[Hunter] How to kill a zombie

, There were many shadows, Pufu's eyes shifted first, and Zooey saw the figure standing on the window sill from the reflection in his eyes-his shadow split the blue moonlight in half, like a sculpture.

"king……"

Pufu's body seemed to lose its support suddenly. He knelt on one knee on the ground, his head drooping deeply.

Wang said he sensed agitation coming from Pufu.

That's why I came here.

Zooey didn't know what kind of mood Pufu was in at this time. The wonderful connection established just now was interrupted the moment Wang appeared, but judging from his wordless silence, Zooey guessed it was regret .

I regret not being able to start at that moment.

What she didn't expect was that Wang took her back to the hall, where he rested. "Sit," he said, and she found a place to sit. "Don't leave casually," he ordered.Obviously, his "circle" can sense all the movements around him.The Ant King didn't give other orders, but just returned to his position and sat cross-legged, closing his eyes.

For Zoe, the freshness of that moment has gone, and the world has turned back to a gloomy gray.She also closed her eyes, trying to recall the "life" she felt just now, the feeling as if something was about to burst out of her chest, but failed.

"Chess players don't have to look for it anymore." The Ant King said suddenly.

Zooey opened her eyes.

"Puff is not the right person," Wang said. "He won't find the right chess player."

Because something has changed.For Pufu, the king's order is no longer the top priority.

He puts his own judgment above the hierarchy of the race, and once that happens, there's no going back.

The Ant King pointed to the chessboard in front of him: "You come."

Zooey looked at him silently.

"If you win, I promise you one thing." The Ant King said calmly, "If you lose, you will die."

"I don't know how to play chess." Zooey looked at the corner of Wang's eyes and said slowly, "I won't die either."

"Then find a way to die." Wang said, "I can guarantee this."

"Wang, how do you say that something that has already died should die again?"

"Crush your brains, tear your limbs apart, and everything that has a body will die." A cruel and crazy smile appeared on the face of the ant king.

"I don't know how to play chess." Zooey continued, "If you just want to kill me, you don't need to go to such trouble, just do it now... Actually, I'm also curious whether the things you said can come true—tangible Things die one day—it does..."

The madness on Ant King's face gradually subsided, and he looked at her quietly, as if waiting for her to continue talking.

"O King of Ants, I'm really curious, what exactly do you want?" she said, "A good meal? Even the most delicious delicacy will make people tired. Power over everything? The ultimate power brought It's the ultimate boredom—everything within your reach is boring, as you must know. Destruction? Of course, everything will eventually be destroyed. If so, maybe you just acted as the catalyst of time—or conversely, control? Control The world, change it? Maybe you have a plan in your mind for the future of the chimera species? But I can't see that from your actions, you simply embrace your identity as the 'King' and claim it ...With all due respect, I have only one conclusion about you in the short time we get along. In my opinion, you are just a child who has just been born. Yes, you have a strong desire, and this desire can become anything Stuff, you're greedy, but that's not your prerogative - if you notice, humans have desires, and humans are greedy. Both things deteriorate over time, desire expands, gradually loses weight, and becomes nothingness And sometimes desire fades, greed doesn't. These two qualities help humans stand out from the cutthroat competition and also make them suffer. You're smart enough to understand what I'm talking about - I'm saying What’s more, if it’s you, maybe you can break this boring cycle and find a more suitable way of existence for you.”

"...Is that what you want to say?" The Ant King looked at her and asked calmly.

Zooey smiled: “You will understand what I want to say.”

Then he practiced his words, tore her limbs to pieces, crushed her brains, and buried her in countless pieces.He finds it boring, everything is boring.But her words started to make him seriously think about what he had been doing and what he had been doing.Her words warned him—yes, humans are greedy, cunning, and selfish.If it's a fight (and it is), he doesn't need to show any level of respect and respect to humans.Just like before on the chessboard, he can disrupt his opponent's breathing by various means.If he really values ​​his opponent, he will do whatever it takes.

So when the human team attacked, he did not act separately from the guards.Together they hunted and devoured that group of people and became stronger.In front of the palace of the Eastern Godot Kingdom, the old hunter was about to die in battle. In the end, he hesitated for a moment before inserting his finger into his heart—because he saw tens of thousands of civilians who were hypnotized and standing in the square .Pufu, who can perceive other people's emotions with scale powder, saw through his plan and rushed to Nitero, taking the old man away from the king's direction as fast as he could in his life.Meanwhile Peter and Yupi fled in the opposite direction with their king—

A crimson rose bloomed in the sky above the Eastern Godot Kingdom.

Pufu died, but Wang survived.

Everything that followed seemed to be logical.The subversion of the human world was expected. What Wang did not expect was that at first they—human beings—had a chance of winning, but they were destroyed by their own people.A group of people began to take refuge in him and pursue him—human beings were bitten in the back by their own compatriots.Human beings slaughtered human beings, human beings managed human beings, and the king didn't even need to worry about the "grazing land" afterwards. Human beings themselves had already designed the optimal human livestock ranching, and presented them to him with both hands.There are even some human beings who are proud to be chosen as food, and some people try every means to become the king's meal, and they do not hesitate to do heinous acts for this.These people made Wang feel a little disgusted.Of course, there are also those who resist, and Wang often even thinks it would be better to let them go for a while-because those people are much more interesting than other people.

Unknowingly, from a certain point of time, the seed of emptiness that that person planted in his heart that day began to take root and sprout.When he was tired of food, when he was tired of humans, when he was tired of ants, he would think of those cold blue eyes.Those eyes curved strangely, and said curse-like words...

"You'll understand what I'm trying to say."

A king has no name, a king is just a king.

The king is the king of all, the king of the world.

But he is not happy.

So he found out where the body parts had been buried—he had been keeping everyone and ants away, because the virus might destroy everything, but at this time he went over and found all the fragments with his own hands. together.One day passed, two days passed, and the pieces were still pieces.Perhaps, he thought, this was her end.She finally died.

She lied.

At that moment, the weight of nothingness seemed to swallow him up.

At some point, on whose idea, this place was built as a mourning hall.Zoe's fragment was placed on the stone platform in the middle of the mourning hall by him.Sunlight shines on her broken body through the gaps in the building, and plants cling to every corner of the building.One day Wang came for a walk as usual, and what he saw was just like this—almost no trace was left, and the way she looked at him under the light was the same as usual, as if what happened that day was just yesterday.

Zooey looked at him as if saying: I know you will definitely come back.

She said she knew he was too smart to live a long life without thinking. "You don't know what you want at the time," she said.

Wang said, I don't know now.

Will the world go on forever like it does now?Certainly not.Maybe other species will rise up, maybe there will be threats from the outside world.On a broader scale, these few decades are but a drop in the ocean.The entire history of human development has happened in the blink of an eye.Chimera ants don't fare much better than that.Life reproduces, dies, and the cycle repeats, one species dominates and then falls.Such is the case with species, such is the state, such is the coincidence of life.

Even if it could, even if the ants' rule lasted for billions of years -- so what?For him—for the king is no longer important.But he is only a king, and can only be a king.

"What should I do?" he asked. "How do you do it?"

"You need to find what you really want—" she said, "that's the only answer, isn't it?"

"What do you really want? But I already have it all."

Zoe shook her head.

"Maybe I can't, but I believe you can," she said, looking away.After the decline of human civilization, the world is once again covered with different shades of green, "The world is so big, you will find it."

"Found what?"

"Shhh..." She made a gesture of "forbidden speech" with the pen of her index finger, "Find what you love." She said.

"Until then, I will accompany you