Chapter 1100: She

Green Hills, Fengyang District Amusement Park.

Standing on a distant building, Lin An constantly observed the terrain.

According to the information provided by Li Yao, the Zombie Emperor is hidden inside the amusement park's largest children's castle.

It sounds strange, even somewhat bizarre. But that's the fact.

The amusement park castle in the distance covers a large area; it was built by Fengyang City imitating Disneyland. Before the apocalypse, it could accommodate up to twenty thousand visitors, and the entire park also includes an artificial lake and a water park.

Once filled with laughter and joy, the amusement park has now become a zombie park.

Compared to before the apocalypse, hordes of zombies now occupy the entire site.

On the park grounds, there are zombies dressed as clowns dragging their rotting legs, the balloons tied in their hands leaking air and drooping to the ground.

Beside the overturned ice cream truck, several zombies in mascot costumes constantly lick inside the iron buckets.

Pushing empty baby strollers, some zombies who became pregnant during the apocalypse stiffly hold the babies slumped against their chests, seemingly still trying to nurse them with their withered breasts.

Clutching tightly to the mother's chest, the big-headed infant with half its brain rotted greedily suckles, continuously drawing the two patches of rotting flesh into its mouth.

Even with his excellent eyesight, Lin An also saw a zombie couple trapped in the Ferris wheel.

"Lin Dui, should we sneak in now?"

Swallowing saliva, before the big battle, the usually carefree Zhang Tie also grew somewhat nervous.

Looking at the dark castle entrance, he couldn't help but let his mind wander.

I heard that the Zombie Emperor is actually female...

"Wait for me to set up the nuclear bombs first."

He temporarily requested five two-megaton nuclear bombs from the Soviet War Zone, and Lin An, hesitating, prepared to deploy them.

Considering that the Zombie Emperor's forces likely include mutants, he decided to also place a few on the amusement park grounds.

However, to his surprise, after careful observation he saw no mutants.

Yes, it's very clean; at a glance, all are ordinary zombies.

He let out a quiet sigh.

Without a psychic scan, Lin An couldn't be sure whether there really were none or they were hiding inside.

Three hours later, the sky grew dark.

Gazing at the sunset about to set behind him, Lin An stood atop a high building, overlooking the amusement park below.

The red sunset cast behind him, spreading a large shadow.

The amusement park under the dim yellow sunset seemed to return to pre-apocalypse bustle; at the time to go home, happiness should also disperse.

All the floating nuclear bombs have been set up, and with the use of over thirty stealth props, they hover in midair like disguised mines.

With a single command, all nuclear bombs in the area will detonate simultaneously, causing indiscriminate nuclear explosion.

No further preparations can make much difference.

After confirming there were no mistakes, Lin An continually adjusted his condition until peak.

"Go!"

At the command, the two silently descended to the ground.

Casually selecting a few zombies as disguise targets, in the blink of an eye Lin An activated Mile's scalpel, successfully mimicking a zombie's appearance.

Blending into the corpse horde, Zhang Tie, disguised as a hot-dog cart pusher, carefully followed behind Lin An.

Uncertain whether the Zombie Emperor monitors the entire area, they could only inch along with the zombie horde, steadily approaching the castle entrance.

"Lin Dui, I always feel something's off..."

Clang clang, pushing the handcart, Xiong Hanzi acted brainless, continually kicking the cart's underside.

Having been inside for ten-odd minutes, things seemed fine on the surface, but for some reason he always felt a strange vibe here.

But he couldn't say what the problem was.

"It's the freshness that's the problem."

On the other side, the worker zombie Lin An disguised as raised his arm, responding silently.

Like Zhang Tie, after close contact with these zombies, he also sensed something wrong.

"These zombies' decay level is far insufficient.."

"Look at their movements and demeanor, as well as their grouping. These zombies ought to have turned instantly when the outbreak began."

"From the start of the apocalypse to now, so much time has passed; wind and sun exposure should have made these zombies far less fresh."

After finishing speaking over the team comms, Lin An spoke in a low voice, continually observing his surroundings.

Brushing past a big-bellied suspender zombie, he instantly saw the fresh wound on its neck. Although many maggots were crawling inside, even emerging from the nose via the throat, this degree of wound was still too fresh.

You know, even zombies in the urban area would normally be rotted to the bone by now—exposed leg bones, chunks of facial flesh falling off are normal. A suspender zombie whose neck hasn't rotted away obviously died no more than a month ago.

Blinking his eyes, Zhang Tie dazedly nodded after hearing Lin An's discovery.

"Then what does this mean?"

"Are these zombies all newly arrived... newly dead?"

Hearing Xiong Hanzi's question, Lin An briefly pondered, then his eyes narrowed:

"You could say that, but the underlying information is quite interesting."

"To keep the zombies fresh, they must be constantly replaced; only the Zombie Emperor can do that."

"So the question arises: why, as a mutant, would the Zombie Emperor do this?"

"There is only one explanation."

His eyes flickering, Lin An voiced his speculation:

"This Zombie Emperor probably finds highly rotted zombies disgusting, or rather, she is trying to simulate the amusement park's original scene."

"Combining what Li Yao first mentioned—that we were captured in the amusement park, and she posed as a worker—.."

After the Corpse Emperor gained consciousness, does it still want to return to before the Apocalypse?

Is she feeling nostalgic?

No... or even, loneliness?

Hearing Lin An's speculation, Zhang Tie widened his eyes, never expecting that this abnormality would contain so much information.

A few seconds later, Lin An spoke again:

If that's really the case, then us not seeing any mutants inside the amusement park can be explained..

The mutants are too large in size, and their destructive power is too strong.

If the Corpse Emperor truly wants to preserve its 'beautiful memories,' it would naturally not allow mutants to stay here.

So, before the Apocalypse, she must have worked here? Had deep feelings? Or often brought children to play?

Constantly analyzing.

Under the immense pressure of the Corpse Emperor, Lin An had to revert to his former self, constantly deducing any useful information.

Perhaps somewhere in that information lies the Corpse Emperor's weakness.

Go! Enter!

He let out a low shout toward the inside.

It took nearly half an hour for the two to pretend to be zombies and sway to the castle gate. Looking at the pitch-black half-open brown gate, Lin An's eyes sharpened as he directly flung himself forward like he had tripped. At this point, he could only gamble that the Corpse Emperor couldn't achieve 24-hour all-around perception without blind spots!

Boom

As they rushed into the castle interior, after standing up they carefully observed their surroundings.

They saw that the castle interior was spacious, but contrary to Lin An's expectations, it was very clean, with not a single zombie in sight.

Classic fairy-tale style decorations made it look somewhat gloomy in the darkness.

Only the wheel marks on the ground indicated that, under control, zombies often transported blood inside.

A light step transmitted a vibration.

Just as Lin An planned to detect the Corpse Emperor's exact location based on the vibration, a sudden patter of footsteps echoed from deep within the castle.

The next second, a soft female voice sounded:

Come in, Lin An.

I've been waiting for you for a long time...

!!??