Apocalypse King: Recruiting S-Tier Beauties With My Ruler System-Chapter 31: The Death of Wang Yun!?

The blast lifted me off my feet, almost pushing me off the steel beam, my hand gripping the wall desperately. My whole body convulsed from the aftershock, and instantly I lost all sense of balance, not a trace of focus.

"Damn it, my ears are ringing." an irritating screech echoed inside my ears, like someone ringing a loud bell.

I staggered, slapping my head to clear the noise, but it didn't help, and the horrible smoke filled my eyes. Jiang Roulan called out to me with a concerned expression, rushing towards me as Wang Yun grabbed her arm, yanking her back so she didn't fall off the building. Or rather, tried to stop her — but she noticed my palm and stopped instinctively.

"Don't worry about me, focus yourselves."

This was what I deserved for throwing grenades with no experience. But this wouldn't stop me from doing it again.

"Are you sure?" Jiang Roulan called out from my side.

"Yeah... two more times, I'll do this two more times," I repeated my words, so she backed off.

"Be careful," Jiang Roulan grumbled, shuffling back, almost knocking Wang Yun off his feet, swallowing her words and watched me from the side, furrowing her brows.

Predictably, I didn't take her advice, and looking at the staggering zombies that shuffled towards me once again, my lips curled into a delighted smile. I quickly snapped the grenades from my inventory, brushing my thumbs along the pin while observing the zombies swaying like headless chickens. The pins dropped to the ground with a click, bouncing twice before tossing them towards the two groups. "Good night, from downtown!"

BOOM!

"Woah!"

"Careful!" Jiang Roulan's voice slightly exceeded the blast's aftershock, but her concerned voice made me chuckle.

After the second attack, most of the zombies located around the apartment died, leaving a smaller number of seventy or eighty roaming and most of them injured or deformed. I shook my head, now the ringing much worse, but still grabbed my spear. "It's fine," I responded innocently, feigning ignorance. "Wanna join me?" I asked.

"Huh, are you serious right now?" Jian Roulan's voice echoed from above as I dropped to the ground with a low thud, slamming my shoes into the skull of a zombie, crushing it like a broken egg.

Crack!

A pleasant sound echoed in my mind. Although I wasted a lot of points, the feeling of killing so many zombies felt so cool. Not to mention the essence from over a hundred zombies poured into my body during the explosions, increasing my disorientation but also granting me a greater boost in strength.

"Kyaa!" Jiang Roulan's body landed on a pile of boxes, and rolling to her feet, she dashed forward before smashing a zombie in the jaw with a swift uppercut.

"Good move," I complimented her before sweeping across the ground, tripping two zombies, "Hah!" following up with a rapid pair of thrusts, popping their yolk.

The group of zombies diminished as our bodies moved through pure instinct.

Each time Jiang Roulan moved, I caught her brutalising zombies with a cold, technical style. Meanwhile, my spears crushed and broke them like a complete brute without any sense of skill or technique.

[Warning!]

[You have reached Rank 4 - Evolving would be dangerous in the current situation]

'Halt it for now—can I resume whenever I want?' My thoughts became disrupted the moment the system echoed in my head, causing me to almost slip when dashing towards a zombie. My heart nearly exploded as another lurched forward and bit down inches from my face. It was so close I could smell its disgusting breath!

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Adjusting my footing, I pushed the heavy spear against the ground, using my upper body to launch myself back out of the zombie's range. The sound of Jiang Roulan's metal tonfa smashing off flesh echoed as I avoided the danger and stepped forward before smashing the zombie that bit towards me with my spear.

Crunch!

"Damn it..." my breath became slightly heavy as I panted, the sense of excitement coming from striking the zombie's head filling me with a rush of adrenaline.

"John! Are you coming to join me?" Suddenly, Jiang Roulan's excited voice echoed and caught my attention as I tried to catch my breath.

"Wow," Jiang Roulan looked like a maiden of battle, her body covered in blood, dripping with zombie flesh and guts as she lowered her hips and smashed forward with a dual strike, hitting her target in the stomach, head and throat with a rapid, blitz attack. I couldn't believe myself at first and bit my lower lip, frustrated that she could fight so well.

'I can't lose, I've already ranked up!' Filled with determination, I gripped my spear with both hands and dashed forward into the small crowd of zombies, lowering my hips before thrusting forward and penetrating two zombies, lifting them off the floor and hurling them against the concrete.

"Are you having fun?"

"Totally! But my arms are getting tired!"

"Let's hurry up then. I'll clear the other side," my voice lower than before.

Exhausted, I stopped trying to match her pace and instead just used brute strength and smash, crushed and pierced the zombies until most of them vanished, leaving just me and Jiang Roulan in the huge expanse outside the apartment.

"Haa... ha... Jiang Roulan, you're one powerful woman." My breath struggled to keep up, a mixture of the excitement, adrenaline fading, and exhaustion from almost an hour of constant fighting.

Her lips curled up before I felt a damp weight against my back.

"Really, am I that amazing?" she spoke in a cheeky tone, her voice lower than usual as she quietly huffed a shallow breath.

I peeked back at her, but found the view extremely stimulating, the sweat from the extensive action and combat caused her chest buttons to pop open, revealing her lack of bra and the shiny skin of her cleavage, meanwhile Roulan gazed at me with a strange expression, swallowing as she reached out to my face.

BANG!

"What?!"

"Oh god!" Jiang Roulan quickly pulled back when the sound of rocks collapsing and glass shattering reverberated through the air, and it also caused me to cover my ears. The moment the mist vanished, a monster appeared—a true monster!

At the demolished doors of the convenience store was a huge, plump zombie that had destroyed half the wall and support beams.

Fat, powerful and over two metres in height and width.

The sudden appearance of the monster caused tremors in the ground, and that's when I noticed Wang Yun desperately holding onto the beam as it collapsed. A loud screech echoed with the beam he held onto bent, dropping him just above the fat zombie.

"We should help him," Jiang Roulan gasped, seeing a human in a desperate state between life and death. "I don't think it can jump with that size so we can—eh?"

I couldn't blame Jiang Roulan's voice for turning inside out.

"HELP ME!" Wang Yun called out, as his body swung from the loose beam, however the monster below granted them no chance, its huge form swelling up, before it grasped both sides of its stomach, before tearing them open.

The zombie's stomach split apart, revealing a huge mouth, countless layers of teeth and a long, snaking tongue oozing with an acidic drool. "Aaaah!" Wang Yun's hands slipped from the beam, dropping into the monsters' hands and each one so large it made him look tiny.

"Oh god, save me, please, John! John!!!" Wang Yun flailed inside the hands of the monster kicking the fleshy meat of the fat zombie.

I noticed my legs started moving, although I hated the guy. Of course, he was annoying. It seemed I really didn't wish for him to die, nor this kind of horrible death on another human. But with each step, my heart pounded harder, realising it was impossible... I saw his body dropping as Jiang Roulan jumped at the huge zombie with a flying kick.

"Nooooooooo!"

The monster crushed Wang Yun with a loud, disgusting crack.

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Then dropped him into that foul, abominable mouth.