The Walking Dead: I Sell Arms as a Sixth-Rate Seller in the Apocalypse

12:45 pm

Biological laboratory of underground research institute

Rows of broken biological culture dishes were placed in the spacious room, while the unbroken ones contained humanoid creatures.

In the very center of the laboratory, there was a huge petri dish. When the group approached it, they were stunned by the creature inside.

A massive zombie, with chitinous carapaces on its arms and a layer of biomass slime and armor protecting its chest, was immersed in a petri dish.

Upon seeing this, Coachta was shocked. He quickly shielded his wife behind him and shouted to Rick and Mihoko.

"Oh no! This is a Lord-level zombie 'Warrior' created by Cole. Keep your distance from it!"

Upon hearing Kocheta's shout, the zombie slowly opened its eyes. Through the petri dish, it stared at the crowd outside with its bloodthirsty, scarlet eyes.

Just then, it raised its huge arms and punched the petri dish. With a crack, the glass of the petri dish shattered, and the pale green biological culture medium poured out.

The samurai zombie then jumped out, staring intently at the group. While they were still stunned, it threw the damaged equipment at the foot of the broken petri dish in the laboratory.

In an instant, the equipment it threw out smashed other culture dishes, and the various special infected organisms immersed in them began to awaken.

Rick was the first to react, and he shouted to the crowd.

"Oh no! There are too many zombies. Quickly, evacuate to the disinfection room."

Just as Rick finished shouting those words, the samurai zombie roared at everyone, and the shocking scene unfolded once again.

After the samurai zombie finished roaring, the newly awakened special infected turned around to look at the samurai zombie and then launched an attack on it.

One of the berserker zombies, which was closest to the samurai zombie, leaped and pounced on it, its incredibly sharp claws aimed at the samurai zombie's chest.

With a soft thud, the berserker zombie's claws pierced into the samurai zombie's chest armor.

Seeing this, the warrior zombie roared at the berserker zombie that had pierced its chest, and then angrily charged at a ravaging zombie that was still watching the show.

Before it could even figure out what was happening, the unfortunate ravager zombie was sent flying into other culture dishes by the samurai zombie's charge.

The berserker zombie hanging on the chitinous bio-armor of the samurai zombie was crushed into a pulp and fell to the ground during the collision. The samurai zombie grabbed the berserker zombie's head and deformed body with both hands and pulled hard, tearing the berserker zombie's head and spine out of the samurai zombie.

It discarded the berserker zombie's body, opened its massive mouth filled with sharp teeth, and then put the berserker zombie's head into its mouth and chewed it.

Before long, the berserker zombie's head, along with its spine, was eaten by the samurai zombie.

Rick and Mihoko were shocked by what they saw. Although Rick knew that this world was not the original world of The Walking Dead, and that it was full of characters and strange things from other movies or post-apocalyptic games, he had never seen a scene of zombies devouring each other. He couldn't even imagine what the giant samurai zombie was doing. However, what happened next refreshed Rick's understanding of this type of zombie.

After devouring the berserker zombie, the warrior zombie's body began to undergo subtle changes. The chitinous biological armor on its arms gradually fell off, and tiny spikes began to grow on its arms in its place. Its large hands were gradually replaced by claws with sharp fingertips.

The samurai zombie's head began to degenerate, its flesh and tissue covered by protruding skull bones, making it look like a gigantic berserker zombie.

Just then, Liz's worried voice came over the lab's loudspeaker.

“I told you before that I wouldn’t let you pass through here so as not to disturb this warrior zombie. Judging from its current appearance, it has devoured the berserker zombie and absorbed its genetic sequence, and is evolving towards the second stage.”

"Dr. Liz, please explain what the hell is going on? Who gave you permission to manufacture biological weapons?"

"What? You don't know? The significance of this underground research base is that it was established by the Dawn of Light organization in order to rule this world. The underground nuclear war shelter is just a front. The real purpose is to research and manufacture biological and chemical weapons to rule this world."

Upon hearing Liz's words, Rick's mind went blank. He hadn't expected to encounter a plot from the Resident Evil series in this most basic world of The Walking Dead, even though the main villain in the Resident Evil series is called "Umbrella Corporation".

The villainous corporation in this world has been replaced by the "Dawn of Light" organization.

Rick thought of Kochetta and Diane, two characters who only existed in the game, and then he remembered the Crimson Moon incident that happened a few days ago. He had an idea in mind, and then he began to ask the system.

"System, system, is the world I live in a chaotic space world composed of multiple planes?"

[Ding! Yes, host, the world you are in is essentially a virtual game world, incorporating various zombie apocalypse elements. When this world was generated, it scanned the storage areas in your brain, and any zombie apocalypse games you have previously watched or played may appear here.]

"Then what is the meaning of my existence? Since this is not the original world of The Walking Dead, why was the background and environment of this world the world of The Walking Dead when I transmigrated here? So much so that you later told me that when I left Georgia for Kentucky, the world of The Walking Dead would transform into the world of Project Zombie Destruction?"

[Ding! Host, you can think of this world as a stage tailor-made for you. The framework of this stage is based on the fusion of all relevant memories in your brain, and you, the host, are the lead actor on this stage. Your wife, Nohara Mieko, was created by scanning all your expectations of a wife in your brain when the stage was generated. Nohara Mieko's existence is one of the female characters who cooperate with your performance. This system is responsible for guiding your performance and providing assistance during your performance.]

"In other words, all of this is equivalent to a higher being choosing me. It used some kind of technology I don't know to pull me into a world built from the dramas I've watched and the games I've played in my mind. In this world, I am the male protagonist, and the other characters are all supporting roles created based on the plots in my memory. All I need to do is keep performing, while that higher being watches me perform in this world I imagined, like watching a monkey show."

[Ding! Please do not mention that being. It is an existence that even this system cannot control, and it is the creator of this system. However, this system cannot disclose its information to you. As you grow stronger, this system will also gradually upgrade and unlock higher-level permissions. At that time, this system will tell you everything you want to know.]

After listening to the system's explanation, Rick felt like a monkey in a circus, performing in his own imagined world, while the higher beings were the audience. If he ever failed to perform well, he might be eliminated by those so-called higher beings.

Thinking about this, Rick suddenly regretted knowing about it. He felt like he was shackled and forced to live in his own imagined world. If his behavior ever displeased this being, he might be abandoned and eliminated at any time.

"No, I can't go on like this. I have to become stronger, no matter what. Whether Mieko is real or virtual, since she's in my life, I have to treat her as a real person. Dream or reality, I will take it all seriously."

Just as Rick closed his eyes in thought, Mieko shook Rick, who was standing there in a daze.

"Honey, wake up! That zombie is attacking again."

After Mihoko finished speaking, Rick opened his eyes and saw the samurai zombie walking towards the ravager zombie that it had previously knocked away.

When the ravager zombie saw the warrior zombie, which had evolved to the second stage, walking towards it, it angrily raised the damaged equipment and threw it at the warrior zombie.

The samurai zombie didn't dodge, letting the damaged equipment smash into it. With a loud bang, the samurai zombie was knocked to the ground by the thrown equipment. Its body, now stripped of its chitinous bio-armor, immediately slammed a jetpack zombie that was about to ambush it to its ground.

The tiny spikes on its arms pierced the cysts on the sprayer zombie's body.

In an instant, highly corrosive slime began to ooze from the body of the jetpack zombie that was pinned down.

When the samurai zombie's body came into contact with the slime, the parts of its body that were touched by it began to sizzle. Its flesh and blood began to dissolve under the corrosive effects of the slime, and even the tiny spikes that covered its arms began to fall off under the corrosive effects of the slime.

Faced with this situation, the warrior zombie let out a deafening roar. It suddenly stood up, leaving the spitting zombie, which was on the verge of death due to the rupture of its cysts. It raised its claws and plunged them into the spitting zombie's chest.

A soft "plop" sound came from behind.

The zombie's chest was pierced by these claws, and its mucus-filled chest organs burst open instantly, with thick mucus covering the zombie's claws.

With a sizzling sound, wisps of blue smoke began to rise from the warrior zombie's claws, and its proud fingertips began to gradually fall off under the corrosive effects of the slime.

In a short while, all of its incredibly sharp fingertips fell off, and it howled in pain at the ravaging zombie in front of it like a toothless beast.

Just then, the ravager zombie launched a charging attack on the samurai zombie.

While the zombies' attention was drawn to the fight between the two monsters, Rick, Kechetta, and the others quietly made their way to an emergency maintenance passage not far from the laboratory.

Diane skillfully opened the gate to the passageway and greeted everyone.

But at that moment, Rick gave the zombies his final gift.