Compared to the mental control that high-level zombies have over low-level zombies, high-level wills can control a broader range of zombies, but it isn’t as satisfying as mental control.
Simply put, the will of high-level zombies is just the unconscious overflow of their brainwaves, which then influences the surrounding low-level zombies. This is a one-way control, like having a toy car that you can only push forward from behind; within the rules of the game, you can’t stand in front of it and make it go backward. If you did try to make it go backward from the front, that would be the mental control that high-level zombies exert over the evolutionary path of low-level zombies.
Mental control, however, is limited in number; even Tang Ye, when he was Level 6, could at most influence around two hundred thousand zombies with mental control. Even after reaching Level 7, he never influenced more than seven hundred thousand. To effortlessly affect millions of zombies is quite the pressure even for high-level zombies that control zombies.
It is incredibly busy work.
So, if that intelligent zombie changed its mind halfway through and no longer attacked the United District, even if it led the zombie horde to retreat, at least two-thirds of the zombies would continue to advance toward the United District. As for how to make all the zombies leave without missing a single one, that is somewhat of a fantasy.
As for Tang Ye’s question, Hatred seemed even more confused. Although he could also control hordes of zombies, such ability was merely granted by others. He didn’t understand the principle behind it at all.
But Tang Ye didn’t expect Hatred to have an answer, he just asked casually.
"Marshal, there’s something else you don’t know about."
"Oh? What’s that?"
"On Jiuge’s side, Akam has already gone with his cousin to support the 709 Mine."
"Akam? Is he a director of a group in Jiuge? His cousin... could it be a Level 6 New Human?"
"Yes, Ah Fu went there the day before yesterday at noon, and then, Akam’s cousin is an idiot."
"An idiot... No wonder. How could a Level 5 New Human possibly keep up with a Level 6 New Human."
Tang Ye nodded. He was somewhat familiar with the higher-ups on Jiuge’s side, There were two major groups in total. The first group was represented by Akam. The second group was a Chinese descendant named Mo Jun, who himself was a Level 6 New Human.
Although Akam was a Level 5 New Human, with strength not comparable to Mo Jun, his ZRZ Group always managed to outdo Mo Jun’s Shen Luo Group. Logically, this shouldn’t be possible. However, even though Akam wasn’t very powerful himself, he had a cousin.
It was said that Akam was born into a poor family in Funan, with a total of nine siblings. Before the Apocalypse, the country of Funan was already impoverished, rife with corruption and government oppression, where the citizens struggled to survive in one of the worst countries in terms of public safety.
In such state of affairs, the citizens began to grow marijuana for drug traffickers to survive, even though they knew that such actions would lead to punishments someday, but to live, they had no choice.
Helping the country to harvest wheat only led to being ruthlessly exploited, but growing marijuana for drug traffickers could earn them a large sum of money. Comparing the two, the benefits and detriments of each side were quite clear.
Over time, even many government officials became vassals to the drug traffickers. Although there were some upright officials who made bold claims about drug prohibition upon taking office, in a country riddled with drugs, such officials never lived past the third day.
Some were assassinated by hitmen sent by the drug traffickers, others were beaten to death on the streets by the citizens. Drug trafficking was not only the excessively profitable business of the traffickers but also the hope for all citizens of Funan to survive.
All officials who talk about banning drugs are undoubtedly touching their interests!
In such an environment, Funan’s past is undoubtedly very tragic, and those anti-drug officials may seem mighty and indomitable, but from another point of view, they fail to see the essence of the problem. Why has it come to this? Isn’t it because of poverty?
Akam grew up in such an environment and joined a drug trafficking group at thirteen. Sixteen years flew by, and he became feared by other drug-trafficking groups without a doubt, with anyone hearing his name running away in terror.
At thirty, sixteen years later, he made a name for himself in the Sajinan incident by merging his own ZRZ Group with the Yadu Group he first joined, becoming the leader of Funan’s drug trafficking groups!
His siblings were all killed by his enemies over the years of his struggle, and his cousin grew up with him, clad in the same pants from childhood. In terms of kinship, his cousin was undoubtedly the closest to him.
His cousin was utterly loyal to Akam, and during Akam’s battles, he helped a great deal with his imposing physique. The most comforting fact was that his cousin was a bit simple-minded; he didn’t necessarily listen to what others said, but if Akam said something, he would definitely do it. In the whole world, only Akam could control him.
Such a cousin was the most trustworthy person even after the Apocalypse, for even when he became a Level 6 New Human, there was not the slightest betrayal. It was because of this absolute loyalty from Akam’s cousin Adila to Akam, and Akam’s absolute loyalty to Adila, that the ZRZ Group could always stay one step ahead of the Mo Army’s Shen Luo Group.
After the incident at the 709 Mine in the United District’s Jirong Town where everyone was slaughtered, it was rumored that Tang Fu, a Level 6 New Human from the Peace Party, personally entered the fight. Akam’s decision to send his cousin and to go personally showed his wariness of Ah Fu.
"So his cousin is a Level 6 New Human, right?"
"Yes."
"Then no problem, Ah Fu can handle it."
Tang Ye was not concerned. No matter who Jiuge sent to respond, as long as there was just one Level 6 New Human, Ah Fu could handle it. Although he was a Level 6 zombie, Ah Fu’s strength was infinitely close to Level 7, with speed being his only weakness.
No matter how strong Adila got, after Ah Fu evolved from Level 5 to Level 6 as a silver-armored zombie, he, like Tang Ye, experienced an almost nine-fold increase in strength! At least twice as strong as an ordinary Level 6 zombie of the same level.
The only weakness was Ah Fu’s speed, but correspondingly, Ah Fu’s defense was also extremely strong. When fighting him, as long as it’s not another zombie, the saying truly applies: I can make countless mistakes, but if you make one, it’s all over.
Seeing that Tang Ye was unconcerned, Hatred decided not to say anything more and was about to leave, but suddenly he sensed Tang Ye’s steps come to a halt.
"Hmm?"
He glanced at Tang Ye and noticed him squinting at a woman sitting quietly on the flower bed steps outside the Peace Party Building.
"Li Qingtian." Tang Ye silently recalled the name in his heart. How could he possibly forget her? After eating Li Henian’s Evolution Crystal, her face and her name were deeply etched into his mind. Even without thinking about it, he would never forget it, not blurred by the passage of time—not in the slightest!