Chapter 429
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Chapter 429: Eternal Life
At this moment, Zhang Mu nervously watched Su Rui walking away, hesitating to speak.
Zhang Mu could guess most of what Su Rui mentioned, understanding that the Corpsewalker’s greatest ability is to control the intelligent mutant creatures within the zombie horde using corpse puppets.
However, he never expected that the attacking zombie horde this time would actually amount to a staggering two million.
“Su Rui, I can’t understand. What made you give up your human identity? As a Sub City Lord, leader of the Wolf Riders, you could dominate with either title! Why collaborate with zombies?”
Zhang Mu slowly shifted his position, subtly moving the hidden Blood Lotus underground, while earnestly questioning Su Rui to divert his attention.
“It’s nothing much. I realize I’m going to die, but I don’t want to. I just want to survive, that’s all.”
Everyone was confused, not knowing what Su Rui meant.
“I was born with a heart disease. The doctors originally said I wouldn’t live past twenty-eight. When the apocalypse came, my body got stronger. I thought it would cure my illness, but it didn’t.”
Su Rui’s voice was flat now, “My heart is still failing, and the more I use my awakening power, the closer I get to death. The doctors predicted twenty-eight, but I’m dying a year earlier. I feel like my time is running out.”
At that moment, a hint of struggle flickered in Su Rui’s eyes, but quickly vanished.
“No one knows about this except my brother Su Liang. No one. A leader as powerful as a wolf rider chief, a ruler of a city, is about to die. How tragic it is.”
Someone approached me then. I don’t know how they found out about my illness. I met that person outside the city, and he said he could cure me, make me live on.
They even promised me an offer that I couldn’t refuse, granting me an eternal life.”
Zhang Mu knew that, due to time and Su Rui being alive, he was different from those corpse puppets. He still had some human emotions left, so Zhang Mu deliberately triggered his limited emotions.
“So, you’re going to live on as a zombie?”
Su Rui, look at your decaying body. Even if you were given eternal life, what could you gain? Without desires and emotions, how can you feel satisfaction or find a reason to keep living? Would it just be a meaningless existence?”
Zhang Mu understood Su Rui’s true feelings. He wasn’t foolish, he was troubled by these questions too. For over twenty years, he had lived just to stay alive; survival was his biggest wish. That’s why he now saw survival as so important, to the point of giving up so much.
“You’re right,” he said.
To Zhang Mu’s surprise, Su Rui actually nodded in agreement with him.
“I am also lost. What am I supposed to do next, what can I do? Sadly, I no longer feel the strong passion I once had, it seems to have disappeared. I am becoming less and less human.”
With a cold laugh, Zhang Mu said loudly, “Then you need to wake up, don’t continue down this path.”
Su Rui stared blankly at Zhang Mu and slowly replied, “Although I am lost, there is no turning back for me now.”
His words struck Zhang Mu as somewhat sorrowful.
As soon as he spoke, Su Rui suddenly returned to his previous smile. However, Zhang Mu could sense that this version of Su Rui was like a puppet, his smile a perfect mask.
Su Rui, who was confused, hesitant, and agitated just now, was like a wild beast – that was his human heart!
“That guy who couldn’t stand loneliness came out again, causing trouble for everyone, seemed to have said a lot of things he shouldn’t have.”
But it doesn’t matter, I was not ordered to kill you all, but to keep you alive, after all, you are the strongest part of human genes and evolution.
Killing you would be a waste.
So, now, please wait quietly for our big sweep to finish, then we will be a family, and Su Rui will apologize to you all.
Think about the beauty of eternal life, human life is only a hundred years, imagine when everyone else has turned into a pile of yellow soil, you will still witness everything in your strongest state.
“How wonderful it is! At that time, you will surely appreciate the decision I made for you now.”
Is Su Rui’s other zombie personality taking over now? It seems that soon, his human side will completely disappear.
Strangely, when this zombie personality appears, his human skin slowly starts to recover.
After the rotten flesh was covered up, a handsome young man named Su Rui returned to life.
Seeing Su Rui restored to his original appearance, Qizilbash spat and said, “You are not one of us, wearing human skin but inside filled with decaying flesh and blood. Only you like this kind of thing. Even if it’s not a hundred years, I, Qizilbash, have lived long enough—eighty years is my limit.”
Regardless of whether you are Su Rui or not, I solemnly tell you.
You, kid, are finished.”
Qizilbash noticed the thinning of the poisonous air, feeling his strength gradually returning and his confidence growing.
His threats had no effect on Su Rui, who remained focused solely on Zhang Mu, the corpse puppet Su Rui fixing his gaze on Zhang Mu’s face.
“As expected, the king has said that you, Zhang Mu, are the most dangerous and challenging among this group of humans. If I take you down, my mission is complete, and I can patiently await the plan’s fulfillment.”
Zhang Mu was increasingly convinced that they were backed by Grave Blood, not other Corpsewalkers appearing.
“Haha, your king, is it Grave Blood?”
Zhang Mu purposely mentioned the name to distract Su Rui, but Su Rui didn’t react at all. Maybe he didn’t tell them his real name, or maybe he thought they weren’t worthy.
“It seems like you’re not following your master’s beliefs.”
Despite a dagger in his chest, Zhang Mu’s expression was calmer than Su Rui’s, he even raised an eyebrow.
“What do you mean?”
Despite keeping a smile, Su Rui sensed an inexplicable excitement in Zhang Mu’s words, feeling something was off.
He cautiously scanned the surroundings with his mind, frowning as he said, “Is your mutated plant moving and planning to use the same trick? It won’t work, both being psychic evolvers, you should know better.”
When mental power reaches a certain level, any threatening attacks will be alerted before they arrive. You have no idea how much I had to sacrifice and endure to become like this.
My mental power has long been refined to this level, I will sense your Blood Lotus before it attacks.
Zhang Mu replied calmly, “Who said I made Blood Lotus move to attack you? If I don’t have ill intentions towards you, you won’t notice me.”
“Then you…”
A huge sense of danger suddenly rose up, and a strong chill rushed up from behind his head.
