Apocalypse King: Recruiting S-Tier Beauties With My Ruler System-Chapter 26: The Usage of A Core...

I didn't realise she could switch because of emotions. This sudden knowledge made me consider the future and how to handle this. If it were only the evening and sleep cycles, I don't think there would be such an issue.

"It's for you."

Mu Qinglan pushed the core to me with a wide smile.

She seemed so expressive during her "zombie" mode—it made the usual Mu Qinglan seem like the zombie and this form was an actual human.

I thought it was a little ironic.

"You are giving this to me, do you know what this does?"

To be honest, I only heard its name, but I wondered how Mu Qinglan seemed to understand its value as she treated it like a treasure, even making a small box for it using my expensive perfume package.

[System Hint: The Zombie core has several usages]

I took the creamy green crystal orb from her hand—the scent was a little fruity, like kiwi.

It rolled around my hand, cool to the touch and glistening to my eye.

"Eat it."

Qinglan spoke again, imitating me swallowing the orb.

"Excuse me?"

The thought of swallowing this small green orb made my stomach churn because this small orb felt no different to the glass in the windows. It made me doubt Qinglan for a moment before the familiar blue box appeared and taught me again.

"Eat!"

[Tutorial Hint: Zombie cores can be swallowed and won't cause choking or health risks!]

I lifted the orb, placing it against my lips.

The slight scent of Mu Qinglan's hand cream lingered on it... cocoa butter.

[Tutorial Hint: Don't eat it!]

'Huh?' I thought to myself.

Didn't the system just tell me that this could help me and wasn't harmful to swallow?

'Why?'

[Tutorial Hint: That's not it! The core... look at the panel to your left. I will show you!]

Because the soft tutorial voice told me to check I did while trying to ignore how excited Mu Qinglan looked with her shining red eyes. It seemed she knew exactly what this did for people... I wondered how.

▼ Zombie Core Usage

- Can be sold for ZKP

- Can be swallowed by enhanced humans

- Can Help Zombies to evolve. (Explains their instinctive hunger for them)

- Can upgrade/make weapons.

Then some text appeared, but the Tutorial woman's voice read it out, which made things easier for me.

[The reason you shouldn't swallow this is that you have reached Rank 3! So from now on, each time one of your subjects reaches the next stage of evolution. You will also gain an increase in power!]

'I will gain power...?'

[It's not the same as a full evolution, but you gain this for all subjects that have over 100 affection for you and evolve to the next stage! Do you see now?]

'I see.'

Now, this made me realise something about this system and the virus: if there were stage two zombies. Then evolution must mean that eventually stage two humans will exist... and that only right now did I have a superior strength and advantage over them.

'Let's not tell Mu Qinglan about this and use it to get some points.'

Although it seemed dirty, he needed the women and men closest to him to have an affection and loyalty that others couldn't break. If someone else ran off with them after he strengthened them, it would be idiotic.

I rolled the green orb between my fingers.

Each time I moved it, the eyes of Qinglan followed it like a cat and it was super cute.

She looked at me with confused eyes the moment I pressed it against her soft lips, the squishy sensation a little wet from her lip gloss.

Or maybe it was her drool. I couldn't help but roll the cold orb along her mouth before slipping it into her mouth.

"Eat it. Qinglan, you've worked hard."

I wanted to stir her hunger for the orb, letting her taste it and desire it.

Her tongue pushed the orb, as if to resist my gift at first, but slowly her resistance faded, my left hand reaching out and stroking her hair as she parted her lips and my fingers slipped into her mouth.

"Mmmmn."

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However, her tongue wrapped around my fingers.

A warm, sticky sensation slithered and coiled around them as she sucked the orb from my grasp with a rather loud sucking sound.

Mu Qinglan's eyes narrowed, and she fluttered her eyelashes seductively at me...

Immediately, she flung her head back and slammed back onto the bed with a thud. Her body started to convulse, and I saw her muscles visibly bulging and contracting, becoming bulkier and then condensed as the dead Qinglan let out a pained gasp.

"Argh...!"

She started to spasm, which made me panic.

Mu Qinglan's eyes shone a dark red, then flickered to an azure blue as her pained groans changed to sound like something different.

The extreme difference in her size and looks seemed almost monstrous, but instead of that...

I noticed her hands started to move.

Qinglan reached across her body, pulling up her shirt, slipping her pants down. I looked away, but I needed to ensure she was safe. Yet when she started rubbing and touching herself, with a low, breath sigh, I realised it was different.

"I messed up..."

There was a sudden flash when her gaze snapped towards me, and I felt the familiar tingle in my neck, but before I could dash out of the door, Mu Qinglan grabbed my arm and flung me onto the bed.

"John~" She purred in my ear.

It was hard to deny my arousal even while terrified.

Her dull red eyes loomed near my face, as she bit my cheek... nibbled my neck and sucked on the tip of my ears, while sniffing my chest and body like a beast... She pushed her breasts against me while licking my face and grabbing my clothes.

I struggled against her... Really... I tried.

However, when I thought she might really start something.

Thud!

A weight dropped on my chest, and her sleeping face came into my view.

"..."