how powerful Heavenly Khan was. It was said that when Heavenly Khan and his generals were campaigning, six Near-Heaven Level Powerhouses attempted to kill the isolated Heavenly Khan. The result was that those powerhouses were killed one by one by Heavenly Khan, their heads crushed, and their Evolution Crystal Cores turned into rewards for his subordinates.

The battle was described so casually; those Near-Heaven and Level 8 Powerhouses seemed as easy to kill as ants in his hands. People across the Royal Court now believed that he had transcended the Near-Heaven-Level, reigning as a deity above Changsheng Tian!

Not long after, Su Sigui and her companions had fully entered the Outer City of the Royal Court. The landscape outside the car window was no longer the wild prairie scenery but had transformed into bustling streets and towering skyscrapers. This city, called the Royal Court, was bustling enough to rival the world-renowned Super Sanctuary City Cloud Gorge Base!

The people coming and going did not have the numb and despairing expressions of those living at the bottom. Instead, their eyes continuously shone with a light called hope. It seemed that in this vast city, anything was possible!

Watching the scene unfolding before them, Su Sigui and her companions wore expressions of shock. If it weren’t for Uncle Tagu, they might never have known that such an immense city was secretly nestled within this boundless prairie and hills.

It seemed that many people recognized Uncle Tagu, and he enjoyed greeting them. Whenever he encountered someone he knew, he would enthusiastically strike up a conversation.

After a young girl who had just spoken with Uncle Tagu walked away, Su Sigui and the others shifted their gaze from the outside back to their surroundings. They observed the people passing by or caught by their gaze, hoping to find others like Kerting and thereby prove their conjecture.

However, such people seemed scarce, and they did not encounter many.

At that moment, ahead on the road, a shop’s rolling shutter door was opened, revealing a plethora of merchandise inside. These items were not food, toys, or everyday necessities but weapons! However, these were not common laser weapons or pre-Apocalypse firearms. They were all melee weapons!

Of course, these melee weapons weren’t the commonly used daggers and steel long knives, swords, and spears but an array of oddly shaped attacking organs. Obviously harvested from zombies, Su Sigui’s gaze scanned from Level 3 to Level 7. As their vehicle stopped in front of the shop, her eyes caught sight of a blade hanging in the center of the store, a sort of wearable arm blade, nearly a meter long with a curved and slender blade that had a bizarre aesthetic. In the middle of the blade, the zombie flesh that constituted the blade formed a vortex, and as Su Sigui looked at it, the flesh vortex slightly writhed.

This was a living blade! Such organs with this characteristic were all taken from a Level 8 zombie. Having lived through two lifetimes, Su Sigui had rarely seen organs harvested from Level 8 zombies. Level 8 zombies were hard to kill, except for some berserk ones that had lost their intellect and were left with mere madness, and some with extremely formidable mind-control abilities. Although the former was still Level 8, they had lost consciousness and only retained instinct, with no concept of their vulnerabilities. These zombies were generally some animals infected and evolved or high-level evolutionary beings turned into high-level zombies after being infected.

They would not protect their own Evolution Crystals. It was there from the start, and it stayed there, making them the type of zombies people most desired to encounter. However, these zombies were very aggressive, and if not promptly killed, hunter teams could suffer immense losses.

The latter types could control large numbers of zombies of the same or higher levels. Around such mentally strong zombies, several of the same level zombies would usually follow. But their Evolution Crystals were unlike other zombies. Generally, after evolving to Level 1, a regular zombie’s brain would generate an Evolution Crystal, but these needed to reach Level 4 to possess an Evolution Crystal, which was very fixed and couldn’t be moved. This made it very difficult to locate such zombies, and even if one were found, the high-level zombies surrounding it would have to be overcome first.

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