I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1440 - 1435: A Normal World?

Chapter 1440: Chapter 1435: A Normal World?

At 8:40 p.m., it seemed as if the city was welcoming its last hustle of the day. Suddenly, the phone he had swiped from the spirited young man began to ring. Tang Ye walked over to it; it was an alarm, with a reminder stating: "Approaching curfew time..."

Looking up at the ceiling, it wasn’t just this phone ringing. Around him, there were also the sounds of other phones ringing, as if they were all reminding their owners. For Tang Ye, this noise was a bit sudden. He could hear the ringing of phones from all directions, but after a while, they were each silenced by their users. The few homes that still had lights on outside also went dark at this moment. Even the light from room 701 of the hotel extinguished. In this city, or rather, in this world, maybe his was the only light still on.

The sound of footsteps from people moving around reached his ears, and he heard the noises of someone getting into bed, covering themselves with a blanket, straightening their slippers, and other such actions.

Tang Ye also turned off the light, and the entire room was plunged into darkness. As for the outside world, not a single light could be seen, leaving only the silhouettes of distant mountains standing under the off-kilter night sky. Moreover, under this night sky, the cities of this world, or rather, all the cities of mankind, appeared very clean to Tang Ye, devoid of that industrial pollution present in the pre-apocalyptic world. However, this cleanliness was also a bit eerie since the stars above were so dim, although there didn’t seem to be many clouds.

Even the striking crescent moon exuded a chilling serenity.

He didn’t know what the person in the next room was doing. The curfew started officially at 9:10 p.m., but since it got dark, he couldn’t hear any noise from next door, not even a faint, almost imperceptible sound of footsteps!

What are they doing? Why is it so quiet? Humans aren’t like this!

Humans are social, high-order organisms, not dark, venomous snakes that lurk in shadows to strike their prey with a lethal hit!

In the dark room, Tang Ye once again picked up his phone, while Yu Guang kept an eye on some corners that people often overlook, to see if anything unusual happened all of a sudden.

But everything in the room was normal, on the contrary, he felt a bit paranoid.

Holding his phone, he opened the photo gallery. Tang Ye flipped through the photos he had taken before, and each item from the hotel regulations reappeared before his eyes.

Article 4: The sound insulation of the hotel walls is not very good, should you hear any strange noises please do not take them seriously, ignore them, and do not attempt to discern the content of the sounds.

The first few articles of the hotel regulations were about the local rules of Xi River city and related to this hotel. One can tell that the regulations differ from place to place. In China, articles three through seven and eleven onwards are fundamentally the same, with only minor differences in wording, but the meaning is the same. Outside of China, the rules vary by country, however, articles seventeen through twenty are unchanged!

Of course, the number of regulations also varies by region. For example, Xi River city has a total of twenty articles, which are quite standard. The least number of regulations Tang Ye has seen was in a state in America, with only thirteen articles. The most are in Lan Ou, where nearly every city has more than twenty-six; the highest Tang Ye has even seen reached fifty-six!

That’s more than double that of Xi River city!

But getting back to the point, there is one article in the Xi River city hotel regulations that states the hotel walls have poor sound insulation, which Tang Ye suspects to be a lie. But if it’s a lie, what are they really trying to convey?

Time always flies, and after pondering half of these twenty regulations, Tang Ye checked the time. It was now 9:08 p.m., but he hadn’t noticed any abnormal events occurring around him.

"Could it be that strange events will only happen after 9:10 p.m.? That nothing really happens before 9:10 p.m.? Are the people here too vigilant, having made all the necessary preparations after dark?"

Tang Ye thought to himself as he saw the time on his phone change from 9:08 to 9:09. Tang Ye knew it was time to close his eyes, not knowing why he chose to do so—perhaps because of what that young man, whom he thought was a fake transmigrator, had said.

"If you’re not developed enough, you need to keep a low profile first."

He knew too little about this false world right now. He might need to understand more to better leverage the rules and make choices that would benefit him in sudden situations.

Following this, Tang Ye closed his eyes, as if he was really asleep, but he was constantly aware of everything around him.

With eyes closed, darkness swallowed everything; he couldn’t see anything. This feeling was familiar, not because Tang Ye was used to the darkness he saw when he closed his eyes to sleep, but because he had rarely experienced this kind of darkness, yet at least he had experienced it before!

Quickly, he remembered the darkness behind the fire door! When he entered it, what he felt was the same as now—it was as if he closed his eyes, but in reality, he didn’t; he was looking at the darkness with his eyes open. Now, the situation was reversed, he was looking at the darkness in front of him with his eyes closed, this abnormal darkness!

In the quiet environment, all his auditory and olfactory senses perceived normalcy. He didn’t hear any noise, nor did he smell anything strange. His room was the same as before, with no changes whatsoever.

The feeling of having forgotten something kept striking him. He kept coming up with subconscious actions he wanted to perform, only to be blocked by some unknown "wall". Occasionally, a spark of inspiration would flash by, but he couldn’t grasp it.

In this entire world, there was only one word left—quiet. So quiet that he could not even hear the wind, although Tang Ye wasn’t sure if there was wind outside. Such a night felt wrong to him.

Time slowly slipped by under his careful perception, very, very gently, like watching the second hand of a clock tick by second by second. Tang Ye, with his eyes closed in this state, had no idea how much time had passed. As for things like counting, Tang Ye wasn’t the kind of zombie to create busywork for himself. Otherwise, it would be better to sleep peacefully.

It was this clear perception of the slow passage of time without knowing how long it had been that made Tang Ye, in the darkness, begin to let his thoughts run wild. Up until this point, he hadn’t noticed anything unusual. The regulations went through his mind one by one. In the end, Tang Ye silently thought to himself, "Is this a normal world?"

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