I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1474 - 1469: The Speeding Wooden Cart

Chapter 1474: Chapter 1469: The Speeding Wooden Cart

"Get on!"

Lu Xiaojie said.

"Get on?"

"Yes, hurry up!"

"This is...?"

"A vehicle."

Tang Ye looked down and saw that this square wooden barrel had wheels fitted at all four corners, and on the other side, there seemed to be a handle for steering.

"What on earth is this?"

Looking at the flat terrain of the corridor, Tang Ye was skeptical whether this so-called vehicle could actually move.

But under Lu Xiaojie’s urging, he still got on.

"I know you can run faster than a car, but we can’t expect you to carry someone all the time, right? You take control of the direction, there’s a big bend up ahead. If you crash into a wall, I’ll have to look down on you – you’d be no better than those of your kind with lower ranks."

After Tang Ye got on, Lu Xiaojie followed onto the vehicle.

Heh~

The withered hands emerging from the ground, just like before, became more numerous. Just as Lu Xiaojie had gotten on, a zombie halfway emerged from the shadowy graffiti clamped its rotten hand from his wife’s eye onto the so-called wooden vehicle. But Lu Xiaojie did not even glance at it; she chopped it off with her shovel.

"Ready yet?"

"What do you think?"

"Then let’s go."

Lu Xiaojie nodded, raised her shovel, and chopped down on the rope beside her!

Clang! Pull!

Following the sound of something breaking, Tang Ye immediately felt the wooden vehicle shake and then start to slide forward, and its speed was surprisingly not slow?

The zombies crawling out from behind one by one gradually formed a scalp-exploding tide of corpses, but as the wooden vehicle started, the tide was quickly stretched out a long distance.

Lu Xiaojie, from the back, flicked a piece of metal from the handle of her shovel, slashing open the bag of flour she was holding, and then threw the whole bag behind her!

"Go, my darling!"

In an instant, the white powder covered the corridor behind them. Tang Ye glanced back and saw, amidst the cloud of white dust, a long tentacle that appeared to be reaching for the wooden vehicle, but its view was blocked by the flour and it crashed loudly into the corridor wall!

"What was that?"

"A wall. It might not be much for you, but if it catches you, all our previous efforts will be in vain."

"Will it return to the second day?"

"Yes, but I won’t have any issues. However, your situation might be more severe. I know you’re not afraid of these things, but you can’t kill them all."

As Lu Xiaojie spoke, she placed the candle she had been carrying beside Tang Ye so that he could better see the road ahead. However, the corridor stretched straight ahead, and Tang Ye hardly needed to use the steering handle.

Before long, the candlelight that shone into the total darkness ahead seemed to reveal a slight change.

"It seems there’s an intersection ahead."

"Just a crossroads, don’t worry about it, keep going forward."

"Okay." Tang Ye nodded and didn’t concern himself with it any longer, while Lu Xiaojie said, "There’s another one up ahead, just continue on. We’ll come across several forks soon, just take all left turns."

Lu Xiaojie didn’t fix her gaze forward while speaking from behind, as if she was observing something else.

Looking ahead, Tang Ye soon saw the next fork in the road by the glow of the candlelight. He gripped the steering handle, turning it to the left, the wooden car made a "konglong" noise as it proceeded down the right hallway. Decaying claws stretched out one by one from the shadows, but were quickly crushed and smeared by the wheels of the wooden car!

"What are you looking at?" Tang Ye glanced back at Lu Xiaojie and noticed that her attention was still behind them, prompting him to ask.

Lu Xiaojie turned around and let out a sigh of relief, "It’s fine now, no major troubles at the moment."

"What kind of trouble?"

"Nothing for you, and it’s not difficult for me either, just annoying is all," Lu Xiaojie answered vaguely, and Tang Ye realized she didn’t want to disclose more, so he didn’t press further.

After passing several more forks like this, Lu Xiaojie’s voice came again: "We should be close now, there’ll be a T-junction ahead, turn right."

The wooden car raced along, making "creaking" sounds continuously, especially when turning the steering handle, making Tang Ye doubt whether this contraption would suddenly fall apart.

The wooden car sped forward, zipping along like a sports car on a highway at full throttle. Since Tang Ye couldn’t see the terrain beyond the candlelight, his gaze was fixed ahead, watching as patches of darkness were chased away by the light of the candles!

The terrain ahead changed rapidly, quickly transforming from the straight, flat corridor to a steeply winding descent. However, with Lu Xiaojie’s warning, Tang Ye was prepared. Despite the obstructed view, his reflexes were extraordinary, and he smoothly navigated the sharp turn.

The sounds of breaking bones and the "crack" of decaying zombie skeletons under the wheels, as well as the already severely decomposed flesh being crushed into a pulp, emitted a cringe-worthy noise.

Following Lu Xiaojie’s direction, the wooden car arrived at the T-junction. Anticipating the road conditions ahead, Tang Ye warned Lu Xiaojie, "Hold on tight."

As if she knew what was about to happen, Lu Xiaojie clutched the wooden frames on both sides tightly.

"Drive on."

Tang Ye nodded. It seems that Lu Xiaojie and her collaborators did the same when driving the wooden car. Approaching the junction, he jerked the steering handle sharply, and the wooden car gave out a frequent and dangerous "creaking" noise as the wood composing the body began to twist.

"Don’t use too much force; if it breaks, we’re done for."

Tang Ye ignored the warning, and with his maneuvering, the wooden car suddenly went airborne; its front end spun in midair before slamming down on the ground with a loud bang!

Thud!

To everyone’s surprise, the quality of the wooden car was unexpectedly good; it didn’t fall apart upon impact.

"There’s another one ahead, be careful!"

Keeping a close watch ahead, Tang Ye quickly saw the second T-junction as the candlelight moved forward.

"Which way?"

"To the right!"

Mirroring his previous maneuver, Tang Ye swung the wooden car into the air with inertia, executing a 270-degree sharp turn and drifting into the right corridor. At this moment, the speed of the wooden car increased sharply. The zombies smeared on the floor didn’t have time to react before the wooden car left them far behind.

"What’s the principle here?"

The wooden car’s propulsion was somewhat unscientific, and Tang Ye was utterly confused. After observing it for a while, he couldn’t find the source of its power; it seemed to be nothing more than a square barrel with a wheel attached to each corner.

If going downhill, that would make sense, but the speedy motion on flat ground was preposterously absurd, like stumbling upon a bug in a video game. However, this was happening in real life.