Laughing Sickness: The Dead Walk the Same Road

[Laughing Sickness + Blood-Cross-style + no saintly heroine + intelligent zombies + apocalypse + doomsday + decisive killing + multiple storylines + ensemble cast + hardcore survival]

There is no rebirth, no supernatural powers, no System space, no protagonist plot armor, and no romantic entanglements. This is not a wish-fulfillment novel. It focuses on a purely realistic, hardcore apocalypse, depicting humanity’s desperate yet unyielding struggle in the age of the “Laughing Sickness,” along with brutal accounts of survival from multiple perspectives.

These aren’t mindless zombies! The Laughers retain their full human intelligence and ability to learn. The novel presents a sweeping, multi-perspective view of how the world gradually falls to the sound of laughter: civilians struggling with grit and ingenuity to outwit the monsters; outbreaks of the Laughing Sickness during foreign wars; and the brutal power games among world leaders as they confront the weaponization of the virus. But don’t worry: in the end, the currents of history will direct every perspective toward the same destination.

The novel features extensive, intensely realistic combat, from joint operations by large forces wielding heavy weapons to close-quarters combat in confined spaces and hand-to-hand fights with melee weapons. In this story, the infected die only when their brains are destroyed. Ammunition is limited, blades get nicked, and your enemies can shoot, flank, lay traps, and even drive vehicles through roadblocks! Experience an apocalyptic world where survival is twice as hard.

When the infected seize control of nuclear weapons, international tensions rise again and again.

When an international heavy-rescue force is wiped out amid the laughter.

When monsters understand military strategy better than people do, supplies run out and humanity collapses, and the Laughing Sickness virus is weaponized, where does humanity draw the line?