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

Chapter 156 You Are So Lucky

However, after the signing was completed, the great white shark deliberately grinned, revealing its chilling teeth.

"I can only manage the sea beasts under my command. I can't control the mindless sea beasts in other sea areas. Of course, you can kill them if you see them, which is not against the agreement."

"Sea creatures... can they all communicate with us like you?" Fan Jian swallowed hard. "Suddenly, I feel like the sea creatures I used to eat were a bit... uh."

A bizarre image popped into his mind: a fish frantically begging for mercy while being killed, its hands rubbing together.

“Only fourth-tier beasts can speak human language, but what don’t you humans eat? What does that have to do with whether we can communicate?” White Shark didn’t understand the strange thought process of humans.

Humans eat sea beasts, sea beasts eat humans, alien beasts eat zombies, and zombies eat alien beasts. They are all climbing up by stepping on the corpses of others. Who is more noble than whom?

The great white shark killed the sea monster it wanted to kill, avenged itself, and signed a contract with humans. The land was never its comfort zone, and its strength was greatly reduced on land; otherwise, it wouldn't be so frustrated.

Many of its low-level sea beasts died, but cold-blooded animals are inherently cold-hearted and have no concept of companionship. It led the surviving low-level sea beasts back to the sea.

The chaotic beasts, realizing they were no match for Lu Yize and his group, had already taken advantage of the confusion to scatter and flee.

The ground was a mess, littered with the corpses of sea monsters and alien beasts, their crystal cores and power cores exposed. None of them had suffered many injuries, but fortunately, Sheng Xue was there, so none of them were fatal.

But what's troubling them now is that Xie Hongyang, who stands before them, looks completely indistinguishable from a human being.

Everyone knows he is the Zombie King, and everyone is aware of the things he did against his will, while everyone present owes him a favor.

A silence fell over the room, and even Fan Jian and Xian Wenrui, who were usually the most adept at livening up the atmosphere, didn't know where to begin.

Xie Hongyang didn't care what these people thought of him or what they were thinking. He had regained his senses and looked at Sheng Xue, asking, "Do you have a way to bring people back to life?"

As he said this, he touched the skeleton tucked into his waistband.

When Sheng Xue was once captured by him and forced to swallow crystal cores that had just been dug out of the brains of zombies, she repeatedly and affirmatively answered him this question.

But now... after seeing Xie Hongyang's memories, facing Xie Hongyang who had regained his senses and should remember what she had said, Sheng Xue's words suddenly caught in her throat.

But when she turned her head, her gaze fell on the glaring scar on Fan Jian's neck, and met his mutated compound eyes, Sheng Xue felt a sharp pain in her heart.

She looked up again, the hesitation in her eyes fading, and answered truthfully, "The dead cannot be brought back to life."

Xie Hongyang's hand froze. Seeing that the atmosphere was not right, Fan Jian quickly stood in front of Sheng Xue to change the subject, "Hey, you never know. You chopped my head off back then, but I'm still alive and kicking now."

Xie Hongyang had killed too many people to remember Fan Jian, but upon hearing Fan Jian's words, Xie Hongyang still apologized.

Fan Jian was shocked. Good heavens, here's something outrageous that you might not believe: after my head was chopped off by a zombie, not only did it grow back, but I also heard the person who chopped off my head apologize to me.

What kind of fantastical development is this...?

Ignoring Fan Jian, whose mind was racing, Lu Yize turned to Xie Hongyang, who was now indistinguishable from a normal person, and asked, "Have you fully recovered your memories?"

"Yes, memories begin to resurface from the third rank. As strength increases, memories flood in, but these memories are shrouded in a fog until the fifth rank, when the fog finally dissipates."

Xie Hongyang remembered Lu Yize and knew that he kept a zombie by his side, which made him remember him well.

Lu Yize recalled Jiang Yue's current situation. No wonder she was often in a daze after entering the third stage. It was probably what Xie Hongyang said: her memories were constantly being revived.

As he pondered, he noticed Xie Hongyang looking at him, and he looked up to meet Xie's gaze.

Xie Hongyang looked at Lu Yize and said, "You're really lucky."

Lu Yize thought of Xie Hongyang's experience and did not respond.

Seeing that he was oblivious, Xie Hongyang finally spoke up, "You may not know this, but zombies don't understand emotions. The more they care about someone, the best way they can think of is to eat her."

"The more you care, the more hormones your brain releases, stimulating your body and making you want to devour her. This instinct doesn't diminish with advancement; in fact, it strengthens and amplifies this desire."

Xie Hongyang paused for a moment when he said these words, which is why he didn't just bite Mu Wan a few times and stop, but swallowed her whole.

These memories flooded back into his mind, and Xie Hongyang looked terrible, feeling nauseous. He took a while to recover before continuing to speak.

"However, after advancing, the zombie's mind will gradually become clear, and the struggle between reason and instinct will continue until it reaches the fifth level and recovers all of its human memories, but this instinct will still be retained."

His words were tinged with both envy for Lu Yize and self-mockery.

He looked at his hands, black blood flowing through his body, and a crystal core belonging exclusively to zombies on his brain.

No matter how advanced he becomes, he will no longer be human.

Lu Yize subconsciously checked Jiang Yue's situation in the space. He originally thought that Jiang Yue's biting of him gradually decreased after she leveled up because human instincts were reviving.

But now it seems that her emotions simply overwhelmed her instinct to devour, and she is struggling with herself day by day.

Facing Xie Hongyang, Chen Mingzhang was unsure what to do next.

Xie Hongyang withdrew his hand, understanding Chen Mingzhang's probing, "I am neither a zombie nor a human. I will no longer participate in your war. Next... I will probably go to other places to find a way to bring people back to life."

Since healing methods couldn't bring someone back to life, he turned to necromancy, puppetry... exhausting every possibility.

"You..." Chen Mingzhang was silent for a moment after hearing this unexpected remark, but he didn't know what to say.

However, Chen Mingzhang quickly forgot about Xie Hongyang's plans. His special ability ring was activated, and he connected to the call.

Lei Yangyu appeared on the screen covered in blood. He looked overjoyed when he saw that the call had finally connected, but quickly suppressed his composure and reported, "Team Leader Chen! The base has been destroyed by the flood, with more than half of the soldiers dead or wounded! Many more are still missing."

After saying these words, Lei Yangyu's expression turned solemn, and he struggled with the decision several times.

Until he saw Lu Yize, he finally couldn't hold back and blurted out, "I also saw... Sun Jianbai!"

Upon hearing the name "Green Hair," Fan Jian exclaimed excitedly, "Sun Jianbai? Wasn't he already dead? Could it be that he's come back to life too?"