Am I really hallucinating?

Chapter 418 "Spare Me"

Jiang Si went down the stairs. After hearing a certain sound, she kicked open an iron door, and a strong stench immediately hit her nose.

Upon entering, it appeared to be a prison cell.

Inside the cold, damp room, rusted iron gates extended out on both sides.

Several stitched-up corpses rushed up to Jiang Si as soon as she entered the corridor. Jiang Si waved her hand, and they were all instantly pierced by red threads and turned into puppets standing still in place.

Ignoring them, Jiang Si walked past several cells, which contained corpses, a few stitched-up corpses and a large number of normal corpses.

"You are... from the City of the Undying...?" A weak voice came from a cell as we passed by.

Jiang Si stopped and looked at the several figures lying helplessly in the dark cell, asking, "Who are you?"

A still-moving figure struggled to crawl out. As the stench approached, Jiang Si saw a corpse whose lower body was completely rotten, revealing bare white bones, crawling with maggots, surrounded by flies, and moldy.

Its eyes were white, and one eyeball had even prolapsed and drooped out.

A corpse that truly conforms to the standard image of a zombie.

But seeing its black and gold uniform, Jiang Si recognized its identity: "A technician sent here by the Undying City to provide support?"

"Yes...it's us...we were persecuted by the stitched-up corpses..." The other person's voice was very weak, and even the words were not very clear, which meant that there was already decay in the mouth and trachea.

“They… took away our bodies and organs… locked us up here… and there were some who disagreed… stitched-up corpses too… the same…”

Jiang Si nodded: "I understand. How much longer can you hold on?"

“No…it hasn’t been long…it’s good that you’re here…take the situation back…the King will…get justice for us…” Before he could finish speaking, the corpse in front of him tilted its head and fell off its neck, revealing a neck that was already rotten beyond recognition.

The corpse's head opened and closed its mouth slightly, but ultimately could not utter any more sound.

Thus ended the new life of a corpse.

After death, a complete corpse often takes time to become ugly. The corpse is already gruesome to look at during the process of "dying," and the appearance of a completely decomposed corpse is especially horrific.

Jiang Si had to spend some time finding several still-intact corpses and stitching them up. But that wasn't much else she could do.

It's rotten to this extent that even Eldridge himself couldn't save it.

Halfway through, Jiang Si looked up and suddenly noticed that a cell at the end of the cell contained only a corpse.

Upon closer inspection, all that could be found inside was a skeleton and rotting flesh, which had been decaying for an unknown period of time.

Only a single remaining arm dangled to one side, and long-broken fingers had written large words on the wall in dried blood: "Spare me."

The sight was shocking, leaving Jiang Si momentarily stunned.

Spare me? Whom am I begging for mercy from?
Is it Victor's cronies, or... the Undead King Eldridge?
"Who is this?" Jiang Si asked a stitched-up corpse that had been turned into a puppet.

"E... Elona... the original city lord." The stitched corpse, whose body was no longer under Jiang Si's control due to the red threads, answered directly with a look of fear on its face.

Jiang Si nodded and disassembled the last stitched corpse, using its relatively intact limbs to reattach limbs to the remaining corpses that had a chance of survival.

Let's try to continue for as long as we can.

Having done all that, Jiang Si left quickly without lingering.

Just as she pushed open the door, a series of whooshing sounds suddenly rang out beside her. Jiang Si turned her head, but the speed of the other party far exceeded her expectations. Jiang Si was hit squarely in the face by something, as if she had been hit by a high-speed train and thrown sideways.

Her body crashed through the wall and flew outside. After flying horizontally for a long time, the impact finally subsided, causing her to bounce several times on the ground before stopping.

Lying on her back with her limbs twisted, Jiang Si blinked as she looked up at the dark clouds in the sky.

"Pfft pfft~." Zheng Fan appeared in her field of vision, making a big X with his hands above his head and imitating the classic wrong sound effect, "What part made your heart flutter? Miss Serial Killer?"

“Hmm…” Jiang Si made a somewhat muffled sound, “Why is it that neither the corpses of the Undying City nor that city lord trusts the Undying King so much…”

It was clearly just an existence pursuing eternity for itself.

On some points, Victor wasn't wrong.

The Undying King cares nothing for anything else but his own eternity. Under the harsh Spirit Tax, although it doesn't directly sentence those who don't pay the tax to death, it will ruthlessly expel them.

However, it also spends a significant amount of time each day planning various matters within the city and handling incidents large and small.

"The spirit of contract," Zheng Fan said matter-of-factly. "What do you think of me?"

“A demon who only cares about his own happiness and uses his newly acquired power to do evil.” Jiang Si blurted out, but paused and added, “But he is very good to us. His words are very effective. Even when it comes to caring for small animals, he is serious and will not easily abandon us because of any accidents or troubles.”

“Correct.” Zheng snapped his fingers, accepting the compliment—which wasn’t exactly a compliment—without hesitation.

Jiang Si stared blankly at Zheng Fan.

Until footsteps were heard.

“This state was originally reserved for Eldridge, but it wouldn’t hurt to test it out on you now,” Victor’s voice came.

"Mr. Devil, help me up."

Zheng grabbed her disheveled long hair, which had come undone from her braids, and roughly lifted her head up, showing her Victor as he was now.

He was enveloped in a thick white aura, his slicked-back hair turned into a spiky, upright style, his body was covered in dense stitches, and his body had grown several sizes larger. He had transformed from a pretentious, scholarly figure into a burly man even taller than Walton.

"You're still not taking off your glasses?" Zheng Fan couldn't help but ask when he saw the glasses on Jiang Si's face. Jiang Si's glasses had long since fallen off somewhere during the flight, and her once beautiful literary-style school uniform dress was now battle-damaged.

There was no wardrobe malfunction; on the contrary, it suited Jiang Si's original temperament even better, making her look exactly like a delinquent girl who gets into fights and arguments.

"Spirit possession? That makes sense. The soul of a stitched corpse is relatively fragile and can hardly support its body. It's not surprising that there would be changes when it combines with a spirit... No wonder the spirit would come to Frankenstein. With the support of a spirit, the stitched corpse can take advantage of the instability of its body to stitch together a large number of powerful specialized organs at once, thus greatly increasing its strength..." Jiang Si immediately saw through Victor's thinking in this state.

This field suits her better right now.

This approach is something ordinary corpses can't do; the time required for an ordinary corpse to adapt to and transform external organs is significantly longer than for a stitched-together corpse. This is an advantage that stitched-together corpses don't really have, but spirit possession amplifies this advantage infinitely.

Although he had just launched a sneak attack while Jiang Si was off guard, the fact that he was able to twist Jiang Si's body into a maggot-like shape in one go showed that his strength was indeed not bad.

I don't know how many stitches were made.

Jiang Si tried to think, looking at Victor's unrestrained smile.

Jiang Si spoke up: "Mr. Devil, are you coming?"

Zheng Fan thought Jiang Si was planning to try it himself. He felt that Jiang Si was not without a chance. Although he was physically outmatched by his opponent, Jiang Si had zombie magic and corpse poison, so winning was possible.

However, it seems that Jiang Siwei will have an easier time winning.

"Of course." Zheng Fan would naturally not refuse the opportunity to be possessed, and disappeared after responding.

Jiang Si struggled to her feet, recovering from her injuries, and then stood there unsteadily.

Seeing that Jiang Si was standing there motionless, Victor lost interest in playing around.

"This is fantastic! Learning from those demons really worked. Our teamwork will definitely be excellent," Linda said with a grin as she leaned against Victor.

"This girl is no pushover. Although her punch broke her body, she recovered immediately. We need to take care of her and leave Frankenstein right away."

"So hasty? I thought you were really going to run into Eldridge. You can't bring many people with you in such a rush. It will slow you down and make you easier to be tracked," Linda reminded her.

"Tsk, take a small number of trustworthy ones, and incite the others to help defend the city and confuse Eldridge." Although Victor spoke fiercely, he knew that he couldn't kill the King on his own, so he decided to retreat first and wait until he was truly protected by the spirits.

"What are you whispering in your heart? Just tell me so I can hear it too."

Suddenly, Jiang Si's voice came from beside me, but her cheerful and lively tone made her sound like a completely different person.

Victor was only slightly distracted when he spoke a few words to Linda. Jiang Si, who was right in front of him, approached his side, but he didn't react at all.

Seeing the eerie gray-white eyes of "Jiang Si" beside him, Victor panicked and quickly threw a punch.

boom!
With just a raised hand, it dug a conspicuous trench in the ground beside it.

But Jiang Si tilted her head back, laughing wildly as she pressed her smooth forehead against its fist.

With a muffled thud, an even stronger impact exploded, and Victor's arm immediately twisted and even broke, causing him to stagger backward.

Jiang Si's forehead remained smooth and fair, but due to the impact, her messy long hair and torn dress were violently swirling in the wind and waves.

"Something's not right!" Victor's pupils dilated.

A crimson glow ignited in one of Jiang Si's hands as she raised it high and then slammed it down forward.

The ground cracked open, and a crimson wave exploded, swallowing the block in front of them and rapidly advancing towards Victor.

Victor gritted his teeth and roared, blue arcs of electricity flashing and rapidly growing on his body, wrapping himself into an electric ball and charging forward.

Amidst the earth-shaking tremors, he barely survived the crimson waves, but his body was undoubtedly covered in wounds. The fragrance of plants lingered where the attack had just struck, and Victor quickly realized that he was beginning to decay at an accelerated rate.

"Linda!"

"Don't worry, I'm fixing it!"

The white aura around his body circulated rapidly, trying to dispel the effects of the strange corpse poison.

Boom——

Just as Victor was keeping a close watch on "Jiang Si's" movements and anxiously waiting for the repairs to be completed, the dark clouds in the sky flashed with lightning and thunder rumbled.

“How is this possible…” Victor stared blankly at the scene.

They stitch together corpses to generate electricity from "biological" power...

I've never heard of an ordinary corpse being able to summon heavenly lightning!

Jiang Si raised one hand in front of her and gently moved her neck: "Although you are not a zombie, you are still a corpse to some extent. Being able to consume lightning magic is a blessing for you."

"Victor! She's not an ordinary corpse! She's possessed by an extradimensional demon!" Linda, no longer concerned with repairs, exclaimed to Victor as if suddenly realizing something.

"You're only telling me now? Are you trying to make me die knowing why?!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than thunder roared down from the sky, engulfing Victor instantly at Jiang Si's command.

After a few seconds of blinding flashes of light, all that remained was a large, charred crater.

As for the corpses and spirits, under that powerful lightning, they were naturally annihilated, turning into ashes.

(End of this chapter)