Apocalypse Gachapon

Chapter 626: City full of dried corpses

Beside him was a rusty abandoned car. Ye Zhongming rolled behind it and was finally able to take a breath.

This long sprint, which forced him to go all out, was too much for Ye Zhongming, even with his stamina, and his chest felt like it was burning.

It had been rare for him to face such a situation since he evolved. Running while fighting tested one’s limits.

But he could only suppress his breathing. That was because he saw enemies.

Although he had made his way out, those plants didn’t retreat. They continued to dance like they were searching for him.

Ye Zhongming sliced many of these plants. The other leaves snatched those broken leaves, and the entire road was busy.

On the street behind him, Ye Zhongming saw a bunch of zombies.

Ye Zhongming wasn’t afraid of these zombies. He was afraid of them drawing more zombies. He wasn’t in a good state. He would have to risk his life to get free if a bunch of high-level zombies came.

But he waited and waited and heard nothing. It was as if those zombies had stopped.

He was confused. He looked at both sides. Linhai City was like the other cities. After a year, it started to break down and tear apart. Wild grass grew on the broken walls.

After waiting for a short while, there were still no sounds. Did they notice him? No, if they did, they would have just rushed over.

Ye Zhongming was curious and reached his head out. This look made him realize a large difference.

The zombies that were standing there were all… Dead!

Ye Zhongming was on full alert as he observed the area around him, and there was no movement. He carefully headed near this hundred-strong horde and studied them carefully.

They were dead, but they were in a very weird state.

Since the last life, he, or rather the entire human race, knew that the only way to kill zombies was to slice their heads or destroy their brain functions. After which, you would dig the demon crystals and use them to evolve.

But the heads of these zombies were intact, and their demon crystals were there!

Ye Zhongming lived two lives and had never seen such a weird thing. He looked at their heads and didn’t notice any wounds.

How did they die?

The zombies standing beside the buildings were just standing straight, allowing Ye Zhongming to look at them.

Their skin was greyish white, but there was black under the skin. They were much thinner, and many body parts showed signs of drying up. There was very little water, and their joints were stiff. The symbolic parts of their body were incomplete…

Ye Zhongming summarised their looks and hoped to find something. What disappointed him was that he found many problems, none of which could solve his questions.

There was one thing for certain. If he didn’t look at those demon crystals, they were more like dried corpses than zombies.

Ye Zhongming didn’t notice much, so he dug the crystals and left. But when his dagger touched the crystal, he took two steps back.

He noticed that these crystals had no more energy!

Ye Zhongming thought these were just ordinary level one and two zombies, so their crystals were grey and white. But when he looked at the crystals, he saw they had no energy, which was why they had such a color. Ye Zhongming couldn’t tell what their actual level was. He could only roughly tell there weren’t any level five or above zombies. Those above level five would have more exquisite and complicated body parts, which were not rough and simple parts of earlier levels.

As expected, he dug two of the crystals and couldn’t sense any energy.

He took another look before leaving.

He shall take these crystals and explain them to Liu Zhenghong. This top biology geneticist could tell him the answer.

After leaving Cloud Peak, Ye Zhongming got the map of Linhai City. But the city was abandoned for a year and had been through explosions and fires. The area had changed because of the plants, so he needed time to search.

Ye Zhongming started to search for that lab. He wasn’t fast because he felt that the city was covered in death and it was abnormal.

It was understandable if there weren’t any survivors; maybe they were killed. It was understandable if there weren’t any zombies, as survivors might have killed them. It was understandable if there weren’t any mutated lifeforms, as those two lifeforms above might have killed them.

But it was weird for there to be none of the three.

Slowly, Ye Zhongming bumped into dozens of dead zombies and mutated animals. They were all dried. Ye Zhongming even saw hundreds of dried dove zombies hanging on a wall!

But he still couldn’t find the reason why this was happening.

Ye Zhongming could only continue walking. He was very careful and used half a day to pass two regions. He took many detours and finally arrived in the region where the lab was at night.

But before he found the building, he heard footsteps.

They were getting close to him!

He took two steps to a corner and looked towards the noise source. Ye Zhongming opened his eyes wide.

He saw a zombie formation walking out from a carpark. They lined up and walked towards Ye Zhongming.

He took a few looks and saw dozens of rows. Each row had dozens of them, and no one knew how many there were in the carpark!

Moreover, they were still those dried zombies. Their demon crystals weren’t shining at all!

Too weird!

When Ye Zhongming hesitated about his choice, footsteps could be heard from behind him. Hundreds and thousands of dried zombies surged on one floor of the building. Apart from footsteps, one couldn’t hear anything at all. They weren’t like mutated lifeforms but more like a well-trained army!

There were sounds in the sky. Ye Zhongming raised his head and saw many mutated birds flapping their wings and flying above.

What was going on?

Ye Zhongming was confused by these weird scenes and filled with terror.

Suddenly, he heard a soft ringing. A soft voice spread into his ears.

“Oi, come here!”