Starting with dissecting ghost stories

"Please, please let me go...please..."

A woman's voice.

"Ah Xing!!!"

Li Ya's voice.

"Brother Shen Xing~"

Li Xiaohua's voice.

In short, three different voices, three different tones.

The puppet "cut" three different voices and combined them into a sentence that was hoarse, noisy, and incredibly eerie, like a chaotic madman.

However, this at least shows that the other party can communicate?

"Hello?" Shen Xing sheathed his knife and greeted the other party.

But the other party seemed not to have heard Shen Xing's words at all, and fell silent after Shen Xing sheathed his sword.

This seems to be a simple defense mechanism, like that of insects.

To test his theory, Shen Xing pressed the knife against the wall again, this time stabbing it in even deeper.

As expected, after Shen Xing began piercing the other person's skin, the noise on the "girl's" body instantly flickered violently, and a different voice rang in her mind again, wailing and begging Shen Xing to let her go.

It knows the words "Brother Shen" and "A-Xing" to represent Shen Xing, probably because it possesses fragments of memories of Li Ya and Li Xiaohua.

However, it may not understand what these fragments mean, and may not even know what the word "Ah-Hing" means or what it refers to.

But it knows that saying this word and phrases like "please" will increase its chances of survival.

Shen Xing released his grip, took a step back, and raised both hands to indicate that he was harmless.

Zi...

The noise subsided, and the "girl" returned to her quiet, lying-down state.

After repeating this process several times, it remained the same, with almost no changes.

No memory, no hatred, not even preemptive intelligence.

The core is threatened - triggering defensive mode - unable to resist - choosing to show weakness - output action.

The core threat disappears—the body's energy is insufficient—and it returns to a dormant state.

Purely low intelligence, lacking human-level consciousness or soul, unable to understand language, devoid of advanced emotions, simply like a biological machine.

Shen Xing felt a little disappointed, but at least it showed that the puppet in front of him was controllable.

Moreover, Shen Xing could clearly feel that after each of his tests, the voice it emitted in his mind became more distorted, and later on, missing words began to appear.

Once a person's flesh and blood are completely consumed within its body, it can no longer utilize the memories and instincts of those corpses from their lifetime.

If that's the case, you can try to consume all the remaining flesh and blood in its body.

After Shen Xing repeated the "threatening" action more than ten times, the puppet gradually stopped reacting. When he threatened it again, all he heard was a jumble of buzzing sounds in his mind.

Just as I expected...

Shen Xing had this idea.

If it maintains its human form in the eyes of others entirely according to the consciousness of the person it devoured before death, and if language, memory, and habits are interchangeable.

Clearing out the remaining flesh and blood from its body is equivalent to "formatting" this biological machine.

If Shen Yuan is the kind of person who obeys him completely and does whatever he commands, then if he fills this doll's body with Shen Yuan's flesh and blood, wouldn't he be able to completely control the doll?

Of course, Shen Xing was just using an analogy.

Putting aside the fact that he is unlikely to do something like killing his adoptive father's only daughter, given Shen Yuan's current personality, it would be almost impossible to get her to obey.

but......

Shen Xing's thoughts have nothing to do with human flesh and blood.

After the doll devours flesh and blood, it will act according to the will of the flesh and blood owner to a certain extent. For example, if it devours Li Xiaohua, it will listen to Li Ya and return home, deceive everyone, and then come back.

And coincidentally, Shen Xing now possesses some flesh and blood that can obey his commands.

Shen Xing took off the outer layer of his double gloves, threw them into the iron bucket, walked to where his satchel was hanging, and took out a plastic dish from it.

Inside was a piece of unusual, deep red beef.

During the last experiment, Shen Xing was already able to make the mutated flesh and blood extracted from these paintings stand still.

After the abnormal muscles fused with his own muscles and underwent a phase change, Shen Xing's control over these flesh and blood deepened, and it wasn't just limited to the flesh and blood within his own body.

Shen Xing placed the plastic dish on the worktable and put on double gloves again.

Inside the plastic dish, the abnormal flesh and blood, detached from the picture frame for too long, was already on the verge of death.

But Shen Xing simply pointed his left hand forward slightly.

Shen Xing felt a warm sensation in his left hand, as if he were manipulating his own flesh and blood; he sensed the flesh and blood inside the petri dish.

"Smack... Smack..."

In the silent garage, the sound of wet flesh rubbing against metal could be heard.

In Shen Xing's perception, this sense of control was quite peculiar... more like a command than control, no, not quite that direct...

It's more like how the queen bee indirectly controls the colony through pheromones; she can influence the colony's physiology and behavior simply through pheromones.

He didn't directly touch the flesh, but the warm pulse from his left palm made him feel as if an invisible nerve had extended, pulling the little thing that had separated from its mother's body, little by little, toward the doll.

As the abnormal flesh approached, the doll, which had almost disappeared without a trace of noise, suddenly fluctuated.

The doll could no longer maintain Li Xiaohua's figure and had reverted to the appearance of an ordinary doll.

At this moment, its skin once again developed grayish-white snowflake-like spots, just like a shark that had smelled blood. A kind of instinctive greed caused its head to twitch unnaturally.

The piece of beef had climbed up to the doll's lips.

The doll has no facial features and cannot open its mouth.

Or rather, its way of eating has never been the "opening its mouth" as humans understand it.

Where the doll's lips were originally closed, the skin rapidly curled and dissipated outwards like charred paper, revealing a black cavity underneath that resembled the cut surface of abnormal flesh.

Immediately afterwards, countless fine, black mycelia emerged from the hole, dancing wildly in the air as if sensing the location of their prey.

The next second, as if they had caught a signal, the black lines suddenly wrapped around the abnormal piece of flesh that had been delivered to their door.

Shen Xing felt a phantom pain in his left palm, and then he lost control of the abnormal flesh.

The abnormal flesh originating from the wall, upon entering the doll's body, was not transformed into pure energy like ordinary flesh; instead, it was like a drop of ink falling into clear water.

Shen Xing clearly felt that the subtle connection that had been severed from his original attachment to the beef began to be re-established after the puppet devoured the abnormal beef.

...and it spread throughout the doll's body.