I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 1560 - 1554: The Way to Take You Back

Chapter 1560: Chapter 1554: The Way to Take You Back

Tang Ye let out a cold laugh. The reason he was so certain this thing was the culprit was because whenever he looked at it, his eyes experienced a sharp pain—exactly the same sensation as when he had looked at the sun back in Xi River City.

But before he could make a move, the surface of the giant eyeball in front of him suddenly sprouted countless threads that extended abruptly, launching an attack on Tang Ye first!

"Hmph!"

Seeing this, Tang Ye immediately stretched out his hand and raised it upward. The attacking threads disintegrated in an instant, crumbling into particles like sand blown apart by the wind!

Aaaah~!

The eyeball let out a piercing scream. Its threads were destroyed, seemingly causing it great pain!

After the scream, the giant eyeball began spinning wildly. It quickly controlled its other threads to extend toward Tang Ye, each one targeting his head. But as soon as these threads extended, they immediately crumbled into sand and scattered to the ground, prompting another bloodcurdling shriek!

It seemed like its only method of attack consisted of these threads. After Tang Ye reduced all of them to particles, the eyeball suddenly turned hard, its pupil fixating on the wall behind it before charging forward with all its might!

This was no act of suicide—its strength was enough to easily break through the wall and create a passage, allowing it to escape without a trace!

But how could Tang Ye possibly let it succeed?

As soon as the eyeball indicated its intention to flee, Tang Ye transformed into a shadow and pursued it instantly. The black mist ahead of him churned, forming numerous tentacles that reached toward the giant eyeball!

Just as the eyeball was about to touch the wall, the black mist tentacles coiled tightly around it, completely entrapping it!

With a strong pull, Tang Ye dragged the giant eyeball back toward him, bound tightly within the black mist tentacles.

The eyeball struggled violently, the patterns in its pupil flickering faintly as if preparing to unleash some kind of ability. But Tang Ye wasn’t about to give it a chance for any prelude. He immediately tightened the constriction of the black mist tentacles around the eyeball!

Aaaah... ugh~

The scream from the eyeball suddenly grew hoarse. The crystalline structures in its pupil began to shatter, releasing thick black fluid that seeped out.

"Ah, just another avatar—it makes sense now," Tang Ye muttered in realization, then continued, "Well, in that case, I won’t hold back."

A grin spread across his face. As he opened his mouth wide, his teeth transformed into rows of shark-like triangular blades!

Tang Ye’s mouth stretched further and further until he raised the giant eyeball high and took an enormous bite. The soft membrane covering the eyeball ripped apart against his sharp teeth! With a suction, the fluid inside the eyeball poured straight into Tang Ye’s throat!

At the same time, the eyeball began to change. A streak of silver appeared within its pupil, rapidly spreading outward!

The eyeball seemed to sense that something was wrong. It struggled ferociously in Tang Ye’s grasp, but its strength shocked Tang Ye—not because it was overpowering, but because... it was pathetically weak? It surpassed the Level 8 threshold, yet the force it could muster wasn’t even half of Tang Ye’s own!

Undeterred, Tang Ye continued his action, intensifying the suction to drain every ounce of energy and nutrients from the eyeball’s insides!

The eyeball’s struggles grew more frantic, its screams alternating between sharp and hoarse, revealing an intense desire to survive. However, the reality was that it couldn’t resist at all!

The nutrients extracted from its body were rapidly assimilated into Tang Ye’s own power. He was thrilled—this thing’s stores of anti-life matter far exceeded his own, making it an absolute feast for free!

As Tang Ye amplified the suction further, the eyeball in his grip deflated rapidly. The faintly glowing patterns in its pupil quickly lost all color, the crystalline structure becoming dull and lifeless before turning opaque, covered with a layer of gray. Finally, it petrified entirely!

Moments later, Tang Ye released the eyeball from his grasp. Now shrunken to roughly basketball-sized, it fell heavily to the ground with a resounding "thud," much like a large stone smashing into the earth.

Tang Ye intended to leave it at that and walk away, but before he could turn around, he noticed the petrified eyeball cracking into two halves upon hitting the ground, revealing two peculiar items inside.

"What’s this...?"

He murmured in confusion, picking up one of the objects. It was a smaller eyeball, feeling hard and glass-like in texture. Yet when he examined it visually, it appeared vividly organic and alive, as if freshly plucked from a person’s eye socket.

Holding the eyeball in his hand, Tang Ye rotated it to examine the front. As he stared into the glassy yet visceral surface, a sense of familiarity struck him. The more he looked at it, the more it resembled something he recognized—not just alive but brimming with residual emotion, as though its original owner had imprinted their feelings onto it in the moment it was taken.

After gazing at it for some time, he whispered quietly to himself.

"Is this... Lu Xiaojie?"

Recalling Lu Xiaojie’s distinctive features, he scrutinized the smaller eyeball again—it did indeed seem to belong to her.

For a while, Tang Ye stood silently.

"This is your way of asking me to seek her out, huh? Uh... a bit unconventional. Hope it doesn’t scare her too much. Well, maybe it won’t," he said after a pause, shaking his head as if brushing aside the oddness.

He rubbed his nose, brushed the dust off his shoulders, and stashed the eyeball into his pocket. He checked his other pockets but couldn’t find his phone. Turning his gaze back to the petrified giant eyeball, he reached inside and retrieved his phone from within.

"Ah..." Tang Ye chuckled softly, unclear what he found amusing. After pocketing his phone again, he approached the subway platform’s entrance. The stairs leading outside were tightly obstructed by rubble, and dust occasionally trickled down from the cracks in the ceiling above—evidence that the blockage hadn’t occurred long ago.

Glancing back at the spot where he had awoken, Tang Ye still couldn’t figure out whether he’d been sleeping or not since entering Dairya’s virtual world.

Regardless, his recent battle had shown him that the Lan Ou Corpse King’s combat abilities weren’t particularly formidable. It had an abundance of anti-life matter exceeding his own, yet in practice, fighting it felt like dealing with a child—a simple matter of delivering one blow after another. That said, its disgusting tactics had left Tang Ye feeling somewhat annoyed.

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