She quickly put Zhou Xiaojun down.
As soon as he hit the ground, he felt the world spinning and stumbled, making intimate contact with the earth…
Feeling the cold floor, Zhou Xiaojun suddenly shouted, "As expected of you, Luo Xiaole! Anything related to you ends up falling face-first into the ground… I believe you this time… I surrender to you…"
Luo Xiaole, however, didn't hear him. She walked straight to the wall and touched the spot where the black bloodstain was imprinted.
Although she lacked experience, anyone who looked closely at the bloodstain could recognize that it was blood from a fresh corpse…
She couldn't help but shiver…
Did Qin Li still maintain the habit of… dismembering bodies and embedding them in walls?
This disturbing thought lingered in her mind…
But… what was his motive?
"Guest, may I help you with anything?" a maid's voice inquired.
Luo Xiaole quickly averted her gaze and pretended to be washing her hands, "I was planning to take another bath, but I suddenly felt a bit low on blood sugar, so I just stood here for a moment…" Anyone would believe her if she said she had low blood sugar…
"Would you like me to get you something to replenish your energy?" The young maid was very enthusiastic and also helped Zhou Xiaojun up.
"It's fine, it's fine. He's not feeling too well either. We'll just go back to the room and rest. You go on with your work." Luo Xiaole said nonchalantly.
"Certainly, please call me if you need anything."
With just the tip of her little finger, Luo Xiaole dragged Zhou Xiaojun back to Mo Chen's room.
"Well, what happened here?" Seeing Zhou Xiaojun's "miserable state," Luo Shu and the others greeted them with great interest.
"I sat on too many flying… planes today…" Zhou Xiaojun's head was still spinning.
Luo Xiaole threw him a bottle of a symptom-relieving buff, "Listen carefully, is there any news about anyone suddenly disappearing around Qin Li…"
"Holy crap, you're a real taskmaster! I haven't even recovered yet!"
"Extra chicken legs tonight," Luo Xiaole said with a straight face.
"I'll listen, I'll listen! I want five!" Zhou Xiaojun took a gulp of the buff, immediately perked up, and pricked up his ears.
"That's strange… People are indeed talking about it, but it's all fragmented. Some say Qin Li's eldest brother disappeared years ago, others say Qin Li's youngest niece used to come often two years ago and then was never seen again. Everyone has their own story…"
Luo Xiaole froze, her brow furrowed.
Were these people all Qin Li's relatives? And they all disappeared?
"What about recently? Has anyone disappeared recently?" Luo Xiaole felt like she was touching upon a shocking secret…
"Believe it or not, there is one!"
"Qin Li's biological sister. She seemed to have been living here since the apocalypse, but for some reason, she left a few days ago, saying she was going to another base. They all found it quite strange…"
Luo Xiaole's heart sank. She suspected that the corpse in the wall was likely that person…
After all, these events were too coincidental…
All Qin Li's relatives, gradually disappearing at different times…
Could it be that, like the first madam, they were turned into zombies and then reversed, their dismembered bodies embedded in the wall with their consciousness intact?
Could he really be that twisted?
…
The evening sun quickly disappeared, and the sky gradually darkened, but Mo Chen had not returned.
"Where is Mo Chen?" Luo Xiaole was anxious. It was the agreed-upon time, and Mo Chen hadn't appeared yet…
Her unease grew, but she remembered Cheng Miao in the restaurant that morning and the base members who had been drugged earlier.
Being cautious, she directly took several "awakening" buffs from the system and gave them to Lin Xia and the others, "Keep these buffs. Wait for me in the room. I'm going to find Mo Chen."
Meanwhile, Mo Chen was in a luxurious guest room at the Qin residence, suspended on the wall by a special green energy strand by his former "good master."
"Xiao Chen, it's been many years, and Master has missed you dearly," the bald elder with a white beard said, stroking his beard affectionately.
"But why did you attack your master as soon as you arrived? Didn't Master teach you to respect your elders?" A cruel glint flashed in his eyes.
"Swish!" Immediately, a whip that appeared out of nowhere lashed out mercilessly at Mo Chen, leaving another wound on his body that reached the bone.
"Cough, cough…" Mo Chen, weakened, coughed up another mouthful of blood.
As soon as he entered the room in the afternoon, he was attacked by his master without explanation. To his surprise, he resisted with all his might.
His martial arts had been taught by his master, and every move and stance was within his master's control. After a fierce battle, he was ultimately no match for his master, was suppressed, and injured to this state.
"Why…" He looked up at his master in confusion. He couldn't understand how the person he had once respected could be the master of a desperado like Cheng Miao.
Why had his master, who once had the heart to save the world, become this stranger before him…
"Why are you involved with Qin Li? Why do you disregard human lives?" The old man stirred his fingers as if he were a master of his craft, looking down at Mo Chen with an air of nonchalance.
"Xiao Chen, you're still as pure-hearted as ever… That's why I took you in… Do you remember the secret technique I told you about? Converting power from another world to strengthen your own internal energy and transform your body.
And the current zombies carry this energy from another world."
He chuckled and whispered, "Actually, I knew your identity was unusual a long time ago. I was just waiting for the right moment in the apocalypse…"
"Without the power to be perfect, one cannot truly care for the world. To achieve this, minor sacrifices are necessary in the early stages… just like you are now."
He lowered his head and drew a bloody gash across Mo Chen's jaw with his rough fingertip…
"Your small sacrifice will allow your father and I to truly become eternally immortal half-zombies. Only then will this world truly be under our control, with no future troubles…
So, Xiao Chen, you will fulfill Master's wish, won't you?"
The white-bearded old man's smile began to turn sinister. "Come out."
Qin Li walked out from behind the door, looking at the bruised and battered Mo Chen with a pained expression.
"Son, don't blame me. We can only absorb enough corpse energy and become stronger by harming those closest to us.
You are my legitimate son, and your corpse energy after becoming a zombie is the most nourishing for me. Dad is very grateful to you.
Don't worry, Mom will be with you below. You won't be lonely…
It will only hurt for a moment. Bear with it, okay?"
"What are you talking about!!" A roar of rage came from the doorway.
Luo Xiaole's small figure appeared at the entrance, furious.
She immediately cursed, "How can someone with a body temperature of 37 degrees say such cold-hearted words? Has money corroded your brain until only a pile of scrap metal remains?"
"After harming your own researchers, your wife, elder brother, niece, and other relatives, you're still not letting go of your own son whom you finally found again? Even beasts have more heart than you!"