I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 294 - 293: Need for Affection_1

Chapter 294: Chapter 293: Need for Affection_1

He remained silent, brushing past Tang Ye and heading for a room. This time, Tang Ye didn’t try to stop him - he just followed with a grim expression on his face, waiting for him to finish his thoughts.

Ah Fu had also come upstairs by this point and immediately began to snarl at him. His snarl was filled with monumental fury!

His previous actions were undoubtedly a mockery of Ah Fu’s huge and cumbersome figure!

Ah Fu could easily shred him apart, but the tight space didn’t allow it to lay a finger on him!

Ah Fu charged at him furiously, but was stopped by Tang Ye before he could get very far.

"So, would you like an introduction? This deal won’t require you to give up much." He pushed open the door, talking to himself. His tone fluctuated a lot, but Tang Ye had grown accustomed to the strangeness of his voice.

"You should start by telling me your name first."

"Name...hahaha..." Suddenly, he started laughing. Turning to face Tang Ye, he said, "I have many names. But you don’t need to know all of them. You can call me Xu Haishui."

"Tang Ye!"

"Good, shall we proceed with our transaction?"

"I need to know the specifics of the deal."

"So, you’re interested? That’s excellent."

Xu Haishui walked into the door, a hint of madness on his smiling face. Tang Ye followed him inside to find nothing in the room except a refrigerator and a female zombie, nailed to the floor with stakes! Beyond that, the room was completely empty.

The zombie nailed down to the floor didn’t make a move, and only looked at Tang Ye and Xu Haishui when they walked in. However, Tang Ye seemed taken aback.

This zombie was a Level 4 zombie, looking similar to Xu Haishui, retaining physical features of a normal human. She wore a clean dress, and unlike other zombies, her face wasn’t terrifying but possessed a strange kind of beauty instead.

The part that confused Tang Ye the most was, even a Level 2 zombie could handle the stakes driven into her body, but why didn’t she react or resist at all?

Upon entering, Xu Haishui opened the fridge and took out a bag of blood. He ripped off the top with his teeth and quickly drained it. He then proceeded to the female zombie, removing the stake from her body. He gently pulled her up and held her in his arms.

"She was my girlfriend...but she turned into a zombie..."

Tang Ye stood by his side, unable to see Xu Haishui’s expression, as he continued talking, steering the conversation away from the original topic.

"Even though you’ve turned into a zombie, you still possess perfect memory. I believe you understand this sentiment the most, your emotions are slowly fading, growing colder. As for me, Xu Haishui, who’s also turned into a zombie, I’m no longer the complete me. I’ve lost my own memory, only remembering her, the fleeting moments with her, and my name."

After pausing for a moment, Xu Haishui held the female zombie even tighter. The hole in her body, made by the stake, healed almost instantly. Tang Ye was astonished, her healing ability probably surpassed even his, as a Level 5 zombie.

"I hate this fragmented memory. Just like you, despising solitude. Your solution is to cultivate someone to communicate with, and my solution is to acquire others’ memories!"

As he spoke, Xu Haishui loosened his grip on the female zombie, pinning her to the floor and picking up the stake again. Without giving it a second thought, he thrust it back into her. When he stood back up, there wasn’t a flicker of emotion in his eyes.

"Tang Ye, you’re curious, aren’t you? About how to acquire others’ memories... perhaps you know how, don’t you?"

"Yes, through a controller!"

Xu Haishui brought Tang Ye into the previous room, taking out a sickening, rotten black skull from the water basin. He turned the hole in the back of the skull towards Tang Ye.

"This is a zombie controlled by a controller. They have feelings for their controllers that are beyond comprehension, and having feelings is easy, but even that requires something: memory! Their brains store the deepest impressions from their previous lives."

Xu Haishui’s voice became raspy.

"One day, by chance, I was still human, not yet a zombie, and was also a controller. That day, I killed a guy, who was also a controller. However, I won that battle. He and his controlled zombies were killed by the zombies under my control, one such being this one."

He opened the glass door, revealing the zombie inside, causing Tang Ye to furrow his brows.

"He was a new human, sadly, I wasn’t. But Mi’er was strong and killed them all. At that time, I despised my weakness and ate its evolution crystal. Eventually, I turned into a zombie. I became a confused zombie!"

"I didn’t know who I was. Two completely different memories kept flashing in my brain, which made me panic. I forgot how I grew up. Do you understand that kind of feeling? It’s just like... a child born as an adult! It feels awful!"

"Your controller... was she?" Tang Ye asked.

"Yes, the one I have pinned down. I loved her very much, but now, I don’t feel the same. I tried to regain those feelings but to no avail. You have retained all your memories. So you should be able to find the emotions from that time in your memories. I can only search for emotions in other people’s memories."

Xu Haishui put the skull back into the water basin.

"What you see here, all the crawling zombies were controllers, and this zombie was a controller when it was alive. They should have loved each other, understood, and protected each other. But now, watching it devour the person who once protected it, do you feel any pleasure?"

Tang Ye watched coldly, his face revealing no emotions. After a while, a hint of irritation flashed in his eyes.

"I don’t want to hear your chatter. Get to the point about your deal. If the deal’s terms don’t satisfy me, you can take your stories with you to hell."

"I think you need to hear me out, or else, the transaction would be meaningless."

"Then get to the point!"

"Fine, I’ll cut to the chase. I need memories and emotions! Taking others’ memories is only a temporary solution, as you’ve deduced. Those things downstairs left a deep impression on the controlled!"

Click!

Bringing over a chair, Tang Ye sat down abruptly, playing with the fluffy elastic band on his wrist. He said: "Next, how did you get that car? And moreover, the controlled one who had a deep impression of that car shouldn’t be under your control, right?"

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