Excessive ferocity due to caution

"Manager Che, I'll help you stall your master."

"Hold off the First Madam's puppet...try to hold out until the Second Madam arrives!"

Zhao Yi pulled out a blood-stained scalpel.

His eyes gradually became excited.

...

[Personality Injection: Martial Arts Obsession (14%), Tyrannical Personality (6%), Bloodthirsty Personality (1.2%)]

[Mental Corruption Level: 56% (Ineffective against you)]

[Upgrades obtained: Close Combat MAX (Beginner), Nerve Excitation MAX]

[Duration: 180s (Excessive duration increases Chaotic Storm particles, affecting the progress of Spiritual World construction)]

...

The master, being a zombie, possesses immense fighting power, but now that his heart has been removed by the first wife, he is moving slowly!

The paper effigy steward and the first wife were locked in a fierce battle, while Zhao Yi leaped up, his scalpel twirling in his hand, leaving a shallow wound on the zombie's body!

The zombie's defense was extremely abnormal, almost ignoring the physical damage from Zhao Yi's scalpel.

Thankfully, the chaos damage ignores resistance, otherwise the raiders wouldn't be able to parasitize the master!

With the Raiders, Zhao Yi's margin for error is much higher!

The old man has almost no sense of reason, especially after his heart was removed; many of his reactions are purely instinctive.

As he adapted to his body without a heart, his speed increased, and soon he seized Zhao Yi's weakness and threw a punch!

boom!

Zhao Yi blocked with both arms, and the sound of bones cracking accompanied by intense pain!

However, Zhao Yi showed no sign of pain; instead, he became even more excited!

He took a few steps back, his arm injury slowly healing.

The battle on the other side of the cart steed was even more brutal!

Facing the First Lady, who had already obtained her heart from her previous life, it was clearly far inferior in strength!

Moreover, Che Lin already had many injuries, and before long, the paper figure was cracked and stained with blood. When the wind blew, it felt like it might break into pieces at any moment!

But it still gripped the Guan Dao tightly in its hand, never letting go!

Stand straight!

Just like when it followed its master across the battlefield, covered in wounds and fighting bloody battles!

Che Lin's martial arts skills were not even half as good as Master Wang Zhan's, but his passion remained unchanged until his death!

After a short rest, the man, the corpse, and the two ghosts fought again!

Zhao Yi was under increasing pressure. After three minutes, he canceled his personality injection, realizing he hadn't handled many details better.

However, he has an extremely strong learning ability and is beginning to adapt to the zombie's attack rhythm. With the life force provided by the raiders, he is going to wear down the zombie master!

Even so, his injuries were getting worse and worse!

"Hehehe!"

"What's the use of struggling, you weak and pitiful insect?"

"Before absolute power, everything else is meaningless!"

The flesh puppet let out a chilling laugh, seized the opportunity, and tore off one of the paper effigy steward's knife-wielding arms. Then, its fingernails emitted a hazy blue light, slicing across the paper effigy's neck, and Steward Che Lin's head flew off...

Its body finally collapsed.

Meanwhile, the First Madam, the flesh puppet, also turned her gaze toward Zhao Yi.

Zhao Yi's gaze was icy, and the black blood vessels on his body were already faintly visible on the surface.

Although the cost is heavy, he wouldn't mind unleashing his darkest personality again to clear the field if necessary.

He didn't do that because the situation is still under his control.

Judging by the time, Luo Qili should be arriving soon.

as predicted……

Just as the First Madam was about to make a move against Zhao Yi, two ghostly figures suddenly appeared in the distance!

The First Madam sensed something, and her head turned strangely 180 degrees, staring back at the two murderous ghostly figures!

Those were the two guards that the master gave to the second mistress!

They were exceptionally fierce, and upon meeting, they immediately began to tear at the First Madam!

"I'm back!"

Luo Qili and the second wife ran towards this direction, both out of breath.

When Zhao Yi saw her disheveled appearance and the deep wound on her back, he knew that she had probably encountered those two ghosts who were loyal to the First Madam on the way.

"I just ran into a little trouble... Holy crap! The manager's dead?!"

Before she could even complain to Zhao Yi about the horror she had just encountered, she saw Chief Steward Che Lin's headless corpse lying motionless in a pool of blood on the ground...

Zhao Yi's gaze passed over Luo Qili and landed on the sorrowful-looking Second Madam, and he said:

"Madam, now that things have come to this, you have no other choice."

"If you truly still cherish the master's kindness to you, then help us eliminate this flesh puppet and let the master rest in peace!"

Su Mei's beautiful face was filled with grief. She sighed deeply and gave a bitter laugh:

"It's all my fault..."

"If it weren't for my love for you, sir, and my failure to follow your orders to burn your body and bury my sister's heart, you and my sister wouldn't be in this state now..."

"Now, not only has it implicated Steward Che, but it has also implicated the entire Wang family..."

"I... am a sinner of the Wang family..."

The two guards were no match for the First Madam; after struggling for a while, they were nearing their limit.

The second wife suddenly stepped forward and hugged the master, who had turned into a zombie.

The zombies actually calmed down.

A moment later, Su Mei unbuttoned her thick clothes with one hand.

That body, which should have been spotless, was now mostly rotten!

Her gaze was full of affection as she stroked the zombie master's cheek with one hand, tears streaming down her face.

"Sir, it must hurt a lot to be without a heart, right?"

"Mei'er, here's one for you."

"That way, Master won't be in pain anymore..."

After saying that, Su Mei reached into her chest and ripped her heart out!

Then, it was carefully inserted into the hole in the zombie's chest.

The bloodied heart quickly merged with the zombie, and the old man's confused eyes gradually cleared...

He caught Su Mei as she was about to collapse, but the light in her eyes was quickly fading.

"He is devoted to me, and I am willing to be with him..."

Su Mei hummed softly in the zombie's ear, her gaze lingering, her voice barely audible.

She remembered it clearly.

That was the song she hummed when she first met Wang Zhan while working as a geisha in a brothel.

If time could stand still at that moment, it wouldn't be so bad.

If only life were like our first meeting...

Su Mei's lips curled up slightly, her life force extinguished.

Blood flowed from the zombie's eyes.

It dripped onto Su Mei's chest.

He slowly rose, staring at the First Madam's flesh puppet, which had already torn the two maids into a bloody mist. His fists clenched, and his eyes turned bloodshot!

"I have treated you well... I have never regarded you as a puppet..."

"I'd even...give you my whole heart..."

Why...why did you do this to me?

At this moment, the First Madam had completely merged with her own heart, no longer a puppet, but a terrifying ghoul!

Her aura surged, her nails and lips were coated with an eerie, bright red, and she let out a chilling laugh.

It was mixed with intense resentment!

"How ridiculous..."

"You've never treated me like a puppet?"

"In your eyes, I'm nothing more than a substitute..."

"Throughout the entire mansion, from top to bottom, not a single person acknowledges my existence..."

Do you really care about me?

"No!"

"You only care about Fang Qian, that dead... bitch!!"

"Let me tell you, you old fool... I'm not Fang Qian!"

"I……"

"It's your...nightmare!!!"

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P.S.: Tomorrow will be the final chapter of this story, and I'll also fill in any other plot holes.

Thank you for reading!

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