I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1453 - 1448: Shadow Graffiti

Chapter 1453: Chapter 1448: Shadow Graffiti

It seemed that something eerie had entered the zoo, as the animals, deeply asleep, suddenly stirred, sensing something. Tang Ye, advancing forward, suddenly halted and turned to look down at the ostrich, frowning deeply. He had felt something off ever since he entered; it was one thing for humans to adhere to the rules, given they are creatures of intelligence aware of dangers to avoid.

But to expect these animals to follow rules seemed rather unlikely. However, Tang Ye noticed that upon his entry all the animals in the zoo were like humans, deep in slumber. The ostrich near him seemed awake but appeared held down by an invisible hand, its eyes squeezed shut, forcibly made to comply with the rules.

On the white wall nearby, with a signboard hung, there was a humanoid graffiti seemingly drawn at random by a child. Tang Ye wasn’t sure if he had seen it during the day; perhaps he had, but maybe not?

As he approached the humanoid graffiti, Tang Ye extended his hand and touched it, his fingers picking up some dust. He brought it to his nose and sniffed; it indeed smelled of chalk.

"There shouldn’t be anything strange." After giving the graffiti one last look, Tang Ye left that place, following the map on the signboard towards the area housing crows.

As he walked, he found more humanoid graffiti, but with weird, intertwined lines, like a famous painter using the canvas to pull random lines in a childlike fashion. Yet such paintings fetched exorbitant prices on the market, unbeknownst to the buyers what the creator intended to express.

These graffiti looked ghastly, possibly left impulsively by a young, innocent child, but within this darkly engulfed zoo, they appeared immensely creepy. Walking among them, one could feel as if the things drawn had come to life, staring back with terrifying eyes!

These graffiti weren’t something one would expect in a zoo; they resembled scorched patches on a grassland, so out of place and inappropriate!

Tang Ye stopped at a corner; that’s when he suddenly felt a sensation of being watched yet felt it blurred, as if something influenced that perception, unable to discern where exactly it originated. He didn’t turn around, instead, he stood still, frozen like a robot abruptly powered down.

After about three to four minutes, the sensation of being watched started to fade, and Tang Ye continued walking forward until he saw the aviary housing crows stretching out from the zoo.

In this world, the crows he saw were distinctly different from other animals; they weren’t asleep but perched on branches staring off into the distance. Their brown eyes emitted a strange glow in the night, seeming to sense Tang Ye’s approach and possibly detecting no good intentions from this "person". As Tang Ye was about fifty meters away, the crows on the branches began to flap their wings and take flight!

However, as they were confined in the cage, they couldn’t fly out, only fluttering restlessly at the top of the cage, occasionally hitting the cage making a ’clanging’ noise, and their beaks emitting harsh, grating cries!

"Caw! Caw! Wuu~"

Tang Ye walked up to the cage, his face showing some disappointment perhaps because something he expected hadn’t occurred.

"Nothing too strange, just rather normal."

In an environment where everything was abnormal, even what should be normal was tagged "abnormal".

The cage was almost non-existent to him; he easily opened it, and with a tentacle stretched in, two of the crows unfortunately became Tang Ye’s targets.

The tentacle whipped up like lightning, seizing the legs of two crows. In a flash, Tang Ye held two crows in his hand—they were unable to struggle free from his grip, only able to keep screaming unpleasantly.

Just as Tang Ye was about to restore the cage with the crows, suddenly, he sensed something and whirled around. There was nothing behind him, but directly opposite him on a large tree, there was a humanoid graffiti.

"Do you really think I have dementia?"

Tang Ye’s eyes narrowed; he was absolutely certain and sure that when he had just passed by, there was no humanoid graffiti on this tree. It only appeared after he had captured the two crows.

"Does this count as something bizarre?"

Muttering to himself, he carried the two crows in one hand, approached the suddenly appeared graffiti on the large tree, stretched out his hand to touch it, then sniffed it, finding it was just pure chalk, nothing odd.

Possibly having thought of something, a barely noticeable flicker crossed Tang Ye’s face, then, thinking his memory might be faulty, he left.

The sounds and sights around him, this time were very quiet, only his footsteps echoed in the eerie zoo, like a different world from daytime. Here lived people, but in some unseen place where Tang Ye could sense no life, only a stench of death arose, the silence maddening.

One step, two steps, three steps, Tang Ye’s voice gradually blended into the darkness, as if he both entered the darkness and was swallowed by it, but soon, his figure reemerged carrying two pitiful crows and another hand wielding a blood-red long sword!

He came in front of the humanoid graffiti, and without a word, slashed down!

A ghastly scream suddenly pierced the quiet night sky, causing the hairs on the nape of one’s neck to involuntarily prickle!

The large tree, about the size two people could encircle with their arms, was cleaved in two, the humanoid graffiti vanished, some viscous black liquid appeared on the ground, and concurrently, a shadow that wasn’t Tang Ye’s split in two under the night sky!

Gurgle gurgle~

Strange sounds arose around him; as Tang Ye looked up, a rotten head dangled in front of him, its eyes still moving, seemingly still alive.

"Is this your true face?"

He walked past, stomping the head into a mush, while other hidden creatures started stirring, but Tang Ye stood still, as if someone was blinding him.

His brows furrowed tightly, not looking anywhere, seemingly resisting something, his feelings known only to him.