Chapter 199: The Astonishing Truth
Xia Chenge’s hands trembled slightly upon seeing this.
Anxiety washed over her like a tide, drowning her.
“Xiao Mu, what on earth is wrong with you?” Xia Chenge tried her best to keep her voice calm, but heaven knew the storm raging within her mood.
Ling Hanmu remained silent.
Xia Chenge grew anxious, “Can you just tell me? You acting like this, I’m really scared.”
Ling Hanmu slowly raised his head, his eyes once again blood-red, filled with bloodthirsty killing intent.
“Xiao Mu, you…” Xia Chenge’s internal alarm bells blared, her complexion turning pale.
“Will you still like me like this?” Ling Hanmu asked sadly, “My existence is a threat to this world. Will you still like me like this?”
“No matter what you become, you are still my Xiao Mu, and I still like you.” Hearing Ling Hanmu speak clearly and coherently, Xia Chenge’s heart settled a little. She stared at him intently, speaking her true feelings.
Ling Hanmu tilted his head back, “But the world has already become purgatory because of me.”
Upon hearing this, Xia Chenge was stunned.
“What did you say?”
“The world has become purgatory because of me.”
“No, why would you say that? Isn’t the world fine right now? Why would it become purgatory?”
“This is the trajectory of historical development. The apocalypse descended, and the zombie virus became humanity’s fatal weakness.”
Hearing this, Xia Chenge’s eyes widened, “What on earth are you talking about?”
“You know it!” Ling Hanmu looked at her, his blood-red eyes filled with deep sadness. “The human world has turned into hell.”
Xia Chenge pinched herself hard. The pain confirmed she wasn’t dreaming.
If she wasn’t dreaming, why would Ling Hanmu say those things?
She found it hard to accept.
“Did you know? When humanity finally perished, the zombies also disappeared.” Ling Hanmu turned around and murmured, “The Earth eventually exploded, and all beings, whether human, zombie, or other species, vanished into the river of history.”
“Who are you?” Xia Chenge felt a chill run down her spine, on full alert, she sternly questioned, “Stop playing these tricks!”
Ling Hanmu turned back and smiled brightly, “I am Ling Hanmu.”
“No, you’re not!” Xia Chenge finally understood where the sense of unease was coming from.
Although Ling Hanmu appeared arrogant and defiant, he always hid his emotions well. But this Ling Hanmu before her was revealing far too much emotion!
“I am Ling Hanmu, but I’m also not quite Ling Hanmu. Never mind, I still don’t know who I truly am?” Ling Hanmu gave a self-deprecating smile.
“Stop playing these tricks!” Xia Chenge was furious. Had Ling Hanmu been hypnotized by Grub?
“I saw you in the apocalypse,” Ling Hanmu said.
Xia Chenge’s skin crawled.
She had never told anyone her secret of coming from the apocalypse, except herself. How did he know? Who was he?
Where had Ling Hanmu gone?
An unprecedented fear overwhelmed her, and Xia Chenge felt a profound sense of despair.
“Who are you?” Xia Chenge stared at him intently, “What did you do to Ling Hanmu?”
“If I told you I came back from the apocalypse, would you believe me?” The redness in Ling Hanmu’s eyes faded, and he met Xia Chenge’s gaze directly. “You are from the apocalypse, but I truly belong to this era.”
“I slept for several hundred years. After I woke up, the apocalypse descended because of me.”
“At that time, I had forgotten who I was and acted purely on instinct.”
“Zombies ran rampant, and the human world became hell.”
“I knew nothing, understood nothing, and just lived like that. Until later, I was experimented on again, and I became a highly intelligent walking corpse. I had no emotions, and I watched humans cry and beg for mercy before me daily, yet my heart felt no pity.”
“But I remember every human I ever met.”
“Later, as time passed, I seemed to slowly regain emotions. I detested killing, detested everything about this world, and felt that humans were pushing me!”
“The day they sent you back, I completely recovered my human nature and remembered all the past events. It wasn’t me who caused your annihilation; it was the Earth exploding at that moment. I couldn’t save anyone, so I could only do my best to send your soul through the wormhole.”
“I hoped you could return to the past and change everyone’s fate, including mine.”
Ling Hanmu spoke a great deal as if talking to himself. Xia Chenge stood petrified, unable to process the sheer volume of information he had delivered.
She looked at the familiar Ling Hanmu, yet he felt like a complete stranger.
“So, you are the Zombie King?” After a long pause, Xia Chenge finally found her voice.
Ling Hanmu nodded.
“I don’t quite understand!” Xia Chenge’s mind was a mess.
“In other words, I’ve been reborn! Just like you, I returned to the past. However, I am still myself, while you are using someone else’s identity.” Ling Hanmu said calmly.
“How did you know I…” Xia Chenge trailed off, suddenly falling silent.
How did he know?
“I can tell you are an Evolved Human. Humans in this era haven’t evolved. And the warrior sent back to the past by humans was also named Xia Chenge, the number one genius girl of the apocalypse!” Ling Hanmu stated these absolutely confidential pieces of information with perfect accuracy.
Xia Chenge was powerfully impacted.
She didn’t know how she could accept the Zombie King’s rebirth!
Was this truly a good thing for the humans of this era?
“I would rather live a simple sixty years than spend countless lonely times as a walking corpse!” Ling Hanmu said earnestly, “Little Brother, you don’t know that after I became a zombie with spiritual intelligence again and saw the world in ruins, I didn’t even have the courage to close my eyes.”
“If it weren’t for me, the world wouldn’t have become like this.”
“And my brother, Ling Hanchao, was tortured for over ten years to save me. If it weren’t for him, I would have died long ago. But it was also because of him that I became the culprit of destroying the world!”
Xia Chenge was still unable to calm down, “When did you find out?”
“It was the night before last when you came to see me that I remembered all of this! I must have been reborn when I fell into the water at the age of four, but my soul was too severely damaged during the wormhole transit, so I couldn’t recall the apocalypse.”
“According to the historical timeline, they haven’t developed the zombie virus yet. The zombie virus they possess was brought back by me from the apocalypse. However, the virus has been suppressed within me, so humans can’t be infected so easily.”
Xia Chenge felt that in her more than ten years of life, she had never experienced such a dramatic roller coaster.
She didn’t know how she should face Ling Hanmu.
Nor did she know how to accept this reality.
If Ling Hanmu hadn’t been reborn, how could he have spoken so much about the apocalypse?
Even a fabricated story couldn’t have so many coincidences!
