I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1473 - 1468: Miracles Are Made by Humans

Chapter 1473: Chapter 1468: Miracles Are Made by Humans

"If someone dies for violating the Standards and Regulations, I would still enter without a collaborator. You might find it hard to believe, but miracles are created by people, after all, there’s a saying that as long as the will doesn’t falter, solutions will always outnumber difficulties..."

"...It’s that solutions always outnumber difficulties."

"The meaning is roughly the same, but I don’t take this kind of risk every time. When necessary, I’ll rush to the scene right after someone dies for violating the Standards and Regulations, and steal their body."

"Ah... What do you steal these bodies for again? I seem to have forgotten... There’s no need to take such a huge risk, right?"

"I don’t think I ever told you what I steal the bodies for, did I?"

Tang Ye squinted his eyes; it seemed to be the case indeed. Had he not asked before?

He shook his head. The influence of this place on him was becoming more and more serious. For instance, the questions he had asked Lu Xiaojie before, he felt like he had many questions, but couldn’t think of them, and in the end, he managed to ask just a few.

"So, what do you steal bodies for?"

"Do you know how a person who has been starving for several days, on the brink of death, reacts when faced with a table full of food?"

Tang Ye instinctively recalled the painting in the corridor from before—the family of five was dining. Was there any connection between what Lu Xiaojie said and these words? Then, he considered the reaction of a person who was on the verge of death from hunger when faced with a table full of food: gobbling down food savagely? Tears streaming down their face? Eating as if they want to stuff their stomach full of food?

"I know you’ve thought of it, but what I’m talking about isn’t that. Regardless of the reaction, after eating this table of food, how will the next meal be handled? Once eaten and digested, the situation will slowly return to how it was at the beginning, but no more food will appear, until death by starvation."

"What I do is to reduce by a little the amount of food that starving ghosts can eat in their first meal, even if it’s just a little bit." Lu Xiaojie answered, and the starving ghosts she mentioned were in fact the Nightmare Zombie King Dairya.

"But can this really have a direct impact? According to what you said, you deal with ordinary people, but if Dairya brings in a Level 6 or higher zombie or new human, thousands of ordinary people wouldn’t compare, would they?"

"I don’t know either, but I’ve been here for too long. All I can do is this. If I just assume it’s a drop in the bucket and don’t bother, then miracles will not occur. I’ve said it before, miracles are created by humans, and here, I’m the only one. If I don’t strive, how can there be miracles?"

"My end is the same as most people’s—there are only two outcomes: either survive and get out or be unified under Dairya’s will. What I can do, aside from waiting for death, is to strive! Keep striving!"

Tang Ye watched her retreating figure and remained silent, no longer speaking. He saw in Lu Xiaojie the sheer will of a person facing death, the desire for survival in dire circumstances, a desire that surpassed everything!

He didn’t know whether Lu Xiaojie’s claim that she had lived here for hundreds of years was true, but to wait for a Zombie King to starve to death was not as simple as waiting for an ordinary person to starve in a few days. The time she needed was too long, so long that it provoked utter despair in anyone who beheld it, prompting them to give up all their efforts and to await a miracle to naturally occur, or to wait for the day of their own demise.

However, Lu Xiaojie did not give up. Even as a slave, she was not defeated by the loneliness over time, and she continued to face everything with tenacity.

Lu Xiaojie turned her head, smiled at Tang Ye, and said: "What do you think? Do you find me admirable? But you should pray that you can find a way out. If you can’t, your end will be the same as all my previous partners. No matter how well you do outside or how strong you are, in the end, you’ll become one of the countless souls that even I can’t identify."

"As for me, I will be the same as now, meeting new partners after you until there will be no more partners, no more people or animals coming in, or until I am killed by Dairya in this fake world."

Tang Ye smiled without saying a word, for he might not die either; only the Tang Ye in this place would. Though he couldn’t explain why he believed he wouldn’t be one to die, the loss still seemed a bit too great, didn’t it?

He knew that outside, the Nightmare Zombie King was gradually extending its tentacles into China, which was his territory, the place where he was born and raised. He had an inevitable battle with the Nightmare Zombie King. If he gave up now, would he have to go through this all over again when he encountered it next time? That would be his last chance. In this gamble, if he lost, he would truly lose everything. Tang Ye hated that feeling of being forced to do something as the last chance.

Perhaps influenced by Lu Xiaojie, Tang Ye felt a sense of confidence inside him; could this be an opportunity?

Following Lu Xiaojie to another door in the room, they opened it, and the outside became much quieter. The piercing screams of the zombie horde that were all mixed together also disappeared. However, the quiet environment didn’t last long, because just like before, the ground here was covered with dense graffiti silhouettes!

After the two of them came out, these graffiti silhouettes immediately extended zombie claws, and hoarse roars slowly emerged.

Lu Xiaojie lifted her candle, walking unhurriedly toward the left side of the corridor. Any zombie daring enough to show its head would immediately receive a shovel to the face without a second word!

Although she was an ordinary person, Tang Ye believed that the combat skills she displayed would easily take down three or four adult men, which was evident from how she quickly disposed of two men in black earlier.

Her ruthlessness might even surpass Su Sigui’s!

"Walk faster."

She occasionally looked back and said to Tang Ye while swinging her shovel, and whenever she stepped on the ground, sometimes, the unlucky zombies that had just reached out their hands got their hands crushed.

Lu Xiaojie led Tang Ye through the corridors in a winding manner, resembling navigating a maze. The zombies that crawled out from the silhouette graffiti increased and gradually submerged the corridor behind them. However, Lu Xiaojie remained calm, and after turning left again, under the light cast by the candle, Tang Ye saw several bags of flour stacked up ahead. As they passed, Lu Xiaojie picked up a bag and after walking a few steps, she opened the door that appeared on the side.

"Come in here."

Tang Ye followed her in, and Lu Xiaojie closed the door behind them. The room was just as she said, empty, with nothing but fine decorations.

Not giving the zombies inside a chance to crawl out from the graffiti silhouettes, Lu Xiaojie rushed to the other door in the room, opened it, and led Tang Ye out. After walking to the right for a bit, Tang Ye saw a square wooden barrel.