Chapter 34: This Person is Called Chen Hai

"Department Head Wang, what is wrong?"

Beside the young man, someone saw his shocked expression and immediately asked.

Upon being asked, the young man came to his senses, thought for a moment, and then spoke: "This face... I think I recognize it."

"You recognize it?"

As soon as these words were spoken, everyone's gaze shifted instantly, all focusing on the young man.

"Yes, I recognize it." The young man nodded vigorously and then explained, "This person is someone wanted by our Base."

"Someone wanted by your Base? You're saying this is a person, not a Zombie King?"

Someone immediately caught the implication in his words and exclaimed on the spot.

"In any case, the person our Base is hunting looks exactly like this photo, and looking at the video captured by the drone just now, the figure inside is also extremely similar." The young man nodded again.

Upon hearing this, the crowd took a closer look at the person in the photo—he had neither blood-red eyes nor horns on his forehead; no matter how they looked at it, he did not resemble a Zombie King.

"Your Base is hunting him—did he commit some evil deed at your Base?" someone pressed the young man.

"This..." The young man hesitated for a moment before saying slowly, "Actually, it is the He Family of our Base that is hunting this person. He Yongsheng of the He Family is a Top-tier Ability User, and he is currently in the team of Ability Users hunting the Zombie King."

"Why does the He Family want to hunt this person? What is his name?" someone asked curiously.

"He seems to be called Chen Hai," the young man began. "He Yongsheng only has one son, who was born with a heart condition, and it just so happens that this Chen Hai's heart is a perfect match for his son. He Yongsheng wanted to transplant Chen Hai's heart into his son."

"But just as the He Family was waiting for a Top-tier Healing Ability User to arrive, Chen Hai ran away. I heard he escaped into this Funancheng."

"The He Family sent several waves of people into the city to capture Chen Hai, but they never succeeded once. It was precisely because of this matter that we discovered a Zombie King was actually hiding in this city."

After hearing this, a middle-aged man's expression darkened, and he asked: "You mean to say this person is not a Zombie King at all, but a living human being?"

"I wouldn't dare to be certain about that," the young man said, his tone uncertain. "If it really is the Chen Hai I know, then he should still be human. I heard that he also awakened an ability, and the ability is... being able to control Sangshi."

However, after finishing speaking about Chen Hai, the corners of the young man's mouth lifted slightly.

When he was at the Base, his family had always been at odds with the He Family, so he had secretly inquired about many of the He Family's affairs.

These inside details about Chen Hai were leaked by people his family had planted within the He Family.

Including Chen Hai's detailed information and the fact that he had awakened the ability to control Sangshi, he knew it all.

"This person named Chen Hai has the ability to control Sangshi... then is it possible that he is the one controlling this Zombie King?" someone couldn't help but speculate.

But as soon as this guess was voiced, it was immediately refuted: "Impossible! No one in this world can control a Zombie King!"

"According to our research on the Zombie King, its Spiritual Power is terrifyingly high. To control a Zombie King, one would need Spiritual Power at least ten times stronger than the Zombie King's! But in this world, there is no such Ability User with Spiritual Power ten times stronger than a Zombie King; even finding one on par with a Zombie King is difficult."

Once this was said, everyone fell into deep thought again.

"If he really is a human, then why would he be staying with a Zombie King?" someone else raised a question.

"Could it be... that he has been controlled by the Zombie King?" someone guessed in reverse.

As soon as these words came out, many people's eyes lit up.

"That is very possible! If a person's Spiritual Power is extremely weak, the Zombie King has a chance to control them."

"This Chen Hai was hunted by the He Family several times; perhaps he was pushed to the brink of a mental breakdown by the He Family, and the Zombie King took the opportunity to control him."

"Tsk! If that's really the case, then this person's luck is truly terrible."

At this moment, most of the people present accepted a conclusion—Chen Hai was being controlled by the Zombie King.

No one believed that Chen Hai could conversely control the Zombie King, so the answer could only be that the Zombie King had controlled Chen Hai.

"Leader! The drone equipped with thermal imaging was attacked by a Mutant Bird and crashed. What should we do now?"

Just then, a young man hurried over to the middle-aged man and reported urgently.

"The drone crashed?" The middle-aged man sighed, looking helpless. "Then we have no choice; we can only watch as the Zombie King escapes."

The Sangshi moved too fast in the woods, the battery life of the thermal imaging drone was limited, and now that it was destroyed, the plan to track the target using drones had completely fallen through.

"Director Zhang, across this mountain range is our Fubei Base. The Zombie King wouldn't run to our Fubei Base, would it?"

The young man from before suddenly thought of something and spoke up in a hurry.

The middle-aged man called Director Zhang shook his head: "If it really dared to break into the Base, that would actually be easier to handle. It only brought thirty-some Mutant Zombies; without a Zombie Group of hundreds of thousands or millions, it's just a free meal for the Base."

Upon hearing this, everyone nodded in agreement.

The most terrifying thing about a Zombie King was never how strong it was individually. No matter how powerful it was as an individual, it couldn't withstand an Armor-piercing Bullet.

The truly terrifying aspect of a Zombie King was its ability to command a Zombie Tide of hundreds of thousands or millions to besiege a Base. With so many Sangshi, a Base's weapons and equipment simply couldn't hold them off.

The reason they were able to beat this Zombie King into such a state this time was because this Zombie King was still very weak, appearing to only be able to control a hundred thousand or so Sangshi.

More importantly, in order to exterminate this Zombie King, the country had mobilized all weapons and ammunition from dozens of nearby Bases, and coupled with the fact that this city didn't have a large population to begin with, they had managed to beat the Zombie King into a desperate flight.

If this Zombie King could control hundreds of thousands, or even millions of Sangshi...

Then all of them combined wouldn't be enough to fill the gaps between the teeth of the Zombie Group.

Top-tier Ability Users are strong, but abilities cannot be used infinitely.

As long as the Zombie King is a little smart and hides in the Zombie Group without showing itself, Ability Users wouldn't even be able to find it. In such a situation, what use is having more people?

"We failed to encircle and annihilate the Zombie King today; how are we going to explain this to our superiors when we go back?" someone asked with a worried expression.

As soon as these words were spoken, the whole room went quiet, and everyone wore a heavy expression on their faces.

Many people subconsciously cast their gazes toward the middle-aged man standing in front of the map.

The middle-aged man didn't speak, just stared fixedly at a mountain range marked on the map.

"The Zombie King has escaped into this mountain range; the difficulty of entering the mountains to annihilate it is too great."

"However, we don't need to send people to force their way in for an encirclement; we just need to arrange for people to follow behind and keep an eye on its movements."

"To the north of the mountain range is the Fubei Base; as long as it dares to walk out of the mountains, we can easily wipe it out."

"The Funancheng to the south has already been cleared by us once, and there aren't many ordinary Sangshi left now; even if it comes back, we aren't afraid."

"Therefore, the most urgent thing for us now is to intercept it and not let it go to Sanshui City in the east. Sanshui City had a population of five hundred thousand before the apocalypse; if it enters Sanshui City, we will really be in big trouble!"