The numbers were vast.
Huong Son, this beautiful city, had completely transformed into a city of zombies.
"Are there any people still alive in this city?"
Lam Pham looked at this city and fell into deep thought. He felt it would be very difficult for survivors to exist. Even if there were, they would be few. To survive, one would definitely have to stay far away from the city, in those sparsely populated areas.
"The number of evolved zombies in Hoang City is decreasing at a rate visible to the naked eye. Alright, since I'm already here, I might as well collect some crystals here. White crystals and black crystals are very common, while light yellow ones are relatively rare. For them to advance to the third stage, they still need light yellow crystals."
He muttered to himself, as if regarding these cities surrounded by zombies as his personal ATM and backyard.
If any survivor heard such words.
Their eyes would widen, looking at Lam Pham in horror. "Brother, can you not be so arrogant when you speak?"
Descending, hunting evolved zombies.
At this moment, he was just a ruthless crystal harvester, cutting open the heads of evolved zombies and taking out the crystals within.
One piece!
Two pieces!
Evolved zombies with white crystals were very easy to encounter.
Zombies with black crystals were also the same.
For this group of zombies, they never imagined they would one day encounter such an outcome. Strolling well on the street, yet suffering a tragic fate, it was simply a lack of humanity.
Even zombies with light yellow crystals were not few. And Lam Pham didn't attack ordinary zombies, constantly searching at high speed. One crystal after another was collected into his bag.
"Roar!"
Just then.
An angry voice came from afar.
Hearing the voice, Lam Pham stopped what he was doing, looked up towards the distance, remained silent for a moment, then leaped up and headed towards the direction where the voice originated.
The street.
The surrounding zombies, as if controlled by some mysterious power, stood far away, always maintaining a distance from Lam Pham. And in Lam Pham's vision, an ordinary zombie stood on the roof of a car, staring at Lam Pham.
Lam Pham could tell at a glance what was different about this ordinary zombie. It wasn't that this zombie was special, but that he saw a kind of humanized expression on this zombie's face.
"Hello," the zombie slowly spoke.
As this zombie spoke.
Lam Pham's mouth fell open, his eyes widened. He hadn't expected to encounter a talking zombie. This was the first talking zombie he had seen since the apocalypse began.
Even Officer Hoang could maintain rationality but still couldn't speak. The difference between them, one could understand with a little thought.
"You can talk," Lam Pham said in shock.
The ordinary zombie standing on the car roof slowly opened its mouth and said: "You humans will have no future."
"Hello, my name is Lam Pham," Lam Pham said with a smile.
The ordinary zombie said: "Brain-eaters can absorb your thoughts, can understand your situation. You have no future."
"Who is the brain-eater?"
"You have no future."
"Mhm, I know. Whether there's a future or not isn't important. I want to know who the brain-eater is."
"Despair."
"Can you understand what I'm saying?"
"Despair..."
"..."
Lam Pham frowned. He was communicating with the zombie, just wanting to have a good talk. But for some reason, he always felt this fellow's behavior was very strange, an indescribable feeling.
Although it could talk.
But thinking carefully, it seemed like some program had been inputted in advance. When it was time to perform, it would speak the same words according to the pre-set program.
"Hello, I'm from Hoang City. I know this isn't your real body. You can control this ordinary zombie to communicate with me, probably like two idiots transmitting some kind of electric wave I don't understand to each other. I really want to get to know you. Can you let me see you?"
Lam Pham asked very amicably.
He always firmly believed that a friendly attitude could often open up a friendly path between humans and zombies, thereby leading to deeper levels of contact.
He hoped the ordinary zombie before him could lead him to find the true body behind the scenes.
Then he smiled, drew Frostmourne, severed the opponent's head, took out the crystal within, then turned and left, returning to his own shelter.
He had never encountered this type of zombie before, and it didn't exist in Hoang City.
Perhaps it was because he had been clearing zombies in Hoang City, thereby preventing some zombies from evolving to this level, which was to say, nipping the so-called talented zombies in the bud.
The ordinary zombie slowly said: "The brain-eater can feel your emotions. You are afraid, you are trembling, you are scared."
Lam Pham: ...?
Suddenly.
The ordinary zombie raised its head and let out a piercing shriek. The sound was loud and sharp, like a clap of thunder, and the glass of the surrounding buildings shattered.
He saw the ordinary zombie's neck was cracking, as if its throat couldn't withstand this kind of sound.
"What a sharp sound."
Lam Pham exclaimed in amazement. If an ordinary person faced such a sound, their eardrums could be burst.
Rumble!
Just then.
The earth shook and the mountains moved, as if a mighty army was advancing.
Very quickly.
He saw the street packed with zombies, of all shapes and sizes, all kinds of zombie types.
"As expected of a zombie city that has developed warmly. Evolved zombies are like cabbages, seen everywhere."
Looking up, the windows of the surrounding buildings were packed with zombies. Some stood on rooftops, looking down.
Finally...
Countless zombies swarmed towards Lam Pham. Zombies in the buildings jumped out of windows, and the zombies on the rooftops even jumped down without fear of heights.
Anyone seeing this situation would be scared pale.
Lam Pham, who had seen many grand scenes, had a calm expression. Frostmourne in his hand trembled slightly.
"If you think you can destroy me just by relying on the number of zombies, then I would have died long ago."
Sword light flickered.
Splat!
An invisible sword aura cut through. The aggressive horde of zombies instantly split apart, viscous blood spraying everywhere.
First sword strike.
Then another sword strike.
Left sword strike.
Right sword strike.
A total of four sword strikes.
After the four sword lights appeared, a torrent of shattered zombie corpses fell to the ground. The originally dry street instantly became much more viscous.
Lam Pham looked at the car roof. The shrieking zombie's neck had already exploded, and it had collapsed to the ground. He shook his head, expressing regret for this, then skillfully collected the crystal.
He jumped to the rooftop of a tall building and looked into the distance.
"A strange zombie, hidden in the darkness, able to remotely control zombies to speak, possessing intelligence. Not finding such a zombie truly makes one's heart uneasy."
Wanting to find this fellow in Huong Son city was very difficult, like looking for a needle in a haystack.
"Return."
The bag was full, a very good harvest.
And in a certain dark underground parking lot in Huong Son city.
A huge, bloody mass of flesh was moving. The surface of the flesh was embedded with human heads. The facial expressions of these human heads were pained, as if still alive. The heads emitted tragic screams, as if wailing.
It was as if after the flesh devoured a human, it would grow their head on its body. And the flesh also had a huge, vertical abyss-like mouth, with sharp fangs intertwined, dripping with disgusting viscous liquid.
A Tyrant Zombie brought a zombie over and threw it into the mouth of the flesh.
No matter what, a Tyrant Zombie also had some presence in the zombie community.
Now it was actually doing a nanny's job.
It was indeed a bit unexpected.
Duong Quang shelter.
Lam Pham met with Ha Khanh.
"Mr. Lam, Hanh Vun Hao is developing in an orderly manner. I came to report the situation." Ha Khanh had no other intention, just came to take a look, to show his face in front of Lam Pham.
But who would have thought, he actually saw Chu Duong.
This fellow joined really quickly.
Lam Pham smiled and said: "Very good. With you managing Hanh Vun Hao, I think everything will become smoother."
He still trusted Ha Khanh relatively well.
From his eyes, one could see Ha Khanh's change. In the past, although Ha Khanh wasn't considered a bad person, he was very ambitious. To put it simply, his eyes were full of ambition.
Receiving Lam Pham's praise, Ha Khanh's face showed a smile.
"Mr. Lam, recently I've had the people of Hanh Vun Hao start collecting supplies from the surrounding shops. Those supplies stored in the shops are always a waste. In the future, the number of survivors in the Duong Quang shelter will increase, and the consumption of supplies will also increase. I suddenly thought of something. There is a large-scale cold storage warehouse in the Tam Ha district of Hoang City. The electricity is currently running stably. I think the food in that cold storage warehouse must be very well preserved."
"Tam Ha district, huh? I'll go take a look."
Lam Pham memorized the address.
Tam Ha district, Tan Phong cold storage warehouse.
After seeing Ha Khanh off, Lam Pham handed the collected crystals to Dong Gia. The surplus crystals would be used to enhance the remaining five sets of battle armor.
Now there were five sets left. These five sets were prepared for Chuc Thanh, one for Brother Hang, one for Chu Duong, one for Little Hong, and one for Captain Loi, just enough to distribute the five sets of battle armor.
The street.
Lam Pham led the Screamer-type zombie, hunting the zombies attracted to it.
Moving to another place, he hoped the Screamer-type zombie would continue to shriek, but he found that the Screamer-type zombie's throat seemed to be on fire, unable to make even half a sound.
"Sigh, even you, who are like a perpetual motion machine, will have problems after working for too long?"
He shook his head.
"Thank you for your efforts during this period. When Hoang City is thoroughly restored to its former prosperity in the future, there will be a share of your contribution in it."
As soon as his voice fell.
Frostmourne in his hand severed its head. He took out the crystal and put it in his bag.