What's wrong with being a little arrogant in the apocalypse just to support my wife?

One of the zombies guarding the entrance to Area A is dead, and the other has escaped.

Now only a few scattered, insignificant low-level zombies remain, along with low-level zombie crystal cores scattered all over the ground.

With the gate to Area A breached, morale soared instantly.

Lu Yize looked at Xian Wenrui and said, "Take a few people and pick up the zombie crystal cores on the ground."

He thought it would be a tough battle, but he didn't expect to break through so quickly. It wasn't until he heard Lu Yize's words that Xian Wenrui suddenly came back to his senses from the shock.

Xian Wenrui wiped the sweat from his face and calmed his emotions. "Okay, I'll take a few reliable people to collect crystal cores now."

Xian Wenrui selected a few seemingly honest and reliable people to pick up and collect the crystal cores on the ground, and also picked out human corpses from a pile of zombies.

Of the three hundred men led by Lu Yize, three died, and seven or eight others were scratched by zombies, their protective suits were torn, and their skin was ulcerated from sunburn.

Lu Yize placed them and the three corpses in the ruins, where at least the sheltered area could block out the scorching direct sunlight.

He turned to leave, but before he did, he coldly glanced at the people who had been scratched by the zombies.

"If you're alive, I'll take you back."

The group of people, who had thought they were doomed and would be abandoned, all raised their heads with hope in their eyes after hearing Lu Yize's words.

Lu Yize and the others stepped into the main building of the hospital. The building was dark and quiet, with only the sound of footsteps echoing in the empty corridors.

Inside the hospital building, numerous low-level zombies lay scattered about, some sitting, some lying down, their bodies rotting and emitting a nauseating stench.

Their saliva dripped onto the floor, leaving disgusting stains.

At this moment, these low-level zombies ignored their presence, and all the zombies' eyes were fixed on one place.

Xian Wenrui lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Lu, what are they looking at?"

Their vision was blocked by the horde of zombies, and the dim environment made visibility constantly decrease.

Lu Yize used his mental power to sense the situation ahead, his face turning ashen.

The next moment, the hospital lights flickered on and off, and it was at this moment that everyone present could see the scene before them clearly.

The control-type zombie that had previously deserted was now hanging in the hall like a broken doll.

Its body was torn to pieces by some force, its limbs hung limply, and its head was tilted to one side.

Her movements were stiff and strange, as if every joint was being held tightly by some force, just like the puppet she had once controlled.

Her dark eyes were wide open, and where the crystal core should have been placed between her eyebrows, there was only a large black hole. Yet, at this moment, a blood-red smile, not belonging to a zombie, was spreading across her lips.

"Fuck..."

Just as everyone was stunned by the sudden laughter, the zombie that had been controlling others seemed to be controlled by invisible threads, and with lightning speed, it slid close to the ground and attacked Jiang Yue's forehead!

Jiang Yue nimbly dodged, her sharp fingernails whistling past her ears.

Jiang Yue turned to meet her gaze, attempting to disrupt the zombie's actions through mental fluctuations, and even trying to control her directly.

However, when she concentrated and issued control commands to the zombies, Jiang Yue found that her powers were malfunctioning.

The puppet zombie suddenly let out a shrill laugh just as it was about to attack Jiang Yue.

A dazzling spatial light enveloped Jiang Yue's body, instantly teleporting her from her original spot to a safe location several meters away.

“This zombie is no longer the controller it once was; it has become a puppet being controlled,” Lu Yize explained coldly.

The only being capable of extracting the crystal core from the brain of this zombie and replicating her abilities to control her as a puppet is the third-tier zombie king, currently on the top floor.

At this moment, the zombie king, located on the top floor, manipulated invisible threads with his fingers, looking down at these ants.

Keep the useful zombies, and dig out the crystal cores of the useless, disobedient, and deserter zombies, put them in your mouth and chew them up, making them a part of your own power.

He looked at the girl sitting upright not far away; rather than sitting, she seemed to be bound to the chair by invisible threads.

"They came to rescue you?"

The zombie king spoke much more fluently than before, but something still seemed off, as if its throat was filled with pebbles, yet it was trying to squeeze out human words.

Sheng Xue stared at the zombie king in front of her, which was becoming more and more like a human, her eyes filled with unconcealed hatred.

Facing the fearsome zombie king, Sheng Xue's eyes were devoid of warmth, but the corners of her mouth gradually turned up. "No, they're here to kill you."

"They can't kill me," the zombie king stated calmly.

These past few days, he's been talking with Sheng Xue, and his language skills have gradually improved. He stroked the skull at his waist and spoke again, "Use your abilities to repair it."

He didn't know whose head the one he always carried with him belonged to. He had no memory of it, only that this head had been with him ever since he could remember.

Sheng Xue sneered, "The dead cannot be brought back to life; only the living can be healed."

The zombie king had a gloomy face, and his deathly gray eyes were fixed on Sheng Xue, as if he wanted to pierce through her soul.

The next moment, the zombie king appeared in front of Sheng Xue and grabbed her by the neck from above.

The enormous hand was like an iron clamp, making it impossible for Sheng Xue to breathe or break free.

"You are too weak."

The Zombie King's voice was deep and cold, as if he were pronouncing Sheng Xue's crimes.

Sheng Xue's face turned pale instantly, but there was no fear in her eyes.

Blood seeped from her teeth as she was being pinched, but even so, Sheng Xue still managed to squeeze out these words with a smile, "No matter who comes, they can't bring her back to life."

"Xie Hongyang, the day you regain your memory will be the beginning of your suffering."

The zombie king didn't understand her conviction and threw her against the wall like trash. Sheng Xue, who was hit by the wall, fainted from the excruciating pain in her spine.

The silk thread in his hand suddenly snapped. The zombie king didn't even glance at it. But the next moment, two zombies silently appeared in front of him.

He threw a yellow crystal core in front of them. The yellow crystal core still had the scent of a control-type zombie. The two zombies in front of him instantly showed greed.

However, due to the Zombie King's strength, they restrained themselves and dared not move.

Until a mental command appeared in their minds.

"After absorbing it, we dug out their superhuman cores, ate their flesh and blood, and occupied their base."

They then greedily divided the food, their eyes bloodshot with rage.

On the seventh floor, Lu Yize and his group, who had just killed the puppet zombie and hundreds of other zombies, had only taken a few steps when Lu Yize suddenly fixed his gaze on the dim light.

The next moment, he led everyone to retreat, and several spatial shields were erected in front of them, but these shields shattered in the next instant.

Before them appeared a zombie, its body still dripping with slime, licking its claws, a sinister smile hidden in the eerie atmosphere.

Lu Yize's face was dark and gloomy. He focused his supernatural power on the zombie in front of him and said warily, "Jiang Yue, use your supernatural power to notify everyone."

"The intelligence is wrong; there is more than one Tier 3 zombie here."