The old man you see with your phone is highly suspicious.

It's simply... indescribable...

Having arrived in another world and learned more advanced magical knowledge, don't you even think about improving and developing it? Mephisto, you're really a disgrace to Earth's transmigrators.

"Leader, it's all cleared out. The people who ambushed us here were generally weak, but they were all equipped with very good gear," someone said.

Xue's Law: "..."

Aside from its destructive power, this thing is problematic in every other way... Receiving these things feels like collecting scrap.

Moreover, even in terms of destructive power, it can only pose a slight threat to legendary-level enemies at most. This is only because the magic array detonation is more stable than gunpowder detonation, which gives it such a slight advantage.

"Alright, let's start welcoming Miss Alban." Xue Dinglu probably waited until this time to help, after all, how could the Alban team, which was now mostly dead or crippled, be as easy to take over as the intact Alban team?

As Xue rode his horse toward the marriage procession, he saw a large number of corpse fragments and a sticky liquid smeared directly on the carriage.

A large amount of the property originally intended for the Akatsuki was blasted to pieces, and it seemed that there were hardly any survivors in the entire convoy.

Xue Dinglu immediately used the cursed blood to control his facial muscles, revealing an anxious and tense expression as he shouted, "Quickly protect the remaining survivors and treat the wounded! Medic, come with me to see how Miss is doing, whether she is injured!"

The anxious voice echoed through the ruins.

The head guard struggled to lift his head and saw Xue Dinglu rushing over anxiously. He recognized him as the leader of the Akatsuki organization. He had arrived as if a divine warrior had descended from the heavens to his side.

At that moment, he couldn't control himself, and snot and tears streamed down his face.

"My lord, my lord, we have fulfilled our mission and protected the young lady well... my lord..." All the words the head guard had prepared beforehand were now useless. He could only move his body with difficulty, revealing the carriage behind him.

"You're injured, medic. Come quickly and treat him. Don't worry, I'm here. You don't need to be afraid anymore. The Akatsuki is here, and all of you are safe now."

"Hmm..." The head guard nodded vigorously, but he didn't want to leave yet. He still hoped to see the young lady come out safe and sound. After all, the young lady they had risked their lives to protect must be alright, right?

"Crack!"

Xue Dinglu opened the deformed and twisted carriage door, and a "corpse" rolled out from inside, its face full of terror, its fingers covered in bloodstains, and the entire interior of the carriage was covered in twisted scratch marks.

Xue's Law: "..."

Faust: "..."

Su Su: "..."

"Young Miss!" The head guard's eyes were filled with horror. He tried desperately to get up, but the damage and exhaustion in his body almost made him fall to the ground.

"Don't worry, he's fine. He just fainted from shock," Xue Dinglu reassured the head guard.

However, in the communication within the consciousness space, Xue Dinglu directly said, "It's hopeless, just wait to die, farewell!"

"She should be a little dead, right?" Su Su looked puzzled, while sizing up her "love rival" who was about to marry Xue Dinglu. Her figure and face were okay, but her stiff corpse looked too ugly.

"It's not that he was partially dead, he was probably brain dead for about 6 minutes, and there are no obvious external or internal injuries, so most likely..." Xue Dinglu checked with his cursed blood, "most likely he scared himself to death..."

Faust: "..."

Su Su: "..."

"She's a young lady from a wealthy family, how could she be so scared?" Su Su asked, puzzled.

"She probably thought she couldn't escape this time. The explosion happened right next to the carriage. She was covered in a binding ritual, and she was probably imagining what would happen if she were caught by the gang. She was stressed and desperately tried to open the door, but the door was twisted by the explosion and couldn't be opened. She died of stress in this confined space..." Xue Dinglu, as a medical student, gave a professional diagnostic standard.

"Are there any living things that can stress themselves to death...?" Su Su continued to complain.

At this moment, Faust, who had been silent all along, said, "Now that the young lady you were betrothed to is dead, how will that affect your plans? Without her as the source of your legitimate identity, it will be difficult for you to contact the main family of Alban, won't it?"

"That's not necessarily true. A half-dead 'noble lady' like this is the best." Xue Dinglu began to use holy light to heal, while the cursed blood kept the corpse alive.

Because it was a stress-induced death, although the young lady was partially dead, her body still retained some vitality.

This is normal, just like how an organ can remain active for about 48 hours even after being separated from its host body.

That is, the person as a whole is dead, brain dead, but the cells, organs and other parts of her body are still alive.

This is enough for Xue Dinglu. He can keep this half-dead body as his tool, while also cultivating a persona of deep affection for himself.

Alas, Xue's Law had a brilliant idea: he placed this body in an ice coffin, and then used this as his title to become the sole heir of the Orburn branch family. Every day, he would come to the ice coffin to express his longing, and he could also get close to Mephisto under the pretext of praying to the gods to resurrect his beloved wife.

He had even thought of his final line: "Rise, my love."

While thinking about his plans, Xue Dinglu said to the outsiders, "It's alright, my wife is not dead, but she seems to be unconscious. I don't know when she will wake up."

In reality, it had already suffered brain death and cardiac arrest, but its body was forcibly kept alive by the cursed blood.

"That's good, that's good..." the captain of the guard said with difficulty, before finally fainting.

Xue Lude planned to keep the "corpse" alive like this, and then carry the ice coffin to the main house in Alban when the time came.

Once contact is made with Harley Albann, the corpse's usefulness is over.

However, at this moment, Faust suddenly said, "This plan actually has a problem. Once the real members of the Alban family examine the body, they will understand the situation. It's still easy to be exposed. Actually, we arrived a little too late..."

"The best time is when she's so stressed she goes crazy; that's when rescuing her is in our best interest."

"There's nothing I can do. I've only possessed a 12-year-old boy, so I don't have such strong perception to control time so precisely. But as long as it doesn't affect the overall plan, it's fine." Xue Dinglu shrugged, picked up the "girl" in his arms, and gently lifted her onto the horse under the gaze of the few Orben family guards around.

"Brother Lu, can I temporarily use this little boy's body like you did? I heard it's some kind of mind-stealing ability?" Su Su suddenly asked.

Xue's Law: "?"

What kind of amazing wisdom is this?

“This is indeed a good method. Your original plan was too simplistic, Apostle. A mere ‘vegetative’ person who can’t wake up will make the remaining members of the Alban family resentful and unable to win them over. At the same time, it will be impossible to gain the trust of the main family. It would be best to have a living Alban family heiress.”

“Even if it’s just a superficial existence, that will suffice,” Faust said.

"Yes, yes, brother, look! I'm controlling this body, and we're just like last time, combining our swords in perfect harmony, like the Condor Heroes, performing a thrilling combo! Isn't that great? See, I didn't hold you back last time, did I?" The little witch's eyes immediately lit up.

Xue's Law: "..."

Although that makes sense, for some reason, Xue Law always felt that this silly girl was trying to pull off a big show with her limited and amazing wisdom.

"Brother, say something!" the little witch urged, eager to try.

Xue Dinglu was speechless, then changed the subject and complained, "Actually, isn't it a bit too villainous for us to be discussing how to use corpses, how to deceive people, how to possess corpses, and so on? It makes us look like some third-rate villains..."

"Oh, isn't that right?" Su Su immediately showed a shocked expression.

Xue's Law: "..."

Faust: "..."

Well, what they're doing now isn't much different from what villains do. They're the kind of despicable, shameless, vile, and insidious third-rate villains using second-rate schemes, preparing to utilize first-rate resources to plot against a top-tier enemy.

However, Xue's Law and Faust had already abandoned morality and enjoyed a life of immorality long before this.

“We should keep Miss Alban alive; it will make the plan easier to carry out,” Faust stated his opinion.

"Alright then." Xue Dinglu felt that this wouldn't affect the overall situation.

So quickly, Xue Luding put the corpse into his consciousness space and placed it in Su Su's dormitory.

Then he said, "Follow my guidance, and I will let you temporarily take over this body."

"it is good!"

Xue Luding placed the corpse on the bed and then began to use the cursed blood to perform the mind-stealing technique.

Although it wasn't the original technique, but a modified one, and even one with very poor stability, after being possessed, it lost all its aptitude and became no different from a useless person, more like a puppet being manipulated with strings.

However, the Mind Flayer's ability to possess bodies is undetectable even by the world's consciousness, and that is its greatest strength.

Therefore, Su Su stood on top of the corpse and fell straight down, her whole body turning into afterimages in mid-air, her soul falling into the corpse.

As the last afterimage entered the corpse, the eldest daughter of the Alban family twitched her eyelids.

"Susu, open your eyes..."

The girl's eyes opened for a moment, but they were unfocused, as if she were dying with pupils filled with a mixture of fear and stress.

"Did it fail?" Xue Dinglu wondered.

“Brother…” came the girl’s voice, and his pupils immediately returned to their silly look.

She immediately stood up, reached out and touched her body, completely disregarding Xue Lude's presence, and directly put her hand inside her chest to weigh her chest.

"Not bad, it's about half the size of my original body," Su Su said.

Xue's Law: "..."

Are you crazy?!

Su Su immediately went to Xue Dinglu and said directly, "Brother, aren't we husband and wife in name only now?"

Chapter 392 Winner Takes All, Loser Eats Dust

At this moment, Xue Dinglu's lips twitched, and he finally understood why he had felt something was off about this silly girl.

So they were waiting for him here?

Even Faust, who had just convinced Xue Dinglu to "revive" the young lady based on the analysis of the situation, fell silent.

He racked his brains but couldn't understand how someone could be "resurrected" in a corpse, not to complete a plan to kill a god, not to achieve a grand goal, but merely for the sake of a nominal "marital" relationship?

For some reason, he only felt an unparalleled abstraction, as if a dancing elephant had been forcibly crammed into his mind, giving him a sense of powerful beauty.

He even began to wonder if his eagerness to save the young lady's life had made him look like a clown.

"Brother, say something, call me," Su Su said immediately.

Meanwhile, in reality, a moment after the young lady of the Alban family disappeared, she reappeared in Xue Luding's arms, now awake, looking at him with a silly, innocent expression, even trying to reach out and hug him.

"You'd better not... This is just a body I've possessed and am controlling remotely." Xue Dinglu grabbed the face that was trying to get closer. Although it was the unfamiliar face of the eldest daughter of the Alban family, her blank expression was enough to make Xue Dinglu immediately think of Su Su.

"Oh, isn't this a coincidence? Brother, you're possessing someone else's body right now, and I'm possessing someone else's body right now. Isn't this perfect?" She immediately started wriggling around in Xue Dinglu's arms like a caterpillar.

Xue's Law: "..."

He suddenly had the illusion that he was getting married to a character in a game. Both of them were using someone else's body and had to acknowledge that identity, just like he had randomly chosen a female character to marry in a game because of the attributes he gained for marriage.

"Stop fooling around. Next, we need to hurry back to the Alban family, gather the remaining forces, and kill the Alban family head here," Xue Dinglu said directly.

What he wanted to accept was a ruined Albanian family, not a family with a core leader.

So now, he needs to hurry back to the Olben family home to help them hold off the city lord, and incidentally kill the original head of the family.

In this way, coupled with the identity of "Belli Alban," the young lady whom Su Su is currently possessing, they can directly and completely control all the resources of the entire family and completely seize everything from the Alban family in Roland City.

At the same time, it was as if he had kicked a roadside animal to death, thus killing the city lord.