I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1463 - 1458: The Newcomer

Chapter 1463: Chapter 1458: The Newcomer

Just as Tang Ye thought, it was a woman, evident by her figure. The headscarf wrapped around her head concealed everything below her mouth and above her brows, leaving only a pair of eyes visible, making it impossible to discern what she truly looked like.

In her hand she held a black plastic bag, and in the other, a small iron shovel. She was vigilantly looking around while simultaneously searching for something.

Her target was very clear; it was the eyes that Tang Ye had placed. But how did she know where Tang Ye had inserted these eyes? Tang Ye remembered that when he was placing the eyes, there were no people around.

Tang Ye controlled his own eyes that had been captured in the plastic bag, making them pierce through the plastic and crawl out. The woman realized that the plastic bag had been torn open and hastily gave chase. However, how could an ordinary person, possibly unable to even handle a Level 2 zombie, stand a chance against the eyes that Tang Ye had placed?

Before she could even start to pursue, the eyes she had just caught disappeared in a swoosh, leaving no trace.

"Damn it! Who the hell did this!"

The woman swore loudly at her surroundings, frustrated that the eyes had vanished without a trace.

Tang Ye did not approach immediately. Instead, he controlled the two eyes that had escaped from the plastic bag to observe the woman. She may be an ordinary person, but she wasn’t normal by any means—who else would not only fail to be frightened by these creatures that had four segmented legs and bodies like large eyes, but would also dare to try and capture them with their hands?

Was she normal? Just yesterday, a man on the second floor of the hotel had nearly jumped out of his skin at the unintentional sight of Tang Ye’s eyes—that was a truly normal person, right? And in this world, he had not seen anyone brave enough to stroll the streets during the prohibited hours.

The woman roared in anger and had to continue searching. However, after realizing that she was looking for the eyes he had placed, Tang Ye made his eyes more secretive, no longer blatantly visible to passersby as before.

So, as she continued her search, she cracked her head open but failed to find the third one.

Through his own eyes, Tang Ye watched the woman’s every move. After some time passed, she didn’t exhibit any unusual behavior, which puzzled him.

From her actions, she definitely seemed like an ordinary person, but the source of her extraordinary courage was a mystery. She gave Tang Ye a different feeling compared to other people he had encountered; it was hard to put into words. It felt as if she was very familiar with everything here, similar to the difference in the presence of a child compared to that of an elderly person.

Pulling back the vision of his eyes, Tang Ye stopped monitoring the woman’s every action and headed toward her location instead. She was not far from him, and it only took a few steps to see her rummaging through a clump of grass. She was waving her shovel, digging up the soil and making a mess of the green belt with pits and bumps, greatly affecting the aesthetics. However, she didn’t seem to care about these details as she continued to dig furiously, cutting through plant roots and flipping them over.

At the same time, she was muttering something to herself.

"Where did they go? There should be plenty of them?"

"Damn it! This is too infuriating! So reckless!"

"Don’t come out! You’re not the one I want! I’ve dug up so many of you, always causing trouble!"

"..."

With her back to Tang Ye, the woman dug through the earth, sending clods flying everywhere, muttering to herself in a somewhat deranged manner, much like a lunatic who had escaped from a psychiatric hospital.

"What are you looking for?"

At that moment, Tang Ye’s voice suddenly sounded from behind her. His gaze fixed on the woman, a stranger’s voice suddenly appearing in such an environment would typically make one jump in fright, but the woman did not exhibit such a reaction. Upon hearing the voice, she turned around to look, as if Tang Ye was just standing in front of her, speaking to her in a normal tone.

She did not answer Tang Ye’s question but instead asked back, "Are those things thrown by you?"

"What things?"

"Don’t tell me you don’t know. It’s those strange things; I don’t even know what to call them—those with four segmented legs and a body like a large eye."

"What do you want with those things?" Tang Ye asked again.

"Oh, so they are yours then."

The woman put away her iron shovel and stated at once, certain of her conclusion.

"How do you know they’re mine?"

"So you admit it now?"

"Uh... seems like it..." Tang Ye furrowed his brows, the woman’s words suddenly made him feel that something wasn’t right, and it wasn’t the woman who was off, it was a sense of wrongness coming from within himself, he wasn’t right, he wouldn’t normally have asked like that, his thoughts...

"Are you new here?"

"New here?"

"As in you just came in. You don’t think everything you’re seeing right now is real, do you?"

"No... I don’t think so."

"That’s it then, that means you’re new here."

"What you’re saying... Does that mean there were others before me?"

"Yeah, there were many."

"How many?"

"Every person you’ve seen."

"What?"

"Don’t be surprised, those you saw during the day are all just like you."

Without giving Tang Ye a chance to respond, the woman leaned in and said to Tang Ye, "Wait, don’t speak yet, I know what you want to ask. Just remember, robbing Peter to pay Paul, got it? Okay, now I’ll ask you a question."

"Are you an ordinary person?"

"What does it take to not be an ordinary person?"

"No, no, shoot, jumped the gun there. I should’ve asked like this, are you good at fighting?"

"I guess I’m okay." Tang Ye looked curiously at the woman before him, somewhat puzzled by what she meant. Was she perhaps looking for a bodyguard?

"What do you mean ’I’m okay’? I’m asking if you’re good at fighting, like one person who can take on a thousand zombies."

"Against a thousand Level 9 zombies, I’d have to run."

"Hey, answer me properly... never mind, I almost missed the most important question, are you human or a zombie?"

"Have you seen zombies before?"

"Of course I have. Some are like humans, disguised as people, but in the end, I always find out. That’s why I always ask newcomers like this."

"So do you think I look more like a human or a zombie?"

To the woman’s question, Tang Ye continued with an ambiguous answer, but the next second, he was stunned. After hearing his response, the woman directly said, "Obviously a zombie."

"How do you know?"

"Generally, nine out of ten who answer like that are zombies."

At this, Tang Ye didn’t know what to say, but he wasn’t inclined to continue on this topic, instead, he asked, "You said there were many people who came before me, so where are those people now?"