Chapter Eighty-Seven: The Apostate
A humid environment with the smell of decay and musty.
Everyone is huddled in a small place, carefully surviving, and the only entertainment is probably to do something inappropriate in the corner.
And the people who are capable of doing these things are all people who control the power.
Zhang Kuohai.
After devouring human flesh, his body underwent strange changes, and he gained powers similar to those of the Anomalous, but he was unable to strengthen himself through magical energy like the Anomalous One.
All those who devour human flesh have also undergone these changes.
After feeling this strange change in his body, Zhang Kuohai organized people to gather information in the vicinity and communicate with other humans.
Of course, they didn't dare to reveal the matter of eating human flesh, but they were secretly knocking on the side to see if they could find cannibals like them.
After a period of collecting, most of the cannibals in the south of the city were gathered by Zhang Kuohai.
And in order to distinguish themselves from the supernatural or the enhancer, they call themselves apostates.
As the name suggests, betrayal of morality, rebellion from bondage, rebellion from the rules!
Because they couldn't go back from the moment they ate their first bite of human flesh, human flesh became their only food.
They can draw power from human flesh, and the stronger the person, the more power they get.
Without eating human flesh, their strength will continue to weaken, and at the same time, they will starve, and eventually starve to death, or the strange power in their bodies will explode, lose their minds, and become ghouls.
It's a horrible creature that has no reason and only knows how to eat humans.
Stout and powerful, but irrational, he will attack anything that comes close to him, and of course except for humans, the rest of the attacks will not be used as food by ghouls.
It's just simple torture and killing.
And the apostate who becomes a ghoul can no longer regain his senses, so to speak, he is controlled by instinct.
So, this is one of the reasons why apostate hunts humans.
They don't want to be manipulated by instinct and become a beast, but they also want to gain great power and survive in this world.
It can be said that once you eat humans, then you will never be able to turn back, and you can only stand on the opposite side of humans forever and ever.
There is no longer any possibility of peaceful coexistence with human beings.
Either be wiped out or humanity be wiped out.
Of course, in addition to eating human flesh, they can also strengthen their own strength by eating each other, and they can also achieve the effect of satiety, as well as strengthen their own strength, and cannibalism will gain more strength.
There are roughly three types of apostate abilities.
The type of reinforcement, which takes the route of self-strengthening, is similar to that of a warrior.
The type of control, which takes the control route, is similar to that of a mage.
The spirit type, due to eating the human brain, thus obtaining a superb mental induction, so as to carry out auxiliary battles, you can call it a priest or a nurse, but it is more versatile than a nurse.
And Zhang Kuohai is the strengthened type, taking the warrior route.
After gathering the apostates in the vicinity, they decisively formed an organization belonging to their apostates.
Due to the nature of the apostates, they are destined to stand in opposition to humanity, so they can only choose relatively dark sewers or more secluded places as their base camp.
Survive by hunting the hunting teams sent out by the individual factions to search for supplies, as well as ordinary scavengers in the apocalypse.
As for cannibalism?
It is strictly forbidden in Zhang Kuohai's organization!
What are you kidding, your own apostate itself belongs to the weak side, and you also carry out cannibalism to weaken your own strength?
Even if a strong apostate is strengthened, under the full suppression of human beings, the end of death cannot be avoided.
For them, they can't be called human anymore.
Moreover, in this apocalyptic world full of dangers, of course, it would be better to have more people, how could it be possible to weaken one's own strength?
You know, zombies and beasts don't matter if you're an apostate or not.
In their eyes, you are all food.
The taste is all the same good.
Even because the apostate eats humans, the alien beasts will prefer the flesh of the apostate more than ordinary humans.
So this is also the reason why Zhang Kuohai strictly forbade cannibalism within the organization, and he can't weaken his own strength.
If cannibalism is discovered, be put to death immediately!
There is no mercy.
As for what will happen to the executed corpse, of course Zhang Kuohai will take care of it.
Since it was put to death, it could not be wasted.
The method of indifferent handling is impossible for other apostasants to know except for Zhang Kuohai and his henchmen.
Even if he could guess, he didn't dare to say it, after all, Zhang Kuohai's original intention was still good.
Prohibition of apostate cannibalization is also conducive to unity within the organization and the survival of apostates.
and their better survival.
As for those fools who only care about cannibalism and pursue power, it is better to die, and the provincial people themselves are also targeted by these fools.
Looking at the apostate huddled in the shadows of the city, Zhang Kuohai remembered the situation of himself and the others before.
It was hunted down by human gathering places or other forces, and even the military region sent people to exterminate them, but they were all avoided by themselves, and now the current gathering place is also hard to find by themselves and others.
There's also a whole bunch of strange rats that have just arrived here.
And destroying this group of monsters also cost himself and others a lot of strength.
As for the magic crystals and the like obtained along the way, it can be said that they are useless at all, but they are still very useful for the supernatural or the enhancer and ordinary people.
As a result, he collected all the magic crystals and used them to trade with some neutral forces similar to merchants, or some forces that could take risks as long as they were profitable.
Exchange the magic crystal for human flesh, or some supplies you need.
Yes, exchange magic crystals for human flesh and even supplies!
Even for this kind of apostasy who is completely opposed to humans, there are still people who are willing to cooperate, spending useless slaves, or some corpses that have died in various accidents, as well as some materials, in exchange for magic crystals.
It's a lucrative deal for them.
For the sake of interests, they don't care about their position at all, as long as there are interests that can be pursued.
Like a hyena that smells blood, it swarms.
Now it's the last days, and everyone is trying to survive, so what morality and stance are there?
It's all about surviving.
Of course, they are also resolute in their performance against apostasy, but secretly no one knows.
Even if it weren't for the fact that it was difficult for the beasts to communicate, and for the zombies to be unable to communicate, they would even want to trade with the zombies and the beasts, but unfortunately it would be impossible for the two to trade with them at all.
In short, in their eyes, there is no human righteousness, and there is no life and death, everything is for themselves and interests.