CHAPTER 93: CHAPTER 93: THE SECRET OF EVOLUTION

When there was electricity, survival wasn’t difficult.

Lighting, heating, cooking.

As long as there was no threat from zombies, everything was in order.

But after losing electricity, everything changed.

Refrigerators and freezers lost their ability to preserve, electric appliances became scrap.

The night would shroud the earth, and there would be no more lights shining.

Generators are often not practical.

Finding them is a problem, and even if found, they’re hard to repair if broken.

Most people would return to a primitive life of slash-and-burn agriculture. For survival, they must leave their hiding spots and step into danger.

The apocalypse was the first disaster, losing electricity was the second continuation of it.

The night brings fear, and those remaining in Chengguan Town have some regrets.

Would it have been a better choice to leave with the troops?

But it’s too late for regret; without the military’s protection, these few wouldn’t dare embark on a distant journey.

Chengguan Town’s dinner ended without joy.

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Mei City.

Si Shui Suburb.

Here at the Hardware Mansion, roars echoed across the land.

The zombie horde began gathering here.

Looking from the sky, the dense zombie horde resembled a tide, with no end in sight.

When the number of individuals exceeds ten thousand, it already looks massive. Beyond one hundred thousand, it feels like an endless expanse.

The number of zombies gathering here is close to three hundred thousand!

Although three hundred thousand zombies mean little to a small city, the sheer gathering still suffocates people.

The outermost part is filled with ordinary zombies, making up more than ninety percent of the zombie horde.

Their faces are terrifying, their flesh torn, staggering as they walk, but none leave the area.

As you push your view inward, mutated zombies appear in the core area.

Thousands of Armored Zombies cluster together, forming a natural wall, enclosing the innermost part.

A similarly large number of Agile Zombies roam around the Armored Zombies, their sharp claws gleaming.

Whenever ordinary zombies approach, they snarl and drive them away.

The ordinary zombies fearfully avoid them; it is their fear of the stronger.

In the very center, there’s a one-armed bald zombie.

Wang Huining!

At this moment, Wang Huining sits on a rock.

There is a lot of trash around him, empty wine bottles, empty cigarette packs, and some vacuum-sealed food wrappers.

He has only one hand, which is inconvenient, and several zombies attend to him.

Wang Huining is a man; even as a zombie, he retains a male mindset.

So, the attending zombies are all female zombies.

Several relatively intact mutated agile zombies are around him.

Some of these female zombies wear dresses, their faces seem washed, less covered in blood and grime.

One carries a white porcelain bottle labeled Fuzhou Tower Wine.

A very expensive liquor that he couldn’t afford before, now he drinks it freely.

Another holds cigarettes, the package adorned with a dragon, the Supreme brand.

Previously, he could only look. Now he can smoke five at once.

Another carries food; though he’s turned into a zombie, he still dislikes eating flesh.

He gnawed on a cooked chicken claw, finding the taste like chewing wax.

"Peh! No taste at all!"

He spat it out, knowing he lost his sense of taste, but he still wanted to do it to prove he’s still human.

Raising his hand to a female zombie, which did not react.

Wang Huining helplessly roared, and only then did the female zombie woodenly come over, awkwardly lighting a cigarette for Wang Huining.

She struggled long to light it, frustrating Wang Huining enough to do it himself.

After two puffs, he roared for another female zombie to bring him wine.

He drank a whole bottle of liquor in one gulp. He’d rather drink until he threw up, yet he felt nothing.

In his anger, he threw the bottle, hitting an Agile Zombie on the head.

The female Agile Zombie cried out fearfully, baring her bloody mouth, which almost made Wang Huining vomit.

"Damn it! Why!"

"Why did I lose sensation, yet my consciousness remains?"

"It’s all that bastard Ye Fan’s fault. He must be with a bunch of beauties, spending nights in bridal chambers, while I am stuck here fantasizing about a few female zombies!"

"I refuse to accept this!"

Wang Huining howled to the sky, stirring unrest among the surrounding zombies.

Beside him, apart from these few Agile Zombies, there were also several Crawlers, their bodies entirely blood-red.

These Crawlers were nearly two meters tall, and more than five meters long, their tongues constantly flickering in and out, looking extremely terrifying.

Besides Crawlers, there were also several super-huge zombies!

These zombies looked even more frightening.

Their height was over three meters, with arms even thicker than an oil barrel.

Their faces were ferocious, each zombie’s mouth had expanded, the teeth inside sharp like those of a wild beast, no longer resembling a human.

The muscles on their bodies were solid and intact, glowing with a metallic sheen.

Their bodies had already undergone a qualitative change.

The zombies from the first evolution could be called Iron Armor, but these ones could be called King Kong!

Undoubtedly, such zombies were extremely hard to kill.

Among them, if one were to distinguish carefully, they could vaguely recognize some features of Xing Hai.

Wang Huining stared at the giant zombie that Xing Hai had become, letting out a slight sigh.

"Boss Xing, it’s truly unfortunate, I still haven’t found a way for zombies to gain intelligence."

"I originally thought of fighting alongside you again, but it seems impossible now."

"I can only let you continue to exist this way, as a zombie."

"Fortunately, although I haven’t found a way for zombies to gain intelligence, I have discovered another secret."

Wang Huining had been conducting experiments, looking for the secret of zombie evolution.

He made a shocking discovery.

Whether normal Armored Zombies or Agile Zombies, most grew during the first wave of mutation.

Because too many people died the first time, providing them with ample food, evolution was rapid.

But after that, it slowed down.

Up till now, he had not found any zombies that could autonomously evolve to the second stage.

The so-called second stage is the evolution of Armored Zombies into King Kong Zombies.

Agile Zombies evolving into Crawlers.

The King Kong Zombies and Crawlers he had now were all from human Evolvers who zombified.

This is the secret Wang Huining discovered.

Evolvers differ greatly from ordinary people, their evolution can also be considered a form of mutation.

Only when such people zombify, can they directly skip the first stage of zombie evolution and reach the second stage.

After discovering this secret from Xing Hai, Wang Huining started hunting Evolvers everywhere.

Which is why there are these few second-level evolved zombies today.

However, like him, zombies capable of thought were never seen again.

It seemed his evolution was just an exception, a special case.

He originally wanted to continually increase the number of controllable zombies, to become the master of the entire world.

But he found out he still couldn’t do it.

His maximum number of controllable zombies was limited to three hundred thousand!

If he wanted more, his brain couldn’t handle it.

Today, he was finally nearing his maximum control limit.

The time for revenge had arrived.

"Ye Fan, you would never have dreamed that I, Wang Huining, would have a day to come back looking for you!"

Wang Huining threw his head back and let out a howl.

Xing Hai, these King Kong Zombies, and Crawlers sensed the master’s anger and howled along with him.

The Iron Armor Zombies and Agile Zombies outside also imitated them.

Then there was a roar from the entire zombie army!

The roar of three hundred thousand zombies echoed through the night sky!

Sishui County was boiling over, the zombie cries rising and falling.

The survivors in the darkness trembled, unaware of what change had occurred with the zombies, but it was clearly a terrifying change.

Wang Huining took the first step, the zombie army followed behind him, surging like a tide toward Chengguan Town.

Although the zombies weren’t particularly fast in movement, they had one advantage: they didn’t tire.

They would keep walking, regardless of day or night, needing no rest.

Wang Huining was no exception.

So in fact, the speed of the zombies was very fast, much faster than human walking pace!

From Sishui County to Chengguan Town, it would take only two days and nights to reach.

At that time, Wang Huining was determined to capture Ye Fan alive.

He didn’t want to kill him easily, killing him would be meaningless.

In fact, in Wang Huining’s heart, he more desired a one-on-one battle with Ye Fan.

With a zombie body, he felt no pain, and his hatred towards Ye Fan wouldn’t be compensated by killing him, he wanted to torture Ye Fan severely, beating him until he looked like a pig’s head!

After torturing enough, then killing him, and turning him into a zombie to continue torturing!

Wang Huining thought, unable to suppress a silent grin, this was his only joy in life.