I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1326 - 1321: Two New Guests

Chapter 1326: Chapter 1321: Two New Guests

This child, he replaced Song Muyuan’s role in reaching Cloud Gorge Base as Abeng. He should have enjoyed himself thoroughly at Cloud Gorge Base and then easily returned home after meddling in some affairs. Yet, due to Yi Huangcheng’s commission, he and his team had been busy for a month and a half and still hadn’t found that woman named Long Yingjia.

As he learned, the entire population of Cloud Gorge Base was nearly twenty million. Walking the streets every day, what he saw was nothing but people, as dense as water in the sea. Under these circumstances, finding one person was truly like finding a needle in a haystack!

He didn’t even know how he had managed during this time. Originally, because of his delicateness, he had turned into a ghastly figure, his clothes tattered and his face so grimy that his original features were indiscernible, resembling a beggar. Although part of this appearance was his own doing, he wouldn’t have needed to end up like this if it weren’t for helping Yi Huangcheng find that damn woman.

He still remembered the first day he entered Cloud Gorge Base, it seemed he was kidnapped by human traffickers right in Summer T12 District. Back then, he was still clueless. He had never imagined that someone would dare to kidnap him!

And the result was that those traffickers turned into silver-armored zombies, who were just ordinary people. After turning into silver-armored zombies, they remained weak, just at the level of ordinary zombies. He didn’t bother about these silver-armored zombies, but even such zombies had caused great panic in Summer T12 District once discovered, making everyone fear for their safety.

Sitting on the steps, Abeng adjusted his dirty clothes and took a deep breath, relaxing for a while. It was good to rest after such a long period of work, while elsewhere, his team was still working hard. But Abeng had already given up on the commission.

Finding such a person was too difficult. In Cloud Gorge Base, most of the people moving on the streets were men; it was rare to see women. In the post-apocalyptic world, even within Sanctuary City, it was very dangerous for women to walk on the streets. Many women either became slaves or hid in their dwellings, with men generally providing for their necessities and food.

The women who boldly walked on the streets usually had considerable strength or were accompanied by several powerful protectors.

A little farther away, the screen on the skyscraper kept flashing through different scenes. This was a high-rise built by wealthy businessmen for advertising before the Apocalypse. Now placed here, it clashed sharply with everything on the street. Through the glass windows, one could see silhouettes peering down. In front of Abeng was a Japanese restaurant with grand decor. The fact that it was operating here also indirectly showed its affiliation with the five major gangs of Wanhe Third District, naturally linking it to Zhukouchuan. Without connections, opening a restaurant here would only turn it into a free food distribution point for the people.

The restaurant was brightly lit. From where Abeng sat, he could see inside where women in kimonos and kabuki dancers swayed to the slow interwoven music of Japanese koto, taiko, and shakuhachi, their wrists delicately turning fans, sometimes covering their faces, sometimes sweeping around them. There were occasional sleazy laughs from inside, filling the place with a decadent atmosphere.

Abeng watched for a while but soon felt bored. He just couldn’t appreciate this strange dance and the somewhat eerie and disturbing music. Compared to this, he preferred to watch Sister Gong Xiao perform in a JK outfit.

After a brief silence, his pupils suddenly deepened. He checked on his team’s situation; they were still continuously inquiring about a girl named Long Yingjia. Everywhere they went, they would stop someone and ask if they knew a woman named Long Yingjia, but the results hadn’t changed at all. It was either a shake of the head or a simple, "No."

At that moment, the screen on the nearby skyscraper flashed and then changed to a news segment.

[After disappearing for three years, Li Henian, the overlord of South China, reappears. The council members are threatened—is it a king’s return or a raid?]

On the screen, an image appeared of a man in a suit, one foot on a long table, with a group of zombies and Level 8 New Humans forming a stark confrontation behind him with the people to the right.

The heavy force had cracked the long table, and the door behind it was bending, about to detach from its frame. This news piece caught the attention of Abeng, as well as that of many others; they glanced over, commenting in their own languages with a look of longing in their eyes, yet there was also an undeniable sense of an impending end. They could recognize that each person sitting beside the table was a Level 8 Powerhouse from Cloud Gorge Base, and although they did not know Li Henian very well, they were aware of him as the overlord of South China.

The crowd that had stopped to watch soon dispersed. To them, this news was undoubtedly like hearing before the Apocalypse of another tycoon creating a wealth legend, too high-level for ordinary people, merely something to watch without involving them.

"Jeez, the incident from a week ago is only being reported now."

Abeng couldn’t help but comment; he had known eight days ago that Khan and his group had entered Cloud Gorge Base. That day they had severely extorted the Level 8 New Humans from the council, possibly because Khan intended to stay permanently at Cloud Gorge Base, and the information department seemed to be showing signs of defecting to them.

Everyone knew that beside Li Henian, there were not only Level 8 New Humans but also Level 8 zombies working for him; under such circumstances, unless they were foolish, both powers wouldn’t clash with Li Henian. The Level 8 New Humans were manageable, but Level 8 zombies were essentially walking contagions!

Once the explosion happened, even if they won, Cloud Gorge Base would still end up in a semi-collapsed state.

The thought of a zombie tide erupting from the inside was chilling, and there were rumors that behind Li Henian stood a Zombie King from the Chinese Continent—just that fact alone was enough to deter any rash actions, as pushing him too far might lead him to directly have the Zombie King attack the city, which would be a Pyrrhic victory.

The news report lasted only about two or three minutes before quickly switching to other scenes. In the Japanese restaurant in front of them, two new patrons had arrived, apparently locals from China, as their language verified this.

"Old Shen, let’s splurge today."

"Hehe, I heard the girls here aren’t bad..."

"You know me so well."

The two men toyed with a green Evolution Crystal in their hands, smirking lasciviously. Their identities seemed not so simple; as they approached the restaurant, several waitresses in kimonos ran out, greeting them with poorly pronounced Chinese, "Welcome."

PS: The sequence was wrong, I didn’t notice it just now, but I’ve already contacted the editor-in-chief, and we will change it back soon.

Oh, I’ve been a bit careless