I am the Zombie King of the Apocalyptic World
Chapter 860 - 856: Level 6 Corpse General

Chapter 860: Chapter 856: Level 6 Corpse General

Seeing the horrifying data and blood-red letters above, the tall man froze completely.

"This... this must be fake!"

He was befuddled, suspecting there was a problem with the life-detector and that it had given him some erroneous data. Nonetheless, no matter how many times he recalibrated, the data on the life-detector still indicated a Level 6 zombie!

The content made his heart race with fear, as if he were as helplessly encountering a ghost in the night.

"Refresh! Refresh!"

He frantically pressed the button, but every refresh on the display showed the same thing as before!

"Damn it! What the hell is this, some piece of junk!" The tall man burst out in anger, roaring and about to smash the device, but the other survivors had already noticed him and were coming over.

"Boss, what’s wrong?"

All the survivors crowded around and were shocked upon seeing the contents on the life-detector.

"It’s nothing, the tester’s broken. We’ll find a replacement later," said the tall man nonchalantly.

His words managed to calm everyone down: "Oh man, so it broke. That gave me a scare."

However, it was eerie that Yao Monkey, upon hearing the tall man’s words, not only didn’t relax but instead showed a look of terror on his face.

"That... Boss... I... I think it might not be... not be broken!"

All eyes turned to him, filled with confusion.

"What do you mean? There isn’t a single zombie here. How could there be Level 6 zombie data displaying? Are you joking with me?"

Yao Monkey’s voice was trembling, on the verge of crying: "You... you guys, look behind..."

"Huh?"

On hearing this, the crowd turned their heads skeptically to look behind them, and the sight made their eyes nearly pop out of their sockets.

Behind them, there appeared a figure as tall as a person, covered in layers of scale armor, easily mistaken for an ancient general who had traveled through time.

"Mama mia!"

A few survivors cried out and scattered like birds, but with a roar akin to that of a sovereign’s anger, came the shrill screams of terror piercing the sky.

In the blood-covered supermarket, a small beeper fell to the floor, its screen flashing conspicuous red letters, and the red light flickered continuously. After an indeterminable amount of time, the beeper seemed to overcome some restriction and began to emit intermittent beeps.

[Beep... Beep~ Danger detected at ten o’clock, energy index 22799, target extremely dangerous, classified as Level 6 zombie, less than three meters from you! Please handle it immediately!]

[Beep~ Beep... Danger detected at ten o’clock, energy index...]

[Beep~]

The life-detector continued to emit its cold mechanical sounds, which were all the more eerie in the deserted setting.

...

"Everyone’s gone?"

"Yes, The Third Army and the Dead Knight Corps will arrive at the 709 Mine in half an hour."

"Alright, you guys go ahead and get busy."

Tang Ye waved his hand to dismiss the soldiers, then turned to look out the window at the night. Despite being in the post-apocalyptic world, the United District was still as prosperous as before the Apocalypse.

"Ah Fu is gone, and I’m actually feeling a bit bored..."

Tang Ye chuckled and sighed a little as he pushed open the window in front of him. The cool breeze blew in, refreshing his mind and making him enjoy all that a human could feel. He quietly marveled at how wonderful this sensation was.

To transform from a human into a zombie, then back to a human, this feeling was known only to Tang Ye. When all your emotions and perceptions get wiped clean in an instant, when you jump from one species to another in a moment, that sense of loss cannot be understood by those who haven’t experienced it themselves.

It’s about loss, not strength—it’s about exchanging one thing for another. The existence of this feeling makes you desperately want to retrieve what you’ve lost and to do things that ordinary people can’t understand.

He had seen some movies and TV shows where heroes, upon becoming non-human entities, would frantically save people, doing good deeds like mad. While the villains, faced with the same situation as the heroes, would do the opposite, committing crimes and murder like madmen!

At that time, Tang Ye didn’t understand their actions. Why did they do it, and what was the meaning of it all? But he thought that it made sense since the director calls the shots, and the plot goes as they please.

But now Tang Ye understood that those heroes and villains weren’t deliberately acting that way; they were both trying to retrieve something, and that was humanity!

In the world after the Apocalypse, some people’s lives were penetrated by the notion of gain, others by power. Some peoples’ lives were full of certain colors—black, white, yellow, green—all kinds. Additionally, some were born for a specific mission.

What threads through a person’s life is simply this. Although not everyone may think this way, most do.

But now Tang Ye knew that this was not all there was to life. What is life? Is it just about being alive?

What is its meaning?

No one knows, nor has anyone seriously considered it; what threads through a person’s life is merely emotion. People are considered human not only because of their intelligence, but feelings are the main aspect.

If you lose your feelings, you’ll lose a lot. Like, when someone gets an exceptional weapon in a game, they’ll jump for joy. That’s happiness.

But if you, equally invested, get the same thing, you without emotions will only find it all very dull.

Everyone has a purpose in life, and these purposes can be numerous, with big goals and small goals. Like when you play a game, and you aim to save a certain amount of diamonds to buy good gear, or when you want to achieve a certain level of sales this month, or how much money you want to make this year.

These are the various goals in each person’s life. Whenever they achieve one, they feel a great sense of satisfaction and joy. But when fulfillment eludes you after achieving these goals, all you’re left with is endless loneliness.

Over time, this will make you crave that feeling, and you start desperately doing things. But when you realize these things can’t give you what you want, you become bolder and bolder. Human emotions are rich; satisfaction and joy are one kind, but so is excitement.

Gradually, whether you turn into a clown or a superhero depends merely on a whim of yours.

Some people make revenge their lifelong goal, but once they achieve it, they just find everything seems pointless, and they feel an emptiness inside as if there’s no longer any reason to live.

But why does one seek revenge? Is it without reason? It’s not. It’s all because of emotions. There’s no hate without reason in this world. When an enemy harms one’s loved ones, it drives people crazy; and the reason for that insanity is because of those emotions.

So, it’s clear just how thoroughly emotions penetrate a person’s life.

"Becoming a human sure is..."

Just as Tang Ye had pushed open the window and was about to sigh, his neck suddenly felt as if it were being grasped, the words unspoken, he stopped dead in his tracks.

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